10 Insane Movie Theories You Won't Believe
4. Jack From Titanic Never Existed
We hope you'll forgive us indulging in one more of these this person never existed/it was all a dream theories. Because this one is a doozy. The appearance of non-existent characters is canon in films like Fight Club and The Sixth Sense, but applying that logic to films which otherwise have no element of psychosis or the supernatural is much more entertaining. Especially when it's a film like the ludicrously po-faced Oscar bait Titanic, the movie which taught us about how love can transcend language, social boundaries and whether or not you're too greedy to share a piece of balsa wood when you're floating in the Atlantic Ocean trying not to drown or otherwise freeze to death. Beautiful. Or is it...? Well, we didn't describe it as much, but at the centre of Titanic is a love story. And a ruddy great ship crashing into an iceberg, causing the deaths of 1512 people. But also love!
That's certainly what James Cameron would have you believe (or the talentless doppelganger who replaced Cameron after the release of The Abyss in 1992, anyway). In actuality, Titanic isn't romantic in the slightest it's all just the deranged ravings of a mad old woman. The story is recounted by Kate Winslet's Rose in her dotage, as she goes along with some blokes in a submarine who wanna find a ring or something. In fact Leonardo DiCaprio's Jack was an entirely imaginary figure, a friend she used to escape from the grim reality of her abusive fiancee. This mental break did give her the courage to finally break up with the nasty Cal for good, but it also left her a lonely old woman. This explains why there's no physical evidence of Jack being aboard the ship, and Rose's claim that he "exists only in my memories."