My Love Affair with TITANIC

3.) What was it about that movie? Describe A movie you once had memorized.

The answer to this week's writing prompt came easily to me.  It was a no-brainer.  Titanic.  I was a teen aged girl, in love with Leo, and I saw this movie in the theater more times than I am willing to admit! 

I remember that my mom would go to bed and I would stay up until the middle of the night just watching this movie in the living room.  Sometimes I would just start with VHS tape #2 so I could get to all the dramatic sinking scenes. 

Even my mom started to memorize some of the lines, her favorite was "oh stop it mother, you'll give yourself a nose-bleed!" because she too had to watch it constantly.  My best friend Tori and I were obsessed.  They did a remake song on the radio with the popular quotes from the movie, we taped that and listened to it all the time.  We watched the movie together every weekend when we spent the night with each other - didn't matter whose house we were at.

I cried almost every time I watched it, mostly because I knew what was going to happen before it did.  I would cry when she let him go and would say "I'll never let go Jack, I'll never let go" and then I would cry again at the end of the movie when Rose dies an old lady warm in her bed {just like Jack said she would} and he is waiting for her along with the rest of the sunk passengers in her "heaven".  Oh it makes me smile just picturing it.

I loved Mr. Andrews, he was soo sweet and just felt awful they didn't have enough life boats.  I loved that it was based on facts.  I learned tidbits of info like that during filming the actors would just pee in the big "ocean" water tank because it was too hard to remove the wet clothes between takes.  I can seriously quote the entire movie {truth be told I'm sitting here running quotes through my head now as I talk about it}, it's almost a sickness.

I think i loved this movie so much because I was at the age of romance.  The time when you dream of dating someone perfect and having them sweep you off your feet.  I wanted to be Rose.  I was in love with Jack Dawson.  To this day I still enjoy when the movie comes on TBS.  I can't help but stop and watch part of it and quote right along with it.

Oh and just a side note - I was soo obsessed with this movie that I wrote a school paper on John Jacob Astor, one of the rich men who sank in the Titanic.  Yep - I did.



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