A door from the Titanic was sold at auction for a record amount (8 photos + 1 video)
The door that saved Rose and doomed Jack in James Cameron's Titanic went under the hammer for $718,750 at Heritage Auctions' Treasures from Planet Hollywood auction. It brought in a record amount, beating such artifacts as Indiana Jones's whip from Temple of Doom and Jack Nicholson's ax from The Shining. 
Everyone is accustomed to calling this fateful piece of wood a door, but its official description sounds like “a fragment of the door frame above the entrance to the first class lounge of a ship.” 
Kate Winslet's chiffon dress, which she wore in the film's finale, was also sold. The buyer paid $125,000 for it.
Fans of the film have been discussing since its release whether Jack and Rose could fit together on this wooden panel, which would save Jack.
Last year, when the 25th anniversary of the film was celebrated, director James Cameron, with the help of stuntmen, conducted an experiment that repeated all the conditions of that very final scene. It turned out that the door could not support the weight of both heroes, despite its sufficient length and width.
If Jack had a chance to survive, it was very small. “Theoretically he could survive, but in fact he wouldn't do anything that would endanger Rose. This behavior is one hundred percent in his character,” says the director.
Other iconic Hollywood props were also sold during the auction:
— the whip of Harrison Ford’s hero from the film “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” ($525 thousand). Also going under the hammer was a set of three Sankara stones from the same film ($100 thousand) and the Holy Grail from “The Last Crusade” ($87.5 thousand);
— a bowling ball with a rose inside, which belonged to Bill Murray’s character from the movie “Ringleader” ($350 thousand);
— an ax from “The Shining”, which was wielded by Jack Nicholson’s hero ($125 thousand);
— Black suit of the symbiote from the third “Spider-Man”, played by Tobey Maguire ($125 thousand);
— A clever cryo-jar disguised as a bottle of Barbasol shaving cream, which is used to smuggle dinosaur embryos in Jurassic Park ($250 thousand).
