With Titanic, James Cameron has created an epochal blockbuster that has drawn people to the cinema and kept them glued to their screens for over 27 years. History of the RMS Titanicwhich collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic on the night of April 14-15, 1912 and sank. 1,514 people lost their lives.
When Cameron sat down to write the script, he was not only inspired by the well-known Titanic story, but also looked at the Individual fates of peoplewho were on board what was then the largest ship in the world on that fateful night. These include Ida and Isidor Straus.
Ida and Isidor Straus in Titanic: The old couple in bed at the sinking really existed
Isidor Straus was a German-American businessman who was on his way to New York with his wife Ida. In the film they are played by Lew Palter and Elsa Raven. Although their appearance is not very big, they have a striking attitude: When the ship sinks, they are lying together in bed in their cabin.
Of the many images that Cameron sprinkles into the film’s finale to illustrate the magnitude of the disaster, this is perhaps the most memorable. Ida and Isidor Straus, who were 63 and 67 years old at the time of the sinking, lie close together in bed and hold each other’s handswhile water enters the cabin.
It couldn’t be more heartbreaking.
A brief moment that tells a whole story. Cameron even filmed more of the couple, as our Spanish sister site SensaCine notes in a background report on Titanic. There is a scene with Ida and Isidor Straus, which did not make it into the final cut of the film.
The heartbreaking Straus moment in Titanic has a little backstory that is not in the film
In the deleted Straus scene, the two are on the deck of the Titanic. Ida is given the chance to climb into one of the lifeboats. Despite Isidor’s urging, she refuses to leave her husband alone.
She says:
We have been together for 40 years. And wherever you go, I go. Don’t argue with me, Isidor. You know very well that it won’t do any good.
You can watch the scene below:
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The scene adds to the tragedy and is based on true events. In fact, the Strauses went to lifeboat number 8 on the port side of the Titanic. The shot of the two in the cabin, however, is a Invention from Cameron’s headAccording to reports, the couple was last seen on deck.
In the film we only get a very small glimpse into her life. Even in the face of Titanic’s 194-minute running time, Cameron had to say goodbye to some scenesas was the case with the Straus scene. But even without this backstory, the image of the two in bed can later unfold its full effect.
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