James Cameron has revealed that Jack may have been able to live in Titanic. The director has avoided fan speculation about the tragic ending to his 1997 film being preventable for years. But, it seems that Leonardo Di Caprio's Jack could have perhaps survived to enjoy a happy-ever-after with Kate Winslet's Rose.
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.
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.”
There was no way both Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater could have survived on the floating door at the end of 'Titanic', reiterated master film-maker James Cameron, who went one step ahead and conducted a "scientific study" to put this long-running debate to rest.
Could Jack have survived if Rose stayed on the lifeboat?
It'd be a long shot, but his odds would have been better than they were with Rose. The bigger issue becomes what happens after they survive. Cal would know Rose made it off the ship alive, so he and Lovejoy would have gone right back over to Murdoch and gotten on a boat.
A "Titanic" Myth: Would Jack Have Survived if Rose Had Shared the Door?
Did anyone survive the Titanic that was not in a lifeboat?
In researching his genealogy he has connected with distant cousins who descended from his grandmother Evelyn Kearney Connors side of the family. It was her sister, Edna Kearney Murray who survived the sinking of the Titanic but it wasn't in an overloaded lifeboat.
What is the longest time someone has survived in a lifeboat?
The record-holder is Poon Lim, who survived 133 days on a raft after his ship was torpedoed by a U-boat in 1942. Another well-known case is that of the family of Dougal Robertson who spent 38 days in a raft after their yacht sank.
I think Jack's logic was, 'I'm not going to do anything that would put Rose in danger. ' 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.
This means that if Jack was dead when Rose pushed him under water, then he would have immediately floated back to the surface. But if he was unconscious, he would have breathed water into lungs and eventually sink, which is the case. This shows that Jack was in Stage 3, unconscious, and very much alive.
He would be as good as dead anyway by the time he'd swum under the raft in 28-degree (Fahrenheit) waters and tied the lifejacket into place. Moreover, since Rose would have to get off the raft and wait in the water while he did that, she'd probably die of hypothermia as well.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Over his (very) long life, Captain Jack Harkness has been many things. Revived and made immortal by Rose Tyler after she'd absorbed the power of the Time Vortex, Jack travelled back to 1869, where his vortex manipulator burned out.
He argues that the real answer to whether Jack could have fit on the door and lived lies not in experimentation or reproduction, but in the script. The story says the door isn't large enough, that Jack gives up his spot for Rose, and that he dies.
What actually caused Jack's death at the end of Titanic?
Left in the freezing water by her side, he quickly succumbs to hypothermia after saying his tearful goodbyes. Fans, the stars themselves, and even the Mythbusters team have all posited ways in which Jack could have survived in the years since the film's release in 1997.
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.
The inquiry also revealed that White Star Line wanted fewer lifeboats on the decks to provide unobstructed views for passengers and to give the ship more aesthetic appeal when seen from an exterior viewpoint.
Still, to a shocked nation, this story of survival was a minor miracle, the restoration of loved ones given up for lost, a small bright spot in a dreadful tragedy. One of the six boys to survive in Lifeboat 12 was Billy Short, one of eleven Sunderland children on board the City of Benares from which only two survived.
Two lifeboats returned to pull survivors from the water, but some of those later died. The RMS Carpathia did not reach the lifeboats until 4 am, 2 hours after the sinking, and the rescue continued until the last lifeboat was collected at 8:30 am.
