Who did Rose love more? Jack or Lizzy’s grandfather.

So, we’re confirming that Rose abandoned Lizzy and the rest of the Calvert family in the after life? Like a supernatural Myrl Streep from Kramer v. Kramer?

Herself. She was a selfish bitch.

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and to think that Rose died peacefully. Shame on the mess.

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Just like Jack!

To be fair, I’ve had the thought before. But, yes, the recent Rewatchables episode spurred me to create the thread.

Just came to say bill Paxton was great in this as usual.. miss his work.

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Typical woman to fantasize about the random hobo dong instead of the man she built a family with.

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That’s ok because a typical man is fantasizing about some chick on TV or at the office with big boobs instead of the woman he built a family with.

A much more thematically complicated but probably more enriching and logically consistent ending sequence would have had Lizzy’s grandfather highlighted in the pictures on Rose’s nightstand, just so we get a sense of what he looked like.

Cut to the ‘return to the Titanic’ ending, and as Rose enters the Grand Staircase area from the Promenade, have Lizzy’s grandfather take her by the hand and lead her through the crowd of Titanic ghosts*. At the bottom of the stairs, he lets her go to walk up to the top where Jack is. And at the top, Rose and Jack embrace, but don’t kiss. Lizzy’s grandfather and the Titanic ghosts would all begin their applause. Cut to credits.

In a sequence such as that, it would depict a key thematic element from what Jack was trying to tell her as he froze to death: She would meet someone else to whom she would truly fall in love, but his life lessons to her would be something she would appreciate and she would always care for him.

Edit: *I get it. Lizzy’s grandfather was not himself a soul lost on the Titanic. But the point being, as this is clearly the afterlife, despite what Cameron would say about ‘ambiguity’, his ghost could still be present to showcase that he would was her one true love. But she has returned to the Titanic to thank Jack for all he did for her

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Who did Rose love more?

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Herself