Movie Analysis - Titanic

Movie Analysis

Title of the movie: Titanic

Author of the book on which the movie is inspired form: The movie is based in a true story. The first author to write a book of the Titanic is Walter Lord.

Setting: The movie start with a trip of the luxury ship Titanic from Southampton to New York via Cherbourg and Queenstown in April 10, 1912.

Protagonists: Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater.

Antagonist: Billy Zane as Caledon Nathan "Cal" Hockley

Characters persons or person in the movie: Jack Dawson, Rose DeWitt Bukater, Caledon Nathan "Cal" Hockley, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, Rose Dawson Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lizzy Calvert, Fabrizio De Rossi, Spicer Lovejoy, Thomas "Tommy" Ryan and Captain Edward John Smith.

Secondary characters: Margaret "Molly" Brown, Thomas Andrews, Joseph Bruce Ismay, John Jacob Astor IV and Chief Officer Henry Wilde.

Plot: In 1912, 17-year-old first class passenger Rose boards "Titanic" in Southampton with her fiancé Cal and her mother Ruth DeWitt Bukater. Ruth stresses the importance of Rose's engagement, as the marriage would solve the DeWitt Bukaters' secret financial problems. Distraught by her engagement, Rose considers suicide by jumping off the ship's stern; a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson stops her. Discovered with Jack on the stern, Rose tells Cal that she was looking over the ship's edge in curiosity and that Jack saved her from falling.

Jack and Rose develop a tentative friendship, even though Cal and Ruth are wary of the young third-class man. She prefers him over Cal, and meets him at the bow of the ship during what turns out to be the Titanic's final moments of daylight. They witness the ship's collision with an iceberg on April 14, 1912 and overhear the ship's officers and designer outlines its seriousness. The ship then starts to launch flares in order to attract any nearby ships. Cal realizes that he gave his coat with the diamond to Rose.

All lifeboats have departed and passengers are falling to their deaths as the stern rises out of the water. The ship breaks in half, and the stern side raises 90-degrees into the air. As it sinks, Jack and Rose ride the stern into the ocean. Jack helps Rose onto a wall panel only able to support one person's weight. Meanwhile, Fifth Officer Harold Lowe has commandeered a lifeboat to search for survivors. Jack soon dies of hypothermia and Rose draws the attention of Lowe's boat, and is ultimately saved. on April 15, 1912: the Titanic sinks and more than 1500 people die.

Rose and the other survivors are taken by the RMS Carpathia to New York, where Rose gives her name as Rose Dawson. She