James Cameron Wants To End The Debate Over Jack's Death In 'Titanic'

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Since the premiere of James Cameron's Titanic 25 years ago, one scene has been the subject of sometimes heated debate: the disappearance of Leonardo DiCaprio's floppy-haired ingenue , Jack Dawson.

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Generally, the actor's fans and movie obsessives have always argued that Jack didn't have to die - he could have easily held onto the floating door that saved his love , Kate Winslet's unfortunate heiress, Rose De Witt Bukater. The debate remains so heated that Cameron, who also wrote the screenplay, wants to close it.

In an interview for the premiere of Avatar: The Way of the Water published by the Toronto Sun, Cameron indicated that he is ending arguments about the death of Jack with an upcoming documentary. "We did a scientific study to put all of this to rest and drive a stake through his heart once and for all," he said.

Cameron continued:

“We have since done a thorough forensic analysis with a hypothermia expert who replicated the raft from the movie and we are going to do a little special on it which will be released in February. We took two stunt people who were the same body mass of Kate and Leo and we put sensors all over and inside of them and we put them in ice water and we tested to see if they could have survived through a variety of methods and the answer was, there was no way they could both survive. Only one could survive."

When asked if he regretted killing off DiCaprio's character, Cameron said no, adding that Jack "needed to die".

Cameron said that Titanic is "a film about love, sacrifice and mortality. Love is measured by sacrifice."

The Sun has announced that Titanic will hit theaters again next February. National Geographic cable network Nat Geo will air Cameron's documentary pleading for Jack's murder.

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