10 Movie Deaths We All Wanted (But Never Got)
6. Cal Hockley - Titanic
Yes, Rose does tell the audience via her recollection of her life that Cal had killed himself after the loss of his fortune during the 1929 Wall Street Crash, but no, that's not the death anybody wanted to bestow upon this putrid shell of a man.
We wanted something worse.
Aboard the fateful Titanic, we discover that Rose has been betrothed to Cal not out of love, but out of the financial ruin that Rose and her family may face if she doesn't marry rich. Many believe this is not a reason to get married, but it's 1912 and they held different values a century ago so maybe we can let it slide?
That is until we meet Cal Hockley.
The only indicator that we needed about his character was the fact that Jack first meets Rose when he talks her out of committing suicide because of her engagement. This smarmy elitist is everything you could imagine and worse.
He invites Jack to dinner just to shame his lower-class status, slaps Rose upon disobeying his commands, has Jack falsely arrested for theft, tries to murder the pair and finally tricks his way to safety by pretending to be a father.
It is the latter that really made us wish he had just died aboard the sinking cruise liner that night.