In 1998, in addition to the flood, Chinese impressed by a movie that was enough to enter the annals of world cinema, Titanic.
This film is not only sought after in China, but also has a huge response in the world, which can be described as popular all over the world.
Ghost director James Cameron combines the famous shipwreck in history with a poignant love story to create an unparalleled visual feast for fans around the world.
The real Titanic
As we all know, the Titanic is a real cruise ship, and the sinking of the Titanic is also a real shipwreck.
In the early twentieth century, the Titanic was definitely the top luxury cruise ship of its time, unparalleled in both size and internal facilities. So much so that when James Cameron made the film, he spent a lot of money to restore the Titanic's huge appearance and luxurious facilities inside.
But no one would have imagined that the Titanic would be shipwrecked on its first voyage and would be forever silent in the ocean.
On 10 April 1912, the Titanic sailed from the Port of Southampton in the United Kingdom to New York, United States. A few days later the huge cruise ship collided with an iceberg during its voyage, the cabin flooded with water, and the hull began to sink. There were more than 2,000 people on board, and more than 1,500 people were killed. It is definitely a rare huge shipwreck.
Titanic
The movie Titanic by Ruth and Jack
There are two protagonists in the movie Titanic, one is the male protagonist Jack, and the other is the female protagonist Ruth. The two young heroes and heroines staged a romantic and poignant love story on the most luxurious cruise ship at that time, which earned enough tears from the audience.
However, everyone knows that the Titanic is a real cruise ship, but few people know that jack and Ruth in the movie also have real prototypes.
Ruth in the film is a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl of aristocratic origin who lives in the titanic's most luxurious first-class cabin. But this rich, beautiful aristocratic lady was not happy at all, for he was going to marry a man he did not love. His fiancé, Carl, is also on board the ship.
The depressed Ruth does not want to face a marriage without love, so she wants to choose to jump into the sea to commit suicide, and she did not expect to meet the painter Jack.
Ruth and Jack
Jack in the movie is played by Leonardo DiCaprio, and Little Plum conquers the majority of fans by relying on the appearance of "immortals" as soon as he appears. He plays Jack, a painter from a poor boy who would not have had the opportunity to board a luxury cruise ship like the Titanic.
By chance, Jack gambled to win a ticket to the Titanic and was able to board the Titanic. On the cruise ship, he rescues Ruth, who wants to jump into the sea to commit suicide, and after getting along with Ruth, they have feelings for each other, and the two fall in love.
After Falling in love with Jack, Ruth made up her mind to leave her fiancé, Carl, and after the cruise ship arrived in the United States, she wanted to leave everything behind to be with Jack. Unfortunately, there was a shipwreck before the cruise ship could dock.
After the Titanic sank, Ruth and Jack soaked in the icy waters. Ruth climbed onto a plank and was eventually saved. But Jack sank to the bottom of the ocean forever.
Ruth and Jack floated on the sea
Ruth and Jack's prototype
So in reality, what kind of person is Ruth's prototype? Ruth in the film is based on Helen Churchill Candy, a writer and one of the survivors who survived the sinking of the Titanic.
When he boarded the Titanic, Candy was not a young girl, but a middle-aged woman who was already fifty-three years old and had two children.
But Candy is no ordinary housewife, and in the early days of the last century, even in Europe and the United States, the status of women was far inferior to what it is now. Candy, on the other hand, was a full-fledged feminist activist who was very well educated and later became a journalist and writer.
In the movie, Ruth initially chooses to escape when faced with a loveless marriage, and even wants to use suicide to get rid of her fiancé's entanglement. But Candy was much stronger, and when her husband abused her, she firmly chose to divorce, living alone with two children and supporting herself by writing.
Helen Churchill Candy
In such an era, a woman who initiates a divorce is blindfolded. But Candy is not afraid, she has the ability to be independent and self-reliant, and she can raise two children without relying on men.
Candy was in Europe when he suddenly received a telegram from the United States. It turns out that Candy's son was injured in a flight, and the impatient Candy wants to rush to the United States immediately. Coincidentally, as the Titanic's maiden voyage was about to begin, Candy boarded the Titanic and prepared to visit his injured son in the United States.
At that time, the Titanic attracted a large number of high society because of the configuration of luxury cruise ships. Although Candy is fifty-three years old, his independent and elegant temperament still attracts the attention of many men. In just a few days, six men showed affection to Candy.
