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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Sept 8, 2009 1:04:28 GMT -5
Let's go back to Titanic for a second. An engaged girl got it on with a guy she knew for 24 hours and women everywhere thought it was romantic. If you change the scene from a boat to a bar won't all those same women start shouting "What a slut"? it was four days, not 24 hours, and if a woman in a bar was being forced to marry an abusive, domineering man to wipe out her mother's debt decides to run off with a poor guy she's known for four days who likes her for her, yeah they'll call it romantic
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Post by The Charismatic Enabeler on Sept 8, 2009 1:10:44 GMT -5
Guess I was mistaken. 4 whole days before she got down with the guy. "Jack, save me from the horror of a guy who is willing to cut his fortune pretty much in half cuz he's so into me he's willing to bail out my whole idiot family."
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Sept 8, 2009 1:20:09 GMT -5
Also on Titanic:
Why did he throw the jewel into the ocean? She was an old women who has her poor granddaughter taking care of her. Now that granddaughter really could of used the money that jewel is worth. Selfish bitch.
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Post by Mozenrath on Sept 8, 2009 1:59:09 GMT -5
Also on Titanic: Why did he throw the jewel into the ocean? She was an old women who has her poor granddaughter taking care of her. Now that granddaughter really could of used the money that jewel is worth. Selfish bitch. That was pretty absurd, yes, agreed.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Sept 8, 2009 2:53:35 GMT -5
Guess I was mistaken. 4 whole days before she got down with the guy. "Jack, save me from the horror of a guy who is willing to cut his fortune pretty much in half cuz he's so into me he's willing to bail out my whole idiot family." "And would never treat me with respect but instead like a slave, because he believes paying my family means he owns me in the same way he owns his undergarments, and will never give me the least bit of freedom, will force me to obey him by threatening to chase me from the house if I don't." Also, am I the only one thinking that Rose just might have a say? And last but not least, she hasn't known the man she's "engaged" to for much longer than she's known Jack, really.
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Post by Back to being Cenanuff on Sept 8, 2009 10:42:17 GMT -5
Guess I was mistaken. 4 whole days before she got down with the guy. "Jack, save me from the horror of a guy who is willing to cut his fortune pretty much in half cuz he's so into me he's willing to bail out my whole idiot family." "And would never treat me with respect but instead like a slave, because he believes paying my family means he owns me in the same way he owns his undergarments, and will never give me the least bit of freedom, will force me to obey him by threatening to chase me from the house if I don't." Also, am I the only one thinking that Rose just might have a say? And last but not least, she hasn't known the man she's "engaged" to for much longer than she's known Jack, really. Actually, in 1912, Rose wouldn't have much of a say. The idea of a romantic marriage is really only something that's come into vogue in the past century or so, so at the time period of the movie, it would still be a pretty new idea, and would be the exception to the rule. At the time, marriages were arranged by the two families, or by the bride's family with the prospective groom if their daughter had reached the age of marriage without an arrangement being made. What's more, women were more or less conditioned at the time to be subservient to whomever they married, so she wouldn't be thinking in terms of respect, and Leo's character probably wouldn't be thinking it, either. Women were pretty much treated as chattel back then.
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