We came across with characters and deal with the stereotypes they represent and resist when we watched a film. This week, our task is about how we are going to read the characters and the stereotypes they represent and resist can spark critical thinking from the movie "Titanic".
(Reference from Wikipedia)
1.Who are Jack Dawson and Rose Dewitt Bukater?
Jack Dawson portrays as a poor, penniless artist who has won the ticket with his friend in a poker game and travels as a third class passenger in the RMS Titanic.
Meanwhile. Rose Dewitt Bukater is a 17-year-old pretty girl, who is being forced into an engagement with Ruth by her mother which can maintain their high-class status after her father’s death. She boards the RMS Titanic as a first-class passenger.
2.What stereotypes do Jack and Rose represent?
As for Jack Dawson, he portrays as a poor young man by carrying an old rucksack when the time he was to board onto the RMS Titanic with his friend. Besides, this could also be shown by the drawing material, the charcoal and plain papers. We can also tell that he is poor by the costumes he wears, which is always over-sized and loose.
On the other hand, Rose Dewitt Bukater, who represents the rich, upper class lady through her costumes and accessories which is always in elegance look. Furthermore, this also can be shown while the time she is sorting out her collections of paintings by “Picasso” while she's in the "Millionaire Suite".
3. Is he and she good or bad?
Both characters are considered as protagonist (except the part where Jack already knew Rose was engaged and still tries to get in between Rose and her fiancé.)
4. What complexities do he and she have, if any?
Rose did not respect his fiancé and did not tell her fiancé the truth.
5. Back up statements with evidence from the film.
This could be showed from the morning scene where the sun light sparks in to the room where Rose and her fiancé are having breakfast together. She is angry after her fiancé had told her that he knew what has happened at the dock last night. Rose warned her fiancé not to spy on her.
Titanic is an American film that portrayed a love between people from two extreme social classes on board the ship en route its doomed journey across the Atlantic Ocean. The movie uses past time continuity and the story is presented in its entirety as something the viewer knows has happened and that the end will be a tragedy, though beautiful in the memory.
In Titanic, the main characters are Rose DeWitt Bukater and Jack Dawson who fall in a forbidden love on the board of the Titanic. Rose's fiancée Caledon Hockley knew about it and even tried to kill Jack who managed to save himself. The end of this story is rather mournful, because Jack Dawson drowns. The story is narrated by aged Rose to a group of explorers who wanted to know more details about the wreck of the Titanic.
For me, the characters and settings reflect real life in this movie. James Cameron’s mythical story follows the characters of Jack and Rose, a third class and first class passenger meet and fall in love despite the social ramifications of their different classes. He sought to show two different classes having a brief chance meeting that would blur class lines to allow both characters to form a strong bond.
In conclusion, Titanic is spectacular because its underlying story structure. Appreciations in the first story form such as the main character's focus of theory and direction of hunch and the obstacle character's problem of result and solution of process, are not easily illustrated. In the second story form, objective story catalyst of worry, and obstacle character critical flaw of skill do not seem to fit.