This controversial "Titanic" prop has spawned decades of debate — and it just sold for $700,000
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The ending of "Titanic" has spawned debate for decades – could Jack have fit on that floating door with Rose, or was he doomed to die in the icy waters of the Atlantic? Now, the controversial prop has a new home: It sold last week at auction for $718,750.
The 1997 blockbuster directed by James Cameron follows a fictional man and woman who were on the Titanic when it hit an iceberg and sank in 1912. In the end, Rose DeWitt Bukater, played by Kate Winslet, finds a door from the ship floating in the icy water and uses it as a life raft. Her lover, Jack Dawson, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, hangs onto the door but slips into the freezing ocean and dies.
Viewers have long debated if Jack could've been saved had he gotten on the floating door. But according to Heritage Auctions, which sold the prop, it's not even a door.
