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... Leonardo DiCaprio winning a poker game to win him and his buddy a 3rd class ticket to destiny, Jack's being a ride back home and his friend's new life in America. Titanic then sets sail in a excellent series of scenes that show the wonder of the ship, from the awesome propellers churning the murky water below to the depths of the Titanic's engine room where scores of men work in heated conditions to get her on her way. Soon after this we see the first long distance meeting of our two lovers and are swept up in their playful romance, which do the levels of society as well as the levels of ship interrupt. Rose sees just how dire her situation is and she buckles under the pressure of being forced into a marriage will her new jail in the form of Billy Zanes outstanding portrayal as Cal Hockley. Her only hope is to end her life or at least attempt it in order to cry out to someone who can reason with her and just listen to her pleas. Jack answers that cry by talking her out (or should I say pointing out the fact that she has no intention of taking her life) of her suicide attempt. This is the point in the movie when the trust has begun between these two and as Jack points out - he has become involved whether she likes it or not. This intrigues Rose and she in turn decides to see the better part of looking at life through Jack, not the imprisonment of life but the freedom of it. Saving Rose's life also earns him a night of elegant dining in the first class dining hall with an invitation by Cal to please Rose. I absolutely loved this part of the movie, Jack brings everyone to his level all the while Cal and Rose's mother try to capitalize on the fact that he is the one who is out of place. How could you possible not appreciate Jack's way of looking at life after this scene? He's in a tuxedo drinking champagne and turning down caviar and on outward appearances he is just another one of the rich fat cats but he hasn't a penny to his name and could just care less. Titanic, the motion picture, is three hours long and took $200 million to make. It is a gold-plated production about an ''unsinkable'' steel-hulled ship, made by a tin-eared filmmaker. One of the most compelling human tragedies of the 20th century gets a lavish treatment in James Cameron's magnum opus. This film re-creates, in all her glory, the greatest floating palace of her age. It shows us how and why she sank and the misery of the 1,500 people who would die that night in April 1912. And it takes us to the bottom of the Atlantic to view the eery beauty of the ghostly wreck. The film tells the story in flashback. A modern team of wreck explorers, led by Bill Paxton, search the ship for a lost diamond necklace, Le Coeur de la Mer, or the Heart of the Sea. What they find instead is a drawing of a young woman wearing the gem. And when that woman, Rose (Gloria Stuart), comes forward, she tells these modern day ''grave robbers'' the story of that tragic night when 1,500 oth ers died as the Titanic foundered on her maiden voyage. Titanic is both a disaster movie and a love story. The love story, between the young, engaged society princess Rose (Kate Winslet) and the professional drifter Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio), is the backbone of the film. It's a love that can never be. Rose is trapped in an engagement (to a man played by the handsomely creepy Billy Zane) that her family cannot afford to have her break. ''To everyone else, Titanic was a ship of dreams,'' the aged Rose narrates in a typically portentous metaphor. ''To me, it was a slave ship.'' She and Jack meet when Rose decides that a rich husband and planned future is more than she can bear, and she tries to jump overboard. Jack saves her and the romance begins. For an hour and 45 minutes, they flirt, court and dodge Rose's fiance, her mother (Frances Fisher), and the fiance's evil butler (David Warner). For an hour and 45 minutes, we hear how unsinkable the ship is, how her designer (Jonathan Hyde...