Many women seem to deem Leo’s parting lines in James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster Titanic are the pinnacle of romance. They’re wrongApparently,11% of British women believe that Titanic contains the most romantic line ever uttered in literature or film. Not “the most romantic line from a film released in 1997”, or even “the most romantic line spoken while both parties were submerged in a large body of cold water”. More than one in 10 women surveyed thought the work of Shelley, and Keats and Byron has less romantic resonance than Leo’s “Promise me you’ll survive.”Given that Kate Winslet recently revealed what we all know – that there was definitely room for Jack on the raft – the whole scene seems to owe more to Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty than appreciate Story. Yet a sizable proportion of us still reckon appreciate is never having to say you’re sorry as you watch the man who painted you in the nuddy losing his lung capacity. It was the third most popular choice in the survey.
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Source: theguardian.com