Spicer Lovejoy |
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|---|---|
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| Biological Information | |
| Full name |
Spicer Lovejoy |
| Nicknames |
Man servant (by Rose) |
| Gender |
Male |
| Born |
1861 |
| Death |
April 15, 1912 |
| Cause |
From the ship splitting in two. |
| Background Information | |
| Titanic Statistics | |
| Boarded |
Southampton, England |
| Destination |
New York, U.S.A. |
| Occupation |
Valet |
| Class |
First class |
| Fate |
Died during or after the sinking of the Titanic. |
| Production | |
| Classification |
Fictional character |
| Portrayal | |
Spicer Lovejoy was the secondary antagonist in the film Titanic. He served as Caledon Hockley's personal valet and bodyguard and carried a chrome-plated Colt M1911 with distinctive engravings.
Biography[]
Born in 1861, in England, Lovejoy emigrated to America where he was a former Pinkerton's private investigator and cop. He was later hired by Cal's father to take care of him.
While on deck, Lovejoy was the only one that suspected that Jack had not saved Rose from falling in the manner stated, noting that he already had untied his shoes and removed his coat.
He was visible in the third class party spying upon Rose when she and Jack were dancing.
He later pursued Jack and Rose as they left her suite. While descending with the elevator, Rose gave him "the finger" leaving Jack and Rose snickering to themselves. He chased them further through the ship but lost them when they locked themselves in a room that led to the boiler room.
Shortly after Titanic collided with an iceberg, Lovejoy later secretly put the diamond necklace in Jack's pocket to frame him as a thief, discovered when Cal had Jack searched. Lovejoy then asks the Titanic’s Master-at-arms to take Jack into custody on E deck. As Thomas King was needed at the second class pursers office, Lovejoy decided to watch Jack. After a while, he played with his gun bullet, and watched it roll down the table, but then he put it in his gun and aimed it at Jack. He said that he was asked to give Jack a small token of appreciation. After saying that, he punched Jack in the stomach with "compliments from Mr. Caledon Hockley". He then left, putting the key and gun in his pocket, leaving Jack handcuffed; ostensibly to drown when the room flooded. This did not happen as Rose later rescued Jack.
Lovejoy loads his gun and tells Jack that he thinks the ship might sink.
Later, when Rose jumped off the lifeboat and rejoined Jack, Lovejoy approached Cal, who was watching this, and tried to lead him away from them to the lifeboat. But suddenly Cal, unable to accept it, took Lovejoy's gun and started shooting at the pair until his bullets were wasted. Seeing him laughing, Lovejoy asks, "What could possibly be funny?", to which Cal revealed he had accidentally given Rose the diamond as she was wearing his coat.
In a deleted scene, Cal gave the gun back to Lovejoy saying that the diamond would be his and laughing, ran back to the deck to the lifeboat. Lovejoy, realizing that Cal had ordered him, said that he was a "Bastard", but the latter did not hear it. Lovejoy then loaded the gun and went hunting for them in the dining room. Lovejoy searched a first class dining room for the pair. He went for the door but noticed it was tightly locked. He realized they were all in the room. After several minutes of taunting, he found Rose behind a table only to be attacked by Jack from behind. They fought but Lovejoy managed to kick Jack off him after accidentally firing his gun at the ceiling, saying “You little shit”. He then goes for a quick left hook but Jack dodges him, smashes his head into a pillar and then gutpunches him, giving him the same delivery he received from Lovejoy earlier when he was handcuffed, saying "With Compliments of the Chippewa Falls Dawsons". By the time Lovejoy recovered, Jack managed to open the wooden doors with a run, allowing him and Rose to leave the flooded dining room. Lovejoy then picked the gun from the water and shot at them twice, but they dodged the bullets. Jack decided to outwit him by hiding with Rose around the corner on the stairs leading to the lower deck, while Lovejoy went up the stairs leading to the upper, considering that they had escaped thither.
Lovejoy was last seen at the point where the Titanic was breaking in half after reaching 45 degrees. The foundations of the ship began to break directly beneath him, with others falling into the split. It is then most likely that Lovejoy too succumbed to the huge force of the break and died after the ship split in half.
Skills and abilities[]
Given his background, Lovejoy was very perceptive, able to notice that Jack had time to remove his coat and shoes before saving the supposedly imminently dangered Rose. He could also watch someone while being unseen, and was, therefore, able to spy on Rose for Cal.
He was also very persuasive, first convincing two crewmen to escort Jack out of first class and later persuading the Master of Arms to leave him with a restrained Jack; he only had to show his gun to do so.
He also wielded a pistol. Though he never got a chance to use it to demonstrate his skill, one could presume he was a talented marksman. He also was quite fast, able to chase Jack and Rose throughout the ship although he failed to catch them because of a locked door.
He was a capable fist fighter, able to hold his own against Jack, even managing to lift him out of the water and throw him. Despite this, he was ultimately defeated by the artist when Rose distracted him, enabling Jack to gain the upper-hand and stun the man with a punch to the face.
Behind the scenes[]
In the theatrical version and original DVD, a scene where Lovejoy is looking for Jack and Rose in the first-class dining room was cut from the film by James Cameron as it was too long and felt out-of-place compared to the rest of the film in preview screenings. Therefore, his absence when Cal returns to the deck to the lifeboat and his last appearance with a bleeding head as the ship breaks in half are not explained in the final cut of the film.
Gallery[]
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