Titanic: Could Jack fit on the raft or not? Science has answered

If 25 years after the cinema release of Titanic we continue to dwell on the size of the raft he brought Rose to save and Jack to die from hypothermia we obviously have a problem. In addition to the dozens of interviews that director James Cameron is called upon to answer every year, explaining that according to him Jack would not have been able to save himself anyway because, if he had got on and stood next to Rose, the raft would probably have capsized, now there’s even one scientific study requested by Cameron himself – on the strength of the success of Avatar – the ways of water at the cinema – to finally put a stop to the matter. It goes without saying that the investigation, after 25 years, proves him right: “Jack had to die.” “We have conducted a scientific study to put an end to this whole thing once and for all”, in fact, the director made it clear during an interview to promote the second chapter of Avatars.

“We did a thorough forensic analysis with a hypothermia expert who reproduced the raft from the film. We will be doing a little special that will come out in February. Two stunt doubles of the same build as the original two actors were fitted with on-body and in-body sensors and placed in ice-cold waters. The surveys and tests confirmed that both could not have been saved.” explained the director, now tired that the public, after 25 years, memories of Titanica masterpiece that has rightfully entered the history of cinema on a par with Ben Hur and of Gone With the Windonly this detail, ignoring that, if Jack had survived, Titanic it wouldn’t have been the same.

His sacrifice meant that Rose found the strength to continue living for him too, and it’s almost unfair of us to think that the film should have ended any other way – we don’t think anyone staked Shakespeare to ask him if he could dull the blade that would have pierced first Romeo and then Juliet -. Maybe of Titanic we should remember the 16 million square meters of Mexican coast purchased by 20th Century Fox to create one of the largest soundstages in Hollywood; or the fact that the two protagonists have miraculously managed not to crystallize in their characters and to build two of the most appreciated and awarded careers in cinema. The raft comments that at the time led Kate Winslet to suffer heavy body shaming since many said that if she had been thinner Jack would have been saved they are neither laughing nor news anymore: let’s face it. “Jack had to die. It is a story of love, sacrifice and mortality, love is measured by sacrifice»concluded Cameron, and we couldn’t agree more.

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