Film Structure - Film 2

TITANIC:

Act 1 -  The beginning of the film shows one of the protagonists of the film: Rose Dawson Calvert at the age of 100 (Gloria Stuart). A team of treasure hunters goes to explore the wreck of the Titanic, searching for a valuable diamond necklace called 'Heart of the Ocean'. Instead, they find a sketch of a nude woman wearing it, dating April 14th 1912, the day when Titanic struck the iceberg. Rose Dawson Calvert claims that she is the woman in the picture, so she goes to visit the crew. When asked if she knows the whereabouts of the necklace, Rose recalls her time aboard the Titanic. As she tells her story, she has flashbacks of her time on the Titanic, which shows a younger Rose Dawson Calvert, played by Kate Winslet, boarding the Titanic. During her time, she meets a keen artist called Jack Dawson, who stops her from jumping off the ship's stern. Jack and Rose starts to develop a tentative friendship, which turns into love. As daylight came to an end, they go to Rose's stateroom, where she asks Jack to draw her nude. Afterwards, they evade Cal's bodyguard, who catches Jack inside her stateroom and makes love inside a car in the ship's cargo hold. As they go back upstairs to the outside, they witness that the Titanic collides with an iceberg, which causes a big hole at the end of the ship. This is the catalytic moment of Act 1.

Act 2 - The main part of the film is when the Titanic starts to sink lower and lower into the sea. All of the passengers are encouraged to put their lifebelts on, to help them keep afloat when in the water. The women and children are sent to different smaller boats where they can get away from the disaster and feel safe. As the Titanic sinks more, it breaks in half, causing one side of the boat to fall back in place on to the sea. However, the ship then becomes vertical and starts to go down to the bottom of the sea, with the passengers following. This is the catalytic moment of Act 2. 

Act 3 - The film concludes when Jack dies and Rose tries to get to safety, when whistling a small boat that goes past her. This follows by the return of the older Rose. With her story now complete, Rose goes along the stern to the crew's ship. There she takes out the diamond and throws it into the sea. Wile asleep in her bed, the photos on her dresser are a visual chronicle that she lived a free life, as inspired by Jack. Finally, the young Rose is reunited with Jack, applauded and congratulated by those who perished on the ship.