It seems that if the couple had both used the door to keep just their upper bodies out of the water, and if Rose had given him her life jacket to help keep him warm, Jack would have had a much better chance at survival. "Jack might have lived, but there's a lot of variables," said Cameron.
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.
If Rose, at this point, gave Jack her life jacket while they're both balancing on the raft, with only their lower legs underwater, they could have lasted a few hours and survived. “Final verdict: Jack might have lived,” confesses a smirking Cameron, “but there's a lot of variables.”
That is also how pathologists can tell whether a person was drowned or was dead before hitting the water; if you drop a body post-mortem, it would definitely float. This means that if Jack was dead when Rose pushed him under water, then he would have immediately floated back to the surface.
A "Titanic" Myth: Would Jack Have Survived if Rose Had Shared the Door?
Could Jack be saved in Titanic?
' And that's totally in keeping with the character,” concludes James Cameron. So the final answer is definite: yes, Jack could have survived but for the purposes of the script, his death was inevitable.
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. Dawson's body was number 227.
Director James Cameron of Titanic has acknowledged that the character of Jack Dawson, essayed by Leonardo DiCaprio, might have been able to survive the shipwreck in the famous Oscar winning movie 'Titanic'. This comes after 25 years of denial, numerous fan debates and a few scientific re-enactments.
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.
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.
In the finale of the first season of the revamped Dr. Who, we see Rose absorb the Time Vortex of the TARDIS and uses this power to not only evaporate the Daleks, but revive Jack. Due to this process, Jack becomes immortal.
Rose married a man named “Calvert” and moved to Cedar Rapids, and that's the only information there is about her husband. Mr. Calvert passed away before Rose met Lovett and company, but Titanic's ending completely screwed him over.
He made Rose promise that no matter what happened to him, she would do everything she wanted to do with her life and die an old woman warm in her bed rather than die here with her whole life ahead of her.
Some artifacts recovered from the Titanic's wreckage included a number made of paper, which were saved because of their storage in leather bags or such; it is therefore possible for Jack's sketch of Rose to have survived as shown.
Since he is a Devil Fruit user, he has lost the ability to swim, but because he is a fish-man, he can breathe underwater. Though, he still would not be able to move if he falls into the water. As a Zoan, this power grants him a significant boost to his physical abilities, granting him immense strength and size.
The film's alternate ending (which is also available to view on YouTube) is set up the same way. This takes place directly after Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton) and Lizzy Calvert (Suzy Amis), Rose's (Gloria Stuart) granddaughter, are talking on the research vessel once Rose has ended her recount of events.
Jack comes across one of these old folks one day who complains of being tired and ready to rest in death, but unable to do so because some fool captured Death 600 years ago and now no one can escape their mortal coil. So, to put things right, Jack releases his captive from the sack and everyone can die in peace.
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.
While certainly farfetched, there is evidence to support this idea (via Glamour). After all, Jack boards the ship using another man's ticket that he won as a poker prize. As far as proof of his existence goes, the elderly version of Rose says herself toward the movie's end, "He [Jack] exists now…
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.
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.
For both Jack and Rose to have survived, she said, the buoyancy of the wood would have to be equal to or greater than the force of gravity from the weight of the characters. “That's how boats float, and that's how a piece of driftwood floats,” Purkey said. “And it's going to sink if gravity is more than its buoyancy.”
He died of hypothermia, and his body sank to the ocean floor, making him buried at sea. For unknown reasons, there was no record of Jack's existence though one could assume it was due to him never purchasing the tickets and not getting properly check up when boarding the Titanic.
The real Rose from Titanic, Beatrice Wood, led a fascinating life that features more than a few similarities to Rose. Like Rose, Beatrice was born into a privileged family which she rejected as a young adult, leaving her home and pursuing a more independent life.
But upon meeting Beatrice Wood I realised the 'epic romance' of Titanic had nothing on her. This was one amazing character. I was told she was the real Rose of the Titanic. When James Cameron was looking for a feisty old woman as a model for the 100 year-old Titanic survivor in his film, he came across Beatrice Wood.
