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1	* GeniusBonus: At the end of "Still" and the last time we see Isidor and Ida, he wraps his champagne glass in his handkerchief and smashes it underfoot. This is the traditional final rite of a Jewish wedding - Isidor was a Bavarian-born American Jewish man. There are many interpretations of this rite, but a popular one is that it's a reminder of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, because even in moments of great joy, tragedy and loss must not be forgotten. Isidor and Ida may have just joyfully affirmed their eternal love by staying TogetherInDeath with two glasses of champagne, but many other couples and families will be parted by the death of the Ship of Dreams. (The proshot, however, replaces this with the more readily recognizable exchange of rings.)
2	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoment:
3	** Even during the tense argument that is "The Blame", Ismay is the only one to criticize Captain Smith. Andrews comes as close as possible to defending Smith with a deflective, angry "Oh, now it's the Captain's turn!" when Ismay begins to light into Smith for being "the Captain who sailed us straight into disaster".
4	** Crossed with TearJerker, but Ida Straus' devotion to her husband Isidor is admirable, expressed with the verbatim quote "Where you go, I go." that she ''did'' say in real life. Their following duet "Still" as they celebrate their life together and marry each other once more on the sinking ship also counts as heartwarming.
5	* NightmareFuel:
6	** The final part of "Autumn/Finale" is a nightmarish, eerie overlapping foreshadowing of doom. The passengers echo "No moon, no wind", Bride speaks of how "the night was alive with a thousand voices", Barrett repeats that the ship's speed has now been increased to 81 from 75, and Andrews brags about Titanic being a "perfection of physical engineering". As the music comes to a dissonant climax, there's a {{Beat}}, before Fleet spots an "Iceberg, straight ahead!" The passengers would die on a moonless, windless night in a still black sea because Andrews' design was imperfect and the ship was going too fast. The "thousand voices" would be Bride's own frantic messages trying to get distress signals out to whoever could hear, as well as the passengers' dying screams and wails.
7	** As the lights on the Titanic flash and the music rises to a crescendo, there's a quick drone that sounds like countless humans crying out at once and then cut short (coincidentally similar to the technique employed by James Horner in his track "Death of Titanic" for ''Film/Titanic1997''). Then, [[NothingIsScarier dead silence.]] It brings to mind survivors' accounts of the screaming dying out after only half an hour, leaving only an unforgettable eerie silence.

Context YMMV / Titanic