Titanic Plot Line

 

     I rarely go to movies, instead my wife and I would rent DVD. Movie goers have become rude by talking through the film or using cell-phones. But we decided to view this film in person because first of its magnitude and because one of my wife’s Irish relatives went down on that ocean liner.

     The movie was great viewing excepting for the predicable sad ending we all knew would come. I told my wife that I seen this before. Astonished, my wife said to me, “What are you talking about?”

     “Poor boy rich girl. That is the start of many a story.” I thought about this for a time and started to piece together the many scenes and their connections to another movie “Lady and the Tramp.”

     Yes, poor dog rich dog. Well, it doesn’t end there.

When Jack and the Tramp first meet Rose and Lady, the guys are rebuffed, upper and lower class differences.

When next the Tramp and Jack meet Rose and Lady again, the girls are in a life and death struggle.

Now, keep in mind that not everything has to be in order.

The Tramp and the Lady have dinner. Jack and Rose have dinner.

Both couples do something stupid or playful. Tramp and Lady chased chickens. Jack and Rose spit off the deck.

Rose learns about Jack’s French girls. Lady learns about the Tramp’s many past girl friends.   

The guys show their girls the possibilities.

The girls have their moment of shame, Lady when she is locked in the Pound, and Rose when she is first chastised by her fiancé and then by her mother.

Rose and Lady return to the high life, reluctantly. 

The dog license and the necklace are symbols. Could be power, security, separation, or other.

The Tramp and the Lady sleep together. Jack and Rose make love. Unless your version of Titanic is the Christian adaption in which no one has sex, but third class gets F---. Sorry for the word, but I couldn’t find a stronger word.

Danger occurs for Lady when a rat is seen stalking the baby. Tramp is there and goes in fight mode. Rose and Jack returned to first class and tries to warn her family about the ice berg.

Jack is arrested as a thief and is locked up. The Tramp is cornered and locked into a dog pound wagon.

The Tramp is found blameless and is rescued. Rose knows Jack is blameless and rescues him.

      As you might see is that all that was new, is old. Did you know that the Lion King plot line came from Japanese television, Kimba the White Lion. The play RENT was inspired from the opera La Boheme. Many great plot lines came Shakespeare, Bible, or from folk tales. Find a great tale from the past and adapted it into something new. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel, just readjust the spokes and turn to a new road.