the record price sold at auction

The new owner will certainly test whether two people actually fit on that raft. Because the question that has always accompanied all viewers of the film Titanic is: “Why didn’t Rose take Jack on board too and leave him to die?”. Now the iconic raft” from the film, thanks to which the protagonist was saved from the shipwreck, has been auctioned for 718,750 dollars.

The raft

The film memorabilia from director James Cameron’s 1997 film is a balsa wood panel, which, in theory, was supposed to be part of the frame above the entrance to the liner’s first-class lounge – torn off in the collision with the iceberg. It measures 2.4 meters each and, to create it, a real piece of wood recovered from the historic shipwreck of 1912 was used as a reference.

Why did he only save Rose?

For years, fans of James Cameron’s film “Titanic” have been discussing on the web why the character of Jack, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, had not climbed onto that piece of wood with Kate Winslet instead of dying tragically in the icy waters of the Atlantic breaking the hearts of millions of viewers around the world.

The scientific explanation

Discussions were so heated that, 25 years after the film’s release, even the director of the blockbuster intervened, explaining that Jack “had to die because Titanic is like Romeo and Juliet: a story of love and sacrifice”. Not only. Cameron also gave a scientific explanation, participating in a study carried out as part of a National Geographic documentary for the 25th anniversary of the film. A hypothermia expert reproduced the raft from the film which was then submerged in freezing water. So sensors were placed on two stunt doubles with the same build as the protagonists to understand if and how they could both survive. The conclusion was that “only one could do it”, declared the director, hoping “not to have to talk about that scene anymore”.

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