Titanic Failed Its Best Minor Character

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The main focus of Titanic was the relationship between Rose and Jack, from their first meeting to its tragic ending, but in the process, Titanic failed its best minor character. James Cameron’s name has become synonymous with big-budget productions and the sci-fi genre, thanks to movies like The Terminator and Avatar, but one of his biggest and most successful projects was far from that genre: Titanic, a disaster drama movie released in 1997 and which was the most expensive movie ever made at the time.

Based on the real-life tragedy of the RMS Titanic in 1912, Titanic tells a fictional story led by fictional characters, although, through them, the audience met some characters based on real-life passengers of the ship. Titanic, then, follows first-class passenger Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) and third-class passenger Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), who over the course of four days meet, get to know each other, fall in love, and defend their romance from those who look down upon them. Rose and Jack represent two very different worlds, and through each one of them, the audience gets a glimpse at their lifestyles, struggles, and the people closest to them, of which some were very important to them and were simply ignored as the story progressed.

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While telling the story of the tragic romance between Rose and Jack, Titanic ended up hurting some of its minor characters, but perhaps the biggest failure was against Fabrizio (Danny Nucci), Jack’s friend who even though wasn’t key in Rose and Jack’s story definitely deserved better.

The differences between Rose and Jack’s lifestyles are shown in their very first scenes. Young Rose arrives in a fancy car, wearing