10 Ridiculous Movie Premises Everybody Fell For
3. Jack And Rose Are A Sweeping Love Story For The Ages - Titanic (1997)
Are they? Are they? Are they really? But are they? Let's look at the facts, here.
Rose was seventeen years old, engaged to a man she didn't like and suicidal because of it. Jack was a twenty-year-old drifter, an artist whod wound up in England after bumming around the world for years: he won his ticket in a card game five minutes before the ship sailed, thereby shoring up his opinion that the world owed him a living. The two have clearly embarked upon the dictionary definition of a holiday romance, as he fast-talks her out of jumping off the ship, sneaks into first class with her, draws her like one of his French girls and then well, more things that are probably just like what happened with those French girls.
Seriously, what are the odds that this mismatched couple would have made it work if theyd both survived? You know what this is? This is Speed, where Sandy B and Canoe only get together because of the intense experience that they experience intensely together, and by the time Speed 2 rolls around, she's with Jason Patric, dismissing Canoe in the second scene by repeating the first film's jokey line about relationships based on extreme circumstances never working out.
Rose is Sandy B in Speed, and Jack is Canoe. The reason she's still stuck on him so many decades later is nothing to do with love. It's far more likely that the appalling disaster and Jack's loss as he literally slips through her fingers have traumatised an already emotionally unstable young woman, causing her to imprint a romantic fantasy upon him that no real, live human man could have lived up to especially an irresponsible waster like Jack. That's not a love story for the ages, that's twelve months of expensive therapy that she didn't get.