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Movie Matchups: Titanic vs. Somewhere in Time

posted 8 years ago by TMC-4
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Similarities

Here is a list of the many similarities between Titanic and Somewhere in Time:

*Both films begin at the end with the main female character sending a surprising message.
*There is a picture of a woman looking at the man she loves.
*A character travels back in time by using their imagination.
*Both films take place in 1912.
*The male love interest is prevented from seeing the woman he loves, so he sneaks around to get to her.
*The villain views the woman as a prize, not a person.
*The villain waits for the woman while she steals away with the other man.
*The romance takes place over just a few short days.
*The main character is lured to the villain over a matter of life and death.
*Instead of killing the main character, the villain locks him away from his love.
*The two lovers reunite and plan to get married, but are torn apart.
*The woman lives a long life while the man dies young.
*The lovers are reunited in heaven.

[–] mcdemuth 8 years ago

*Both films begin at the end with the main female character sending a surprising message.

I'm not quite sure what you mean...

Elise gives Richard, who is alive, a watch, and tells him to "Come Back To" her.

Rose doesn't give anything to Jack, because he is dead. She returns the "Heart Of The Ocean" to the wreck.

...I don't see any connection.

*A character travels back in time by using their imagination.

No.

No one "travels back in time" in Titanic. Rose tells the salvage team in the present what she REMEMBERS.

I agree with the rest of the similarities you mentioned.

[–] peeaecee 8 years ago

Might have been better posting that list five years ago, when it was created. Anyway, besides the year the films are set in, none of the points there are unique to those two films. The majority of "forbidden love" stories have a similar arc.