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Does Old Rose die at the end of Titanic?

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ManicUnicorn · 15/12/2018 22:42

I'd always thought that the scene at the end of film where she's asleep and the ship comes back to life and she goes back to the staircase and sees Jack, Mr Andrews etc was her just having a dream, but then someone recently said no she died and that's her 'going back to Titanic' and my mind was completley blown because alll these years I thought she was just dreaming! And then I thought well Jack did say that she was going go die 'old and warm in her bed' and she chucked the necklace into the sea so it makes sense after she's finally told her story ...

Is it maybe open to interpretation I wonder?

(And yes, I know this is random lol)

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ManicUnicorn · 16/12/2018 12:17

I always thought that the necklace was just cheap, costume jewellery in real life?

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Justawaterformeplease · 16/12/2018 12:26

I’ve just thought, does she definitely marry again? Maybe she was pregnant when she arrived, so there never was a husband.

Jellyonawonkyplate · 16/12/2018 12:26

She definitely died 'an old lady, warm in your bed'. The reason she went to Jack is because he 'saved me, in all the ways a person can be saved'. He was her one true love and meeting him gave her the opportunity to live a free life. The photos at the end show how she went on to do all the things they had talked about. Also let's not forget her suicide attempt which he saved her from, as well as sacrificing himself for her at the end.

possibly over invested, I love it

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Sarahandduck18 · 16/12/2018 12:31

Huh?

No the producers bought a priceless diamond to throw into the sea to make a scene in a movie.

Yes producers waste money but that’s just crazy!

Sarahandduck18 · 16/12/2018 12:33

The granddaughter, James Cameron’s future squeeze, knew her grandfather.

AGHHHH · 16/12/2018 13:31

I cried when she threw the necklace overboard. I’d have pushed her
Over for that.

😂😂😂😂

Sooveritg · 16/12/2018 13:47

I always thought that throwing it away was because it symbolised everything her old life was about. Money. And she was finally throwing it all away. I was a bit ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY? when I watched it, but maybe she didn't want to pass the burden of it and all the woes that pursuit of wealth can bring, down to her family. For her it was a crown of thorns

Efferlunt · 16/12/2018 14:03

Surely her DH was long since dead?! She was 102!

I saw this at the cinema when it came out have remember having a furious argument with my friend over the death/ dream issue on the way home!

OurChristmasMiracle · 16/12/2018 14:13

Maybe completely off topic but has anyone wondered when we die do we get to relive the most emotional and fantastic times of our lives? I know they say your life flashes before you? Maybe this was that. Her first glimpse of freedom and independence.

Maybe her husband would feature later in her “life story”

Maybe when you die you see everyone you ever loved who has gone before you.

I’m hoping so

But yes for me she passed away finally at rest. I do wonder if she needed first to tell her story before she could kiss this world goodbye.

Hymen · 16/12/2018 16:00

No the producers bought a priceless diamond to throw into the sea to make a scene in a movie.

You mean, it wasn't really from Louis the sixteenth's crown, dammit? I'll never believe in a film again. Next thing you're going to tell me is that Alan Rickman didn't really cheat on Emma Thompson and give her a crappy CD for Christmas while he gave expensive jewellery giftwrapped by Mr Bean to the office floozie.

Hymen · 16/12/2018 16:18

And I've always thought that the most unlikely thing in a film stuffed with incredibly unlikely things was that the treasure hunter (who has, after all, put together this incredibly expensive underwater salvage mission purely to find the priceless diamond) and his equally business-like team listen enthralled to Old Rose ramble on about her unhappy engagement and her suicide attempt and the comely third-class passenger who caught her eye, and gosh, what jolly fun it was céilidh dancing in steerage etc etc, without shouting CUT TO THE CHASE, GRANDMA! every thirty seconds.

CountessVonBoobs · 16/12/2018 16:24

She died in her bed after casually chucking the huge diamond, that could have set her family up for life, into the sea.

The diamond was totally useless to her. It was listed as lost and the insurance company had paid out to Nathan Hockley in 1912. The second she tried to sell it the company would have sued her for possession of it.

WhentheRabbitsWentWild · 16/12/2018 17:49

I think she did, Yes .

That is what I came away from the film believing anyway

Honeyroar · 16/12/2018 18:57

I reckon she'd have found someone dodgy in New York who'd have bought the diamond. And I never understood why she still had it after all those years if it was a symbol of her oppressed life. She could've binned it years ago.

There are a lot of ifs and buts to the film. We really need a little follow up film!

Sooveritg · 16/12/2018 21:36

My great aunt (my Grandma's aunt) was steering class and died in the Titanic. It was her birthday the day before, so I always watch the dancing scene downstairs with tears. I sort of figure she was having a helluva time. Or hope. Such dreams she would have had. Headed to America. A new life, new beginnings. It's quite sad really.

Sooveritg · 16/12/2018 21:37

She was 24.

Sooveritg · 16/12/2018 21:40

My aunt was one of these. Not going to say which one, in case some stalker finds me, but ye, it's sad.

My great aunt

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