(at around 2h 15 mins) When Mr. Ismay is being lowered down in one of the lifeboats, the band is playing Orpheus from the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Orpheus descended to Hell to rescue Eurydice, his wife, from a life of misery in the underworld, but just before they escape, she falls back in. Since the camera shows Ismay being lowered at the time, its almost like he's descending into his own personal Hell, because if it weren't for his insistence on speeding up, the Titanic never would have hit the iceberg. So he gets to watch it sink while the lifeboat slowly sails away. There is another interesting analogue to the Orpheus myth in the movie, when Rose descends the lower decks, in order to save Jack from drowning in the submerged parts of the ship; unfortunately, she is not able to save Jack in the end either.

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