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Titanic (1997)
In James Cameron's monumental Best Picture-winning
blockbuster epic:
- the romantic image of the star-crossed, ill-fated
lovers: upper-class Rose Bukater (Kate Winslet) and steerage passenger
Jack Dawson (Leonard DiCaprio) perched at the prow of the White
Star liner Titanic with arms outstretched ("I'm flying!")
- ending with a sunset kiss
- Rose's nude posing for one of Jack's sketches with
the scene ending on a closeup of Rose's eye (as a young girl and
morphing into her elderly eye)
- the scene of Jack and Rose's love-making scene in
the back seat of a car -- with her hand reaching up and touching
the fogged-up window
- the final hour with tremendous visual and special-effects
of the ship's flooding, slowly tilting upward, splitting in half
and sinking with people plummeting to their deaths in the Atlantic
when the stern was tipped vertically upright, while Rose and Jack
struggled to stay together
- the various views of victims calmly awaiting their
fate (e.g., an elderly couple embraced in bed)
- the farewell scene as Jack slowly froze to death next
to Rose and his profession of love before slipping underwater
- the dreamy remembrance of Rose's meeting of Jack
on the staircase to the applause of the ship's dead
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