James Cameron finally admits that Jack could have lived at the end of "Titanic"
Twenty-five years later, the director had an experience to understand the truth.
It was 84 years old -Sorry, 25 years since The blockbuster Titanic Struck in theaters on December 19, 1997. And although the film is always loved and broadcast constantly on television, there is one aspect that some viewers still cannot overcome: Jack (Jack (Jack (Jack (Jack (Jack (Jack ( Leonardo DiCAPRI ) freeze to death in the ocean while Rose ( Kate Winslet ) survives in a piece of floating debris. Why didn't Jack float with her? Wasn't there enough room for them? These questions always run fans all these years later.
Now maybe people will finally be satisfied. In a new special for National Geographic, director James Cameron Perform a complex test to see if there is a way to survive the waters of the icy ocean. Here's what he found. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
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Fans have theorized for years that Jack could have survived.
Fans were so upset to see Jack die at the end of Titanic that they tried to imagine a way he could have spent the night to be saved. Rose floats on a fairly large piece of wood from the wreck which appears large enough for Jack to also be able to stick to it.
In 2012, the show Mythbusters lead an experience And determined that two people could have floated on the piece of debris if the life vest they had been attached to the bottom of it. Cameron appeared in the episode, and he was not impressed by their conclusions. "I think you miss the point here," said the filmmaker. "The script says that Jack dies. He must die. So, perhaps we have messed up and the board should have been a little smaller, but the guy is falling."
Cameron had a bone to choose Mythbusters , However.
In 2017, Cameron had Criticism for the mythbusters experience In an interview with The Daily Beast. He explained that taking the time to attach a life jacket on the bottom of the debris in 28 degrees of water would have been sufficient to kill Jack.
"His best choice was to keep his upper body out of the water and hope to withdraw by a boat or something before his death," said Cameron. "They are fun guys and I loved doing this show with them, but they are full of [explanive]."
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He just carried out his own test.
For the National Geographic Special Titanic: 25 years later with James Cameron , Cameron made his own recreation from the end of the film to see if Rose and Jack could have survived. The experience was carried out in a special laboratory with a doctor who studies the effects of the cold on the human body and with standing stuntmen as a jack and pink. As indicated by Rolling stone ,, A replica of the wooden board was created to have the same "degree of buoyancy that you see in the film".
Four scenarios have been tested. Initially, it was difficult to find a position where the bodies of rose and jack were enough water so as not to freeze, but when they adapted in a particular way, they could both come out of the top body out of the water. "Projecting, he could have done it long enough. Like hours," said Cameron.
But that was not all.
The experience was even more elaborate than that.
As Cameron explains in The Special, Jack and Rose go through a lot of intense activities before going to the piece of floating debris. Thus, in the experience, they also reconstitute the advance at this time, including the stuntmen holding their breath underwater, swimming and jack striking someone in the face. They doubled the duration for each stage of their hobbies to compensate for the fact that their water was not as cold as it would have been in real life.
In the end, Cameron concluded: "Jack might have lived, but there are a lot of variables. I think his thought process was:" I will not do something that endangers it. "And it's 100% a character." He added: "Based on what I know today, I would have made the raft smaller so there is No doubt."
