History WMG / Titanic1997

[[WMG: Rose played TheBeard to her husband.]]
It was a marriage of convenience, and there was never any love between them. Hence why she embraces Jack at the end.

[[WMG: Jack never existed]]

Rose wasn't happy about the arranged marriage. So when she had time she wandered the ship. "Jack" is a mental fiction, a way for her to escape being married to a horrid man. She met several men and may or may not have had the adventures she had during the film - her narration is how she ''chooses'' to remember that night. She was trying to escape Cal any way possible. When the ship sank, either she was alone on the doorframe or someone else who couldn't climb up or fit on the door perished and she again chose to remember the sacrifice of "Jack". When she passed she had a DyingDream about "Jack".

** And [[WesternAnimation/InsideJob2021 Inside Job]] just decided that Jack's actor is an immortal vampire.

[[WMG: Rose is [[UsualSuspects Keiser Soze]]]]

** Better than killing well over a billion humans, uncounted numbers of animals, plants, and other living things, and destroying everything in existence. And Jack is [[NamesTheSame Jack]] [[Series/DoctorWho Harkness]] with MagicPlasticSurgery. Someone stopped the original cause of the Titanic crashing, so Jack had to distract the lookouts somehow. He doesn't drown ([[DeathIsCheap permanently]]) and Rose is now unkillable ([[{{Nerf}} but]] [[AgeWithoutYouth aging]]).

** And [[WesternAnimation/InsideJob]] Inside Job just decided that Jack's actor is an immortal vampire.

** And [[WesternAnimation/InsideJob]] just decided that Jack's actor is an immortal vampire.

*** That could of course be Cal's punishment(he certainly doesn't look happy). Plus the "crew members" likely wouldn't have to do anything they found drudging in Titanic-heaven, only good stuff. More likely they'd all move on to where they wanted to go, or BE the upper class, or partiers, or whathaveyou....

As first class survivors aboard Carpathia, they would be reunited immediately and, still being "family", it would only be natural, in 1912, that the "man of the house" Caledon Hockley took care of everything related to the sinking, from claiming damages to looking for his missing fiancée. A 19th century woman like Ruth would understand that. She could not know, however, that Cal's reason to do this was two-fold: he needed to find Rose himself before her mother found her, to make sure that Rose didn't tell her the things that he had done to her during the sinking such as, ''trying to kill her with a gun.''

Alot of people seem to think that Lovejoy (Cal's Bodyguard) died when the Titanic split in two. However, after the Ship breaks in Two, you can still see him holding on. There's the assumption that he survived because (if Rose is reliable)the man was a cop and has likely been through deadly situations before, so he may have survived the water and been rescued by the Carpathia.

Lovejoy managed to survive the sinking and stayed out of Cal or Ruth's radar while on the Carpathia. But he didn't forget about Cal leaving him for dead on Titanic after he failed to reclaim the Heart of the Ocean as well as his attempted murders of Jack and Rose. He swore revenge on Cal and as a former police officer, he knew a lot about criminal minds and how to perfectly get away with murder and pass it off as a suicide. In the fall of 1929, he managed to sneak into the Hockley estate and subdue Cal, he then shot him in the mouth with the same 1911 pistol Cal attempted to kill Jack and Rose with. He then forced Cal's hands into grabbing the gun so his finger prints would appear on it (Lovejoy wore gloves to hide his). He didn't foresee the 1929 Market Crash but lucky for him, it happened a couple of days after the murder and Cal's body wasn't discovered until after the crash when his family returned from holiday. Everyone assumed the obvious and Spicer Lovejoy got away with the murder scot-free. Rose herself wasn't even sure when she ads "or so I've read."

Jack looks way too young for the character's implied age, is the only man on the boat who manages to keep completely clean-shaven, and even in the sex scene the framing is arranged to prevent a view of his chest. Leo is also made up to look even more androgynous than he normally did in the 90s. On Rose's side she has an established interest in women (at least enough to have topless paintings as decoration), obviously had no emotional attachment to her eventual husband or children (not one picture in her scrapbook), plus her request for Jack to show her how to do things like ride a horse "like a man" could be taken as acknowledgment that it was something Jack had to relearn. See [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-much-better-movie-hiding-in-titanic/ This Cracked Article]] for more apparent evidence.

