Was Jack’s death in Titanic needless

Was Jack’s death in Titanic needless

Two decades may have passed, but many fans still wonder if Rose and Jack could have survived together on the makeshift "raft" after the sinking of the Titanic. That makes Jack Dawson one of the fictional characters with one of the most active afterlives.

The motion film Titanic may be one of the films with most nominations to the Oscars (14, tying with All About Eve), and one of the movies awarded most Oscars (11 awards, tying with The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), but that hasn't stopped the debate that keeps surfacing: Did our hero Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) really have to die?

When James Cameron was asked for an official response to the long-debated claim that Jack and Rose could have both survived the Titanic tragedy if Rose had just moved over a bit, James Cameron said: "It's not a question of room; it's a question of buoyancy."

As a response, the hosts of the TV show "MythBusters" - Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman - have explored this possibility by doing what they do best: testing the theory. The MythBusters professionals tackled the "Room For Two" meme at Cameron's decision.

The MythBusters tried the theory out on the raft and they found that Cameron was right about the raft sinking with both of them on it, but there is a way around it. They concluded that using Rose's life jacket, they could have easily added enough buoyancy to the plank to make it suitable for two survivors.

Cameron rebutted the science put forward by MythBusters to keep both Jack and Rose out of the frigid waters.

"OK, so let's really play that out," Cameron said. "You're Jack, you're in water that's 28 degrees, your brain is starting to get hypothermia. ‘MythBusters' asks you to now go take off your life vest, take hers off, swim underneath this thing, attach it in some way that it won't just wash out two minutes later - which means you're underwater tying this thing on in 28-degree water, and that's going to take you 5-to-10 minutes, so by the time you come back up you're already dead. So that wouldn't work. His best choice was to keep his upper body out of the water and hope to get pulled out by a boat or something before he died."

And that's what he did, but unfortunately, rescue came too late. Rose, who was on the raft, woke deeply chilled to find Jack frozen on the edge of the raft, and had to pry him off.

Cameron added one more thing about the MythBusters' story: "They're fun guys and I loved doing that show with them, but they're full of s..."

At the end of the show, James Cameron also explained that Jack's fate was sealed from the start and nothing could have changed it.

"I think you guys are missing the point here," Cameron told MythBusters back in 2012 when they performed the experiment. "The script says Jack dies, he has to die. Maybe we screwed up, The board should have been a tiny bit smaller. But the dude's going down."

Ellen DeGeneres Best Lines

Ellen DeGeneres Best Lines

Everyone knows Ellen DeGeneres is a funny one. She is a talented host and some of her lines are sure to make you laugh.

Here are some of her best punch lines:

"Just go up to somebody on street and say ‘You're it!' and just run away."

"Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, don't put it off."

"Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system."

"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is."

"I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon."

"Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days."

"I feel like I have a hangover, without all the happy memories and mystery bruises."

"You are never too old to play. You are only too old for low-rise jeans."

"Friends will write me letters. They run out of room on the front of the letter. They write ‘over‘ on the bottom of the letter. Like I'm that much of a moron. Like I need that there. Because if it wasn't there, I'd get to the bottom of the page: ‘And so Kathy and I went shopping and we-‘ That's the craziest thing! I don't know why she would just end it that way."

"In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!‘ And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better."

"People always ask me, ‘Were you funny as a child?‘ Well no, I was an accountant."

"If someone says you're weird, say Thank You."

"I think people talk too much anyway. Sometimes people are talking to me and in my mind I'm just like ‘shut up, shut up, shut up... blah blah blah blaaaah."

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."

"The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble."

"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her."

"Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others."

"Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. Then, by all means, follow that path."

"I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that."

"When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I am past the hard part and there is a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I am concerned."

"Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it's worse when they are wearing dark glasses and have streams in their antlers because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot."

The spectacular comedian, animal lover and a talk show host is also on facebook and ellentube.com

Top Festivals of the Year

Top Festivals of the Year

The Cheesemonger Invitational

Cheese lovers, rejoice! This event was made for you and you only, because a normal person couldn't handle that much cheese. The event - which takes place in California each year - takes the best cheesemongers in the country an pits them against each other in a brutal cheese battle extravaganza. But the event is not all about dueling. You can try all the delicious flavors as you walk through cheese paradise for the evening and treat yourself to fondue, raclette, and grilled cheese sandwiches along the way.

Sundance Film Festival

This annual film festival takes place in a small town in Utah and showcases the premieres of masterfully done films. You can spot celebrities and go skiing on the trip. In between films, the festival allows you to participate in seminars, attend parties, and see some big name concerts for ten days of the perfect cinema experience.

Super Bowl

Much more than just another football game in California, the Super Bowl is the match that brings an entire nation together for a few hours of entertainment, trash talk and creative commercials.

