"MythBusters" proved that Jack from the movie "Titanic" could easily be saved Bashny.Net

But, to the indignation of the fans of the film, the director decided to firmly ubit



According to James Cameron, every day he receives from fans of his work dozens of letters in which they complained about the tragic ending of the film "Titanic." Fans are confident that when the ship was sinking, Rose (whose role was played by Kate Winslet) behaved inexcusably selfish, and Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio), a fool, not taken with her on saving a piece of wood trim - in fact in this case, he also managed to survive , giving viewers hope for the second part of the picture so bright, and the continuation of the romantic story.

To check whether Jack the opportunity to escape, Cameron turned to Jamie Heinemann and Adam Savage - the famous "Mythbusters." When recreating the situation described in the film, Jamie and Adam used the two dummies, heated to 36, 6 ° C, while the mass of each of them corresponded to the average weight of an adult.





They loaded the "lovers" in the icy water, and as a "wreck" used a wooden door of similar size. To increase the load capacity of the raft, "Destroyers" tied to his life jacket (if you remember, at the Rose in the film he was).

Within 45 minutes mannequin depicting Jack was in the water - so much in the film continued the search for survivors. His temperature dropped to 27, 7 ° C - during this supercooling people can live for a while, so if Rose helped her lover to climb onto a piece of skin, after having strengthened its buoyancy by a lifejacket, they had to wait for help.

However, the results of the experiment did not change the point of view of the final Cameron "Titanic" director even said: "According to the scenario, Jack had to die. Probably worth it to make a piece of wood still less that he had no chance of a happy ending ».

via factroom.ru