The age-old debate over whether Jack could have survived by climbing on the floating door with Rose in Titanic is set to be ended “once and for all”.
For years, fans have argued that their favourite character could have been spared from his demise at the end of the film, with many raging that there was easily enough room for two on the door.
But the acclaimed director of the 1997 disaster cult classic, James Cameron, is ready to prove that Jack couldn’t have fitted on.
The director has reached his wits end with the debate and has taken drastic action to “put this whole thing to rest”.
He’s launched a scientific study and a documentary in an extreme effort to finally debunk the claims.
“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 Avatar director explained that he and his team have undertaken a “thorough forensic analysis with a hypothermia expert”.
In the experiment, he told, they put two people with “the same body mass of Kate [Winslet] and Leo [DiCaprio]” on a replica of the door used in the film.
“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.
Cameron joked: “Maybe, after 25 years, I won’t have to deal with this anymore.”
The director added that no matter the outcome of the experiment, Jack “needed to die” because the film draws inspiration from Romeo and Juliet.
“It’s a movie about love and sacrifice and mortality," he added. "The love is measured by the sacrifice.”
