Titanic Director James Cameron wasn’t kidding when he said he conducted a “scientific study” to disprove the theory that Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio could have been placed on the floating wreckage at the end of the 1997 film.
A new clip from an upcoming documentary Titanic. 25 years laterThe filmmaker is on hand as stuntmen recreate the tragic scene, proving once and for all that DiCaprio’s Jack and Winslet’s Rose could not both have survived the shipwreck.
For a quarter of a century, fans have argued over the sequence, claiming that both characters could be floating on debris above the icy waters; In the actual scene, Jack sacrifices himself to death by hypothermia to ensure Rose’s survival. One episode Myths Also suggested that Jack’s death was “unnecessary”. Cameron denied their results and promised to conduct his own tests to validate the film’s completion.
“We’ve done a scientific study to put this whole thing to rest and put a stake through his heart once and for all,” Cameron said. Toronto Sun in December. “We’ve since done a thorough forensic analysis with a hypothermic expert who recreated the raft from the film, and we’re going to do a little special on it that will be released in February.”
That experience includes: Titanic. 25 years later with James Cameronpremiere of National Geographic on February 5. In the clip, Cameron is poolside as stuntmen perform the scene in cool-but-not-cold waters, ending in a splash sequence.
“The faster your heart beats, the faster the cooling blood from your arms and legs goes into your core, lowering your temperature, so I was really interested to see what that did to Jack’s situation,” Cameron says in the clip. “And it’s quite interesting. what we saw was he got up there and he immediately went into really bad shocks, shaking.”
While fans will have to wait until next month for the final result, the clip suggests that the weight of Jack, who was already reeling from hypothermia, and Rose would be too much for the debris, which Cameron clarified to be “a piece of wood.” paneling from the first-class cabin,” and no door, as many had suspected, from partial submergence.
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