Mardi Gras

One of the most unique events in the United States, Mardi Gras, takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana. You can celebrate this festival by throwing on some beads, dressing up in costume, and watching the Parade roll on through the famous French Quarter of New Orleans.

Ultra Music Festival

With over 100,000 people attending the event in Miami each year, Ultra Music Festival is one of the most exhilarating electronic dance festivals in the country. The festival has been headlined by artists the likes of Avicii, David Guetta, Nero and Tiesto, among others.

Lantern Fest

This time it is the USA and not Thailand the country that get to illuminate the sky with thousands of glowing lanterns that take off into the air. There's nothing like the feeling when everybody lights their lantern and the first ones start to take off.

Savor

Savor is an American craft beer and food experience that takes place at the National Building Museum in downtown Washington. Featuring craft beer and artisan cheese from across the country, this event is a must for foodies in the USA.

EDC Las Vegas

Amassing two decades of trajectory, the Electric Daisy Carnival attracts more than 300,000 people each year. Attendees are expected to show up in EDC attire to look at the giant metal art, 3D superstructures, and glow in the dark moments. As you would expect from an event set in Las Vegas, there are rides, food and the best EDM DJ's from around the world.

Utah Shakespeare Festival

With the backdrop of the beautiful scenery of Southern Utah, this event brings Shakespeare words to life for more than 100,000 people who flock to Cedar City to watch the plays. The festival has received both a Tony Award and an Emmy. There are plenty of opportunities to catch the festival as it runs for a large part of the summer and into the fall. It is worth it not only because of the festival but also because in Cedar City you can also see some of the country's most beautiful National Parks with Bryce Canyon and Zion National Park a quick car ride away.

Cameron says the Oscars have a bias

Cameron says the Oscars have a bias

When you watch the Oscars, you don't just expect to see celebrities looking fabulous, but you also expect some narrative to remember the ceremony by. 2009's ceremony offered more than you could expect:

James Cameron's visual effects masterpiece Avatar was head-to-head with the low-budget, war drama The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow. The fact that Cameron happened to be Bigelow's ex-husband added to this dramatic narrative: both films and filmmakers antagonized one another in a battle for an Academy Award. Cameron may have won the divorce but Bigelow won the Oscar. But it didn't end there, Bigelow made history that night as the first and only woman ever to win the Best Director prize.

Although Cameron said he would be ok losing Best Director to Bigelow but that Avatar deserved the Best Picture prize. Despite his opinion, the film lost and Cameron had to settle for Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, and Best Art Direction Oscars apart from $2.7 billion worldwide.

Ever since, Cameron has been busy writing and developing four more Avatar sequels. Recently, he offered his thoughts on why Academy fails to recognize big blockbuster movies:

"There have been a few times throughout the history of the Oscars where a wildly popular film was well-receive, but your typical year the Academy takes the position of: ‘It is our patrician duty to tell the great unwashed what they should be watching,‘ and they don't reward the films that people really want to see - that they're paying money to go see - and they're telling them, ‘Yeah, you think you like that, but what you should be liking is this.‘ As long as the Academy sees that as their duty, don't expect high ratings. Expect a good show, and do that duty, but don't whine about your ratings. Titanic was a very unusual case, I'm not saying it's a better film than films before or after, or it was necessarily a better year in general, but it was a film that made a boatload of money and got a lot of nominations. The next time we see that, we'll see rating go up. It's that simple."

Oscar producers and ABC have been trying to drive more viewers to the show. It began when The Dark Knight missed out on a Best Picture nomination thanks to Harvey Weinstein strong-arming The Reader in the last minute. In 2009, when Avatar was nominated, the Academy expanded its Best Picture category to up to 10 nominees, with the goal of mixing arthouse with blockbuster fare. It worked the first year, but since then the category has only included a couple of commercial hits here and there.

Cameron takes it further and accuses the Academy of having a bias against technologically inclined films:

"There's definitely a bias. The Academy still has a majority of its members that are actors. Look, I love actors, but that's how they think - they're generally skeptical of technology. So when they see a film that's too dependent on visual effects, they say, oh, that's not an acting movie. Well Titanic was a visual effects movie in sheep's clothing, you know? Yes, it had visual effects, but it was about the people and about the story. The visual effects were eclipsed by that. But if you do a movie like Avatar, the effects are right out front, and even though I felt the acting was just as good, and the story we were telling was just as good, they're not going to reward it the same way. That's just a fact of life. I had made a decision way before Titanic that I wasn't going to serve two masters: I was going to put my visual cinema first. even though I've spent an awful lot of time on scripts and on performance, I still love doing big, visual cinema. I doubt I'll even get nominated again, but if I did, I'm probably going to lose to a Woody Allen movie. That's the nature of it. So you don't try to serve two masters."