Titanic: Discussion Thread.

[Alex The Great]

No, Not the movie, silly. the actualy ship....talk about it here....like umm....all the contreversy and such....Band Playing ''Nearer my go to thee'' at the end of the sinking. Murdoch shooting someone then shooting himself. Gold been shipped aboard the ship. etc.

and I must say Bruce Ismay was a pansy, it's HIS ship....or company at the time....and he hops into one of the final life boats andd gets away....Pansy Go down with your ship like a man.

here's a interesting Timeline of the Voyage.


Funny, They forgot to bring there good luck charms (cats, breaking of bottle etc.)

 

[Rando Aces]

i was so fascinated by this when i was about 10.

not so much anymore.

 

[Alex The Great]

I still like it....so much weird things happened that night....

 

[Rando Aces]

it is pretty interesting, but my interest has faded, like so many mtv who**s careers

 

[raybia]

I wonder what the real jack and rose was like?

 

[Alex The Great]

true, if i was there that night and i had a wife and kid and i wasn;t allowed in one of the final life boats, iw ould have gone ape **** and beat that crew mans ass. ''Give me a chance to live you limey bastard! ''

 

[Alex The Great]

I wonder what the real jack and rose was like?

lol, it's fact that no ''Jack/Rose'' existed on the ship......

 

[Drizzle]

Gremlins sank the Titanic.

See?

 

[raybia]

lol, it's fact that no ''Jack/Rose'' existed on the ship......

Like hell you say! Prove it!

 

[Alex The Great]

Fictional characters

• Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson: A penniless artist who travels the world, Jack wins tickets to the RMS Titanic in a card game. He is attracted to Rose's beauty and convinces her out of an attempted suicide. His saving of her life brings him into first-class society for a night, and he shows her a carefree way of life of which she had often fantasized but never realized of doing. Billy Crudup and Stephen Dorff were considered for the role of Jack.[19][20]
• Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater: A first-class socialite, seventeen-year-old Rose is forced to become engaged to Caledon Hockley so she and her mother can maintain their high status after the death of her father. Feeling trapped, Rose becomes suicidal, but she soon discovers a completely new lease on life when she meets Jack Dawson. Cameron asked Claire Danes to play the part, but she was exhausted after Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, which also starred DiCaprio, and she found Titanic too similar.[21]
• Billy Zane as Caledon "Cal" Nathan Hockley: The heir to an enormous steel fortune and the quintessential arrogant and snobbish first-class man. Rose's fiancé Cal becomes increasingly embarrassed, jealous, and cruel over Rose's relationship with Jack. He gives Rose the famous "Heart of the Ocean" diamond as a reminder of his feelings for her, and then asks her to "open her heart to him". Cal shoots himself in the mouth in 1929 after the stock market crash hit his interests hard.
• Frances Fisher as Ruth DeWitt Bukater: Rose's widowed mother, who is marrying her off to ensure their high-class status. She loves her daughter but believes marriage to Cal is the right thing to do. The epitome of the shallowness and hypocrisies of high-class society, she scorns Jack, even though he saved her daughter's life.
• Danny Nucci as Fabrizio De Rossi: Jack's Italian best friend who comes aboard the RMS Titanic after winning a poker game. Fabrizio is killed during the sinking when one of the ship's funnels collapses and crushes him while he tries to swim away.
• Jason Barry as Tommy Ryan: An Irish third-class passenger who befriends Jack and Fabrizio. He also makes a comment to Jack about his unlikely chance to get next to Rose. Tommy is shot dead by First Officer Murdoch after being pushed and mistaken for attempting to rush into a lifeboat.
• David Warner as Spicer Lovejoy: An ex-Pinkerton constable, Lovejoy is Cal's English valet and bodyguard, who keeps an eye on Rose and is suspicious of the circumstances of Jack's rescue of her. According to Rose, Lovejoy was hired by Cal's father to "keep an eye on his little boy". He accompanies Cal, Rose and Ruth on the RMS Titanic and tells the porters where to put their luggage. He dies during the sinking and is last seen clinging onto the deck rail for dear life as the ship splits apart beneath him.
• Bill Paxton as Brock Lovett: A treasure hunter looking for the "Heart of the Ocean" in the wreck of the RMS Titanic in the present. Time and funding to his expedition is running out.
• Gloria Stuart plays the 100-year-old Rose Calvert: She comes to give Lovett information regarding the "Heart of the Ocean", after he discovers a nude drawing of her in the wreck of the RMS Titanic. She narrates the story of her time aboard the ship, mentioning Jack for the first time since.
• Suzy Amis as Lizzy Calvert: Rose's granddaughter, who takes care of her, and accompanies her to the ship on her visit to Lovett. In a deleted scene of the film, she angrily confronts Lovett and warns him not to browbeat Rose.
• Lewis Abernathy as Lewis Bodine: Lovett's friend, who expresses doubt at first whether the elderly Rose is telling the truth. He also explains to Rose, with little regard for sensitivity, how the RMS Titanic sank with a 3-D computer simulation.

