Hi, Mark Lewis!   
   I read your message from  24.08.2016 14:51   
   about From life.   
      
    ak>> "Titanic" ship cost 7.5 million dollars. "Titanic" movie cost 200   
    ml> million   
    ak>> dollars.   
      
    ml> "Titanic", the ship, cost 7.5 million dollars. "Titanic", the movie,   
    ml> cost 200 million.   
      
    ml> The ship named "Titanic" cost 7.5 million dollars. A movie about the   
    ml> "Titanic" cost 200 million.   
      
   BTW, can you clarify the using of "the" when we speak a ship name? Indeed, in   
   spoken English people cannot hear quotation marks, but they should somehow   
   accentuate the attention on the name. Although Titanic probably doesn't need   
   such a clarification. But in this case it is an exclusion from the rule. ;)   
      
   Although we probably can say "The Titanic sunk quickly."   
      
   Is there such a rule?   
      
   I see in Longman dictionary:   
   -----Beginning of the citation-----   
   Titanic, the   
    a large British passenger ship which was considered impossible to sink, but   
   which hit an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean, and as a result sank, killing more   
   than 1,500 of its passengers. According to one story, the band continued   
   playing while the ship was sinking. People sometimes use the phrase 'like   
   re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic' to describe the actions of a   
   person or organization which makes small and useless changes to a situation,   
   when the situation is already hopeless and certain to fail.   
   ----- The end of the citation -----   
      
      
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