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Titanic

20142521 Hyowoo Lee

After watching the movies, have you ever recalled the location set in the movies rather than characters? Many people do so. In other words, the location is an important element in the movie. People who watched the movie Titanic may think that the luxury steamship Titanic set in the movie totally impressed them. The reason why the ship is the important part of the movie is that most of the story’s events happened in the location.

At the beginning of the movie, on the day Titanic makes its first voyage, one woman and man as the main characters first meet each other like destiny. After winning a trip on the RMS Titanic during a dockside card game for third-class, Jack, the poor and painter, meets the woman Rose who is in the first class and supposed to marry her rich snob fiancé Cal on the deck by chance. After that, they have a good feeling with each other and keep meeting. However, in order to cut off their relationship, Cal starts disturbing them. To make matters worse, during voyage, the ferry collides with the big iceberg and this leads to a lot of death of people on board at the time. As a result, Jack and Rose’s magical love puts an end.

Titanic in appearance is not only the luxury ship but the location which exactly distinguishes classes between upper and lower by showing its two-sideness. When the ferry faces the emergency, the upper class who holds between third and fifth floors on the its upper part can escape easily. Whereas the lower class, the poor or labors for the ship normally staying under the sea surface have a difficulty escaping from it in the situation or are ruled out from the list to be rescued like Jack in the movie. Titanic is an example of frankly showing all these aspect of America at the time.

It can’t be set in any other location because it’s possible only for Titanic to frankly show that there’re conflicts between upper class and lower class and meeting of Jack and Rose like destiny that can’t be done in reality at the time. Is this the reason why people set their mind to the location of the story set in the movie?