Filmmaker James Cameron has once again put to rest the long-running debate over the ending of Titanic, insisting that Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, Jack Dawson, could not have survived by sharing the floating raft with Rose.
Speaking on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, Cameron said he was weary of being asked whether Jack could have lived had he climbed onto the raft alongside Rose.
“Don’t ask me about the raft, people,” the 71-year-old director told People.
Cameron, who won three Academy Awards in 1997 for writing, directing and producing Titanic, said the question has already been examined through scientific testing. He revealed that experiments were conducted to determine whether Jack could have survived the freezing waters of the North Atlantic.
According to Cameron, survival would have required highly specialised knowledge of hypothermia that simply did not exist at the time of the Titanic disaster in 1912.
“If Jack somehow was an expert in hypothermia and somehow knew what science now knows back in 1912, it is theoretically possible, with a lot of luck, that he might have survived,” Cameron said. “But the conditions were not met. There’s no way.”
Cameron recently became the first director to deliver four films that have crossed the $1 billion mark at the global box office. Alongside Titanic, his Avatar franchise has enjoyed extraordinary commercial success.
Source: Mid-Day/ UNB
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