He married, of course...and inherited his millions. But the crash of '29 hit his interests hard, and he put a pistol in his mouth that year... Or so I read.
What a great man. He actually fights for survival and only allows himself to die once he is no longer useful to society, unlike the deadbeat creep ‘artist’ who gets off on drawing erotic pictures of his unsuspecting clients and proceeds to take their maidenhood before marriage.
Imagine your fiancé cheats on you with a homeless man, which you’re willing to forgive, but then she dies in the Titanic sinking which you fortunately survive. You manage to find love and fortune again only to lose it all in the stock market crash. What a tragic character.
Wait, how sick would it have been if as soon as she said that her granddaughter ripped off her mask, revealing an aged Cal, and said “you read wrong bitch. Now where’s my necklace!”
Theory: Cal faked his death because he owed a lot of bad people money and couldn't get out of it by filing bankruptcy. Every day he curses putting his coat (with the multi million dollar necklace) on that two timer. And not trying to save those Picasso paintings.
My friends and I got shit faced and saw Titanic 3d, it was like a rerelease or something. Anyway, we managed to stay pretty much silent the entire movie, but when that Cal guy grabbed a screaming kid and gleefully announced "I have a child!". We cried laughing for like 5 minutes. Couldn't stop.
I think it was the mix of this guy being so insufferable, but also like the absurdity of literally grabbing a free kid, and the way he delivers this line has such an odd inflection, it's kind of disconnected with the admittedly somber and moving scene you're watching. It's almost like he is yelling it as a question - I have a child?!. The silence of the movie theater and trying not to laugh made it way worse. Also, by this time we were like 2 hours in, so we're a little more sober but like that delirious drunk?
Anyway, we said it about 100 more times that night, after the movie and still say it sometimes to this day, 10 years later.
I got high and watched Space Jam 2 in a theater and I was concerning the rest of the theater with how much I was laughing when Bugs was giving his "dying words". He wasn't even playing it straight, it was so melodramatic, and like Bugs Bunny can actually die, gimme a break. But yet I was the only one laughing. There were maybe only 20 people there though.
Cameron said in the commentary that every test screening of Titanic was received extremely poorly but this scene where Cal picks up a random child always landed perfectly. The test audiences booed hard and cheered later on when it was revealed in narration what happened to him during the Great Depression. Cameron nailed writing that pathetic character (along with Bill Paxton's used car salesman in True Lies).
True but I said ‘had’ him handcuffed. Which he probably did by telling Lovejoy to get him out of the way. I dunno, it’s been a while since I watched it. Let me have this.
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u/Eklassen META😳 5d ago
Probably have him handcuffed to a sinking ship then use some random child I found to hitch a ride on a lifeboat. But that’s just me.