Jack wasn’t the only underdeveloped character in the movie, and not by a long shot – other than the odd anomaly (Molly and Mr Andrews, my heart will go on for you) the poor people were good and the rich were bad, nothing more and nothing less. I will note here that Jack’s shortcomings are nothing to do with Leonardo DiCaprio’s performance, which, like frankly everything I’ve seen him in, was faultless. I totally understand that he is meant to be an enigma – it’s even suggested that his name wasn’t really Jack Dawson as there was no record of a man with that name – but he felt like more like an idea, just a character, than a living breathing person.Ĭameron manic pixie dream girled the crap outta him. Jack blows open her whole world, empowering her to want more and strive for cards she’s been dealt, but what does she offer in return to him? What do we actually know about him? Why was he in Belfast in the first place? How does he know the lovely Fabrizio? What does he see in Rose other than a pretty face? He gives his life for her time and time again, but why? Imagine if you didn’t know it was going to sink (Picture: 20th Century-Fox/Getty Images)Īnother gripe I had is that while we spent time learning about Rose’s inner psyche and desires, I felt that Jack actually felt a little… flat. Like a classic Jane Austen heroine, she has a love of art and psychology, and doesn’t fit in with the shallow conversation and endless balls offered by well-to-do society. All I knew about her before was that she made ditsy comments about flying and refused to budge up on the door – but Winslet’s Rose gave us so much more than that. Something I particularly enjoyed learning was that Rose was a far deeper character than the clips, parodies, and memes had given her credit for. Our first sighting of the titular ship isn’t until the 21-minute mark, and the establishing shot wasn’t exactly worth the wait as the CGI just hasn’t dated well – I had to check we hadn’t cut to a Let’s Play of The Sims: Bon Voyage.īetween the (let’s face it) boring 20-minute sub-plot and the god-awful graphics, I had a sinking feeling that the movie had been massively overhyped.īut all fears I had were swiftly swept away when Rose and Jack hit the screen. Was it just me who caught a vibe between Brock and Rose’s granddaughter, Liz? Starting a petition for their love story to be explored in Titanic 2: Revenge of the Ship. I knew about ‘Old Rose’ from the movie-quote-turned-viral-meme ‘It’s been 84 years’ – usually used in reference to how much time has passed since Rihanna last dropped an album. What I wasn’t expecting was how much of the film is set in the ‘present day’ (I say present in quotation marks because the hefty camcorder, telephone cables, and dials on the tiny countertop TV immediately dated the movie in the mid-1990s). Or do you? To mark the movie probably becoming too old for Leo to date, I sat down to watch James Cameron’s so-called magnum opus. The movie has become so ingrained in our pop culture that you don’t have to actually have seen it to know what it’s about. I missed the movie when it first came out as it was released the year before I was born.īy the time I hit the recommended age rating of 12 in 2010, I felt like I already had the gist of the movie through – in true Gen Z fashion – exposure to countless clips, memes, and parodies, and never really felt the need to sit down and watch what I thought was little more than a three-hour sob-fest. I went into it skeptical, totally expecting it to have been massively overhyped, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. This fact horrified my colleagues, so much so that they insisted I watch it at once – and I’m so glad I did. However, until just days ago, I hadn’t actually watched the movie. The tale of forbidden love roped in 11 Academy Awards and made Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet immediate household names.
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