Twenty years after he sent Jack to a watery grave in Titanic,the director is fitting increasingly tetchy at being asked why Rose couldn’t have saved himIf you have room for a new hobby, may I propose collecting James Camerons increasingly irate responses to fans who insist that Rose could have saved Jack at the end of Titanic, or because the board she was floating on could have taken the weight of both of them? This is a theory that has gathered so much pace that there is even a Mythbusters segment approximately it,meaning that the self-effacing director is frequently forced to account for how movies work to people who seem to be lost that lobe.
Back in January, it was the Daily Beast putting it to the director. “scrutinize, or it’s very,very simple,” came Cameron’s reply. You read 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.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk