The iconic piece of wood that Rose (Kate Winslet) and Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) cling to in the final scene of the movie
'Titanic'
was sold at auction for
$718,750
, surpassing other objects for sale such as the whip of
Indiana Jones
in 'The Temple of Doom'.
At the auction organized by
Heritage Auctions in Dallas (Texas) from March 20 to 24, iconic objects such as Jack Nicholson's ax in '
The Shining
' were sold
, but the item that raised the most money was the wooden structure that appears in James Cameron's award-winning film.
It's the iconic piece of wood that Rose (Kate Winslet) and Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) cling to in the final scene of the film.
Since the premiere of 'Titanic' in 1997, this piece of wood generated controversy, since viewers opened the debate about whether Jack and Rose would have both fit on the panel, since he ends up freezing to death because he could not stay on the platform.
According to
The Hollywood Reporter
this Monday, the
chiffon dress
that Winslet wore during the final scene of the film was also sold at auction, in this case for
$125,000
.
The Heritage Auctions auction notice for the piece of wood.
(Heritage Auctions)
70 objects from the film were sold
Local media specified that around
70
props and costume objects could be purchased at the auction and that the initial bid for the piece of balsa wood was $40,000.
The famous final scene of the film.
Other objects sold in this auction were the whip that actor Harrison Ford used in one of the films in which he played Indiana Jones for
$525,000
or the Holy Grail cup used by the same character in 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. '('Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade') for $87,500.
There were more than
1,600 items
from movie history owned by the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain up for grabs, from design sketches and prop swords to Arnold Schwarzenegger's leather jacket in 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day'. Terminator 2: Judgment Day').
They also specified that a large part of them belonged to film hits from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.
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