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LOVETT: Louis the 16th wore a stone called the 'Blue Diamond Of The Crown', today it would be worth more than the Hope Diamond. If your grandmother's who she says she is, she was wearing the diamond the night the ship sank.
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LOVETT: Are you ready to go back to Titanic?
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OLD ROSE: It's been 84 years.
LOVETT: That's OK just try to remember anything, anything at all.
OLD ROSE: Do you want to hear this or not Mr. Lovett?
It's been 84 years, and I can still smell the fresh paint.
The china had never been used, the sheets had never been slept
in.Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was, it
really was.
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ROSE: I don't see what all the fuss is about. It doesn't look any bigger than the Mauretania..
CAL:You can be blase about some things Rose but not about Titanic! It's over a hundred feet longer than Mauretania... and far more luxurious.
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CAL: It is unsinkable. God himself couldn't sink this ship.
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JACK: When you got nothin', you got nothin' to lose
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JACK:Alright fellas, somebody's lives are about to change. Fabrizo? Hmmmm, two pair. I'm sorry Fabrizo, that you are not going to see your mother for a long time, cause we're going to America! Full house boys! I'm going home!
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JACK:I'm going to America!!!!
BARTENDER: No, the Titanic's going to America....in 5 minutes!
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OFFICER: Have you been through the inspection queue?
JACK: Of course! Anyway, we don’t have lice, we’re Americans.
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FABRIZIO: You know somebody?
JACK: Of course not. That’s not the point. (to the crowd) Goodbye! Goodbye!! I’ll miss you!!
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FABRIZIO:I can see the statue of liberty already! Very small of course.
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JACK: (on the railings) I'm the king of the world! Wooohooooo!
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CAPTAIN:Take her to sea, Mr. Murdock. Let's stretch her legs.
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ROSE: (looking at a cubist portrait) You're wrong. They're fascinating. Like in a dream... there's truth without logic.
MAID: What's the artist's name Miss?
ROSE: Something Picasso.
CAL: (coming into the sitting room) He'll never amount to a thing, trust me.
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MOLLY: Why’re ships always bein’ called 'she'? Is it because men think half the women around have big sterns and should be weighed in tonnage?
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ROSE: Do you know of Dr. Freud? His ideas about the male preoccupation with size might be of particular interest to you, Mr. Ismay.
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MR ISMAY That Mr. Freud, who is he? Is he a passenger?
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TOMMMY: Ah, forget it, boyo. You'd as like have angels fly out of your arse as get close to the likes of her
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ROSE: I saw my whole life as if I'd already lived it...an endless parade of parties and cotillions, yachts and polo matches... always the same narrow people, the same mindless chatter. I felt like I was standing at a great precipice, with no one to pull me back, no one who cared...or even noticed.
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ROSE: Don't come any closer, I'll let go
JACK: No you won't
ROSE: Don't you presume to tell me what I will and will not do. You don't know me!
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ROSE: You're crazy.
JACK: That's what everybody says. But with all due respect, I'm not the one hanging off the back of a ship.
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JACK: Just gimme your hand. I'll pull you back over.
Rose: No! I'll let go!
JACK: You let go and uh, I'm gonna have to jump in after you.
ROSE: You'll be killed.
JACK: I'm a good swimmer
ROSE: The fall alone would kill you.
JACK: To tell you the truth, I'm a lot more concerned about that water bein' so cold.
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JACK: I remember when I was a kid. Me and My father, we went ice fishing out on Lake Wissota. Ice fishing is you know where you--
ROSE: I know what ice fishing is!!!
JACK: Sorry. You just seem like, you know, kind of an indoor girl.
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CAL: What made you think you could put your hands on my fiancee?
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ROSE: Is that the going rate for saving the woman you love?
CAL: "Rose is displeased...hhhmmm...what to do?
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(Rose showing Jack her engagement ring)
JACK: Gawd look at that thing! You would've gone straight to the bottom.
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ROSE: Look, I know what you must be thinking! Poor little rich girl. What does she know about misery?
JACK: That's not what I was thinking. What I was thinking was... what could have happened to hurt this girl so much she thought she had no way out.
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ROSE: (trying to be very adult) And these were drawn from life?
JACK: Yup. That's one of the great things about Paris. Lots of girls willing to take their clothes off.
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ROSE: You have a gift, Jack. You do. You see people.
JACK: I see you.
ROSE: And...?
JACK: You wouldn'ta jumped.
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ROSE: Pardon me?
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ROSE: You're being very rude! You shouldn't be asking me this.
JACK: Well it's a simple question. Do you love the guy or not?
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JACK: I thought you were leaving?
ROSE: I am! .... You are so annoying!
