Rose's Titanic Story Creates A Plot Hole (But Fixing It Makes It Worse)
James Cameron’s Titanic is not safe from plot holes, and one of the most debated ones is all about Rose as the movie’s narrator, but fixing it would actually make it all worse. James Cameron is best known for his big-budget productions, mostly from the sci-fi genre, but one of his biggest and most popular works is Titanic, a disaster drama movie released in 1997. Titanic was the most expensive movie ever made at the time and was the highest-grossing movie of all time for years, and while it’s still popular with the audience, viewers have pointed out some inconsistencies and plot holes over the years.
Based on the real-life tragedy of the RMS Titanic in 1912, Titanic tells the story of Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) and Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), two passengers from opposite social classes who over the course of just four days, met, got to know each other quite well, and fell in love aboard the infamous ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage. Rose and Jack’s relationship ended in tragedy, and Rose kept her story secret until many, many years later, when the drawing Jack made of her was recovered from the wreck by treasure hunter Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton). The story of Rose and Jack, then, is told by older Rose (played by Gloria Stuart), and with time, this has raised a number of questions about the accuracy of her tale.
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Rose told her story to Lovett, his crew, and her granddaughter, from the moment she arrived to board the ship with her fiancé, Cal Hockley (Billy Zane), and her mother, Ruth (Frances Fisher), to the rescuing of the survivors of the sinking of the Titanic. However, Rose’s tale includes moments where she wasn’t present, such
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