The theme of my 2014 A-to-Z Blog Challenge is BLUES, PUPUS, and REVIEWS.
Tuesday & Friday - BLUES: Art, Movies, Music,
& Police
The
Blue Diamond of the Crown was a 56-karat diamond worn by Louis the XVI. It disappeared
in 1792, around the same time the king and his wife, Marie Antoinette, were
beheaded. The theory goes that the crown diamond was chopped, too, recut into a
heart-like shape that became known as the Heart of the Ocean.
In
the movie, TITANIC, this heart-shaped
diamond is a McGuffin of sorts, Alfred Hitchcock’s word for an object (such as the
Maltese Falcon) that triggers a plot line.
The
Blue Diamond was definitely burdensome for the woman who last held the Heart of
the Ocean, as was the fate of the ‘unsinkable’ Titanic’s owners. Just like the
Blue Diamond was said to be cursed for a king and a queen, was the Titanic also
cursed because of a blue diamond?
