Ok, we get it. You think that Rose was being selfish at the end of Titanic, and had she just shifted on that wooden raft, Jack would have survived and they would have lived happily ever after and everything would have been perfect.
Well, don't bring up your groundbreaking theory in front of director James Cameron. He told Vanity Fair "the ending of the film would have been meaningless" if Jack survived the sinking.
"I think it’s all kind of silly, really, that we’re having this discussion 20 years later [...] The film is about death and separation; he had to die," James explained. "Whether it was that, or whether a smoke stack fell on him, he was going down. It’s called art, things happen for artistic reasons, not for physics reasons.
"The answer is very simple because it says on page 147 [of the script] that Jack dies."
Fair enough, James. You do probably know best, with three Academy Awards under your belt.
He added "the film was effective in making Jack so endearing to the audience that it hurts them to see him die."
You're telling us. Titanic celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year, and the wounds are still pretty raw. In fact, we've just got something in our eye, BRB.
