I watched "The Deep" last night.
I hadn't seen it since I was I don't know 12 or so. Still a great movie in a seventies kind of way. It got me thinking about how films have changed. The way film was done back in the day was largely practical effects and stunts.
There is a fight scene in the deep between two muscle guys in a small room. One knocks the other down and grabs a smallish outboard motor that is idling in a tub of water and shoves it at the guys face. the guy on the ground catches it and tries to disable it by knocking the blade into various things, while the guy holding is is trying to ram it down his throat. The guy on the receiving end is the guy in Raiders of the Lost Ark that get's killed by the German bomber propeller by the way.
If this film had been made today this scene would probably been shot very differently in not much more safely. There would have been some green screen action and a lot of edits. A lot of closeups and camera tricks. The propeller probably would have been made of foam or something more harmless.
The way it is shot it's as if you're standing in a corner of this shack watching as a guy whips out an outboard motor shoves it in a guys face and they struggle with it till the blade get's so damaged from chewing up things that it breaks. It seems to be a wildly unsafe stunt. The actors involved actually seem scared. Maybe that's just acting. The audio is interestly sparse. There's no music, there seems to be no foley work at all. It's like in a real fight punches don't have that big movie sound and mostly you just hear a lot of grunting.
There's another scene at the beginning when Jacqueline Bisset is diving in only a see through white tank top and black bikini bottoms.
She finds something interesting and tries to reach it with her wood baton. Something grabs her baton and pulls her in slamming her against the shipwreck. This cord for the baton is wrapped around her wrist.
She get's pulled so fast into the ship that I'm surprised she didn't dislocate her shoulder. She get's knocked into the boat like that maybe five times. I hope they did it in one take. I could have been a stunt woman but for the whole virutally topless thing.
I would love to see this movie remade. Same script just re-shot. I wonder what they'd do? At least the eel would look better.
I hadn't seen it since I was I don't know 12 or so. Still a great movie in a seventies kind of way. It got me thinking about how films have changed. The way film was done back in the day was largely practical effects and stunts.
There is a fight scene in the deep between two muscle guys in a small room. One knocks the other down and grabs a smallish outboard motor that is idling in a tub of water and shoves it at the guys face. the guy on the ground catches it and tries to disable it by knocking the blade into various things, while the guy holding is is trying to ram it down his throat. The guy on the receiving end is the guy in Raiders of the Lost Ark that get's killed by the German bomber propeller by the way.
If this film had been made today this scene would probably been shot very differently in not much more safely. There would have been some green screen action and a lot of edits. A lot of closeups and camera tricks. The propeller probably would have been made of foam or something more harmless.
The way it is shot it's as if you're standing in a corner of this shack watching as a guy whips out an outboard motor shoves it in a guys face and they struggle with it till the blade get's so damaged from chewing up things that it breaks. It seems to be a wildly unsafe stunt. The actors involved actually seem scared. Maybe that's just acting. The audio is interestly sparse. There's no music, there seems to be no foley work at all. It's like in a real fight punches don't have that big movie sound and mostly you just hear a lot of grunting.
There's another scene at the beginning when Jacqueline Bisset is diving in only a see through white tank top and black bikini bottoms.
She finds something interesting and tries to reach it with her wood baton. Something grabs her baton and pulls her in slamming her against the shipwreck. This cord for the baton is wrapped around her wrist.
She get's pulled so fast into the ship that I'm surprised she didn't dislocate her shoulder. She get's knocked into the boat like that maybe five times. I hope they did it in one take. I could have been a stunt woman but for the whole virutally topless thing.
I would love to see this movie remade. Same script just re-shot. I wonder what they'd do? At least the eel would look better.