Thank Youu!

I’ve always thought of Brock Lovetts character as a representation of people who close themselves off to the humanity of the RMS Titanic’s disaster. He says, “Three years, all I’ve thought about was Titanic. But I never got it. I never let it in.”

It’s part of the reason I think the film is so widely hated. People identify not with the humanity, but with the disaster. And the film Titanic is not about her disaster, it is about the experience of BEING on that ship. That is why the sinking and destruction of her feels like such a huge payoff and is so emotional, because we see what she was like beforehand.

Titanic herself is a character in the film. We see how beautiful, how strong, how young she is. We get to spend those four glorious days of sunlight with her. We hear her groaning as she sinks, we hear the awful snap of her back as she breaks in half and claims the lives of 1,500 people, taking them with her.

It’s been 25 years, and people still don’t understand the real message of this movie: making it count. Nothing in life is guaranteed, and the people aboard Titanic had no idea that over half of them were being carried to their deaths. So while you’re here and still breathing, you should make it count. For yourself, and for all of the people you love that are no longer living. I think this film has very potent messages of life, death, and the passage of time, and the things left behind by people who have died, like tangible proof that they once existed. Much like the RMS Titanic herself, who sits in the dark on the ocean floor.

The people who perished in Titanic’s sinking are not just numbers on a wall in a museum… they were real people who suffered, and were tortured for the 2 hours and 40 minutes that it took for the ship to completely go under. They had dreams, loved ones, ambitions in life left unfulfilled. Some of them were children, and some of those children were newborns. I think it is important to remember that, and to hold that in your heart when viewing such a film. Those people mattered, and they deserve to be remembered.

Tonight's cry topic: The deleted scene where Jack is taking Rose back to 1st class, they are singing that song that Jack also whisperers to Rose during that iconic "I'm Flying!" Scene (and they look so cute doing it AHHHH). They see a shooting star and he says something like "my father said that whenever a shooting star goes by, it's a good person going to heaven." Paraphrasing. And then when Rose is laying on her back looking up at the stars after the ship sinks, a shooting star goes by while Rose is singing that same song they were singing together earlier. A few moments later, she realise Jack has just died.

I feel like they should have REALLY left that scene in the movie, it adds so much to the experience. Though, same can be said about most of the deleted scenes in Titanic. But this one was REALLY special.

My Titanic hyperfixation roughly 4 months and still going strong 💪

THE TITANIC (1997) + letterboxd reviews [insp.]

Titanic + objects: The Butterfly Comb

NEW TITANIC SERVERR

Here is a new server for Titanic fans run by me and my friend. Here, you can talk about Titanic all you want, while making some more friends!

This server:

Is LGBT friendly

Has spaces for role playing

Has spaces for fanfics, art, etc

Neurodivergent friendly

Is open to maritime enthusiasts

Is open to fans of other old movies

I hope you guys decide to join and find some new Titanic fans!

Discord

Join the 𝕋𝕚𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕔 𝕗𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕠𝕞 ☆ Discord Server!

Check out the 𝕋𝕚𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕔 𝕗𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕠𝕞 ☆ community on Discord - hang out with 9 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

Promise me you’ll survive. That you won’t give up, no matter what happens. No matter how hopeless.

TITANIC (1997) dir. James Cameron

April 10, 1912, 9:30am: Passengers in Southampton, England began boarding Titanic for its maiden voyage