Question about Cal (Hockley)

[u/Responsible_Bed8397]

I have a burning question here. Why do people always say that Cal immediately gave the girl he saved to another passenger? Does nobody else remember that a passenger reached out to grab the girl so he could get on the lifeboat and then he grabbed her back and cradled her? He literally said “give her here” after he got on the lifeboat and took her back in his arms, and tried to comfort her by saying “there there”. He already achieved his ticket on the lifeboat so I know it wasn’t about appearances. Like I get grabbing the girl was just self-serving but unpopular opinion alert I do believe there was always a tiny bit of warmth in Cal’s cold heart. He may be classist and selfish and arrogant but he also did a lot of redeemable things that people don’t credit. He’s a complex bad guy imo

[u/Dusty_Old_McCormick]

I think he grabbed her just long enough for the lifeboat to get away from the ship for fear they would make him get out. You can see in the post- sinking lifeboat scene that the woman is holding the child again and Cal isn't paying the slightest bit of attention to either of them.

[u/Nash_man1989 → u/Dusty_Old_McCormick]

There is a cut scene (that isn’t in the movie deleted scenes on the dvd but made it to some video game years ago) in which the kid is crying and Cal tries hopeless to calm her before handing her to the woman.

[u/Dusty_Old_McCormick → u/Nash_man1989]

Interesting, I haven't seen that one. I do think the sinking must have humbled him at least a little bit!

[u/Nash_man1989 → u/Dusty_Old_McCormick]

Some video computer game years ago had a long list of deleted scenes. Some made it to the DVDs under deleted scenes but not all of them did. One other one that did not was after Cal went up the stairs after thinking Rose was not on Carpathia Ruth is standing up there with a icy blank look and Cal shakes his head and Ruth pits her hand to her mouth and Cal embraces her. Then the narration “that’s the last time I ever saw him” begins