Let’s talk about Titanic. After seeing the movie in theaters last night for the first time since I was in kindergarten, I remembered why it was so popular—it’s a hell of a movie. But after re-watching it, I realized what I had been thinking all along: that old lady Rose is the worst kind of person.
Putting aside the fact that at the end of the movie Rose is a 101-year-old, she really does some horrible stuff, mostly to the Robert Ballard analog character, Brock Lovett. According to the movie, Lovett has spent three years searching for the Titanic and the necklace with that giant blue diamond.
Let’s remember for a moment that somebody is paying for all of his expeditions and everything tangentially related to the expeditions: the submersibles, the crew’s salaries, Lovett’s salary, the ship he’s on, the museum-trained preservationists that make sure Rose’s nude picture is in good condition, and the helicopter that brings Rose to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. He only invites Rose there to help him find the diamond, and yet for three hours she rambles on about some homeless guy she hooked up with in the back of a car.
