“Based on what I know today, he could shrink the board”: The end of Titanic (more specifically the debate over whether Jack would survive) is a recurring conversation topic for both James Cameron and other moviegoers. All sorts of theories have emerged over the years, confirming or denying whether DiCaprio’s fate is realistic, whether he can hold out until the lifeboat arrives. There was more room next to Roseif he really has to die.

In fact, a few months ago, the director of the movie, James Cameron, announced that he had a scientific study done to “put an end to all this” and that he had definitely driven a stake through his heart. This study aimed to prove how Leonardo DiCaprio was. couldn’t survive To the table scene with Kate Winslet. And they didn’t understand.

Let’s remember the scene: After the ship to New York sinks, Rose manages to board a wooden door, while Jack dies of hypothermia in the frozen ocean, supposedly because the door cannot support the weight of both. All this topped with some goosebumps by James Horner.

Specifically, Cameron said: “We did a thorough forensic analysis with a hypothermia expert who reproduced the picture in the movie… We used two experts with the same body mass as Kate and Leo, and we put sensors all over them. We dunked them in a variety of ways to see if they could survive. They put him in ice-cold water, and the answer was that neither of them had any way of surviving. only one can survive“According to Cameron, Jack was supposed to die.” It’s like Romeo and Juliet. A movie about love, sacrifice and death. Love is measured by sacrifice.”

The theory has been discussed everywhere and on numerous television shows, even put to the test in one episode. Legend Hunters, From Discovery Channel where Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman evaluate different scenarios to draw conclusions about the physics of the case. According to experts, Rose is trying to make sure they both survive. attach your life jacket to the bottom of the door frame to aid buoyancy so their overall weight wouldn’t sink the door into the ocean.

Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson also made some comments on the subject: “I would try this multiple times whether I succeeded or not. The survival instinct is much stronger than in the movie, especially in that character. A survivor…” commented.

What James Cameron Didn’t Tell Us

But what James Cameron didn’t tell us at the time was that there was actually one (or more) way for Jack to survive. In that scientific work he had done, which can be seen in the private picture Titanic: 25 Years Later With James Cameron Three tests were conducted at National Geographic to see if it was possible for the couple to survive until the lifeboat arrived.

In the first, the most controversial theory was debunked, meaning that although there was room at the table for both, it would have caused most of them to be submerged in icy water and both of them dead.

But in the second test, things start to get even more suspicious. And ideally, the vital organs of both were in the non-submersible part, for example, compressing only the lower part of the legs in water, which would allow them to share their body heat. “Out of the water, the violent jolts of his body helped him. He could hold out quite a bit while he was doing a projection. It was like hours,” Cameron explained.

Depending on how long it takes for the rescue to come, they may have lasted long enough this way. Or not. We can’t know this for sure. However, in the third test, where we find it more plausible that the loving couple can survive. And Cameron himself realized at this point that the ending could be different.

Into it, the experts added a detail that was not in the movie: Rose gives Jack the life jacket. Seeing the result, Cameron has been finalized the following: “It is stable. There is a point where, if we had foreseen this, it would have held out until the lifeboat arrived. Jack could live, but there are many variables. I think his thought process was, ‘I’m not going to do anything to endanger him,’ and that’s 100% of his character.”

So, Cameron’s reasoning is still Jack’s. I would never put Rose in danger., neither trying to get on the board nor asking for the vest. Neither of them knew how long it would take for them to come to the rescue, so this could have resulted in both of their deaths.

As a result, Jack has one of the most preventable deaths in movie history. Although James Cameron disliked it, he even stated that he would have taken action if he had turned back time: “I would have made the board smaller than what I know today.”