It’s a hotly contested issue among fans, but the answer is actually settled: Jack and Rose could both fit on the Titanic door. In the episode, the show’s hosts, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, recreated the scene in question and proved that, while difficult, the door was capable of holding the two of them afloat.
As such an unprecedented blockbuster in film history, the validity of this particular scene has been the center of much debate and scrutiny. People (predominantly Jack’s fans) claim that both Jack and Rose could have fit on the floating piece of a broken door, and that the ending of the movie didn’t have to be quite so painful!
Audiences first saw how Jack’s death played out and started to wonder if he could have fit on the door and been saved from an untimely end. In a series of photos that went viral, Jack fans demonstrated a number of positions that they believed would have allowed both Jack and Rose to comfortably fit on the floating door.
Should Jack have been rescued right alongside Rose in Titanic?
As anyone who has seen Titanic knows, the scene in which Jack freezes to death in the ocean after getting Rose safely on top of the door is one of the movie’s saddest. But there are some Titanic fans who feel that that there was plenty of room for Jack to wait to be rescued right alongside Rose.
How did Jack and rose stay together on the boat?
At first, it seemed as though Jack had been right about not being able to fit alongside his lady love. But after Savage suggested that they tie Hyneman’s — a., and k., and a. Rose’s — life jacket to the bottom of the door to reinforce its buoyancy, they both managed to stay afloat.
Could Jack and Rose have survived on the raft?
Different positions where both Jack and Rose could have managed to survive together in the seemingly meager space on the raft (Image Source: Imgur- Themetapicture. com) There you have it! There was, indeed, enough space for both of them to fit together on the raft.
What is the door Rose is floating on in the Lovely Bones?
Though many have called it a “door” that Rose is floating on, there’s a lot of evidence that’s not the case. In the script, the scene in question is written like this (emphasis ours): “Jack sees what she is pointing to, and they make for it together. It is a piece of wooden debris, intricately carved.