JACK: HA HA
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ROSE: Teach me to ride like a man
JACK: And chew like a man
ROSE: And, spit like a man
JACK: What, they didn't teach you that in finishing school?
ROSE: No!!!
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JACK: Nope, that was pitiful. Here, like this... you hawk it down... HHHNNNK!... then roll it on your tongue, up to the front, like thith, then a big breath and PLOOOW!! You see the range on that thing?
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ROSE: Good gracious
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CAL: (having shown Rose the Heart of the Ocean) It's for royalty. And we are royalty Rose.
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JACK: (kisses Rose's hand) I saw that in a nickelodeon once, and I always wanted to do it.
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CAL: Dawson? Extraordinary, you could almost pass for a gentleman.
JACK: Yeah Almost
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J.J. Astor: Well Jack. Are you of the Boston Dawsons?
JACK: No, the Chippewa Falls Dawsons actually.
J.J. Astor: Ah yes...
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JACK: I work my way from place to place, you know tramp steamers and such. But I won my ticket on Titanic here in a lucky hand at poker. A very lucky hand.
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JACK: I've got everything I need right here with me. I've got air in my lungs and a few blank sheets of paper. I mean I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or who I'm gonna meet; where I'm gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people.
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RUTH: Tell us of the accommodations in steerage, Mr. Dawson. I hear they’re quite good on this ship.
JACK: The best I’ve seen, ma’am. Hardly any rats.
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JACK: Well...it's a big world, and I want to see it all before I go. My father was always talkin' about goin' to see the ocean. He died in the town he was born in, and never did see it. You can't wait around, because you never know what hand you're going to get dealt next. See, my folks died in a fire when I was fifteen, and I've been on the road since. Somethin' like that teaches you to take life as it comes at you. To make each day count.
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ROSE: Now they retreat into a cloud of smoke and congratulate each other on being masters of the universe.
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JACK: Want to go to a real party?
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ROSE: So, you boys think your big tough men huh? Well lets see you do this!!!
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RUTH: You're not to see that boy again, Rose. I forbid it.
ROSE: Oh stop it mother. You'll give yourself a nosebleed.
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MR ANDREWS: In fact, I put in these new type davits, which can take an extra row of boats inside this one. But it was thought, by some, that the deck would look too cluttered. So.. I was overruled.
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JACK: You're the most amazingly astounding, > wonderful girl -er- woman I've ever known!
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JACK: They've got you trapped Rose and you're gonna die if you don't break free. Maybe not right away because you're strong but, sooner or later that fire that I love about you Rose, that fire is gonna burn out.
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JACK: I'm not an idiot. I know how the world works. I've got ten bucks in my pocket and nothing to offer you and I know that. I understand... but I'm too involved now. You jump, I jump remember? I can't turn away without knowing you'll be alright.
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ROSE: It's not up to you to save me Jack.
JACK: You're right. Only you can do that.
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JACK: You're not one of them. There's been a mistake.
ROSE: A mistake?
JACK: Uh huh. You got mailed to the wrong address.
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ROSE: When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you.
JACK: This is crazy!
ROSE: (laughing)I know. It doesn't make any sense! That's why I trust it.
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ROSE: I'm flying, Jack...
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JACK:Come Josephine in my flying machine. And it's up she goes, up she goes.
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ROSE: I want you to draw me like one of your French
girls......wearing this (the heart of the ocean)....wearing only this.
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ROSE: As a paying customer I expect to get what I want (she
undresses)
JACK: uhmm, (he points to the couch, slightly embarrassed) there....on the bed...uhmm....couch.
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ROSE: I believe you are blushing, Mr. Big Artiste. I can't imagine Monsieur Monet blushing.
JACK: (sweating) He does landscapes.
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JACK: Where to Miss?
ROSE: To the stars.."(as she pulls him into the back seat of the car)
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ROSE: Put your hands on me Jack.
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ROSE: You're trembling.
JACK: I'll be okay.
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LOOKOUT: Iceberg right ahead!
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ROSE: What's happening Jack?
JACK: I don't know. I don't know.
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MR MURDOCH: An iceberg, Sir. I put her hard a'starboard and run the engines full astern, but it was too close, I tried to port round her, but she hit
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MR ANDREWS: From this moment, no matter what we do, Titanic will founder.
MR ISMAY: Well this ship can't sink!
MR ANDREWS: She's made of iron sir. I assure you she can... and she will. It is a mathematical certainty.
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JACK: Don't you believe it Rose, DONT!
ROSE: He couldn't have.
CAL: Of course he could. It's easy enough for a professional.
ROSE: But I was with him the whole time. This is absurd.
CAL: Perhaps he did it while you were putting your clothes back on dear...
