Kate Winslet and Leonardo Dicaprio in
Kate Winslet and Leonardo Dicaprio in "Titanic". Photo by 1997 - Paramount Pictures

“Two people could fit on that door!” is what majority of the audience said after watching Titanic. You know the scene (if you don’t, spoiler alert!). After the Titanic sinks, Kate Winslet’s character, Rose, is floating on a wooden door, while Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack sinks at the bottom of the ocean because there was no room for him. The thing is, almost everyone thinks there was. Now, the movie’s director James Cameron has decided to put an end to all the doubts and comment the scene in an interview for Vanity Fair.

“And the answer is very simple because it says on page 147 [of the script] that Jack dies,” said Cameron. “Very simple. . . . Obviously, it was an artistic choice, the thing was just big enough to hold her, and not big enough to hold him.”

Cameron went on to say that he thinks it’s silly that there is a discussion about this particular scene and that the movie would be meaningless if Jack would have lived.

“I think it’s all kind of silly, really, that we’re having this discussion 20 years later. But it does show that the film was effective in making Jack so endearing to the audience that it hurts them to see him die. Had he lived, the ending of the film would have been meaningless. . . . The film is about death and separation; he had to die.” concluded Cameron.

James Cameron is currently busy with Avatar franchise, with the Avatar 2 and Avatar 3 being already in production. They are scheduled for release in 2020 and 2021 respectively. After the filming wraps up on these two sequels, there are two more planned for 2024 and 2025. Besides directing Avatar sequels, Cameron is also involved with the next installment of Terminator as a producer and creative consultant.