HA!

 

[ComicChick]

i used to be really into the Titanic thing. I did a big project on it for History Day in 6th grade. (prior to them finding it underwater, 96-ish i think)

I've even been to an exhibit of some of the stuff they brought from the wreckage. it's always got to in water or the stuff will disintegrate after all the yrs underwater.

 

[Alex The Great]

heh, weird ''curses'' about the Titanic.


14 years prior to tthe ships existence, there was a boom made by wutshisface called ''Futility'' and it's about a ship called Titaan. it hits an iceburg ona cold aApril night as it heads to NYC. it sinks and ther is massive death due to lack of Life boats. eery

 

[raybia]

HA!

Why dammit WHY!!!?????

Next you'll tell me that Akeelah and the Bee is fictional.

 

[bullets]

lol, it's fact that no ''Jack/Rose'' existed on the ship......

There could have been two people that may have shared a similar story.



They need to rebuild the titanic and set up a cruise.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

Murdoch shooting someone then shooting himself.

He never shot anyone. It's disputed whether he committed suicide.

and I must say Bruce Ismay was a pansy, it's HIS ship....or company at the time....and he hops into one of the final life boats andd gets away....Pansy Go down with your ship like a man.

He didn't know that there were still women and children left on board. He never lived it down.

 

[Sugarculted]

There was more room on that plank of wood Rose, and you know it

 

[jokersminion]

There was more room on that plank of wood Rose, and you know it

hahaha that's what always got me too, i was always like "move, let jack on!!"

 

[Alex The Great]

There could have been two people that may have shared a similar story.



They need to rebuild the titanic and set up a cruise.

1. You gotta think. It was MASS panic. It as the final lifeboat. men were arguing with him. swearing at him and maybe a little fistacuffs, we'll never know. You have to think through his mind here.....you have hundreds of angry man, fighting, pushing, yelling, trying to get into that last life boat. He had to do something.

2. they should re build a new one for the 100th anniversary...like an exact copy....

 

[Alex The Great]

hahaha that's what always got me too, i was always like "move, let jack on!!"

yeah......that got me....i was like ''Let the guy on you *****! ''

 

[Spidey-Bat]

It wouldn't have supported both their weight.

 

[Alex The Great]

i know but...still



I just pray to god that 97's titanic movie will NEVER be re-made....

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

I went to Orlando once & saw this Titanic museum..I really wanted to go on the tour, but my Dad wanted to play freaking golf instead. I did take some neat pics though.

 

[Alex The Great]

yeah i went to that museum.....pretty cool actually....you tget this ticket witha name of an ACTUAL person who went on the ship....my entire family's people died...my guy survived.......

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

yeah i went to that museum.....pretty cool actually....you tget this ticket witha name of an ACTUAL person who went on the ship....my entire family's people died...my guy survived.......

Oooh really? Sounds interesting.

I better go in there on my next visit.

 

[The-Dark-Knight]

No, Not the movie, silly. the actualy ship....talk about it here....like umm....all the contreversy and such....Band Playing ''Nearer my go to thee'' at the end of the sinking. Murdoch shooting someone then shooting himself. Gold been shipped aboard the ship. etc.

and I must say Bruce Ismay was a pansy, it's HIS ship....or company at the time....and he hops into one of the final life boats andd gets away....Pansy Go down with your ship like a man.

here's a interesting Timeline of the Voyage.


Funny, They forgot to bring there good luck charms (cats, breaking of bottle etc.)

As a person who is very interested in the Titanic i can tell you Murdoch did not shoot another passenger, nor himself he died a very dignified death. (despite what the Cameron film says) His family were so upset at the way he was portrayed they actually considered suing Cameron.

As for Ismay he was a coward, this was something that haunted him from the public and psychologically until his death in the 1930's. He never lived down what he did.

There is also no evidence to say the band played 'Nearer my god to thee' many passengers said the band played other songs (alot of people made contradicting stories including whether the ship broke in 2 or sank in one piece, as we now know the ship broke in 2. Though most passengers said it sank gracefully in one piece.)