Following Titanic‘s success, stars such as Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio continued to find success in the industry.
The film, which was released in 1997, was inspired by the historical sinking of the RMS Titanic. The shipwreck was explored against the backdrop of a forbidden romance between Jack (DiCaprio) and Rose (Winslet), whose different social classes created obstacles for their future as a couple.
In Titanic’s final act, Jack saves Rose and ends up dying in the cold water while they await a rescue team. The socialite is able to survive because she has her full body resting on a floating door, while her love interest is mostly in the ocean which leads to hypothermia.
Following the flick’s release, many people have questioned the legitimacy of the death scene — specifically whether the couple could have rested on the door together.
Director James Cameron slammed the speculation while addressing the film’s sucShe went on to star in Avatar: The Way of Water in 2022 and appeared in 2024’s The Regime and Lee.cess in 2017 and five years later told the Toronto Sun that “we have since done a forensic analysis with a hypothermia expert” that concluded that only one person could have survived in those conditions.
“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,” Cameron shared. “Only one could survive.”
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