In 1983, a 23-year-old American girl lived for 41 days on a damaged ship hit by a hurricane, and was finally found safe by a passing Japanese research ship to the island of Hawaii. At this time, she was already in the Pacific Ocean. Drift more than 2400 kilometers.
The girl's name is Tammy Olmed. After she came back, she wrote her story into a memoir - "Red Sky".
This story was adapted into a movie - "The Stormy Waves", a true story of survival at sea. The movie combines the extreme beauty of the sea with cruelty and ruthlessness, and was praised by foreign media as the most beautiful disaster film.
Although it is a disaster film, it is different from blockbusters such as "The Day After Tomorrow" and "2012". "Rapid Waves" does not have special effects shots one after another, but it can still impress with the most realistic disaster documentary and the most beautiful scenery you
The director of the film is Batassa Komaku from Iceland, and if you remember the suffocating icebergs in "Breakfast", the real to brutal hurricanes and seas in "The Storm" will also make You are shocked.
Like real events, in 1983, Tammy and his fiancé Richard were about to set sail from Tahiti with blue sea and blue sky across the Pacific Ocean to San Diego, but they were hit by a hurricane on the way.
The Pacific hurricane season that year lasted from September to November, and they encountered Category 4 Hurricane Raymond, one of the largest hurricanes ever recorded on the West Coast of the United States and one of the top ten real disasters that shook the United States. First, the impact of this event ranks first in the world's shipwreck survival events.
If there is anything more difficult and terrifying than surviving on a desert island, it must be surviving on the boundless sea.
After being hit by the hurricane, Tami's boat was damaged, food supply was seriously insufficient, multiple injuries, and lack of medical supplies... In this difficult situation, Tami lived at sea for 41 days, to be precise, to survive .
The real-life Tammy serves as a consultant for the film, and the film has many details about Tammy's survival at sea, such as his face dry to the cracks in the sea, his clothes full of stains, the pain of dealing with wounds, and repairing ships. Difficulty.... Every detail is extremely real, revealing the cruelty of the disaster.
In order to restore the real events, the two actors also made a lot of efforts. (The picture above is an actor, and the picture below is a real person.)
In order to better restore the role, Sam Claflin, who plays the male lead, spent 10 days living on a boat, going out to sea every day and learning how to drive.
There is also Shailene Woodley, who plays Tammy. She not only finished reading Tammy's memoirs right away, but also often exchanges emails and letters with Tammy. Shailene said:
Meeting her face-to-face made me realize that I wasn't playing a character, I was portraying the facts. For me, that's the most important thing - so no matter how hard and difficult our shoot was, I keep remembering it, constantly reminding myself of the 41 days Tami had been through, and it made us work even harder , to protect the entire story from being faithfully brought to the screen.
Her performance was recognized by Tammy herself. In a scene where she was repairing a sailboat with injuries, Tammy said: "I am familiar with this scene. If someone filmed me at that time, I would be like that."
Nature is magical, and so is the ocean. On the one hand it is full of uncertainty and disaster, on the other hand, it is so beautiful.
The seascape in the movie is very beautiful. If there is anything that can make people forget the cruelty of the disaster for a short time, it is the sunset and sky on the sea at dusk. No wonder some people call this movie "the most beautiful disaster movie".
The movie was shot in Tahiti. You know, Tahiti is known as "the fairy island closest to heaven, a gift from God."
Photographer Robert Richardson - the photographer who won the Oscar for Best Cinematography three times for "Hugo", "The Aviator" and "Assassination of Kennedy", also used the lens to capture the most beautiful Tahiti and the most beautiful sea view.
For example, before the hurricane hit, Tammy and Richard were just an ordinary couple. At dusk, they were lying on the boat. In the distance, the sky was red and yellow. The sun was slowly setting below the sea level. At the moment of leisure.
For example, when Tammy and Richard's lone boat is drifting on the endless ocean, it is really beautiful, gentle and cruel.
If you like disaster documentary movies, if you like the sea, and if you are willing to calm down and enjoy such a movie that coexists with romance, beauty and cruelty, then "The Storm" is a good choice for you to watch.
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