James Cameron Finally Answers Titanic’s Biggest Question

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.

“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.

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!

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