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I always love it when people refer to “this ending” or “this scene” as if everyone is supposed to know what this blurry still is supposed to be from. Even if it was a video, that still doesn’t tell me what it’s from.
Edit: to all the haters…
Saying ‘what kind of an idiot doesn’t know about the Yellowstone supervolcano’ is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time.
Titanic
Never seen it. What happened in this scene?
The framing device for the whole movie is that they’re searching the wreck to find a priceless necklace, and bring along an old woman, who had it when the ship sank, to help them. She then tells them her story, moves them into abandoning the search, and in the end it’s revealed she had it the whole time when she throws it overboard.
Thanks for the actual explanation without being condescending or demeaning! I appreciate it
Thanks, I actually didn’t know this because I’ve usually fallen asleep while trying to watch that movie with someone lol
It was so long they had to put it on 2 VHS tapes
The fuck?
The big boat sinks.
I had no idea what I was looking at, then you writing this instantly made me realize the scene.
So yeah, I think the commenter’s got a point
Damn, I had a feeling, it was Titanic, because of the eerie lighting, but I’ve never watched it, never seen this scene.
I guess, it did narrow things down, though, that it’s posted here without explanation…
Literally the most watched film of all time.
Bee Movie?
LotR?
Hot cheerleaders 3?
Shrek 2?
Iron Lung?
K well I didn’t see that one.
Shrek 2 obviously!
Nonetheless, I would be willing to bet that only a single digit percentage of people on this planet have seen this nearly 30 year-old movie.
I have seen it, but because it has been nearly 30 years since I have, I had no recollection of this scene.
Yeah there was a different scene teenage me found a lot more memorable
128 million Americans saw it in theatres when it came out apparently (that’s just Americans! And just the initial theatre release). But it’s been shown on TV, streaming services, etc (and you could pirate it of course) and is accessible in pretty much every country today. There’s been surveys with results like “26% of brits haven’t seen Titanic”, etc, but no real hard data unfortunately. But I’d wager the percentage has to be double digits. Not super high double digits, but definitely double digits.
I mean a portion of those have certainly died within 30 years?
Yes, and at least a billion other people have seen it since.
I think the count may be skewed, unless they accounted for folks who were paying to watch it in the theater multiple times per day, multiple times per week, for its entire run. I knew several of those at the time.
And what percentage do you think is represented on Lemmy?
4.784% of which 95.88% haven’t seen it since they saw it at the cinema or briefly after on VHS.
I bet it’s still less than 25%. Just a SWAG though.
Multiple times, I’m tired of it.
Avatar?
I saw that a year or two after it first came out and I don’t remember any of this being part of it…
Avatar made more money per view due to 3D/IMAX - which wasn’t a thing for titanic
Still, I didn’t recognize the scene or even the movie based on the pic, the description, OR your appeal to popularity, so I’m gonna have to sustain the objection to vagueposting.
(And yes, I DID see Titanic once. Mostly meh and Leo was awful in it afair)
Debbie Does Dallas?
One Night In Paris?
By you?
It’s the ending of Spiderman 3.
Gave me a solid giggle, thanks man
No, it was Gandalf wrapping the ring for Frodo.
It’s a frame from near the end of my sex tape.
Anyone whose seen it knows where it’s from. It’s the final scene from James Cameron’s Titanic in which Rose throws the infamous jewel into the ocean.
Man it’s been over 25 years since I watched Titanic; 95% of the memory I retained of that film is boobs and the other 5% was actually Thumbtanic. I dunno how you expect anyone to instantly recall this scene from a single frame unless you were one of those hardcore fans who saw it nine times in the cinema.
😂 I guess I’m some movie savant that remembers all the frames even though I haven’t seen the movie since 2003
Anyone whose seen it
See, that’s where it all falls over.
How so? It was the highest grossing film for 11 years straight, starting in 1997. Only been surpassed by Avatar 1/2 and Avengers Endgame. Pretty well known film.
Doesn’t mean everyone’s seen it. 1997 was over a generation ago, the “kids” conceived in those screenings have careers and acid reflux now
I watch movies every week and I haven’t seen any of those movies. Your basic-ass experiences are not universal.
I saw the movie and had no idea. Although it was well over twenty years ago and I was more interested in the gal I was sitting next to than the movie.
If you want a recap here’s a nice summary of the important bits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saZcHBY5vyI
Haha, oh man, I forgot how much I missed these, thank you!
Nah i’ve seen it atleast twice and it took me a while to have guessed titanic. Still needed the comments to confirm it. Can’t remember jewel being thrown away at all
Exactly the same as me. The film’s 30 years old, and I’ve definitely seen it, but probably not in the last 20 years or more. I just about recognised it was Rose but haven’t got a fucking scooby what she does at the end of the film. I thought it ended with her sat on the piece of wood watching Jack sink.
Watched it a couple months ago with my wife. She drops the jewel into the ocean above the wreckage, then goes back home, where we see a bunch of pictures across her dresser showing that she had an adventurous and fulfilling life, inspired by Jack’s last words to her.
