The 'Titanic' - 'Somewhere in Time' Connection |
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Elise is an actress; Rose will become one. |
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Strangely, the two actresses, Jane Seymour and Kate Winslet, who play the roles, are both English portraying American characters. |
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Richard/Jack are both artistic--one is a playwright the other an artist. |
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Elise meets Richard by the water; Rose meets Jack on a body of water. |
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Elise/Rose both discover love for the first time, lose it, and because of it find the rest of their life changed dramatically. |
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Elise/Rose both pose for a photo/picture as they look into the eyes of the man they love. |
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Elise remains behind at the Grand Hotel to find Richard; Rose remains behind on the Titanic to find Jack. |
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Elise loses Richard because he accidently finds a penny; |
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Rose loses Jack because of a tragic accident. |
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Richard/Jack both disappear from view in a fade away scene. |
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Richard/Jack both overcome what some would find to be insurmountable odds to be with the one they love. |
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Richard bound with ropes and hidden in a barn; Jack bound with handcuffs and hidden below decks. |
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Richard/Jack both die at a young age. |
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Both come from the Midwest (Chicago/Wisconsin). |
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Both are involved in the arts (Playwright/Artist). |
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Both are drawn there by fate (Richard stops on impulse/Jack wins his ticket in a poker game) |
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Both sleep in unusual places (A porch chair/Under a bridge/We also see Jack lying down on a deck bench). |
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Both do something thoughtful for a young child (Richard returns Arthur's ball/Jack dances with young Cora and calls her his best girl/Jack also attempts to save a young boy from drowning). |
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Richard wears a T-shirt that says Team Atlantic; Jack is IN the Atlantic. |
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Both come from the East (Ronkonkoma, NY/Philadelphia, PA). |
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Both are, or will be, actresses. · Both are dependent on another, older man. |
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Both find their strength and independence protecting the man they love. |
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Both are the first in the relationship to say "I love you". |
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Both speak of him in mental terms ("The man of my dreams_the one I have created in my mind"/"He exists now only in my memory"). |
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Both meet a man who will change the rest of their lives though nobody realizes it at the time. |
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Both stay behind when they could leave, in order to find him. |
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Both spend some time in a rowboat. |
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Both are older than the lovers. |
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Both are overbearing and intimidating (Robinson uses psychology/Hockley uses violence). |
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When he meets the hero, the initial meeting is hostile. |
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When he ultimately loses her, he ends up a broken, dispirited man. |
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Both see something that reminds them of happy times with their lovers & they weep over it. |
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Both return something precious to its rightful place, and at night. |
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Both wait years to see him again for the last time, or to speak of him openly for the first time. |
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Both fulfill their destiny and die at night, at peace, surrounded by mementos of their past. |
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Both meet for the first time by water. |
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The first words spoken between them are a three-word sentence (Is it you?/Don't do it). |
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His presence makes her nervous. |
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Both couples spend time together walking by the water, getting to know each other better. |
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They must be ingenious in devising ways to be alone together without getting caught. |
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In each case, they dance together once. |
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Each couple has "their" music (The Rhapsody/Come Josephine). |
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In both cases, the lovers run toward each other (he runs downstairs, she runs on a level, and they meet at the foot of a staircase and embrace passionately). |
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Each time, they make love only once, and he remains the great love of her life. |
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Each is a doomed love affair, with the lovers separated by circumstances beyond their control, and not by choice. |
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There is a portrait in both cases, and he is responsible for making it the way it is. |
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She is reflected in a mirror at her dressing table, the villain is with her, and he starts a sentence which they finish together. |
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There is a prominent piece of jewelry in both (pocket watch/diamond necklace) and it disappears the night she dies. |
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She saves him from an embarrassing situation (Elise escorts Richard out of the dining room/ Rose lies about Jack saving her). |
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The hero's clothes are inappropriate to where he is much of the time. |
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There is a large, earthy, sympathetic woman who helps him to be with his love, and she comments on his clothes (Genevieve/Molly Brown). |
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There is a reference to a penny (THE penny/"You shine up like a new penny"). |
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Curiously, the hero has dinner with her, her mother and the villain, which does not appear in SIT but does appear in the original version Bid Time Return. Perhaps Mr. Cameron read that as well? |
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A bit of whimsy and a twice-removed reference: Rose says "I'm flying", which reminds me of Peter Pan, by implication Maude Adams, by association Elise McKenna. (Remember in Bid Time Return, he makes mention of Elise playing Peter. I'm convinced Mr. Cameron, at the very least, saw the film, if not read the book as well!) |
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The heroine slowly removes a comb and lets her hair fall for his benefit. |
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Each woman expresses a desire to have him use his particular talent to enhance her (Elise wants to be in Richard's play/Rose asks Jack to draw her). |
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The villain confronts the hero and heroine in a potentially compromising situation (Robinson finds Richard in Elise's room/Cal fabricates a theft). |
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Both villains lie to her about the hero (Robinson says Richard is not "the one"/Cal frames Jack to make him out a thief). |
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The villain has the hero removed bodily from the premises by someone in authority. |
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The villain has his thug punch the hero in the stomach. |
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The hero is bound and left behind. |
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Interestingly, Robinson says "We leave within the hour", which Jack and Rose only HAVE about an hour. |
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Each woman calls out her lover's name during a crisis or separation. |
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Elise asks Richard to "Come back to me" in a whisper; Rose asks the boat (or is it Jack?) to "Come back_come back", also in a whisper. |
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The one being left behind retreats into darkness (Elise vanishes/Jack sinks out of sight). |
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The woman dies old, the man dies young. |
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Both stories start in the present, return to the past, and end in the present. |
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Both meet again in Heaven, the lover awaiting with outstretched hand, and bathed finally in a pure white light. |