James Cameron's Titanic Ignored One Of The Best Real Life Characters
James Cameron’s Titanic included characters based on real-life passengers of the infamous ship, but it completely ignored one of the best. James Cameron is now mostly associated with sci-fi movies thanks to his work on big projects like Avatar, but back in the 1990s, he brought his most ambitious project at the time to life and it was far from the world of sci-fi: Titanic, a disaster drama movie that went on to become the most expensive movie ever made at the time, the highest-grossing film, and broke many more records.
Cameron took the real-life tragedy of the RMS Titanic in 1912 to tell the story of two passengers from opposite social classes: Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) and Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio). Over the course of four days, Rose and Jack met, got to know each other quite well, fell in love, and defended their relationship from all those who were against it, particularly Rose’s fiancé, Cal Hockley (Billy Zane), and her mother, Ruth (Frances Fisher). However, Rose and Jack also found some allies along the way, most notably Molly Brown (Kathy Bates), who even helped Jack get ready for his dinner with first-class passengers.
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Molly Brown is one of the characters in Titanic based on real-life passengers, and she’s often pointed out as one of the most notable people on board the ship, so it’s not surprising that Cameron added her to the fictional story of Rose and Jack. However, Molly Brown wasn’t the only remarkable first-class woman on board the Titanic nor the only one who helped fellow passengers as the ship sank, and Cameron’s movie completely forgot about another formidable woman: Ella Holmes White.
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