James Cameron ends door debate once and for all

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For 25 years, James Cameron has heard your complaints about Jack Dawson’s heartbreaking death at the end of "Titanic". And now he’s going to prove you wrong.

Ever since the film’s debut in 1997, moviegoers have debated the ending with many concluding that Rose (Kate Winslet) could have shoved over and made room for Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) on the floating door, thus saving his life (personally, I have always believed that there was plenty of space on that makeshift raft).

And after pleading his case for a quarter century that his beloved hero had to die for artistic reasons, the filmmaker is now planning to prove that Jack couldn’t have survived in an upcoming documentary.

“We have done a scientific study to put this whole thing to rest and drive a stake through its heart once and for all,” Cameron told Postmedia during an interview to promote his newly-released "Avatar: The Way of Water."

“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.”

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