For 25 years, audiences around the world strongly argued that the character of Jack could have survived the end of the movie “Titanic”. But director James Cameron has had enough of that theory, revealing this week that he conducted a “scientific study” to finally prove otherwise.
The Oscar-winning film ended with Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) sacrificing himself by staying in the icy waters of the ocean so that Rose (Kate Winslet) could stay above the wreckage of the sinking ship. But many onlookers say the couple could both fit on the floating door.
“We did a scientific study to put everything to rest and put a stake in his heart once and for all,” Cameron told Postmedia, according to an article published Friday. “We have since done a thorough forensic analysis with a hypothermia expert who reproduced the raft from the film.”
In 2012, the “MythBusters” hosts conducted their own experiment and presented their findings to Cameron, which suggested that both Jack and Rose may have shared the door. But this did not affect the director.
“They’re funny guys and I really enjoyed doing that show with them, but they’re full of shit,” Cameron later told The Daily Beast.
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Explaining his new analysis to Postmedia, Cameron said: “We took two stuntmen who were the same body mass as Kate and Leo and put sensors on them and in them and put them in ice cold water and tested them for to see if a variety of methods could have survived.”
The director said the results showed “there was no way any of them would survive.” But he also stated that Jack’s character “had to die” to drive home the film’s themes of “love, sacrifice and mortality”.
Cameron documented his analysis of “Titanic” for a National Geographic special set to be released in February — apparently to coincide with the film’s return to theaters on Valentine’s Day — and he’s firmly doubling down.
“Maybe… maybe… after 25 years, he won’t have to deal with it anymore,” Cameron told Postmedia.
