T I T A N I C

It's not up to you to save me, Jack.

A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson… and that he saved me… in every way that a person can be saved. I don't even have a picture of him. He exists now only in my memory.

Thank you for that fine forensic analysis, Mr. Bodine. Of course the experience of it was... Somewhat different.

Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater in TITANIC (1997)

There was this myth, I think, that was created by the media that the films entire success was based on 14-year-old girls going back to see it over and over again because they were in love with Leo. Certainly, that was a factor. But I also think they missed a critical point, which is teenage girls love the movie because it was about them. And they related to Rose. — James Cameron (Director)

So when I decided to write the book on it and I went to see the movie again, there were two teenage girls sitting behind me and they were weeping. And I said, "How often have you seen this film?" And they said, "Oh maybe six or seven times." And I said, "Why do you love this film so much that you keep seeing it?" They said the payoff in the movie for them was seeing those photographs at the end. It was seeing this old woman who had been the young woman and that she had lived a rich and really full life. And that she had survived all these troubles and had made something of herself. And that was so inspiring.