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Old October 18th, 2006, 08:20 PM
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What if Jack Dawson had lived?

In the movie Titanic, had Jack Dawson lived, would Rose have actually married him and lived a poor life?
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Old October 19th, 2006, 12:53 AM
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If they'd had any sense, they'd have flogged that diamond and lived a rich life.

She seemed to have a reasonable pad even without him there, so maybe they just work hard and make it big like other immigrants did.

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Old October 19th, 2006, 01:05 AM
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You know what would be a better WI if Rose didn't throw that necklace into the coean and give it to her granddaughter who has been watching her to X amount of years!
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Old October 19th, 2006, 07:24 AM
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This must be the gayest thread ever...
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Old October 19th, 2006, 12:49 PM
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If they'd had any sense, they'd have flogged that diamond and lived a rich life.

She seemed to have a reasonable pad even without him there, so maybe they just work hard and make it big like other immigrants did.

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Jack wasn't an immigrant. He was an American citizen from Minnesota or Michigan. He says so.

Jack Dawson survies, marries Rose, they move the the state of their choice. Jack dies in 1918 in France after he gets drafted into WW1.

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Old October 19th, 2006, 03:57 PM
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Jack Dawson might have been adventurous enough to join the FlyBoys in France.
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Old October 19th, 2006, 04:25 PM
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Jack wasn't an immigrant. He was an American citizen from Minnesota or Michigan. He says so.

Jack Dawson survies, marries Rose, they move the the state of their choice. Jack dies in 1918 in France after he gets drafted into WW1.

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Yeah, but she's an immigrant, and that's what I was meaning.

The best ending of course is that I get the diamond and live a rich, dissipated, debauched and decadent life

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Old October 19th, 2006, 05:29 PM
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Days after the ship sunk, Rose and Jack sit together on the small pier, before them is the endless ocean, and behind them the grand city of New York. Rose smiles to Jack and holds up the small necklace, "With this we can live and do whatever we like."

Jack smiles as he takes it and slides into his pocket to keep it safe, "You are so right."

They walk down the streets, having little money between them but the necklace so in the long run they will be fine. Yet as they moved deeper intot he city and the crowd Jack slowly slips away from the annoying Rose, and realizes that for a brief moment he was in love, but that's what happens on cruise ships. Now Rose was nagging, talking all the time, and somehow took to refering him as Jackie.

With the necklace in his pocket Jack Dawson leaves Rose with about twenty nine dollars to her name, and sets off around the country living a life as a wealthy man. He has a rich friend see to it he doesn't go to Francein the great war, when the stock market crashes he is safe for his money is tied up in various company's many of them arms manufacturers. In his early fifites with a wife, and three children he pushes hard for America to remain neutral in the war in europe.

Jack dies in 1955 and has a large funeral with many people attending. Rose gets old and around the age of 100 or so she heads out to the Titanic and tells the story of the horrid man Jack Dawson who robbed her in a time of need. No one really seems to care and push her off the boat.
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Old October 19th, 2006, 05:33 PM
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I guess you don't like romantic movies then

Have to admit, funny though

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Old October 19th, 2006, 07:02 PM
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This must be the gayest thread ever...
And that's up against some pretty stiff competition.

However, HelloLegend started it, so one must assume it would he fairly gaysexualist.
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Old October 19th, 2006, 07:04 PM
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Days after the ship sunk, Rose and Jack sit together on the small pier, before them is the endless ocean, and behind them the grand city of New York. Rose smiles to Jack and holds up the small necklace, "With this we can live and do whatever we like."

Jack smiles as he takes it and slides into his pocket to keep it safe, "You are so right."

They walk down the streets, having little money between them but the necklace so in the long run they will be fine. Yet as they moved deeper intot he city and the crowd Jack slowly slips away from the annoying Rose, and realizes that for a brief moment he was in love, but that's what happens on cruise ships. Now Rose was nagging, talking all the time, and somehow took to refering him as Jackie.

With the necklace in his pocket Jack Dawson leaves Rose with about twenty nine dollars to her name, and sets off around the country living a life as a wealthy man. He has a rich friend see to it he doesn't go to Francein the great war, when the stock market crashes he is safe for his money is tied up in various company's many of them arms manufacturers. In his early fifites with a wife, and three children he pushes hard for America to remain neutral in the war in europe.

Jack dies in 1955 and has a large funeral with many people attending. Rose gets old and around the age of 100 or so she heads out to the Titanic and tells the story of the horrid man Jack Dawson who robbed her in a time of need. No one really seems to care and push her off the boat.

That'd be a far, far better film to see. I still can't stand Di Caprio - looks like an effeminate version of KD Lang - so it'd have to be played by another actor.
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Old October 21st, 2006, 06:28 AM
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And that's up against some pretty stiff competition.

However, HelloLegend started it, so one must assume it would he fairly gaysexualist.
Negative, I am not part of your gay world. I just started with the words, "Mirror, Mirror on the wall.." then the fairy word just happened to work for the sentence.
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Old October 21st, 2006, 06:30 AM
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Yeah, but she's an immigrant, and that's what I was meaning.

The best ending of course is that I get the diamond and live a rich, dissipated, debauched and decadent life

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Rose DeWitt Dectaur and her Mom were in Europe because they felt "trapped by Philadelphia society" that would imply that she is either American or has at least lived in Philadelphia previously. The Titanic voyage was a return trip.
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Old October 21st, 2006, 05:18 PM
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Well, she should have a US accent then

Still doesn't change the best ending which is for ME to be rich.

Hmm, come to think of it, it's the one thing I listed that doesn't presently apply to me

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Didn't Family Guy cover this? He tells her it was fun but he's already engaged to a girl back home.
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Old October 21st, 2006, 06:38 PM
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Gay happy or Gay homosexual?
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