Titanic:Poor over Rich

Titanic makes EVERYONE cry. Literally everyone cries when Jack sinks to the bottom of the ocean, every woman at least. For those of you unfamiliar with the love story shown in the movie Titanic, Rose boards the ship with a rich well-to-do fiancée that her parents adore and gives her whatever she needs. However, she meets Jack Dawson on the ship and he is the complete opposite. Jack is a poor, nomadic, artist that just goes where life takes him; not a penny to his name. Rose falls in love with Jack because he is the type you would love, where her fiancée is the type you would marry. But who determines these categories of men and what they are sufficient for? This makes the audience believe that poor men are more genuine than rich men, or that artists are better in bed than entrepreneurs. Throughout the course of the movie you learn to hate Cal (the rich fiancée) and grow attached to Jack. When the ship is going down you want nothing more than Rose and Jack to get out alive together, but Cal is in the way and you as the viewer want to just shoot him yourself! Making the rich, loved-by-parents man mean and the artist lovable, it gives an entire stereotype to all rich men and all poor artists. It’s the classic poor over rich, even though none of us would prefer to be poor, he’s the underdog and America loves an underdog story. The fact that Rose’s parents chose Cal for her is also exploited. When Rose goes against her parent’s wishes and chooses Jack, it adds the ‘teenage rebellion’ factor. She even risks her life to stay onboard a sinking ship with him while her parents left on a rescue boat! That is the prime example of disobeying your parents for love, and the movie makes it seem like such an attractive thing to do! When in reality, she is freezing her ass of and Jack dies anyway!