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Jack Dawson (1892-1912) is one of the main deuteragonists in Titanic and the love interest of Rose DeWitt Bukater. He dies at the end of the film from hypothermia, protecting the woman he loves. He is portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio.

Character History[]

Kiss

In his first days on the Titanic, he hung out with his friend Fabrizio and also made a new friend, Tommy Ryan. On the evening of the 12th of April 1912 Jack was smoking a Cigarette on the ship's poopdeck when someone ran by him, crying. He walked up to the girl (Rose DeWitt Bukater) and persuaded her not to take her own life by jumping off the stern. While trying to climb back over the railing however, she slipped and almost fell into the North Atlantic, only narrowly saved by Jack. After temporarly being detained for taking advantage of a woman, Rose lied to the Master at Arms about the situation and Clearde Jack's Name. Caledon Hockley (Rose's fiancée) then reluctantly invited Jack to dinner with the first-class passengers.

The next day, April 13th, Rose went to search for Jack and found him in the 3rd class open space. They went up to the boatdeck, where they talked for hours about their personal and private lives, as well as Rose's unattainable dreams.

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Later that day, Jack showed Rose how to "properly" spit off of the side of the ship until they were caught by her mother, Ruth, who took Rose to get ready for dinner that evening.

Then Molly Brown, a feisty and kind-hearted passenger, took Jack under her wing and lent him a tuxedo originally intended for her son. At dinner, Jack charmed the table with his witty jokes and the fascinating stories about his life.

Before he left, he left a note in Rose's hand saying, "Make it count. Meet me at the clock." Rose met him and joined him at a party the 3rd class passengers were throwing, however, they were secretly being watched by Spicer Lovejoy, Cal's manservant.

Nacked

The next morning, Jack went down tothe 1st class dining Saloon, trying to find Rose. After being sent away by lovejoy and two stewards he changed his plan. With the help of his friends Fabrizio and Tommy he managed to climb up onto theships A Deck promenade, where he took a distracted man's coat. He camoulflaged himseld in between two lifeboats and waited for Rose to pass by while she and otheres were toured around Titanic by her chief designer Thomas Andrews. When the perfect moment arrived he pulled her from the group and into the gymnasium, were he confessed his love to her. After rejectim him at first, Rose changed her mind later that evening and went looking for him on the ships Forecastle Deck. She found him at he very bow of the ship and they shared their first kiss, as the sun was slowly setting. Then, Rose told Jack that she wanted to be drawn nude wearing nothing but her beautiful necklace, the Heart of the Ocean. She stripped down in her suiteroom and posed for Jack. When the drawing was done, Rose put it in Cal's safe.

Rude

Afterwards, Rose and Jack realized that Lovejoy was spying on them and, although he chased them down the hall, they tricked him and locked him in the ship's boiler room. They then ventured off into the cargo hold and made love in the backseat of a brand new car, a Renault.

Titanic's sinking[]

Leav

Rose told Jack she would go with him after the ship docked. This was at around 11:38 p.m. of April 14th 1912, just around two minutes before Titanic hit the iceberg. Rose and Jack went and told Ruth and Cal, although the attempt was only a way to arrest Jack and lock him up. Soon after, Rose found him in a rapidly flooding room. He was cined to a pole, but she used a fire axe to set him free. Tommy Ryan, Jack's newfound friend, Fabrizio and then took them to the boat deck.

Handcuffed oops

Cal and Jack forced Rose onto Lifeboat 2 to escape the shipwreck, however, in an effort to avoid losing him, Rose jumped back onto the ship and stayed with Jack. Cal became angered and chased them down the grand staircase all the way to D Deck with Lovejoy's I9II Pistol, intending to kill them.

Jack and Rose escaped when Cal ran out of bullets and decided not to follow them into the rapidly flooding dining saloon. Rose and Jack then found a young boy crying and waiting for his father to return. In an effort to save him, Jack took the boy, although the father then came and became enraged that Jack was holding his son. He snatched the child and left. Then, two doors burst open because the water's pressure on them was too great, sending even more water onto Jack and Rose, who were already drenched. Their last hope was a terrified steward with a key to a metal gate that could get them back to the Boat deck, however he dropped the keyinto the water and ran for his life. Jack retrieved the key and took Rose back up to the Boat Deck. Soon afterwards, all of the passengers were forced to grab onto something, in an effort to avoid falling off of the ship, which had broken into two huge pieces. The ship sunk soon afterwards. Jack was able to find a door that had come from the ship floating in the water, and let Rose lie on top of it. He could not find anything else and began to freeze in the ice cold water.

Angry

Jack told Rose that no matter what happened, he didn't want her to give up hope and that as long as she stayed on the door, she would be all right and live a long and happy life. He died of hypothermia, and his body sank to the ocean floor. There was no record of Jack's existence, as he shouldn't have even been on the ship in the first place. Rose was rescued soon after. It is undetermined what Jack and Rose's fate was, but it is assumed that they were reunited in Heaven (which appeared to them in the form of the Titanic, had it not sunk) years later when Rose, only days from turning 101, was assumed to have died in her sleep.


For more photos on Jack, see his gallery.

Behind the Scenes[]

Jack Dawson is portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio.

Jack's hands while drawing Rose's sketch were actually James Cameron's, since the drawing was made by Cameron, who is a talented sketcher. The drawings in Jack's sketchbook, or at least some of them, were also made by Cameron.

There was a historical Joseph Dawson who was 23 years old and died on the Titanic working as a stoker. However Cameron was not aware of Dawson's existence, and Jack was not based on Joseph.

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