Yes, he could have fit on that door, but it would not have stayed afloat. It wouldn't." Titanic: 25 Years Later With James Cameron — celebrating 25 years since the film's Best Picture victory at the 1998 Oscars — premieres Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on National Geographic, and streams the next day on Hulu.
While the first test confirmed Jack would have died if he had acted according to the film's plot, a second found the pair could have both balanced on the door and kept their upper bodies out of the water.
For fans of MythBusters, however, this is a bit of old news: The gang famously proved that it was plausible both could have fit onto the door and lived happily ever after.
It wasn't buoyant enough
The movie clearly shows that Jack tries to get onto the door with Rose, and then stops as soon as he sees it begin to capsize. It's obvious that it's not buoyant enough to support the weight of both of them. The only options are for one of them to die, or for both of them to die.
The body of an adult male, whose personal identification revealed he was "J. Dawson," was found at sea after Titanic sank. Bodies were numbered in the order they were recovered.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Cameron was asked directly, "Why doesn't Rose make room for Jack on the door?" To which he replied, "And the answer is very simple because it says on page 147 [of the script] that Jack dies.
After 25 years, James Cameron has admitted that both Jack and Rose could both have survived the sinking of the Titanic in his 1997 cinematic masterpiece, though there were "a lot of variables" in play.
Co-hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman conducted their own experiment and concluded that both Jack and Rose could have shared the raft and survived, provided they propped their upper bodies upright and figured out how to attach Rose's life jacket underneath it to increase the buoyancy.
This shows that Jack was in Stage 3, unconscious, and very much alive.
And when the Titanic hits an iceberg and sinks to the bottom of the ocean, Jack performs one final act of love: He helps Rose onto a floating wooden board—and remains in the freezing water beside her.
Titanic director James Cameron admits that Jack may have survived the end of the 1997 epic romance if Rose utilized her life jacket to save him.
Did Jack and Rose from the Titanic have a child? No, Rose married after Jack's death and had a child. Rose's adult granddaughter is with old Rose in the beginning and end of the movie. ...
Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller was the most senior crewman to survive the sinking of Titanic. Lightoller first boarded Titanic in Belfast for her trials and then took his place as First Officer on the voyage to Southampton.
Out of the 900 crew members on board the Titanic, a mere 214 of them survived. This means that 76% of the Titanic's crew perished when the ship sank.
Who almost played Jack in Titanic? Prior to DiCaprio's casting, a whole host of stars were considered that Cameron ultimately passed on because he thought they were too old to play the 20-year-old Jack – including Chris O'Donnell, Billy Crudup, and Stephen Dorff.
By throwing the necklace into the Atlantic ocean, Rose finally lets go, because she is ready to make peace with Jack and the other Titanic victims; she is finally ready to move on.
While Jack Dawson's story ends at the bottom of the ocean, Rose Dewitt Bukater is able to live a long, fulfilling life, eventually returning to the Titanic's final resting place as an elderly woman (Gloria Stuart) to help Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton) in his search for the “Heart of the Ocean.” After letting go of Jack's ...
Why doesn't Jack seem to care about not being rescued? Jack likes the freedom and power and the wildness he has on the island. He wants to hunt more than he wants to be rescued.
The voyage came to an abrupt end when the ship struck ice and sank. Rose survived the ship's sinking, but Jack did not. She later married a man named Calvert, and had at least three children.
The Titanic Heaven scene is the final scene of the Titanic film. This scene shows the old 100 year old Rose DeWitt Bukater dying, showing her on the Titanic and reuniting with Jack Dawson and all the people who perished on the ship.
Answer: That's wrong – it would probably have survived. When a ship hits an iceberg head on, all the force would be transferred back to the ship, so it wouldn't have ripped open, but crumpled round, so only 2-3 compartments would have been breached. It was built to survive with 4 compartments breached.
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."
The lookouts along with the officers on the bridge knew that a calm ocean would make icebergs hard to see with no breaking water at the base. It was also extremely cold that night with sea surface temperatures reportedly at 28 degrees -- a lethal temperature for any person.
They truly loved eachother. After Jack died rose took up his name because in her mind they were ment to be married and to honor of Jack.