{"id":162369,"date":"2022-12-19T16:23:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/james-cameron-resolves-titanic-door-debate-on-movies-25th-anniversary-npr\/"},"modified":"2022-12-19T16:23:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T16:23:10","slug":"james-cameron-resolves-titanic-door-debate-on-movies-25th-anniversary-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/james-cameron-resolves-titanic-door-debate-on-movies-25th-anniversary-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"James Cameron resolves ‘Titanic’ door debate on movie’s 25th anniversary : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fans have long debated whether there was room for both Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose (Kate Winslet) on the makeshift raft in the 1997 blockbuster Titanic<\/em>.
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Fans have long debated whether there was room for both Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose (Kate Winslet) on the makeshift raft in the 1997 blockbuster Titanic<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Titanic<\/em> director James Cameron wants to put an end to a debate that has gone on since the movie first hit theaters, exactly 25 years ago today. <\/p>\n

Could Rose have scooched over to make room for Jack on that floating hunk of wood, keeping him out of the freezing water and saving his life? <\/p>\n

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Yes, many fans have argued with zeal \u2014 including the makers of MythBusters, who concluded after a 2012 experiment that both Jack and Rose could have plausibly fit on the door. <\/p>\n

Cameron disagreed, saying in that episode that “the script says Jack dies, he has to die.” He has long dismissed that the question is even up for debate, arguing in multiple interviews over the years that Jack’s death was essential to the plot and that there was only room for one person on the makeshift raft.<\/p>\n

The famously thorough director is hoping to close the door on that dispute for good, this time with an even more scientific approach. <\/p>\n

While promoting his new movie Avatar: Way of Water<\/em>he told The Toronto Sun<\/em> that he had commissioned a scientific study “to put this whole thing to rest and drive a stake through its heart once and for all.”<\/p>\n