It’s been 20 years since Titanic first came out but people are still obsessed with the film’s ending with many still wondering: Did Jack really have to die?
It’s been 20 years since Titanic first came out but people are still obsessed with the film’s ending with many still wondering: Did Jack really have to die?
All these years, fans have cried over one thing: the board had enough space for two people and Jack didn’t need to die. Mythbusters even dedicated an episode to this where they tried to prove that both of them could have survived the crash.
It seems as though director James Cameron is also tired of hearing this critique regarding his film. According to the Daily Beast, Cameron has finally addressed the issue in a recent interview: “We’re gonna go there? Look, it’s very, very simple: you read page 147 of the script and it says, ‘Jack gets off the board and gives his place to her so that she can survive.’ It’s that simple. 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. 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.”
“I think you guys are missing the point here,” he explained. “The script says Jack dies, he has to die. Maybe we screwed up. The board should have been a tiny bit smaller. But the dude’s going down.”
