Titanic director James Cameron weighs in AGAIN on THAT debated door scene trends now
It is a question that has haunted movie fans since Titanic was released in 1997: Could Jack Dawson actually have survived the fateful sinking of the iconic ship?
And now Titanic director James Cameron has revealed he conducted a scientific study to finally end the debate as to whether Leonardo DiCaprio's character could have made it out alive - with the process documented in a TV special.
The iconic drama scene sees Jack and Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) struggling in icy waters after the ship goes down. They attempt to clamber onto a piece of debris in the freezing cold North Atlantic Sea.
It seems there is only room for one on the door, so Jack sacrifices his spot for Rose. He ends up freezing to death in the water, while Rose survives, has a family and lives to be an old woman, just as Jack wanted.
Titanic debate: Director James Cameron has weighed in again on the film's door debate, and said Jack 'had to die'
Cameron, 68, who has frequently rubbished claims that Jack could have survived, told The Toronto Sun that he conducted the 'forensic study' with hopes that he 'won't have to deal with the speculation anymore after 25 years'.
He said: 'We have done a scientific study to put this whole thing to rest and drive a stake through its heart once and for all. We have since done a thorough forensic analysis with a hypothermia expert who reproduced the raft from the movie and we’re going to do a little special on it that comes out in February.
'We took two stunt people who were the same body mass of Kate and Leo and we put sensors all over them and inside them and we put them in ice water and we tested to see whether they could have survived through a variety of methods and the answer was, there was no way they both could have survived. Only one could survive
'[Jack] needed to die. It’s like Romeo and Juliet. It’s a movie about love and sacrifice and mortality. The love is measured by the sacrifice…Maybe after 25 years, I won’t have to deal with this anymore.'
Sorted: Cameron tevealed he conducted a scientific study to finally end the debate as to whether Leonardo DiCaprio's character could have made it out alive - with the process documented in a TV special
Titanic's ending has caused a storm of protest among viewers since its release with many fans attempting to disprove that only Rose could have survived - insisting there was plenty of room on the door for Jack.
Back in 2017 in an interview with The Daily Beast, the Academy Award winning filmmaker explained how Leonardo DiCaprio's character Jack had to die in the end and how no episode of Mythbusters can convince him otherwise.
The Canadian director seemed perplexed that so many have spent time trying to debunk Titanic's tragic ending.
'Look, it’s very, very simple: you read page 147 of the script and it says, "Jack gets off the board and gives his
