What is the fate of Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) if he has to die? A key question that Cameron asks about “Titanic”
Ever since the movie was released 25 years ago, a debated scene at the end of the film has become almost as popular as the movie itself.
Now, director James Cameron is hoping to put a definitive end to the speculation that Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) could havesurvived after the sinking of the infamous oceanliner, if only his beloved Rose (Kate Winslet) had scooched over just a bit on the floating door that kept her out of the freezing waters that eventually claimed so many lives. It is a question that has drawn commentary from famous people in the past, such as Brad Pitt and Kate Winslet.
The whole thing has been put to rest with a scientific study, and they’re going to drive a stake through it once and for all.
“We have since done a thorough forensic analysis with a hypothermia expert who reproduced the raft from the movie,” he continued, adding that they used “two stunt people who were the same body mass of Kate and Leo and we put sensors all over them and inside them and we put them in ice water and we tested to see whether they could have survived through a variety of methods and the answer was, there was no way they both could have survived.”
The study will be the subject of a special for National Geographic, timed to the 25th anniversary re-release of “Titanic” in 4K, according to Cameron. The network has yet to give any details.
Cameron disagreed, saying in that episode that “the script says Jack dies, he has to die.” He has long dismissed that the question is even up for debate, arguing in multiple interviews over the years that Jack’s death was essential to the plot and that there was only room for one person on the makeshift raft.
In the new interview,Cameron said that he needed to die. It is similar to William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”. The movie is about love and sacrifice. The love is measured by the sacrifice.”
The director of the movie stated that his hope is that after 25 years, he will not have to deal with this.
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Yes, many fans have argued with zeal — including the makers of MythBusters, who concluded after a 2012 experiment that both Jack and Rose could have plausibly fit on the door.
While promoting his film, he said he had commissioned a scientific study to “put this whole thing to rest and drive a stake through its heart once and for all.”
The special will be on National Geographic and will be shown to the public. That same month, a remastered version of Titanic will hit theaters just in time for Valentine’s Day (so plan your date night or crying party accordingly).
Winslet knows a bit about water, saying she spends a lot of time paddle boarding, surfing (board, kite and wind), scuba diving and cold water swimming. And if you put two adults on a stand-up paddleboard, she says, it becomes “immediately extremely unstable.”
“I have to be honest, right,” she said. “I actually don’t believe that we would have survived if we had both gotten on that door. I think he could have fit but it would have tipped and it would not have been a sustainable idea.”
Source: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/19/1144078509/titanic-movie-door-debate-james-cameron
Two decades later: The “Movies” of a ship’s builders and the fate of its cruising companions in the ocean
Linda Holmes, a pop culture critic for NPR, said in 2017: ” it’s a slow- moving disaster of immodesty and the movie is still relevant two decades later.”
The ship’s builders won’t see its flaws. By the time they figure it out, it’s too late,” she told NPR’s All Things Considered. “There’s no miracle. There isn’t enough space in the ocean for lifeboats. Twenty years later, all we can do is wonder: Rose, couldn’t you have fit two people on a floating door?”