#benjamin guggenheim

[buffshipper8490]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65040700/chapters/167240293

Intro

I'm a 90s kid. I remember when the movie came out in '97, what a cultural phenomenon it became. I remember hearing Celine Dion croon "My Heart Will Go On" over the radio everyday. I remember watching it on VHS, HBO, or on TV with my folks when I was older. I remember Kate Winslet was the first naked woman I ever saw, and when I hit puberty, she was my first crush. Since then, I've watched this film every year since I rediscovered it after a bad breakup with my first girlfriend. To this day, 15 years later and married with kids, I have a "Titanic Week" in April, where I'll watch the film and historical documentaries. I even have a Titanic themed tattoo. I love this movie. Now, there's been a few "making-of" books based on this movie but—unbelievably—never a full-on novelization. Using the script and the film, deleted scenes and all, for better or worse, this is my attempt. I hope you enjoy.

Rating Mature

Summary

An "unofficial" novelization of James Cameron's Titanic (1997). In 1996, treasure hunter Brock Lovett searches for the rare diamond "The Heart of the Ocean" inside of the wreck of RMS Titanic, the ill-fated ocean liner that sunk during her maiden voyage in 1912. Instead of finding the Heart of the Ocean in a safe salvaged from the wreck, however, Brock uncovers a drawing of a young nude woman wearing that diamond. A 101-year old woman named Rose Calvert claims to be that woman, and to Brock and his crew recalls her past as socialite Rose DeWitt Bukater and her star-crossed love affair with a poor artist named Jack Dawson on the Unsinkable Titanic...

Chapter 1 The Wreck Treasure hunter and explorer Brock Lovett searches for a rare diamond called "The Heart of the Ocean" inside RMS Titanic, the ill-fated ocean liner that sunk on her maiden voyage in 1912...

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[hero-israel]

Isidor and Ida Straus died on the RMS Titanic in 1912.  Ida had been offered a spot in a lifeboat, but she would not leave her husband; when others in the boat suggested that an exception to “women and children first” might be made for Isidor, he refused.  

Hundreds of Jewish passengers are believed to have died when Titanic sank.  A handful were rich celebrities, like the Strauses and Benjamin Guggenheim (who famously remarked ”We are dressed in our best and are prepared to go down as gentlemen”), but most were immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe hoping to escape pogroms and poverty and start a new life in America.  An ornate engraved pocket watch from one such immigrant, Sinai Kantor, was recently revealed to historians; as a man in second class, Sinai’s fate was sealed, though his wife Miriam was able to board a lifeboat and survived.    

The ship had prepared sufficiently for a large Jewish clientele that it offered a kosher menu, separate dishes for meat and dairy, and employed its own kosher chef and rabbi (who also perished).   

[calendarofanxiety]

April 15, 1912 GUGGENHEIM Benjamin Guggenheim was an American businessman. He boarded RMS Titanic and was accompanied by a French singer named Léontine Aubart which was his mistress, his valet Victor Giglio, his chauffeur René Pernot and Emma Sägesser. Guggenheim and Giglio slept through the Titanic's encounter with the iceberg only to be awakened just after midnight ship's time by Aubart and Sägesser who had felt the collision. Sägesser later quoted Giglio as saying "Never mind, icebergs! What is an iceberg?". Guggenheim was persuaded to awaken and dress. Bedroom steward Henry Etches helped him on with a lifebelt and a heavy sweater before sending him, Giglio and the two ladies up to Boat Deck. As Aubart and Sägesser entered Lifeboat No 9 Guggenheim spoke to the maid saying "We will soon see each other again! It's just a repair. Tomorrow the Titanic will go on again". Realizing that the situation was much more serious than he had implied as well as realizing he wasn't going to be rescued he returned to his cabin with Giglio and the two men changed into evening wear. Titanic survivor Rose Amelie Icard wrote in a letter "The billionaire Benjamin Guggenheim after having helped the rescue of women and children got dressed, a rose at his buttonhole, to die". The two were seen heading into the Grand Staircase closing the door behind them. He was heard to remark "We've dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen". He also gave Etches who survived the sinking a message "If anything should happen to me, tell my wife in New York that I've done my best in doing my duty". Etches reported that "shortly after the last few boats were lowered and I was ordered by the deck officer to man an oar, I waved good-bye to Mr. Guggenheim, and that was the last I saw of him and [Giglio]". Guggenheim and Giglio were last seen seated in deck chairs in the foyer of the Grand Staircase sipping brandy and smoking cigars. Both men went down with the ship. Their bodies if recovered were never identified. Guggenheim's chauffeur Pernot was also lost in the disaster.

[timotey]

Portrait of Titanic passenger and millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim. Refusing to enter a lifeboat, he reportedly asked a steward to inform his family "that I played the game straight to the end and that no woman was left on board this ship because Ben Guggenheim was a coward."

He's also famous for the words, "We've dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen." After helping many women and children board the lifeboats, he and his valet changed into formal evening wear as a final act of dignity and calm composure. His story became one of the most famous and enduring tales from the disaster. 

What a man!

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"Tell her, Johnson, that I played the game straight to the end and that no woman was left on board this ship because Ben Guggenheim was a coward. Tell her that my last thoughts will be of her and our girls."- Benjamin Guggenheim (1865-1912), an industrialist, in his last known words before going down with the Titanic on April 15, 1912.

One of those daughters was Peggy Guggenheim, without whom many an artist (e.g. Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko) might never have become known.

[littlevampie222]

I LOVE Titanic. Not just the movie, but even more so the actual tragedy. I have loved learning about it since I was old enough to read. I checked SOOO many books out at the Library about it when i was a kid. And I'd always be so excited about it. Honestly, 90% of the time I was getting R.L. Stine books, or Titanic books. Rately anything else.

Anyways, I find

Benjamin Guggenheim to be interesting. Ya know, aside from being a cheater, he seems otherwise honorable lol He was given the chance to get on a lifeboat, but chose to dress in his absolute best suit and "go down like gentlemen" with his friend. Which btw, they were last seen laying in chairs with cigars. Not all spoiled, wealthy people are terrible. Not all of them are greedy or selfish. I feel like this just proves that. They gave up their spots for 2 other people. They probably saved 2 people's lives that day! (Assumingly).