Titanic - Story of love
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Rose manages to free Jack with a fire axe, and finds that the
third-class passengers are trapped below decks. Frustrated, Jack breaks
through a gate, allowing Rose and others to make their way to the boat
deck. Cal and Jack, though enemies, both want Rose safe and so they
manage to persuade Rose to board a lifeboat. But after realizing that
she cannot leave Jack, Rose jumps back on the ship and reunites with
Jack in the ship's first class staircase... |
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In 1996, treasure hunter Brock Lovett and his team explore the wreck of
the RMS Titanic, searching for a necklace set with a valuable blue
diamond called the Heart of the Ocean. They discover a drawing of a
young woman reclining nude, wearing the Heart of the Ocean, dated the
day the Titanic sank. News of this drawing on television attracts the
interest of the woman in question, Rose Dawson Calvert, now nearly 101,
who informs Lovett that she is the nude woman in the drawing. She and
her granddaughter Lizzy visit Lovett on his ship, and she recalls her
memories as 17-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater aboard the Titanic to the
somewhat skeptical team. In 1912, young Rose boards the departing ship
with the upper-class passengers, her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and
her fiancé, Caledon Hockley. Also on board is Margaret "Molly" Brown,
who makes the acquaintance of Rose's party. Distraught and frustrated
with her engagement to Cal and her controlled life, Rose attempts to
commit suicide by jumping from the stern, but a drifter and artist
named Jack Dawson, who had won his ticket on the ship from a poker
game, intervenes. Initially Cal, his friends and the sailors,
overhearing Rose's screams, believe the penniless Jack attempted to
rape her. She explains Jack saved her life, covering up her suicide
attempt by explaining she slipped after trying to see the propellers.
Jack corroborates her white lie to everyone present, but privately,
Hockley's manservant, former police officer Spicer Lovejoy, expresses
to Jack his skepticism. Jack and Rose strike up a tentative friendship
as she thanks him for his corroboration, and he shares stories of his
adventures traveling and sketching; their bond deepens when they leave
a first-class formal dinner for a much livelier gathering in
third-class.
Cal is informed of her partying in the steerage and forbids Rose to
meet Jack again. Rose's mother also commands her to give up Jack and
save her engagement to Cal in order to ensure their financial welfare.
Eventually, Jack confronts Rose alone, but she is inclined to ignore
their growing affection because of her engagement and responsibilities.
However, after witnessing a woman encouraging her seven-year-old
daughter to behave like a "proper lady" at tea, Rose later changes her
mind and decides to offer her heart to Jack in a forbidden romance. As
a sign of her affection, she asks him to sketch her nude wearing only
the Heart of the Ocean, which she had previously been offered as an
engagement present by Cal. Afterwards, the two run away from Lovejoy,
and they go below decks to the cargo hold. They enter William Carter's
Renault traveling car and have sex, before escaping up to the ship's
forward well deck. Rose decides that when they arrive at New York, she
will leave the ship with Jack. They then witness the ship's
collision with an iceberg, which critically damages it.
Meanwhile, Cal discovers Rose's nude drawing and her taunting note in
his safe. He plots revenge, deciding to frame Jack for stealing the
Heart of the Ocean, and bribes the master-at-arms to handcuff and lock
Jack in his office. Although Rose is at first indecisive, she later
runs away from Cal, risking her chances of getting on a lifeboat with
her mother, in order to find and rescue Jack.
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Rose manages to free Jack with a fire axe, and finds that the
third-class passengers are trapped below decks. Frustrated, Jack breaks
through a gate, allowing Rose and others to make their way to the boat
deck. Cal and Jack, though enemies, both want Rose safe and so they
manage to persuade Rose to board a lifeboat. But after realizing that
she cannot leave Jack, Rose jumps back on the ship and reunites with
Jack in the ship's first class staircase. Infuriated, Cal takes
Lovejoy's pistol and chases Jack and Rose down the decks and into the
first class dining saloon. After running out of ammunition, he angrily
shouts at them saying that he hopes "they enjoy their time together"
and realizes that he has unintentionally left the diamond in the pocket
of an overcoat that Rose is wearing. Hockley returns to the boat deck
and gets aboard Collapsible A by pretending to look after an abandoned
child. This is one of only two lifeboats remaining on the ship.
Although Jack and Rose manage to avoid Cal's fury, they find that the
lifeboats are gone. With no other options, they decide to head aft and
stay on the ship for as long as possible before it sinks completely.
Eventually, the ship breaks in half and begins its final descent,
washing everyone into the freezing Atlantic waters. Jack and Rose are
separated under the water but shortly reunite. Around them, well over a
thousand people are dying painfully from hypothermia.
Meanwhile, in Lifeboat 6, Molly Brown tries to go convince
Quartermaster Robert Hichens to go back and rescue people, as there is
plenty of room, but he refuses, knowing that there is not enough room
for all of them and that all the boats will be swamped. Jack manages to
grab hold of a wall paneling, and gets Rose to lie on it. While lying
on the wall paneling, Jack makes Rose promise that, whatever happens,
she must get out alive. When Fifth Officer Harold Lowe returns with an
empty Lifeboat 14 to rescue several people from the water, Rose tries
to wake Jack, but then realizes that he has died in the freezing water.
Upon this realization, she begins to lose hope and wants to stay there
to die with Jack, but remembers her promise. She does her best to call
out to Lowe, but she is hoarse and he does not hear her and rows away.
Still remembering her promise to "never let go", Rose manages to
unclasp Jack's frozen hand from her own, letting his body disappear
into the sea. Throwing herself into the water, Rose takes a whistle
from a dead Chief Officer Henry Wilde and blows it, and is heard. She
is pulled to safety, joining the five other survivors from the water,
and is taken on board the rescue ship RMS Carpathia. On the Carpathia's
deck, Rose notices Cal coming down searching for her desperately; when
he turns in her direction, she turns away and avoids being seen by him
thanks to a blanket wrapped around her. This is the last time she ever
sees Hockley. Upon arrival in New York City, Rose registers her name as
Rose Dawson and presumably starts a life on her own. Through the
elderly Rose, we learn that Cal went on to marry another woman, and
later committed suicide as a result of business losses in the Great
Depression. The subsequent story of Rose's mother, who escaped on a
lifeboat and was presumably rescued, is not told. After completing her
story to the team (who now look at her with sympathy and awe), the
elderly Rose goes alone to the stern of Lovett's ship. After she steps
onto the railing, it is revealed that she still has the Heart of the
Ocean in her possession. She then drops the diamond into the water,
sending it to join the remains of the single most important event of
her life. She kept every promise she had made to Jack, and did
everything they ever talked about doing. Rose lies in her bed, next to
photographs of her life's achievements, as the shot pans across her
into darkness. The film ends with a vision of young Rose reuniting with
Jack at the Grand Staircase, surrounded by those who perished with
Jack. They kiss and embrace, and all the people on the staircase start
to applaud. It is left up to the viewer to decide the meaning of the
ending: whether Rose is only dreaming or if it is truly a vision of
Rose reuniting with her lover in the
Rose's nude drawing
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