A closer look
Director James Cameron actually funded a scientific study decades after the release of Titanic just to prove to the endlessly complaining internet that Jack and Rose could not have both survived on that floating piece of debris. After twenty five years of fans passionately arguing that the door was clearly wide enough for Leonardo DiCaprio, a world renowned filmmaker literally hired stunt doubles and hypothermia experts to conduct a definitive forensic analysis of a fictional tragic romance. The extensive testing revealed that while they both could have initially fit on the wood, their combined body weight would have submerged the raft, leaving them both freezing to death in the icy Atlantic water. It is a spectacular testament to Hollywood ego and sheer spite that a man worth hundreds of millions of dollars orchestrated a literal science experiment just to tell a bunch of nostalgic millennials on Twitter to shut up and accept his artistic choices