That explains it. I’ve never had any desire to see that movie, and thus I never have.
For GenX / Xennials we grew up with a plethora of shitty ass movies not worth your time or headspace. No electronic devices, thus you’re subjected to that crap during social encounters. Multiple video rental stores in every town containing so much garbage, friends and relatives constantly naming it as the pinnacle of entertainment.
Given choices, later, as an adult, most so called popular or romantic crap is then easily avoided. Or you just read a book on your phone instead. What I would’ve given in my teens to have a slim little book holding device no one questions in my pocket.
Never bought the hype or music for Titanic. Thanks for ID-ing this photo.
Give it a shot it’s a good film. Considering it was filmed in 1997 the visuals still hold up pretty well and the writing is pretty good, especially by today’s standards.
I prefer things more like Amelie for romantic comedy. And old school 5hr 90s versions of Pride & Prejudice for straight romance. Besides, now you’re telling me not only does the ship sink and romance not win out, but she drops the one bright spot, future financial security for her family, in the ocean. Why would I watch that?
That, and I’ve never been a DiCaprio fan. Winslet is cool though.
I mean the jewel represented way more than just financial security. I would say her reasoning to dump it is pretty valid. It also means that romance absolutely won out.
When I was a kid I thought it was dumb but kids are kinda dumb ngl
For people that have been there it kind of makes sense. The jewel represented the man that was her abuser. He wanted to keep her locked up in a cage. Her dumping the jewel was her catharsis that she was free. Free to make her own choices.
To be fair, Titanic was pretty iconic
Never seen it. Something about French ladies and floating door space?
You’re not alone. I’ve not seen it, no intention to either
Its actually all just a high concept, softcore porno that takes place in a Model A Ford, just with an unusually developed plot and large production value, that bookends this.
I tried watching it three times and fell asleep every time. I’ve come to the conclusion, that it is a very boring movie.
For some reason I thought it was Wendy from Hook lol
I have never watched the movie, don’t know that I’ve ever seen an image from this scene, but instantly recognized it because I’ve read people complain about it so many times online.
Its ok, there can be cultural references you do not immediately understand, we don’t have to all have the exact same repetoire of concepts in our brains.
Until coming to the comments, I thought it was from The Others, but that didn’t fit the title.
The Titanic.
Titenic
T-t-t-t-titenic
The bougiest of beat-em ups!
Lemmites try not to make cultural blindness their only personality trait challenge.
Calling someone expressing their lack of omniscience “making cultural blindness their only personality trait” is a wild leap.
$1,000,000s of dollar worth
Only the brightest have stayed on twitter
aren’t “metamates” what facebook calls its employees now? if so the dissonance is real
Should be Team Metamates. Just anagrams all the way down
You’ve gotta be special if you’re working at meta. They all deserve it. Effin metamates
The 46 carat Hope Diamond on which the fictional Heart of the Ocean is based, is estimated at $200 - $300 million today.
The white gold and zirconia prop used in the movie cost around $8,000 but if it were real at 56 carats, it would be valued at more than twice what the Hope Diamond is. Leave it up to Hollywood to invent fictional jewelry and then assign a value it.
Although, since the diving vessel is directly on top of where the heavy metal necklace would conceivably fall, it might not take too long to locate it on the sea floor:
The original search area for the Titanic was about 150 square miles, and the Titanic is only about 90 feet wide. So, for every Titanic width-sized object, you would need to search about 1.32 million positions.
If the search area for the necklace were 1/4 square mile to allow for drift, and the necklace is effectively 4 inches wide, you would only need to search about 435,000 necklace-width positions. Although, being directly over the Titanic wreck could hamper metal detecting. It would be pretty ironic if the necklace fell back on to the deck of the wreck.
So, suck on that ya old entitled bitch!
If the search area for the necklace were 1/4 square mile to allow for drift
Your search area is perhaps a bit small.
Where, exactly, was the ship she dropped it from at the exact moment she dropped it? Ships move around quite a bit, even when trying to maintain position over a wreck. And how precisely do you know when she dropped it?
you would only need to search about 435,000 necklace-width positions.
Only, huh? That’s still quite a lot when you’re talking about one of the most difficult places on the planet to get to. And because the necklace would likely sink straight into the soft ocean floor mud immediately upon impact, it’s likely not going to be just sitting there, easily found with a visual search. You will indeed need to use metal detecting.
One issue with metal detecting: the main body of the ship only broke into two large parts, sure, but the entire area is going to be scattered with a debris field of small parts and junk. Pieces that broke off as the ship was breaking up, pieces that drifted away as the ship sank, pieces that broke off when it hit the bottom, pieces that were buoyant enough or interesting enough to sea creatures to drift away over the years of sitting at the bottom… You’re going to be getting a ton of false positives all over the place. A door hinge, a passenger’s pocketwatch, little scraps of broken-off plumbing pipe, a fork, hundreds of little scraps of hull plating…
Searching through all of that will be extremely tedious (and expensive!), with no guarantee of eventual success. For all you know, a fish spotted the shiny, glinting thing as it sank and instinctively swallowed it, and now your multi-million dollar necklace is 50 miles away, giving some fish a stomachache.
a fork
All the forks have been reclaimed by the sea.
