Titanic: Jack Was A Figment Of Rose's Imagination - Theory Explained
Titanic wowed the world and secured its spot within pop culture when it premiered as a box office smash in 1997, but an interesting fan theory that Jack's character is actually just a figment of Rose's imagination changes everything. Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) have since become an iconic, yet tragic, film power couple. The young adults' whirlwind romance has captivated countless audiences over the years, but, interestingly, there's one hypothesis out that makes their love story very different from how it appears on the surface.
Written, directed, and co-produced by James Cameron, and clocking in at a whopping 195 minutes, the historical epic is quite the creative feat. Titanic chronicles its main characters' aforementioned romance with the real-life tragedy of the doomed ship in 1912. Jack is a Wisconsin-hailing artist with a passion for travel and living different experiences the world can offer. He has very little money to his name, winning the ticket that gets him aboard the world-famous, opulent ship in a poker game. Rose, on the other hand, comes from money and the kind of high social status that can often be affixed with it. Cameron takes the age-old story concept of two lovers from starkly different worlds while infusing it with history, harrowing real-life disaster, and drama.
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Titanic famously ends with Jack freezing in the ocean water after the ship's sinking, which audiences still lament and rail against to this day. But in 2017, the internet was buzzing about a proposed fan theory that his character never actually existed in the first place. According to the Reddit fan theory, he's simply a figment of
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