You could buy an entire house with that.
The beloved disaster film Titanic has been a favourite for nearly three decades now, but there was always one question left unanswered – Could Jack have fit on the floating door?
The answer is, well, obviously. Look at the size of it, he would have been grand.
Now that question can definitively be put to bed by the new owner of the actual door from the movie, which has sold for an eye-watering $718,750 (Approximately €666,666… spooky) at the Heritage Auctions’ Treasures from Planet Hollywood event.
According to the auction notes the door was part of the frame above the ship’s first-class lounge entrance, which eventually became Rose’s ticket to safety in the aftermath of the ship sinking.
Controversial door from Titanic has sold for eye-watering amount
The notes also read that the item is “based on the most famous complete piece of debris salvaged from the 1912 tragedy.”
It continues, “This intricately carved stunt prop bears a striking resemblance to the Louis XV-style panel housed in the Maritime Museum in Halifax, Nova Scotia.”
It seems like the question of whether Leo Di Caprio’s character could have survived was also nagging Titanic director James Cameron.
In 2022, he attempted to put an end to the nagging question by conducting a “scientific study to put this whole thing to rest and drive a stake through its heart once and for all.”
Speaking to Postmedia, the director said: “We have since done a thorough forensic analysis with a hypothermia expert who reproduced the raft from the movie.
“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.
“The answer was: there was no way they both could have survived. Only one could survive.”
Cameron concluded in a much less scientific way by saying that essentially Jack needed to die for the plot.
“It’s like Romeo and Juliet,” he said. “It’s a movie about love and sacrifice and mortality. The love is measured by the sacrifice.”
Other items at the auction event included Kate Winslet’s dress from the movie, Indiana Jones’s bullwhip from The Temple of Doom and Jack Nicholson’s axe from The Shining.
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