Proof That Jack And Rose Could Have Fitted On That 'Titanic' Plank Of Wood Pretty Easily (PICTURE)

Huffington Post UK  |  By Posted: 18/04/2012 15:12 Updated: 18/04/2012 16:12

Could James Cameron have made an, ahem, Titanic mistake? If you take a look at this image - and have somehow, God knows, managed to stop laughing at our extraordinarily awful joke - then it looks like he may well have.

The picture shows a couple mocking up one of the final scenes of the film - the moment where the sick Rose (Winslet) is floating on a piece of the ship's debris as Jack (DiCaprio) holds on beside her.

As anyone who's watched the movie will tell you - and chances are, you'll fall into this category - Jack goes onto sink into the water and, um, die. Rose lives, and becomes one of the most financially and historically irresponsible jewellery owners of all time.

But what if Jack had managed to haul himself onto the flotsam? There'd be plenty of room, just look! They could even have played cards, it seems.

And yet, though we want to have a chuckle about this one, the question is one of physics. Could Jack have pulled himself up - even if he still had the strength - without dunking poor Rose into the icy water? Or perhaps Rose could have shuffled along to the other end and acted as a countermeasure?

Perhaps we'll never know. Still, at least in the meantime we can enjoy all these Titanic spoofs that have washed ashore of late...

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Could James Cameron have made an, ahem, Titanic mistake? If you take a look at this image - and have somehow, God knows, managed to stop laughing at our extraordinarily awful joke - then it looks ...
Could James Cameron have made an, ahem, Titanic mistake? If you take a look at this image - and have somehow, God knows, managed to stop laughing at our extraordinarily awful joke - then it looks ...
 
 
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02:32 PM on 06/02/2012
OK OK OK, as we ALL can simply seam they have made that white outline ALOT bigger. And i see none of you paid attention to the movie then? Jack tries to get on but the wood sinks! you should really pay more attention before posting
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01:23 PM on 04/20/2012
Yeah, they could have fit (not fitted). Then they would have both sunk. Different ending to the movie.
07:07 PM on 04/19/2012
I thought that both Jack and Rose could have made it onto the piece of debris right from the first time I had seen the movie. Jack attempted to get on it but flipped it. He should have crawled onto it, instead of grabbing the opposite edge to pull himself up. That is what had flipped it over.. .......But that is not what Cameron was after. He wanted Rose to go and live life to the fullest after all the tragedy of the sinking and losing the love of her life. The ending would have been different with Jack having lived
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12:46 PM on 04/19/2012
Lol like it. Beating James Cameron with some basic physics! A hobby everyone ought to take up.
11:55 AM on 04/19/2012
I just wish that the whole sucking lot, Cameron, Winslet, De Caprio, Celine Dion, Ballard, the film (2D & 3D) the sound and music, the sets, the screenplay, the facts, fictions and inventions, documentaries, exposures, reconstructions, speculations and all the rest of the boring fiasco that has now become an industry in its own right, were all truly at the bottom of the deepest part of the planet's deepest ocean there to, at last, rest in peace forever more and no mention ever be made again of this totally avoidable 100 year old incident!
12:37 AM on 04/19/2012
Hardly 'Proof'.
Lets say the door was 30kg, jack 70kg, and rose 50, that's 150Kg of mass concentrated in the volume of the door. Lets say the door was 2x.5x.1m, so 0.1CuM in volume.
That volume of water is about 100Kg, so not enough water is being displaced to support them both.
Having said that... they could've taken turns
05:29 AM on 04/19/2012
Yes but they both would have had a bigger chance of dying from freezing to death if they did that-and truthfully they coudn't have both fit on the board, well they could have, but let me rephrase that- they both could have fit on the board, but with the amount of weight on it the water would have spilled onto the board so much that it'd be like being in the water floating on your back. So they most likely both would have died. Besides, its a romantic tragedy, like Romeo and Juliet, I'm not saying that watching Leonardo DiCaprio float away like an adorable little popsicle isnt sad, but i see why James did it.
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08:22 PM on 04/18/2012
In the movie, Jack DID try to get up on the wood. It started to capsize. This is why only Rose was on it, and Jack just held on to it until he froze to death.
04:32 PM on 04/18/2012
Its not about room, its about buoyancy.
12:00 AM on 04/19/2012
thread over

someone mail this man a ribbon.
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04:13 PM on 04/18/2012
You forgot Lee and Herring's extra final scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WGKpJBXzEw