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** Actually it seems like she doesn't know she has the necklace until several hours later. The scene where she hides from Cal is in the daytime, we then see her finding the necklace at night while the ship is passing the Statue of Liberty.

*** Try "days". The scene with Cal searching the Carpathia's boat deck (and presumably everywhere else in their third-class section that survivors were housed) appears to be daytime on the 15th, they day they were rescued. Carpathia arrived in New York on the evening of April 18th, in the accurately-depicted rainstorm. (Now, why Rose STILL has the coat on at that point, and hasn't taken advantage of the fresh clothes given up by Carpathia's passengers and crew, who knows. Maybe she deliberately kept more or less hidden until they arrived, hence them having missed her for three days while getting names of survivors...)

* Jack's [[Stupid Sacrifice|death]] never broke my heart, even as a kid, because neither he nor Rose made more than ''one'' measely attempt to get on the piece of driftwood. It was well big enough for both of them. It's a particularly maddening example of [[You Fail Physics Forever]] when both of them pull on it from one side and tip it over. Derrr, there's no possible way it'd work if we both climbed on at the same time from opposite sides, pull each other up, and balance the weight by sitting indian-style in the middle. Or take turns if you [[But Thou Must|absolutely must]] sit on it one at a time.

* Jack's [[Stupid Sacrifice|death]] never broke my heart, even as a kid, because neither he nor Rose made more than ''one'' measely attempt to get on the piece of driftwood. It was well big enough for both of them. It's a particularly maddening example of [[You Fail Physics Forever]] when both of them pull on it from one side and tip it over. Derrr, there's no possible way it'd work if we both climbed on at the same time from opposite sides, pull each other up, and balance the weight by sitting indian-style in the middle. Or take turns if you [[But Thou Must!|absolutely must]] sit on it one at a time.

** I think that Jack, after the initial attempt to get onto the driftwood, got scared of making another attempt. If he tries to get on it, even in a logically sound way, and it sinks or flips or whatever, someone else might grab it, it might break or sink, Rose could fall into the water and drown...he decided it wasn't worth the risk and only cared that Rose survived.

** Yeah, in that situation they're not likely to be thinking clearly. They're in a lot of pain, their muscles are seizing up from the cold making it difficult to swim and they know that every second they spend in the water is less time for them to live. If they'd tried to plan it out like 'ok, you swim around that side, then on the count of three we both try to get on etc' it would have, as mentioned above, made it more likely that someone else would take the door or that Rose would die. Remember, she was a sheltered high society girl. She wasn't used to strenuous physicial activity. And she was wearing heavier clothes. And being female, she's just physicaly weaker to begin with. She wouldn't have lasted nearly so long in the water as Jack did, so he wasn't going to take any chances with her safety. Also, it may not be so much that the door would flip, it could also be that their combined weight would make it sink. What bugs me, is that there is no argument about who gets the door. She doesn't even try to [[Heroic Sacrifice|convince him to take it instead of her.]]