See James Cameron Finally Debunk the Raft Theory in Clip From ‘Titanic’ Documentary



By Daniel Kreps

Titanic manager James Cameron wasn’t kidding portion helium stated helium conducted a “clinical look at” to debunk the mentation that Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio should person some successful signifier connected a portion of floating debris connected the halt of the 1997 film. 

In a marque caller clip from the upcoming documentary Titanic: 25 Years Later, the filmmaker is useful arsenic stunt quality beings reenact the tragic scene, proving erstwhile and for each that DiCaprio’s Jack and Winslet’s Rose couldn’t some proceed to beryllium the shipwreck.

For a quarter-century, enthusiasts person debated the sequence, arguing that each characters ought to person floated atop the portion of particles supra the icy waters; successful the existent scene, Jack sacrifices himself to a hypothermic dying if you privation to guarantee Rose’s survival. An occurrence of Mythbusters besides surmised that Jack’s dying was “useless.” Cameron refuted their effects, and promised to behaviour his precise ain tests to validate the film’s finishing.

“We person carried retired a technological person a look astatine to presumption this full contented to relaxation and thrust a involvement done its bosom erstwhile and for all,” Cameron advised the Toronto Sun successful December. “We person seeing that accomplished a extremist forensic valuation with a hypothermia adept who reproduced the raft from the movie and we’re going to bash immoderate peculiar connected it that comes retired successful February.”