James Cameron is sick of the debate around whether Jack could have lived and he’s ready for it to be finished (Picture: Getty Images for Disney)
James Cameron is ready to prove ‘once and for all’ that Jack couldn’t have survived by climbing on the floating door with Rose in Titanic.
The acclaimed director is currently on the publicity run for the much-anticipated Avatar sequel, but he can’t escape questions about his 1997 disaster movie.
For years, fans have raged and debated over Jack’s demise at the end of the film, and whether he could have just climbed aboard the floating door with Rose.
Sure, it looks like there could have been room for two, but Jack tried to climb up on the door and it almost flipped, remember? But then couldn’t he have tried again? It was a matter of life and death after all.
Well, director Cameron is tired of the debate, and has taken drastic action to ‘put this whole thing to rest’: a scientific study and even a documentary.
‘We have done a scientific study to put this whole thing to rest and drive a stake through its heart once and for all,’ Cameron told Postmedia.
The beloved film has seen debate fo 25 years over whether Rose could have made room for Jack on the door, saving them both (Picture: Rex/Shutterstock)
He explained he and his team undertook a ‘thorough forensic analysis with a hypothermia expert,’ and placing two people with ‘the same body mass of Kate and Leo’ on a reproduction of the door seen in the movie.
‘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.’
The documentary will air on National Geographic in February, with Cameron joking: ‘Maybe, after 25 years, I won’t have to deal with this anymore.’
Cameron hopes the documentary will mean he ‘doesn’t have to deal with’ the debate any more (Picture: 20th Century Fox/Paramount/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock)
Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio’s performances helped Titanic win multiple awards, including an incredible 11 Oscars (Picture: Getty Images)
He added that, no matter what, Jack ‘needed to die’ as the film is ‘like Romeo and Juliet.’
‘It’s a movie about love and sacrifice and mortality. The love is measured by the sacrifice.’
Cameron previously spoke about the film and its leads in a recent interview with Radio Times, where he said he believed the film ‘traumatised’ Kate Winslet.
The writer-director admitted: ‘I think Kate came out of Titanic a bit traumatised by the scale of the production and her responsibility within it.
Cameron and Winslet have now reunited for Avatar: The Way of Water (Picture: Getty Images)
‘We’ve both been eager over time to work together again, to see what the other is about at this point in our lives and careers.’
He added: ‘She’s very large and in charge on set. You’d swear she was producing the film!’
Winslet and Cameron have reunited for Avatar: The Way of Water, with the actress playing Metkayina matriarch Ronal in the much-anticipated return to Pandora.
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The original sci-fi epic from 2009 became the highest-grossing film of all time and went on to win three Oscars for its stunning visual effects, cinematography and art direction.
It actually knocked Titanic off the top of the highest-grossing films list upon its release, and it currently places third.
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