Titanic

Since the movie was released, there’s been an age-old debate on why Rose didn’t let Jack on the floating door to save him from drowning/freezing to death. news.com.au And 20 years later, we’re finally getting our answer. Kate Winslett, the actor who played Rose in the film, even commented on it, siding with pretty much all of us viewers when she once said: “I think he could have actually fit on that bit of door.” independent.co.uk However, it turns out that DiCaprio didn’t seem to mind that his character was left to die in the icy waters, revealing: “He really doesn’t care about the door.” Titanic’s writer and director James Cameron has finally come out with the reason behind Rose not just moving over for Jack in an interview with Vanity Fair: independent.co.uk “The answer is very simple because it says on page 147 that Jack dies. Very simple.” And apparently, he isn’t to fond of all of the questioning of his decision behind the scene, saying: ” “I think it’s all kind of silly, really, that we’re having this discussion 20 years later.” However, he does understand that it’s all light-hearted, and in all honesty, probably providing more publicity towards his film. twitter.com At the end of the day, we can all admit half of the reason we’re so adamant to give justice to Jack was because he was played by the beauty that is Leonardo DiCaprio, which he somewhat comments on: “But it does show that the film was effective in making Jack so endearing to the audience that it hurts them to see him die.” Cameron explains that he wasn’t focused on the practicalities of things, but more so on the story-line and the emotions he wanted to elicit from his viewers. express.co.uk “Had he lived, the ending of the film would have been meaningless. The film is about death and separation; he had to die. So whether it was that, or whether a smoke stack fell on him, he was going down. It’s called art, things happen for artistic reasons, not for physics reasons.” There was even a Mythbusters episode dedicated to whether or not the couple could have both survived on the door, which Cameron also responded to. He said “Let’s really play that out: you’re Jack, you’re in water that’s 28 degrees, your brain is starting to get hypothermia. Mythbusters asks you to now go take off your life vest, take hers off, swim underneath this thing, attach it in some way that it won’t just wash out two minutes later—which means you’re underwater tying this thing on in 28-degree water, and that’s going to take you five to ten minutes, so by the time you come back up you’re already dead. So that wouldn’t work. metro.co.uk His best choice was to keep his upper body out of the water and hope to get pulled out by a boat or something before he died. They’re fun guys and I loved doing that show with them, but they’re full of s**t.” Well, there’s your answer folks! Jack died for the purpose of the movie, and the chances are that he probably couldn’t have survived it anyway. Boo! Credits: gosocial.co Share this story on Facebook with your friends.