James Cameron, writer-director-producer of best picture Oscar winner “Titanic”(1997), has again denied a claim perennially put forth by fans: that there was room for Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) to climb aboard the floating door holding Rose (Kate Winslet) and avoid death by hypothermia(低体温) following the shipwreck in the North Atlantic.
詹姆斯·卡梅隆，这位最佳影片奥斯卡获奖作品《泰坦尼克号》（1997年）的编剧、导演和制片人，再次否认了粉丝们长期提出的说法：在北大西洋沉船事件中，杰克（由莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥饰演）本可以爬上承载着露丝（由凯特·温丝莱特饰演）的漂浮门，避免因低体温而死亡。

Stating that “it says on page 147 [of the script] that Jack dies,” Cameron,63, told Vanity Fair, “Obviously it was an artistic choice,[that] the thing was just big enough to hold her, and not bigenough to hold him”. Finding it“silly, really, that we’re having this discussion 20 years later.”the filmmaker point ed out that,”Had he lived, the ending of the film would have been meaningless… So whether it was that, or whether a smokestack fell on him, he was going down.”
卡梅隆，现年63岁，对《名利场》杂志表示：“剧本第147页上写着杰克死了。”他觉得“我们现在还在讨论这个问题，20年后的这种讨论真的很愚蠢。”这位电影制作人指出，“如果他活下来，电影的结局就毫无意义了……所以无论是那样，还是被烟囱砸中，他都得死。”

He added he believed the physics were correct as well.“I was in the water with the piece of wood putting people on it for about two days getting it exactly buoyant(漂浮) enough so that it would support one person with full free-board, meaning that she wasn’t immersed at all in the 28 degree water, so that she could survive the three hours it took until the rescue ship got there… And we very, very finely tuned it to be exactly what you see in the movie because I believed at the time, and still do, that that’s what it would have taken for one person to survive.”
他补充说，他相信物理原理也是正确的。“我在水中和那块木头一起待了大约两天，让人们站在上面，以确保它足够浮力，以便能够完全支撑一个人，意味着她完全没有浸在28度的水中，这样她才能在救援船到达之前的三个小时里存活下来……我们非常精细地调整它，使其完全符合你在电影中看到的样子，因为我当时相信，现在仍然相信，这就是一个人生存所需的条件。”

Winslet and fellow “Titanic” star Kathy Bates suggest otherwise, with Bates at the SAG AFTRA Foundation 2nd Annual Patron of the Artists Awards on Nov.9 introducing Winslet bysaying,”He lets go of her hand and sinks into the depth of the Atlantic. And I personally think that there was plenty of room on there!” Winslet agreed, telling the audience lightheartedly, “He could have fit on it! He could have fit on that door!”She similarly said on“Jimmy Kimme l Live!”in February 2016 that Jack“could have actually fitted on that bit of door”
温丝莱特和《泰坦尼克号》的另一位主演凯西·贝茨则持不同看法，贝茨在11月9日的SAG AFTRA基金会第二届年度艺术家赞助奖颁奖典礼上介绍温丝莱特时说：“他放开了她的手，沉入了大西洋的深处。我个人认为那上面有足够的空间！”温丝莱特也表示同意，轻松地告诉观众：“他本可以挤上去的！他本可以挤在那扇门上！”她同样在2016年2月的《吉米·基梅尔现场》节目中表示，杰克“实际上可以挤在那块门板上”。

As far back as 2012, CamerontoldIGN .com,”It’snotaquestionofroom ,it’s a question of buoyancy… It’s clear that there’s really only enough buoyancy available for one person… She’scompletely out of the water on the raft, and … if he got on with her, they’d both be half in and halfout of the water … and they would have both died of hypothermia.
早在2012年，卡梅隆就告诉IGN.com，“这不是空间的问题，而是浮力的问题……很明显，只有一个人的浮力……她完全脱离水面在筏子上，而且……如果他和她一起上去，他们都会半身浸在水里……他们都会死于低体温症。”

As well, he had told The Daily Beast in January,”You read page 147 of the script and it says, “Jack gets off the board and gives his place to her so that she can survive” It’s that simple”
此外，他还在一月份告诉《每日野兽》，“你读剧本的第147页，上面写着‘杰克离开木板，让位给她，这样她才能生存’。就是这么简单。”

Referring to a 2012 episode of Discovery’s “MythBusters” in which he gamely guest-starred, Cameron told the website, “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 five 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.”
在提到2012年《发现频道》的《流言终结者》节目中，他勇敢地客串出演了一集，卡梅隆告诉该网站：“你是杰克，你在28度的水中，你的大脑开始出现低体温症。《流言终结者》要求你现在脱掉你的救生衣，也脱掉她的，游到这个东西下面，以某种方式把它固定住，这样它就不会在两分钟后被冲走——这意味着你在28度的水中水下系这个东西，这将需要五到十分钟，所以当你浮上来时，你已经死了。所以那行不通。他最好的选择是保持上半身在水面上，希望能在死之前被船只或其他什么东西救起。”

1. What question have the fans raised about the plot of the Titanic?
   A. They think the ending of the story was not good enough.
   B. They question the director’s level of direction.
   C. They oppose the separation of the hero and heroine.
   D. They believe that the hero has a chance of survival as well.
   答案：D

2. According to James Cameron, Jack should have been dead because _.
   A. it comes up to the fans’ expectations
   B. the process the screenplay can be satisfied
   C. the true story that attracts more fans
   D. the core role of the film is the actress not the actor
   答案：B

3. Which of the following people hold(s) a different viewpoint of Jack’s life?
   A. Kathy Bates B. Winslet C. James Cameron D. The fans
   答案：C

4. According to the passage, which of the following is incorrect?
   A. According to the director, the hero is dead on page 147 of the script.
   B. If the hero were still alive, the ending of the movie would be meaningless.
   C. James Cameron attended the Foundation 2nd Annual Patron of the Artists Awards.
   D. Some fans don’t want to believe that the hero is dead in the movie.
   答案：C