As the 25th anniversary of the release of Titanic and for 25 years, director James Cameron has heard your complaints about Jack Dawson’s heartbreaking death at the end of Titanic, and now he’s going to prove you wrong.
So many people have questioned that part of the movie since walking out of the theatre after watching it, it’s been one of the most hotly contested movie debates ever.
Of course it’s over people saying Rose could have slid over and allowed Jack to also crawl up on the floating door instead of letting him drown.
Titanic director James Cameron says he is so tired of hearing people debate this and always ask him about it, he decided to do something about it to lay this debate to rest once and for all.
He hired a whole team of experts to re-create those exact conditions and once and for all determine that he could not have survived and in fact both would have died if he did hop on the door. Plus for the movie he said Jack had to die in the storyline
“We have since done a thorough forensic analysis with a hypothermia expert who reproduced the raft from the movie. We took 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. Only one could survive.”
In a 2013 episode of Mythbusters, hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage theorized that Jack could have survived by tying Rose’s life vest under the door to help with buoyancy. The duo concluded that “Jack’s death was needless.”
But in 2017, Cameron disputed the show’s findings.
“OK, so let’s really play that out: you’re Jack, you’re in water that’s 28 degrees; your brain is starting to get hypothermia,” Cameron told the Daily Beast. “Mythbusters asks you to now go take off your life vest, take hers off, swim underneath this thing, attach it in some way that it won’t just wash out two minutes later — which means you’re underwater tying this thing on in 28-degree water, and that’s going to take you five to 10 minutes, so by the time you come back up you’re already dead. So that wouldn’t work.”
He documented the entire re-creation and study and will be releasing it as a special in the New Year for the re-release of the movie in Feb.
At the end of the day Cameron said regardless if he could of survived or not, the love story had to end with the ultimate sacrifice.
Now that that debate is done, let’s talk about if Die Hard is a Christmas Movie or not! LOL
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