** Rose's <i>great</i>-granddaughter meets a boy during a vacation in Louisiana...

Let's say that Rose was perfectly happy being rich and whatnot. As a little joke, she pretended to have feelings for a third-class passenger. She never loved Jack, but he was head-over-heels in love with her. When she realized that he legitimately planned to marry her, she had two choices: tell him the truth or kill him. She picked the latter. Luckily (Luckily?), the ship hit an iceberg, so she didn't have to go through with her original plan of poisoning him. She got two of Cal's buddies to frame him for a crime he didn't commit, to keep him below-decks. But, just so Jack wouldn't suspect a thing, she went back to "save" him. Throughout that scene, she was never in any real danger. In a deleted scene, two passengers offer her and Jack blankets and whiskey. Rose got a dose of chloral hydrate (a sedative), and dropped it in his drink. Not enough to kill him, not enough to even send him fully off to sleep, just enough to depress his energy. The shock of the cold water delayed the reaction for a bit, but luckily, it kicked in just in time. That's the reason why he didn't get on the door after the first time trying: he was just too tired. Therefore, he died. And nobody did an autopsy on the body and confirmed that he had been drugged. Even if they did, Rose would probably pay the doctors to keep their mouths shut. Besides, you can't perform an autopsy on someone who's at the bottom of the sea. Rose lives, gets off in New York without ever being suspected of the crime, and weaves a story where she's the hero. And that, my friends, is what I call the perfect crime.

* As much as I hate to admit it, this makes a lot of sense.

Or because he slowed down his biological processes [[Film/TheManFromEarth using trick he had learned while studying with Tibetan Monks.]] Counting this in addiction with the guesses above that he was a time-traveler, when he slipped into the water, he traveled to another time because he set his time-machine to send him back when he completely submerged and unconscious.

OR, he survived and kept and the Heart of the Ocean to make enough money to build his own fortune for ten years, and finding another woman who also has a flower for a name, to become [[spoiler:[[Film/TheGreatGatsby2013 Jay Gatsby]], who has a notable fear of swimming pools]].

This troper is basing her theory off of the fact that Rose and Jack directly cause the sinking of the Titanic by distracting the iceberg lookouts. There is a moment in the movie where Rose is at afternoon tea and she looks at a little girl folding a napkin daintily, and right afterwards she seeks out Jack, and they have their famous kiss on the bow of the ship. What the movie DOESN'T show is that when Rose looks at the little girl folding the napkin, she is actually resigned to a life with Cal. She never speaks to Jack again, loses track of him, the ship doesn't sink, and lives her life as a very wealthy but unhappy woman. Because many important and wealthy investors in steam technology survived the maiden voyage of the Titanic, steam technology booms and eventually, many decades later, some kind of time rewinding technology is discovered. When she is much, much older, Rose realizes her mistake in letting Jack go (heh), and so she uses this technology to rewind time back to the pivotal moment where she watches the girl fold a napkin and chooses Cal (though she retains her memories of her future life so that she can choose correctly this time). This time, she finds Jack and tells him she's changed her mind. Unfortunately, her giddy and blissful romance with Jack doesn't last long, because after they make love, they distract the iceberg lookouts, thus causing the sinking of the Titanic. Jack doesn't survive, of course, but neither do the investors in steam technology, so the time-rewinding technology never develops, and she is forced to live another 80+ years without him, making the movie doubly tragic.

Alot of people seem to think that Lovejoy (Cal's Bodyguard) died when the Titanic split in two. However, after the Ship breaks in Two, you can still see him holding on. I always assume that he survived because(if rose is reliable)the man was a cop and has likely been through deadly situations before, so he may have survived the water and been rescued by the Carpathia.