She probably grabbed the necklace, too, so you’re shit out of luck.
All great points. Maybe there’s a metal detecting technology that can sniff specific types of metal? Or, some kind of density scan that could be tuned to the materials in the necklace?
Ostensibly, they would be directly over the Titanic wreck because they were currently diving it, and the time the necklace was dropped as they were standing there when that old crone dropped it in front her middle-class daughter and the crew dedicating their professional lives to finding it. Estimations of the ocean currents and mockups of a necklace falling in seawater might tighten the search area.
The real question is, how long could you comb a sea floor littered with Titanic debris before costs rose to more than the value of the necklace?
By the way: RIP to Bill Paxton: Space Marine, Tornado Chaser, and Shipwreck Archeologist. May you find the Heart of the Ocean in your heavenly dreams. You are missed 😢
When the lady you invited on your ship to find a necklace chucks it overboard:
The white gold and zirconia prop used in the movie cost around $8,000 but if it were real at 56 carats, it would be valued at more than twice what the Hope Diamond is. Leave it up to Hollywood to invent fictional jewelry and then assign a value it.
What does this mean? They had jewelers create a bespoke (non-diamond) necklace, but it had to be good quality because of the close-ups they wanted to do with it. As for “assigning it a value”, isn’t that just what people are willing to pay? $8,000 for a one-of-a-kind piece of jewelry and cinema history doesn’t seem too crazy to me…
The value of the prop used in the movie notwithstanding, a quick search suggested that a real 56 carat diamond with qualities and rarity similar to the Hope Diamond would be worth close to $600 million, but no such thing actually exists.
So what I meant was: of course Hollywood has to come up with the ultimate jewel “worth more than the Hope Diamond”, to quote the movie.
Could they make a big diamond in a lab?
Rose was Lost Generation, 3 generations before the Boomers!
"One million dollars’s of dollar worth of their children and grandchildren’s inheritance… "
I’m tired, boss.
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It’s a class war.
… And guess which side the supermajority of boomers are on?
Its almost like they historically and currently constitute a reliable voting block of people who consistently vote to create all these problems that are otherwise known as the class war.
You’re both right. Lots of old people are on the right but breaking us apart by generation does nothing but further divide us which only helps the Epstein Class.
Nah.
You run political polls on groups of people for a reason: To derive rational strategies of rhetorical appeal.
What we, as the left, should be doing, is appealing to Gen Z, rhetorically.
… You wanna solve the toxic masculinity problem?
Point the anger at a better target, and temper it with actual facts, actual logic, actual statistical analysis and explanations of how this shit actually works.
Validate Gen Z’s literally correct suspicions that Boomers are insane out of touch narcissists, untill proven otherwise.
The Boomers have demanded they be pandered to and given participation trophies, in the form of subsidies, their entire lives.
We need to focus on ‘kick anyone over 65 out of any political position, we need new blood’.
We do not need to focus on ‘well actually, Not All Boomers bad.’
… You wanna guess the average age of people literally confirmed to be in the Epstein class?
You need a compelling narrative that motivates people to do things, not a nitpicking discussion panel.
The Epstein Class is the perfect name for them.
She was part of the Lost Generation, so maybe she was just ahead of her time?
She was just written by boomers.
You are so right. I never thought of that, but yes, yes she was.
It wasn’t hers anyway.
Wow.
It has been a long time since I’ve seen that. Holy hell.
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Clearly you don’t have kids. They can be spoiled fucking brats
Really telling on yourself there champ.
Are you really that spite driven against your children?
No joke. I see my son and want nothing more than to provide a sense of security and a loving home. Maybe it will change over time but I can’t perceive viewing him as a “spoiled brat who should have nothing at my life’s end”
If it’s your kid and you think they’re a spoiled brat that’s your fault !!!
Me no, but I can understand. After all - make your own damn money.
Why shouldn’t they get a job?
Some kids are so fucking entitled.We live in a capitalist society where you need to have money to make money. The less they start with, the less they’ll be able to make in expectation over their lifetime. Denying them an inheritance is basically saying that they should stay at the bottom of the totem pole.
Or maybe we should make the kids so resentful of money that they burn the pole down
That should be accomplished through education. Then leave them money so they have the power to change things.
It’s attitudes like this that really make me enjoy when I can swindle, hustle, undercut, rob, and otherwise take advantage of people like you. I hope before you die you experience loss, suffering, misery, isolation, and the rejection of your children in your deepest hour of need.
Yikes.
Yeah? Who taught them?
Damn. Maybe you’re the brat since you can’t deal with your own children.
There are a lot of super shitty adults that are actively someone’s child. I have two of them as siblings. Some people’s children are just shitty people and do just genuinely suck throughout their entire lives, not everyone is a saint worth giving any kind of fuck about. You can have a bad egg, it happens all the time.
Inheritance drives inequality. I did not expect anything from my mom.
