Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio)
is a third class passenger who wins his ticket to Titanic in a lucky
hand of poker. Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet)
is a first class passenger, engaged to the proud and obnoxious Cal
Hockley. The family deeply needs the money that will be provided by
Hockley in marriage since he was heir to a wealthy estate. Hockley is
very unkind and abusive towards Rose.
Jack and Rose meet as Rose threatens to throw herself off the
Titanic, after her grim realization of her life to come. She
explains, "I saw my life as if I had already lived it. An endless
parade of parties and polo matches, always the same narrow
people..."
Jack, however is a penniless free spirited artist who captures
Rose's heart. From then on their love blossoms, to a love so true
they are willing to risk their lives for one another. Jack made a
sketch of Rose with a mystical diamond that Hockley had given her.
This was later recovered by the explorers looking for the Heart of
the Ocean diamond that had been worn by Louis XIV. The diamonds
whereabouts were never revealed to the explorers. The diamond would
have been worth millions. The diamond was a very rare blue diamond
which is very precious. Jack is shown here talking to Rose about
some of his sketches.
As fate would have it, Titanic strikes an iceberg hundreds of miles
at sea causing pandemonium aboard. The seaman tried their best to
turn Titanic, but the force was too great. Five of the ships chambers
had began to fill with water spelling the doom of the Titanic.
The water rushed into the Titanic forcing the first class women and
children to evacuate the boat first. Second and third class people
were held in caged hallways. Rose chose to stay with Jack and to
get off with him. They were not able to get into a lifeboat. The
ship sank diffusing its passengers into the icy Atlantic waters.
Their trust was only but in God. Everyone has life preservers on,
causing them not to drown. The water was freezing cold with hundreds
of people in the water.
Jack was able to get Rose onto what appeared to be a floating door
in this scene. Death was slowly creeping up on all of the people
in the water. All but six including Jack perished that night in the
icy waters. Rose survived. Their love never was broken. Jack gave
his life to spare Rose. The lifeboats stayed out at sea except for
one that found Rose and saved her.
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