On December 19, the hit movie titanic celebrated 25 years of its arrival in theaters. On the occasion of the quarter-century anniversary, the film’s protagonist, Kate Winslet, finally answered one of the great mysteries of modern film history.
Most moviegoers probably remember the iconic final scene of Titanic, where Jack Dawson, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, freezes to death at sea after helping his love Rose DeWitt Bukater, played by Winslet, up a driftwood door, leaving millions of viewers heartbroken.
Since then, the scene has haunted both its director, James Cameron, and the protagonists. In addition, it has become the subject of one of the biggest debates in the history of the seventh art, generating endless hypotheses and assumptions about whether Jack really fit in the door with Rose in the Titanic wreck.
Previously, Leonardo DiCaprio was also asked what he thought about the ending of the movie, but the Hollywood star evaded the answer. In 2016, during an interview with Jimmy Kimmel, the presenter questioned Kate about it, to which the actress replied that Jack “could have fit in that part of the door.” However, recently, the star of Divergent gave a completely different point of view.
The subject came up again during a recent interview for the podcast Happy Sad Confused, on the occasion of the performance of the British actress in the expected Avatar: The path of water, also by James Cameron, recalling one of the biggest controversies of the 1997 movie: Would Jack have fit in the door next to Rose?
All I can say is that knowing water and its behavior, the gate will definitely become unstable if you put two adults on it. In fact, I don’t think we would have survived if we had both climbed through that door.
Just last week, in an interview for The Toronto Sun, James Cameron was questioned about it (again), but now the Canadian filmmaker wants to silence the controversy “once and for all” after 25 years of “defending” Jack’s death.
To achieve this, Cameron plans to prove with scientific evidence that Jack could not have survived in a documentary coming to National Geographic in February of next year.
We did a science experiment to end this and close the topic. Maybe… maybe… after 25 years, I won’t have to deal with this anymore.
In addition, for next year, a rerun of titanic in 4K format to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the premiere of the blockbuster that won 11 Oscars.