It's one of the biggest mysteries that have permeated movie culture for almost three decades now: Could both Jack and Rose have survived at the end of Titanic?
A lot of people believe there was enough room on that door for both of them, and had Rose just shoved over Jack could have lasted that frosty night as well.
Well, Titanic director James Cameron has definitely proven that only ONE of them would have survived that fateful night, and performed a series of scientific tests to explain why.
In an interview with The Toronto Sun, Cameron explained, "We took two stunt people who were the same body mass of Kate and Leo and we put sensors all over them and inside them and we put them in ice water and we tested to see whether they could have survived through a variety of methods and the answer was, there was no way they both could have survived. Only one could survive."
Cameron performed the tests for a new documentary set to be released when Titanic gets re-released into theaters this upcoming February to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
These findings contradict a study performed by "The Mythbusters," who in 2012 concluded that Jack's death at the end of the film was "needless."
Cameron, however, says that not only has he "scientifically proven" that Jack had to die, but his death fit in with the story's themes.
"It's a movie about love and sacrifice and mortality," he said. "The love is measured by the sacrifice."
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