We will never know for sure if James Cameron was aware during the filming of ‘Titanic‘Of what I was filming. What I have less doubts is that I knew perfectly the end I had to give to the story. At this point we do not discover anything with the death of poor Jack so that Rose remained afloat, although the doubt will always be there. Could I have survived? It turns out that the answer was in a frame of the movie.
Let’s go first with one of the most famous deaths in the history of cinema. It is because, in essence, Jack could have saved Perfectly, or so we think many. Where one fits, two are always possible, but the character of DiCaprio decided that he left Rose’s entire table while she, far from forcing him to get on, dedicated herself to contemplating him curled up while the protagonist dies agonally and her parts freely freeze.
The controversy was served.
Myth hunters appear
In 2012, the popular program raises the debate with a live test. What do they do? A drill with dolls and a small recreation of the film’s board. Indeed, the table leans, but when they tried the feat with a large -scale replica, they discovered that Rose could have removed the life jacket and place it under the plank to add extra float. The method lifted the table in such a way that most of their bodies (80%) were out of the water while floating.
The conclusion from the program was clear, “Jack’s death was unnecessary.” The video of the Mythbusters went viral and Cameron soon came out in his defense. The director replied that people “were losing their meaning” with the whole issue of the character of the character.
In 2017, Cameron began to be fed up with the question and called him sadist or had little scientific rigor. In the past he had already recognized that the character’s death was simply and plain An artistic licensebut seeing that no one paid attention to him, he opted for try the situation that occurs in Titanic.
“It was in the water with the wood table, placing people on it for approximately two days, and studying exactly if it was buoyant enough to endure the weight of a person with full free space, which means that their body was not immersed in the water so that it could survive the hours that lasted until the ship came,” explained.
So could it have been saved? Two years ago, Cameron, given the insistence of many fans of the film, went out to say something that until then was unknown. In an interview with Half The Toronto Sun He revealed that he had documented a “Scientific study“That shows that two people could not have survived at the floating door at the end of ‘Titanic’.
“We have conducted a scientific study to end all this and nail a stake in the heart once and for all,” Cameron said. “Since then we have performed an exhaustive forensic analysis with an expert in hypothermia that reproduced the filly raft and we are going to make a small special about it.”
Apparently, in this study they took two specialists who had the same body mass of Kate and DiCaprio, they put sensors throughout the body, “and we put them in ice water to see if they could have survived through a variety of methods. The answer was that there was no way that both could have survived. Only one could survive.” In addition, he added that “Jack needed to die. It is so, as in Romeo and Julieta. It is a film about love, sacrifice and mortality.”
The baker
Be an artistic license or not, the truth is that Cameron knew something that went unnoticed by many spectators at the premiere of the film. Among the many historical characters that are strategically placed in the film and representing real lives that embarked on the Titanic, one of them was the answer that fans expected at the end of Jack.
Your real name: Charles Joughina guy who embarked on the Titanic to work as head of the transatlantic pastry and bakery section. Joughin, 33, was resting in his cabin when on April 14 the Titanic hit the iceberg. He was in charge of sending the greatest amount of food to supply life boats, and while doing so, he “gave” the bottle.
This was recorded in The British Government Commission during the research on the sinking of Titanic. “I went down to my room for a drink,” Joughin declaredadding that I had A bottle of whiskey in his cabin that would accompany him the rest of the fateful day. The man then climbed and helped women and children enter the boats, and from time to time, he gave the bottle, which possibly calmed him and made the situation of chaos that was lived more bearable.
And here comes the time (actually appears several times, but this is the clearest) in which reality and fiction come together (Min. 01:22 of the video). The film shows us Joughin, played by actor Liam Tuohy, in the same company as Jack (Dicaprio) and Rose (Winslet) and the Titanic departing in two.
However, unlike the film, it is said that the “baker” remained as the only individual at the end of the Titanic while rising in the air, was suspended for a moment and then sank into the ocean. “I don’t think my head will sink underwater, really. It may have been wet, but up there,” declared in the investigation.
Joughin was, therefore, one of the survivors who found himself floating in the icy waters of the North Atlantic (like Jack) and lived to tell it. As? The researchers explained that it is estimated that LAt water temperature that night was -2 ° C. In addition, we must have the impact of immersion in such frozen waters, which is why the majority died in just a few minutes.
We know that a person dies of hypothermia in the half -hour space, as central body temperature is reduced to an extremely low level (Below 25 ° C), at which time the heart begins to feel slow, lacking beats, which makes blood flow slowly or stops completely, finally causing death.
But the man did not stop moving, and for hours he swam and swam until he found floating remains of a boat that had overturned. Together with a dozen people he barely remained in a scene that he remembered a lot at the end of the film. Finally, Joughin reached a second boat with some extra space. Had survived more than two hours.
It must be remembered that when Joughin was already in the water, almost half of the whiskey bottle had been mimicked. The commission in charge of the investigation put the bottle on the table and that more than possible drunkenness that could have saved his life.
THE THEORY: The alcohol increases the rate of a person who succumbs to hypothermiaand it happens because it makes the blood vessels dilate, which in turn allows hot blood to flow from the vital organs where heat is most needed. Therefore, this can cause a person’s body temperature to descend more quickly, thus accelerating the possible death.
However, It occurs in cold air. In frost waters, according to the commission, the impact of a sudden immersion such as Joughin’s can cause blood vessels to contract strongly, overcoming the effect of alcohol dilation and maintaining body heat near vital organs, possibly prolonging life. In addition, they added, as alcohol is a depressive one that delays the activity of the central nervous system, Whiskey may have prevented your body from reacting badly to physical stress of sudden immersion in “ice.”
After recovering completely in New York and traveling back to England, Joughin participated in the official government investigations on sinking. Then he began working in the British transatlantic Olympic until the outbreak of World War I only two years later.
Joughin brought his talent as a baker to the naval fleet, serving on board the SS Congress. Interestingly, that ship also suffered a disaster when a fire on board consumed it quickly and sank kilometers from the coast. This time, however, Joughin was safe in a lifeboat since the beginning of the evacuation (and there were no victims).
Having survived numerous shipwrecks, two world wars and enough drama to make several films, Charles Joughin finally died in December 1956. However, he will always be remembered as the “Baker of the Titanic”, the real character that showed that Jack could be saved even without Rose’s help.
I just needed a damn whiskey bottle.
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