5/10/2011

Film Analysis

Titanic.

OW: Rose is engegaed to Caledon. He is really rich. She seems rich but her and her mom are going through a financial crisis which is why her mother wants her to marry him.
Call: Rose tries to committ suicide. Jack saves her. He is poor, sweet and exciting. He seems to like her.
Refusal: Rose is very comittet to marry Cal because of her mother. She needs to be seen as upper class and Cal and her mother try to force her not to see Jack.
Mentor: I guess Jack could be seen as her mentor even though he also kind of is her Call to Adventure, because he is it who calms her down when she doubts the two of them and who kind of leads her to experiencing true love.
Treshold: When Rose leaves a boring first class dinner just to be with Jack in the third class is probably when she enters her heroe life.
Tests, allies, enemies: Her mother, her fioncĂ© and the deck officer are all kind of against the relationship between rose and jack. Several times Cal tries to forbit her to see Jack, so does her mother. Also when she wants to leave with Jack while the ship is sinking they try to get her to go on the lifeboat. Or when Jack is imprisoned and the ship sinks so he is about to die  but Rose frees him with an axe.
Approach: Now that they are save they try and look for being safe and not dieing.
Ordeal: They both fall into the ocean and think they are going to die but they keep on swimming.
Reward: They find a door that might safe them. Jack promises her she will live and be happy.
Resurrection: Rose is almost dieing after Jack is dead but then remembers his words and is saved.
Return with Elixir: Rose is save on a lifeboat and lives for a long time after that. She keeps the expensive necklace Cal gave her and ends up throwing it in t ocean once she's old.

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