Due to the enormous controversy that revolved around this wooden board over the years, it was auctioned at a much higher price than the rest of the objects that had been sold from the film.
26 years after the premiere of the legendary film “Titanic”, They auctioned one of the items that generated the most controversy and discussions among fans: the Wooden door in which he kept floating Rose, the protagonist, played by Kate Winslet. The buyer paid $718,750 for this itemwhich became the most expensive piece of the movie.
The wooden board, as specified by the house Heritage Auctionsit was not a door but “part of the door frame just above the entrance to the ship’s first class lounge“.
Due to the long discussions surrounding the death of Jack, interpreted by Leonardo DiCapio, who at the end of the film dies of hypothermia due to not being able to get on that board, reached a much higher value than another of the objects that had already been sold after filming was over. The controversy surrounding the famous table arose after thousands of fans pointed out that both Rose and Jack could have entered the door and, in this way, both of them would have survived.
Auctions: what were the most valuable movie items
Door Titanic It is not the first famous Hollywood object for which fortunes have been paid. It is a long tradition that studios, once filming is completed, auction off some of the items that remain in the memory of fans, who are often willing to pay thousands of dollars to keep an original piece from their favorite films.
He Harrison Ford whip of Indiana Jones and the Lost Templewhich set a record as the most valuable item in the franchise, reached $525,000, well below the door price Titanic.
Also sold was a set of three Sankara stones of the film that reached the $100,000just like him Holy Grail “a carpenter’s cup” The Last Crusade ($87,500).
The pink bowling ball Kingpin’s Bill Murray sold for $350,000the ax Jack Nicholson of The glow used to break through the bathroom door reached $125,000.
Other of the most valuable objects in the world of the movies were the black symbiote suit of Tobey Maguire from Spider-Man 3 (also $125,000) and the can of shaving foam that Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight) uses to smuggle dinosaur embryos into jurassic park ($250,000).
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