After 25 years of denial, numerous fan debates, and a few scientific reenactments, Titanic director James Cameron has finally admitted that Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) might have been able to survive the maritime disaster — though not necessarily by climbing up alongside Rose (Kate Winslet) on the infamous door.
Co-hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman conducted their own experiment and concluded that both Jack and Rose could have shared the raft and survived, provided they propped their upper bodies upright and figured out how to attach Rose's life jacket underneath it to increase the buoyancy.
After 25 years, James Cameron has admitted that both Jack and Rose could both have survived the sinking of the Titanic in his 1997 cinematic masterpiece, though there were "a lot of variables" in play.
Yes, he could have fit on that door, but it would not have stayed afloat. It wouldn't.” In the second test, Cameron again fit both Jack and Rose on the raft but positioned their bodies so that their upper halves (which includes vital organs) remained out of the water.
Consequently, Cameron discovered Jack may have survived if Rose had given him her life jacket to insulate him from the freezing waters of the Atlantic and protect his vital organs. Despite DiCaprio's character's potential survival, Cameron maintains his death was necessary for the plot of Titanic.
So the final answer is definite: yes, Jack could have survived but for the purposes of the script, his death was inevitable.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Cameron was asked directly, "Why doesn't Rose make room for Jack on the door?" To which he replied, "And the answer is very simple because it says on page 147 [of the script] that Jack dies.
And when the Titanic hits an iceberg and sinks to the bottom of the ocean, Jack performs one final act of love: He helps Rose onto a floating wooden board—and remains in the freezing water beside her.
By throwing the necklace into the Atlantic ocean, Rose finally lets go, because she is ready to make peace with Jack and the other Titanic victims; she is finally ready to move on.
She explained to Rose that she had no choice but to marry Cal, since her father had left them several debts and all their family's money had to be used to pay for them, leaving Rose and her mother with nothing.
Cameron then had the Rose stunt actor give her life jacket to Jack, something that does not happen in the movie. If this had happened, Jack would have been “stabilized,” and “got into a place where if we projected that out, he just might've made it until the lifeboat got there,” Cameron said.
The Titanic Heaven scene is the final scene of the Titanic film. This scene shows the old 100 year old Rose DeWitt Bukater dying, showing her on the Titanic and reuniting with Jack Dawson and all the people who perished on the ship.
Once they had him at 98.6° F, they submerged him in 29° water and timed how long it took him to reach deadly hypothermia. They pronounced Jack dead at 51 minutes because his body temperature dropped to below 85° F, which means he would have experienced loss of motor control and not been able to hold onto the board.
"The answer is very simple because it says on page 147 [of the script] that Jack dies," he told Vanity Fair. He continued: "Obviously it was an artistic choice, the thing was just big enough to hold her, and not big enough to hold him. "Had he lived, the ending of the film would have been meaningless.
The two bigger problems would be that Jack would have no money and Rose would be under enormous pressure from her fiance and mother. The worst-case scenario is that Rose would unhappily capitulate to them and Jack would be left on his own.
It is unknown what happened to Ruth after the disaster. She is never shown or even heard of reuniting with her daughter.
Yes, he could have fit on that door, but it would not have stayed afloat. It wouldn't."
The lookouts along with the officers on the bridge knew that a calm ocean would make icebergs hard to see with no breaking water at the base. It was also extremely cold that night with sea surface temperatures reportedly at 28 degrees -- a lethal temperature for any person.
Did Jack and Rose from the Titanic have a child? No, Rose married after Jack's death and had a child. Rose's adult granddaughter is with old Rose in the beginning and end of the movie. ...
Cameron put Jack's individual sacrifice to the test in a new documentary. Fans insist Jack could have survived the icy Atlantic waters after the ocean liner sank, if only he had shared an improvised raft with Kate Winslet's Rose.
she loses her virginity to jack. Cal is furious that rose hasn't slept with him yet. there's a whole scene in the movie about this. That makes sense to me, but then I remember that some people believe Cal Hockley's “I hoped you would come to me last night” comment to Rose implies that she and Cal have slept together.
This shows that Jack was in Stage 3, unconscious, and very much alive.
But the two stars who came closest to landing the role before DiCaprio was offered the part are believed to be Matthew McConaughey and Jeremy Sisto, both of whom went so far as to audition alongside Kate Winslet.
The love story between Jack and Rose is therefore entirely fictional, but that doesn't mean that some aspects of the film don't measure up to the reality.