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I always love it when people refer to “this ending” or “this scene” as if everyone is supposed to know what this blurry still is supposed to be from. Even if it was a video, that still doesn’t tell me what it’s from.
Edit: to all the haters…
Saying 'what kind of an idiot doesn't know about the Yellowstone supervolcano' is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time.
Titanic
Never seen it. What happened in this scene?
The framing device for yhe while movie is that they're searching the wreck to find a priceless necklace, and bring along an old woman who had it when the ship sank to help them. She then tells them her story, moves them into abandoning the search, and in the end it's revealed she had it the whole time when she throws it overboard.
Thanks for the actual explanation without being condescending or demeaning! I appreciate it
Thanks, I actually didn't know this because I've usually fallen asleep while trying to watch that movie with someone lol
I had no idea what I was looking at, then you writing this instantly made me realize the scene.
So yeah, I think the commenter’s got a point
Literally the most watched film of all time.
I dont remember this scene from backdoor sluts 9...
"Draw me like one of your French girls"
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K well I didn’t see that one.
Shrek 2 obviously!
Avatar?
I saw that a year or two after it first came out and I don't remember any of this being part of it..
Debbie Does Dallas?
Nonetheless, I would be willing to bet that only a single digit percentage of people on this planet have seen this nearly 30 year-old movie.
128 million Americans saw it in theatres when it came out apparently (that's just Americans! And just the initial theatre release). But it's been shown on TV, streaming services, etc (and you could pirate it of course) and is accessible in pretty much every country today. There's been surveys with results like "26% of brits haven't seen Titanic", etc, but no real hard data unfortunately. But I'd wager the percentage has to be double digits. Not super high double digits, but definitely double digits.
Anyone whose seen it knows where it’s from. It’s the final scene from James Cameron’s Titanic in which she throws the infamous jewel into the ocean.
I saw the movie and had no idea. Although it was well over twenty years ago and I was more interested in the gal I was sitting next to than the movie.
To be fair, Titanic was pretty iconic
Never seen it. Something about French ladies and floating door space?
You're not alone. I've not seen it, no intention to either
Its ok, there can be cultural references you do not immediately understand, we don't have to all have the exact same repetoire of concepts in our brains.
$1,000,000s of dollar
The 46 carat Hope Diamond on which the fictional Heart of the Ocean is based, is estimated at $200 - $300 million today.
The white gold and zirconia prop used in the movie cost around $8,000 but if it were real at 56 carats, it would be valued at more than twice what the Hope Diamond is. Although, leave it up to Hollywood to invent fictional jewelry and then assign a value it.
Although, since the diving vessel is directly on top of where the heavy metal necklace would conceivably fall, it might not take too long to locate it on the sea floor:
The original search area for the Titanic was about 150 square miles, and the Titanic is only about 90 feet wide. So, for every Titanic width-sized object, you would need to search about 1.32 million positions.
If the search area for the necklace were 1/4 square mile to allow for drift, and the necklace is effectively 4 inches wide, you would only need to search about 435,000 necklace-width positions. Although, being directly over the Titanic wreck could hamper metal detecting. It would be pretty ironic if the necklace fell back on to the deck of the wreck.
So, suck on that ya old entitled bitch!
If the search area for the necklace were 1/4 square mile to allow for drift
Your search area is perhaps a bit small.
Where, exactly, was the ship she dropped it from at the exact moment she dropped it? Ships move around quite a bit, even when trying to maintain position over a wreck. And how precisely do you know when she dropped it?
you would only need to search about 435,000 necklace-width positions.
Only, huh? That's still quite a lot when you're talking about one of the most difficult places on the planet to get to. And because the necklace would likely sink straight into the soft ocean floor mud immediately upon impact, it's likely not going to be just sitting there, easily found with a visual search. You will indeed need to use metal detecting.
One issue with metal detecting: the main body of the ship only broke into two large parts, sure, but the entire area is going to be scattered with a debris field of small parts and junk. Pieces that broke off as the ship was breaking up, pieces that drifted away as the ship sank, pieces that broke off when it hit the bottom, pieces that were buoyant enough or interesting enough to sea creatures to drift away over the years of sitting at the bottom... You're going to be getting a ton of false positives all over the place. A door hinge, a passenger's pocketwatch, little scraps of broken-off plumbing pipe, a fork...
Searching through all of that will be extremely tedious (and expensive!), with no guarantee of eventual success. For all you know, a fish spotted the shiny, glinting thing as it sank and instinctively swallowed it, and now your multi-million dollar necklace is 50 miles away, giving some fish a stomachache.
It's a class war.
... And guess which side the supermajority of boomers are on?
You’re both right. Lots of old people are on the right but breaking us apart by generation does nothing but further divide us which only helps the Epstein Class.
"One million dollars's of dollar worth of their children and grandchildren's inheritance... "
I'm tired, boss.
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She was part of the Lost Generation, so maybe she was just ahead of her time?
She was just written by boomers.
You are so right. I never thought of that, but yes, yes she was.
Their children and grandchildren ... who are adults (and most probably already retirement age since she's in her nineties) and if they need to rely on the questionable inheritance of a necklace they never even knew about they have more problems than a doddering old relative reliving her past glories.
That's the real indictment, that we have a system where people care more about their inheritance than their family.
