There's An Extremely Eerie Connection Between The Old People On The Bed In "Titanic" And The Captain Of The Missing Submersible
Without an absolute doubt, the saddest moment of the movie Titanic is when they're doing the montage of the boat going down, and they show the old people on the bed.
I'm not kidding when I say this is a formative moment of my life. I think about it constantly.
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And for those who don't know, this couple is based on real-life people.
Their names were Isidor and Ida Straus, and they were first-class passengers on the Titanic.
Isidor was a co-owner of Macy's department store, and they were extremely wealthy.
According to the National Archives, Isidor and Ida went to the lifeboats when the Titanic struck an iceberg. Isidor refused to get on a lifeboat because he was elderly and younger men were around him. Ida also refused, saying, "Where you go, I go."
Ida gave up her seat to her maid. She also gave her maid her fur coat because she "had no further use for it."
According to reports, the two were last seen on deck holding hands before a wave washed them away.
There's even a deleted scene showing this moment in the movie:
Fast-forward 100 years, and there's an eerie connection between this couple and someone on board the missing vessel.
Stockton Rush is the CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, and he's the captain of the missing vessel.
The New York Times found out that his wife, Wendy Rush, is actually the great-great-grandchild of Isidor and Ida Straus.
Sooo that means this whole thing is technically connected to the old people on the bed in the movie.
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