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Okay, ready? Here goes....
Drum roll please...
The boat sinks.
This kind of movie really kind of annoys me. A made-up story about a real event.
But, this is the theme of every war movie ever made, since it’s not a mystery as to who won the war (except Vietnam, I guess). And sometimes in the war movie genre, even the title gives away the made-up story, such as “They Died with Their Boots On.” With this title, you know everything except how they died and why they didn’t take their boots off, both of which, (since it is a war movie) are fairly obvious.
Sometimes a movie is named badly, like “Pride and Prejudice.” Naming movies after venal sins? What’s next, “Avarice and Bearing False Witness?”
Anyway, the Titanic story is the story of a woman who promised herself to another man, but had a tryst with a guy she let die in order to keep the whole thing a secret until she was about to die 75 years later.
I guess it beats a true story about a made-up event.
