Titanic

How much is true and how much did    James Cameron make up?

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Jack and Rose weren’t real people, however; Cameron did base Rose off of real life actress, Dorothy Gibson. Gibson boarded the ship with her mother on first class but was often found mingling with the third-class passengers; dancing on tables, because she thought the first-class passengers were too uptight for her tastes.

Mr. and Mrs. Straus were the wealthiest couple on the Titanic. They weren’t really in the movie at all, but Cameron did pay tribute to them by making them the old couple that was lying together in their bed as the water came in. That may have happened for another couple as well, but the actual Straus’s were last seen holding hands together on the deck. There is a scene in the movie when Rose is being lowered down on a lifeboat and she jumps off and says to Jack “ You jump I jump, remember?” That was also a little recognition for the Straus’s. Mrs. Straus was put on to a lifeboat, but got off and told her husband. “We have lived together many years. Where you go, I go.” 

One of my favorite real life characters was Margaret Brown, “The Unsinkable Molly Brown.” She was a first-class female so you would think she would be one of the first on a lifeboat, but she wasn’t. She spent most of her time trying to help others on to the boats until she was finally convinced that she needs to get on one as well. She was considered a heroine for her help on the Titanic and for taking an ore herself and protesting that the lifeboats go back and look for survivors. Kathy Bates did an excellent job as Molly, but Cameron didn’t give her enough justice in the movie, because she did much more than just shout at them to go back. Cameron had the sinking spot on. He didn’t know he was correct when he made the film in 1997, but with 10 years and more advanced technology he was able to prove that he was right. The sinking of the Titanic was a very real thing. 
   

Cameron told a beautiful story of her. His characters were fake, but the people he depicted were real. Titanic went down in April 1912, and she will always be remembered through the survivors she had and through Cameron’s depiction of the world's worst ship wreck, Titanic.