JACK: Real slick Cal..Rose they put it in my pocket!
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MR ANDREWS: In an hour or so all this will be at the bottom of the Atlantic
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MR ANDREWS: Mr. Lightoller! Why are the boats being launched half full?
LIGHTOLLER: Not now Mr. Andrews..
MR ANDREWS: There look! Twenty or so in a boat built for sixty-five? And I saw one boat with only twelve.. TWELVE!
LIGHTOLLER: Well, we weren't sure of the weight Mr. Andrews. These boats may buckle.
MR ANDREWS: They were tested in Belfast with the weight of SEVENTY MEN! Now.. fill these boats Mr. Lightoller for god sake man!!!
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RUTH: Are the boats going to be seated according to class? I do hope they won't be too crowded.
ROSE: Oh mother shutup! Don't you understand? The water's freezing and there's not enough boats. Half the people on this ship are going to die.
CAL: Not the better half.
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CAL: You know it's a pity I didn't keep that drawing. It'll be worth a lot more by morning.
ROSE: You unimaginable bastard.
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CAL: Where are you going?? To him?? To be a whore to a gutter rat??
ROSE: I'd rather be his whore than your wife.
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TOMMY: If this is the direction the rats are going, it's good enough for me.
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CREWMAN: I'm sorry miss but the lifts are closed.
ROSE: I'm through being polite god-damn it! Now take me down! E deck.
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ROSE: (nodding) I’ll be right back.
JACK: (unable to move as he is handcuffed to a pipe) I’ll wait here.
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ROSE: (holding an axe) Will this work?
JACK: I guess we'll find out. C'mon. Wa-wa-wait-wait-wait-wait--- Try a couple practice swings over
there!
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JACK: Now try and hit the same mark again.
(Rose swings hard and the axe blade thunks in four inches from the mark)
JACK: Okay, that’s enough practice.
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MAN: (after Jack & Rose plow through the wall) "What do you think
you're doin'? That's White Star Line property! You'll have to pay for that y'know!"
JACK & ROSE: (together) SHUT UP!
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TOMMY: For the love of God, man, there are women and children down here! Let us up, so we can have a chance!
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JACK: Open the gate.
CREWMAN: Go back down the main stairwell.
JACK: Open the gate right now!
CREWMAN: Go back down the main stairwell like I told you!
JACK: God damnit! Son of a B*****!
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BENJAMIN GUGGENHEIM: We are dressed in our best and prepared to go down as gentlemen....... But we would like a brandy!
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MR ANDREWS: I'm sorry that I didn't build you a stronger ship, young Rose.
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Mr MURDOCH: Your money can't save you anymore then it can save me
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JACK: There's no uh, there's no arrangement is there?
CAL: No there is. Not that you'll benefit much from it. I always win Jack. One way or another...
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JACK: Rose! ...You're so stupid... Why'd you do that, huh? You're so stupid Rose! Why did you do that, why?
ROSE: You jump, I jump right?
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ROSE: Oh god! I couldn't go! I couldn't go Jack!
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CAL: I hope you enjoy your time together!
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TOMMY: Music to drown by. Now I KNOW I'm in first-class!
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PRIEST: And god shall wipe away all their tears from their eyes, and there should be no more pain
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MAN: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death--
JACK: You wanna walk a little faster through that valley?
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WOMAN: And they all lived together in the land of Tearnanog for 300 years, the land of eternal youth and beauty.
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ROSE: Jack this is where we first met
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JACK: We're gonna make it Rose! Do you trust me?
ROSE: I trust you!!
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JACK: (after the TITANIC has sunk and he is up to the chest in freezing water) I don't know about you, but I intend to write a strongly worded letter to the White Star Line about all this.
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JACK: Winning that ticket was the best thing that ever happened to me.It brought me to you Rose!!!
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ROSE: It's getting quiet
JACK: Don't you do that.
ROSE: I love you Jack
JACK:Don't you say your goodbye's.Not yet
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JACK: You must do me this honor... promise me you will survive... that you will never give up... no matter what happens... no matter how hopeless... promise me now, and never let go of that promise.
ROSE: I promise.
JACK: Never let go...
ROSE: I'll never let go Jack..I'll never let go...
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OLD ROSE: They waited for life. They waited for death. They waited for an absolution that would never come.
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LOWE: We waited to long.. Well keep checking them - keep looking! Is there anyone alive out there? Can anyone hear me?
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ROSE: Jack...there's a boat.Jack.....Jack, there's a boat!!!
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ROSE: I'll never let go Jack.... I'll never let go.
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Member of the crew on the CARPATHIA: Can I take your name please love?
ROSE: Dawson. Rose Dawson.
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OLD ROSE: 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.
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