The plaques that the Natalie Portman and Jude Law characters look at early in the film, and to which he returns at the end, are part of the Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice, unveiled in 1900. This commemorates ordinary Britons who died trying to save the lives of others. The artist George Frederic Watts, who lobbied for years for funding for the project, was particularly inspired by the example of Alice Ayres, a domestic servant who died in 1885 saving three children from a fire: this is the name that Jane Jones assumes for herself.

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