It has been 20 years since Titanic came out and stole nearly everyone’s heart.

While we all know someone (it might even be you) who watched it over and over and over again, shedding tears every single time Rose pretty much pushes Jack off the door he would supposedly been able to have fit on, that time of our life came and went like another blip in the universe.

But it’s back!

To celebrate the movie’s 20th anniversary, not only is director James Cameron the topic of another National Geographic special focused on the movie, titled Titanic: 20th Anniversary, (there was the 2012 NatGeo special titled Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron), but he also sat down for an interview with Vanity Fair.

First, let’s a take a look at the heart-wrenching moment:

Okay, okay, enough tears for one day.

Let’s leave it to Cameron to once and for all explain why Jack couldn’t fit on the door:

One question that people ask me a lot about Titanic, and I’m assuming they ask you this a lot, is at the end, why doesn’t Rose make room for Jack on the door?

And the answer is very simple because it says on page 147 [of the script] that Jack dies. Very simple. . . . Obviously it was an artistic choice, the thing was just big enough to hold her, and not big enough to hold him . . . I think it’s all kind of silly, really, that we’re having this discussion 20 years later. But it does show that the film was effective in making Jack so endearing to the audience that it hurts them to see him die. Had he lived, the ending of the film would have been meaningless. . . . The film is about death and separation; he had to die. So whether it was that, or whether a smoke stack fell on him, he was going down. It’s called art, things happen for artistic reasons, not for physics reasons.

Boring.

But, as Titanic returns to USA theatres December 1, remastered in Dolby Vision, we suspect a new crop of fan theories is just a few weeks away.

Like the one that suggests Jack is, in fact, not real.

Yup.

[source:vanityfair]