MacQuitty had actually seen Titanic being launched on 31 May 1911 and still remembered the occasion vividly.[22] He met Lord and brought him on board the production as a consultant.[23] The film diverges from both the book and the NBC TV adaptation in focusing on a central character, Second Officer Charles Lightoller, played by More. Its conclusion reflects Lord's world-historical theme of a "world changed for ever" with a fictional conversation between two survivors, Lightoller and Colonel Archibald Gracie, sitting on an overturned lifeboat. Lightoller declares that the disaster is "different ...