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'Titanic' Director James Cameron Finally Speaks Up On Whether Jack & Rose Could Have Both Survived

'Titanic' Director James Cameron Finally Speaks Up On Whether Jack & Rose Could Have Both Survived

Nicole T.

Twenty years after one of the biggest movies of all time, director James Cameron has finally spoken up about "Titanic." This is about the much argued ending, where many thought Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) could have survived along with Rose (Kate Winslet) on their makeshift raft.

Who could forget that ending? As the "unsinkable" ship sunk to the bottom of the ocean after hitting an iceberg, Jack and Rose struggled to say goodbye to each other while wading in icy waters. In the end, Jack chose to save Rose and ultimately drowned.

Could it have been possible for the door to save both the hero and the heroine of "Titanic?" Director James Cameron finally gave his answer -- and it was a no. The director strongly believes that there was no way Jack could have gone with Rose on the raft.

There have been memes about it and, of course, videos that argue that two people could definitely fit inside the makeshift raft. However, the most popular of these arguments came from "MythBusters."

According to Metro, an episode shown on 2012 tried to see whether two grown people could survive in a makeshift raft much similar to that in "Titanic." In the end, their experiment went with what the majority of people thought: Jack and Rose could have survived together.

Director James Cameron cleared things by saying that the "Titanic" script has said that Jack got off the board and gave his place to Rose and then died. He also talked about the "MythBuster" episode that apparently debunked the movie's ending.

"OK, so let's really play that out: you're Jack, you're in water that's 28 degrees, your brain is starting to get hypothermia," the director said. "'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."

The director continued on to say that the best thing Jack could have done was keep his upper body out of the water and hope for a rescue, according to Today. He added that it was what Jack did, but rescue came too late and the demise of the character was inevitable.

Lastly, James Cameron just had to say that Jack was supposed to die since it was written on the "Titanic" script. He did say that maybe they "screwed up" and the board should have been "tiny bit smaller" but "the dude's going down."

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