James Cameron’s Titanic has a bunch of deleted scenes, of which some actually add to the characters’ stories, and among them is one that makes one of Jack’s relationships better but also more tragic. Although he has since made other, bigger, and more visually impressive movies, Titanic continues to be one of James Cameron’s most ambitious projects and one of his most notable cinematic achievements. Based on the real-life tragedy of the RMS Titanic in 1912, James Cameron’s Titanic tells a fictional story led by fictional characters, but through them, the audience got to meet characters based on real-life passengers of the infamous ship.
Titanic follows Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet), a first-class young woman, and Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), a third-class passenger who won his ticket on a lucky game of poker minutes before the ship sailed. Over the course of four days, Rose and Jack met, fell in love, and defended their romance from those who looked down upon them, mostly those from the first-class side of the ship. Unfortunately, Jack and Rose’s story was meant to be tragic, and Jack became one of the many victims of the sinking of the Titanic, while Rose was eventually rescued and lived to tell the story of their “forbidden” romance. Although his relationship with Rose was the core of the story, Jack formed a very special bond with another passenger: Cora (Alexandrea Owens-Sarno), and a deleted scene showed how well they got along.
Titanic Deleted Scene Shows Jack & Cora’s Bond
James Cameron had to get rid of a bunch of scenes when working on the final cut of Titanic, and while it’s easy to see why most of these were left out, as they don’t impact the story that much, there are others that ultimately would have added to the stories of certain characters. Falling into the latter category is a scene that shows Rose going to the third-class side of the ship to look for Jack, the day after he saved her from jumping off the ship. Before Rose goes inside, the scene shows what the third-class passengers were doing, with some of them playing the piano, dancing, singing, drinking, and having a good time, while Fabrizio tried to communicate with a Norwegian passenger and Tommy took a look at the portraits Jack had made of their fellow passengers so far.
Meanwhile, Jack is shown sitting on a bench with Cora, teaching her how to draw. It’s a brief but sweet moment between Jack and Cora which showed how close they had become, and when Cora’s parents came for her, her father told her to “say goodbye to Uncle Jack”. Cora isn’t seen much throughout Titanic, with her first appearance being before she boarded the ship with her parents (and she was stunned by how big the Titanic was), then she was seen waving goodbye as the ship sailed, and she was last seen at the third-class party, dancing with Jack, who famously told her she was “still his best girl”. The deleted scene of Jack and Cora drawing together adds to the “best girl” line and shows that, even though they had recently met, they already shared a strong and very heartwarming bond.
What Happened To Cora In Titanic?
Unfortunately, Cora and her parents didn’t have a happy ending in Titanic, but their fates were left in a deleted scene. In Titanic, third-class passengers had a really difficult time trying to get to the deck and to the lifeboats, as they were locked behind gates. Jack, Fabrizio, and Tommy managed to bring down one of those gates, but not all third-class passengers were lucky enough to get to the deck. A very depressing (but brief) deleted scene from Titanic showed Cora and her parents trying to get to the deck and coming across one of the aforementioned gates, but as the ship was quickly filling with water, it was too late for them and they drowned. Jack and his “best girl” Cora became one of the many victims of the Titanic, and unfortunately, the movie couldn’t show how special their bond really was.
