For fans of MythBusters, however, this is a bit of old news: The gang famously proved that it was plausible both could have fit onto the door and lived happily ever after.
Yes, many fans have argued with zeal — including the makers of MythBusters, who concluded after a 2012 experiment that both Jack and Rose could have plausibly fit on the door.
I think he would have fit, but it would have tipped and it would not have been a sustainable idea," Winslet said in December on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. "So, you heard it here for the first time. Yes, he could have fit on that door, but it would not have stayed afloat.
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.
It's even prompted a dedicated episode of "Mythbusters" on the Discovery Channel, in which they found that if they had tied Rose's lifejacket to the bottom of the door, it could have supported both of them.
This means that if Jack was dead when Rose pushed him under water, then he would have immediately floated back to the surface. But if he was unconscious, he would have breathed water into lungs and eventually sink, which is the case. This shows that Jack was in Stage 3, unconscious, and very much alive.
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.
The show went into full detail, pronouncing Jack dead in the freezing water at 51 minutes if he hadn't tried to get on the board. But the hosts said if he had tried the maneuver with the vest, he could have lived.
Jack could have survived, says film-maker James Cameron as 'Titanic' re-releases 25 yrs on. 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.
We finally, sort of, get closure.
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.
Rose then throws the necklace off the Keldysh, just above the Titanic. 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.
As he pointed out in an interview with the Daily Beast, the script says “Jack gets off the board and gives his place to her so she can survive.” Jack was doomed to die because that's what the script says, and no amount of space or buoyancy research can change that.
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And I'm thankful, Rose. I'm thankful. You must do me this honor... promise me you will survive....that you will never give up...not matter what happens...
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Rose married a man named “Calvert” and moved to Cedar Rapids, and that's the only information there is about her husband.
The short answer is no – Jack and Rose were not real people on board the Titanic, but fictional characters created especially for the film by James Cameron. The inspiration for Rose was actually an American artist who had nothing to do with the story of the Titanic sinking: Beatrice Wood.
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.
Who almost played Jack in Titanic? Prior to DiCaprio's casting, a whole host of stars were considered that Cameron ultimately passed on because he thought they were too old to play the 20-year-old Jack – including Chris O'Donnell, Billy Crudup, and Stephen Dorff.
“It's like Romeo and Juliet. It's a movie about love and sacrifice and mortality. Love is measured by sacrifice… Maybe after 25 years, I won't have to deal with this anymore,” Cameron, 68, continued.
He died of hypothermia, and his body sank to the ocean floor, making him buried at sea. For unknown reasons, there was no record of Jack's existence though one could assume it was due to him never purchasing the tickets and not getting properly check up when boarding the Titanic.
On May 14, 2021, Young died of a heart attack in the afternoon at his Greensboro, North Carolina home at the age of 58.
Rose loved Jack too much to let him possibly die, so stating she wouldn't get on before Jack meant they crew would HAVE to let Jack on if they wanted Rose to live.
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. You do realize that Rose, Jack are entirely fictional characters, right?
She approaches the staircase to see Jack standing looking at the clock in the middle of the stairs. He turns around finding Rose coming to him and Jack gives Rose his hand, Rose does the same. They kiss while the others clap and cheer.
Though many have called it a "door" that Rose is floating on, there's a lot of evidence that's not the case. In the script, the scene in question is written like this (emphasis ours): "Jack sees what she is pointing to, and they make for it together. It is a piece of wooden debris, intricately carved.