Titanic was released in 1997, and quickly become one of the most famous films that came out of Hollywood, ever. It was once the highest-grossing film for years.
In fact, it was the first movie to gross over $1 billion worldwide. That happened on March 1, 1998, or 74 days since its release.
While the film has received mostly positive reviews from film critics and the audience, there is one particular scene that created one of the biggest questions in cinematic history.
And that question is: "could Jack have survived at the end of Titanic?"
In the end of the film, Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) clings to the stern rail with Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet). But after the ship breaks in half and the bow section dives downward, everything goes down into the freezing water.
Jack then helps Rose onto a wooden panel door, which is said to be wide enough for only one person.
With Jack having no choice but to have most of his body submerged in the cold water, Jack eventually succumbs, and dies of hypothermia. Rose on the other hand, is saved by a returning lifeboat.
Since then, the question has always lingered if Jack could have survived.
Before the internet, the scene was highly debatable, and thanks to the internet, even more people questioned it.
People have made experiments, and that the scene has also sparked countless of memes. People simply couldn't get over the fact that Jack dies, and Rose lives until old age.
Even other fellow celebrities and Hollywood stars have commented on it.
And this time, 25 years since viewers first witnessed the shocking death of Leonardo DiCaprio's character in James Cameron's epic film, co-star Kate Winslet wants to end the debate, once and for all.
Winslet addressed if Leonardo DiCaprio's character could have survived at the end, saying that, "I actually don't believe that we would have survived if we had both gotten on that door," she said.
The statement was made by Winslet during the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast with Josh Horowitz.
The host asked Winslet while she was promoting Avatar: The Way of Water, and knowing that the epic film also involves submerging in water, Horowitz managed to make her share her thoughts about DiCaprio's fate in Titanic.
"I don't fucking know. That's the answer, I don't fucking know."
"If you put two adults on a stand-up paddleboard, it becomes immediately extremely unstable," she explained. "So the reality is, it was a door. I have to be honest, I actually don't believe that we would have survived if we had both gotten on that door. I think he would have fit but it would have tipped and it would not have been a sustainable idea."
"So, you heard it here for the first time," Winslet concluded. "Yes, he could have fit on that door but it would not have stayed afloat."
Winslet wasn't done.
She then attacked those trolls who made harsh comments about her weight, suggesting that it was actually her fault that Jack couldn't float with her.
"Apparently, I was too fat," she said.
"Isn't it awful?" She continuedz. "Why were they so mean to me? I wasn't even fucking fat."
"If I could turn back the clock I would have used my voice in a completely different way," she said. "I would have responded: 'Don't you dare treat me like this. I'm a young woman. My body's changing. I'm figuring it out. I'm deeply insecure. I'm terrified. Don't make this any harder than it already is.' That's bullying, and actually, borderline abusive."
Titanic began as James Cameron's romantic film.
It started when a young man from a lower class meets a young woman from upper-crust lineage. The two fall in love against all odds, as their relationship went through several hurdles, including from Rose's fiancé, and her social-climber mother.
If that isn't enough, disaster strikes.
The ship is sinking after hitting an iceberg, all thanks to the ship's crew who are distracted after seeing Jack and Rose kissing at the deck.
In the end, people argued and debated about the film's ending, making up theories and suggestions about why the young woman couldn't share the large piece of wooden wreckage, leaving the young man freeze to death.
Not only that Winslet has spoken about her opinion, Director James Cameron has also spoken out on the "could Jack have survived" debate, which was publicized back in 2012 in an episode of Mythbusters.
He said that Jack has to die, and that is supposed to happened.
He admitted that he should've made the board a bit narrower.
In another occasion, Cameron also said that "page 147 of the script and it says, 'Jack gets off the board and gives his place to her so that she can survive.'"
"It's that simple. You can do all the post-analysis you want."
The director then went in to more detail.
"OK, so let’s really play that out: you're Jack, you're in water that is 28 degrees [-2 degrees Celsius], your brain is starting to get hypothermia. Mythbusters asks you to now go take off your life vest, take hers off, swim underneath this thing, attach it in some way that it won’t just wash out two minutes later - which means you’re underwater tying this thing on in 28-degree water, and that's going to take you five to ten minutes, so by the time you come back up you're already dead."
"So that wouldn't work. His best choice was to keep his upper body out of the water and hope to get pulled out by a boat or something before he died."
Not only that Cameron and Winslet have shared their thoughts, because DiCaprio has also been asked the same question.
But DiCaprio seems to keep his thoughts to himself, and prefer to "no comment" about it.
