No, Jack Dawson couldn't be saved.
James Cameron, fed up with the theory of many Titanic fans, even conducted a scientific study to demonstrate that Leonardo DiCaprio didn't fit on that "raft" (actually a door) .
The tragic end of the love story between Jack and Rose (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) is known: the rich traveler and the penniless artist, who ended up in the icy waters of the Atlantic due to the sinking of the Titanic, find the door to a cabin floating on the waves. They try to get on it, but Jack understands that the door would sink and only lets Rose go up. An ultimate sacrifice, he condemns himself to death, she will be saved .
Well, for 25 years many fans have been claiming that both of them could have stayed on that door and saved themselves together. In more serious discussions, Rose's character is defined as selfish and memes abound on social networks . Kate Winslet herself claimed in an interview that in her opinion the character played by DiCaprio could have been saved.
The debate has greatly annoyed James Cameron, director of the most awarded film in history with 11 Oscars. In the past he called it "stupid", but now he wanted to give a scientific answer to definitively close the question.
In an interview with the Toronto Sun he said that he had commissioned a study that demonstrates that two could not fit on that piece of wood: «We carried out an in-depth forensic analysis with a hypothermia expert who reproduced the raft from the film. We took two stuntmen who had the same body mass as Kate and Leo and covered them with sensors inside and out. We placed them in ice cold water and tested them for survivability for both through a variety of ways. And the answer is this: there was no way to save both. Only one could survive .'
A special will be released on this study in February, on the occasion of the return to theaters of Titanic, in the new version with 4K technology, scheduled in the USA for Valentine's Day.
So far the scientific side. Then there is the philosophical one: « .'