In the movie, Ruth is shown love by Jack, who came from a poor boy. But among the six suitors That Candy faced were officials, wealthy businessmen, etc., all of whom were the social elites of the time, which showed that Candy's charm was really great.
Jack and Ruth stills
The prototype of Jack in the movie is actually two of these six. They are Kent and Hugh Woodron, and Jack is a character who has worked on the prototype of these two characters. Kent is an architect who pursues Candy the most, but Candy's favorite person is the wealthy businessman Hugh Woolen.
In the movie, after the Titanic hits an iceberg, Jack stays with Ruth and escapes with her. But after Ruth boarded the lifeboat, she resolutely returned to the cruise ship to accompany Jack. Until the end, Jack gives Ruth the life jacket, so that Ruth is finally rescued.
In reality, after Candy learns that the cruise ship hits an iceberg, she is accompanied by Hugh Woolen, and the two meet Kent during the escape.
Remember the portrait of Ruth that appeared in the movie? It was a portrait of Ruth by the painter Jack, and in that portrait Ruth carried the priceless blue diamond around her neck, the Heart of the Ocean. Later, the painting was salvaged from the bottom of the sea, thus revealing the love story of Ruth and Jack that had been sealed for many years.
Heart of the Ocean
However, it was not Candy's portrait that sank to the bottom of the sea that year, but the portrait of Candy's mother. At that time, Kent meets Candy, who is looking for a way to survive, and finds that she is still carrying luggage.
Candy tells Kent that there is a gilded portrait of his mother in his luggage and a bottle of precious brandy. In order to give Candy peace of mind, Kent promises to help Candy keep the things.
Unfortunately, Candy and Hugh Woodron were rescued, but Kent was unable to escape and died in the cold waters of the Atlantic.
Kent's body is later found, and it is surprising that Kent is still carrying the portrait and brandy that Candy commissioned him to preserve.
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The second half of the real "Ruth"
Ruth in the film escapes from the huge shipwreck, but his beloved Jack is gone forever. Ruth lived strongly and painfully.
More than eighty years later, Ruth, who is already a hundred years old, took the initiative to stand up after learning that the wreckage of the Titanic had been found, and told everyone the story of what happened with Jack on this giant ship.
At the end of the film, Ruth sinks the blue diamond "Heart of the Ocean", which symbolizes love, into the sea, allowing this diamond to accompany her lover Jack who has sunk to the bottom of the sea forever.
In reality, Candy and Hugh Woodron go through the disaster together, but they don't come together. Hugh Woollen even avoids Candy, refusing to meet even though he knows that Candy is looking around for his whereabouts.
Perhaps the huge shipwreck has caused a huge psychological shadow on Hugh Woolen, who cannot face Candy and can only choose to escape.
Old Ruth sank the heart of the ocean into the sea
Candy lost her love affair with Hugh Woodron, but she did not give up on herself, and soon she returned to her usual life, where she had worked as an interior designer, and after this disaster she gave up her job as a designer. She began traveling around the world and continued her writing.
She wrote about her experience on the Titanic as a story published in a magazine in the United States. When Hollywood was preparing to make the movie "Titanic", her story became the material for the screenwriter.
It's just that the screenwriter has made a drastic adaptation of the characters and plot, and it is difficult for people to associate the protagonist in the movie with the characters in reality.
The second half of Candy's life can be said to be quite rich, she experienced two world wars, and she traveled all over Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
During World War I, Candy, in his fifties, became a service member of the Italian Red Cross, caring for the wounded wounded on the battlefield, and the famous Hemingway was one of the wounded who was cared for by Candy because of his injuries. I don't know what kind of sparks the two writers have sparked when they got along.
After the end of the First World War, Kandi came to Asia, lived in India, Myanmar and other countries, she even lived in Beijing for two years, studied and studied the culture and customs of Beijing, and became a foreigner familiar with Beijing.
Candy has been writing as she travels the world, and she never stops even as she gets older and older. Like Ruth in the movie, Candy is an extremely long-lived person.
In 1949, at the age of ninety, Candy died of illness, ending his extraordinary life. Candy left this world, but because of her article, she left a poignant love story and a film work that can enter the annals of world cinema. That must have been the greatest consolation for Candy.
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