Underwater wonders

Webster 2022-03-22 09:01:35

Rare deep-sea sci-fi, scientificity is not left behind, pay tribute.

Aside from the actions of the SEALs, which were poorly designed, and the positive ending of "Love and Peace," everything was fine.

I personally hope that Cameron also designed another ending at that time - the male protagonist finally removed the nuclear bomb, was taken into the sea palace, watched the tsunami destroy the earth, was abandoned by the palace and died alone, and then the camera turned to close-up to the oil rig In the control room, a group of desperate people called the male protagonist and sent a signal to the outside. The camera slowly moved back from the close-up to the distant view, the sound gradually disappeared, the cabin was plunged into the huge darkness, and the film ended.

Cameron is a deep diving expert. He made his own submersible and went to the deep sea of ​​tens of thousands of meters by himself. Perhaps the barren places fascinated him. admire.

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Extended Reading
  • Randall 2022-03-23 09:01:40

    To be able to make such a movie 20 years ago, it can only be said that Zhan Shen is more than one era ahead of his peers. The three-hour-long movie combines science fiction, suspense, thriller, love and action in one furnace. An ordinary submarine accident can finally lead to thinking about anti-war issues, and there is no cold scene in the middle. The shadow of this film can be found in Cameron's subsequent "Titanic" and "Avatar". And "Peerless Catastrophe" just moved the stage of the film to space

  • Alysha 2022-03-24 09:01:37

    【Screening at Shanghai Film Festival】Special extended version of the film. A large section of the closed environment and deep diving scenes make the audience feel as if they are in the scene and feel depressed. The stunning effect was accomplished by torturing the actors and filming them underwater. The special effects seemed amazing at that time. The old-fashioned clichés of reviving love and the excessive preaching at the end have seriously weakened the sense of urgency created before, and detracted from the overall score. The last step away from the masterpiece

The Abyss quotes

  • Lt. Coffey: It went straight for the warhead, and they think it's cute.

  • Virgil: [looking at the picture Lindsey took of the alien craft] That's a great shot, Linds.

    Catfish De Vries: You drop your dive light?

    Lindsey Brigman: No, come on you guys, come on. Now that's the small one, that's the small one here. You can kinda see how it's zigging around.

    Alan "Hippy" Carnes: Yeah, whatever it is.

    Lindsey Brigman: I'm *telling* you what it is, you're just not *hearing* me.

    Catfish De Vries: Now Lindsey, you...

    Lindsey Brigman: There is something down there! Something not us.

    Catfish De Vries: You could be more specific.

    Virgil: [humorously] Somethin' that "zigs".

    Lindsey Brigman: Not *us*. Not *human*, get it? Something non-human, but intelligent... A non-terrestrial intelligence.

    Alan "Hippy" Carnes: A non-terrestrial intelligence. NTIs. Oh man, that's better than UFOs. Oh, but that works too, huh? "Underwater Flying Objects".