Deep blue sea

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Movie
German title Deep blue sea
Original title Deep blue sea
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1999
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Renny Harlin
script Duncan Kennedy ,
Donna Powers ,
Wayne Powers
production Akiva Goldsman ,
Alan Riche ,
Don MacBain ,
Tony Ludwig
music Trevor Rabin
camera Stephen F. Windon
cut Derek Brechin ,
Dallas Puett ,
Frank J. Urioste
occupation
synchronization
chronology

Successor  →
Deep Blue Sea 2

Deep Blue Sea ( 1999 ) is an American horror thriller in which a group of scientists is trapped in a research station in the middle of the ocean and hunted by genetically modified mako sharks . The main characters are Thomas Jane , Saffron Burrows and rapper LL Cool J . The film opened in German cinemas on October 28, 1999.

action

The remote underwater research station Aquatica , once used as a submarine port during the war , is the scene of a hopeful experiment: In the brain cells of three captive mako sharks, Dr. Susan McAlester and her team to find a cure for Alzheimer's and other degenerative neurological diseases. Without the knowledge of the other team members, McAlester and the genetic engineer Jim Whitlock modified the animals' DNA to enlarge their brains and thus the amount of cells they can extract.

But the three animals have also become more intelligent through this manipulation and start an attack on the small weekend crew when a storm breaks over the island. Whitlock is critically injured in the presence of project financier Russell Franklin and is said to be flown out in a helicopter. However, one of the sharks snatches the lifeline and pulls the aircraft with it until it collides with the overwater part of the facility and causes a massive explosion .

To escape from the burning and half-flooded facility, the survivors fight their way up under the leadership of McAlester and the adventurer and shark handler Carter Blake. Franklin is brutally mangled by a shark during a moral sermon, and two other members also die. While they can kill two of the sharks, they are further decimated and still have no idea what the animals are targeting.

Only McAlester, Blake and on-board chef “Preach” come to the surface. Blake now recognizes the intention of the sharks: Due to the flooding, the entire enclosure has sunk and the last female is about to be able to leave the less stable fencing that was previously above the water . With the shark too far to shoot, McAlester cuts his hand and jumps into the water to lure him. When the shark swims towards her, she tries to climb ashore again. The rusted ladder tore from the wall of the half-sunken research station, and the doctor falls back into the water. The shark “enjoys” this moment just before tearing it to pieces. Blake, who jumped in the water to save McAlester, is now also under attack. With a learned trick he escapes the attack and now holds on to the dorsal fin of the shark, which swims straight towards the fence towards freedom. Preach manages to harpoon the shark with a charge of explosives . While Blake got stuck on the fence when the shark broke out, it tore the shark to pieces a few meters further in the subsequent explosion.

Shortly thereafter, Blake and Preach, the only survivors, are spotted by the crew returning from the weekend.

synchronization

actor German speaker role
Thomas Jane Thomas Nero Wolff Carter Blake
Saffron Burrows Franziska Pigulla Dr. Susan McAlester
LL Cool J Dietmar miracle Sherman "Preach" Dudley
Samuel L. Jackson Jürgen Heinrich Russell Franklin
Michael Rapaport Stefan Fredrich Tom Scoggins
Jacqueline McKenzie Maud Ackermann Janice Higgins
Stellan Skarsgård Reinhard Kuhnert Dr. Jim Whitlock
Aida Turturro Almut Zydra Brenda Kerns
Mary Kay Bergman Santiago Ziesmer parrot

Background information

  • The seaplane was already used in Six Days, Seven Nights (1998), the orange mini-submarine in Sphere - The Force from Space (1998, also with Samuel L. Jackson ).
  • The lavish water set on which the film was shot was built by James Cameron for Titanic in 1996.
  • The rap song Deepest Bluest (Shark's Fin) , which runs during the credits, comes from actor LL Cool J.
  • In 2018 a sequel called Deep Blue Sea 2 was released , but the content does not tie in with the predecessor.
  • Deep Blue Sea 3 was released at the end of July 2020 .

Film bug

  • In fact, the tallest shark, Gen 2, is not 15 meters long (as Carter said at the end of the film), but at most seven to eight meters (the same size as the great white shark in Steven Spielberg's film). This can be seen from the fact that Carter himself would have to be about four meters tall so that the proportions at the end of the film when he “rides” the shark are correct. This mistake is already contained in the English language version, where Carter gives the size of the shark as "45 feet".
  • Mako sharks are mentioned in the film, but in reality they are rather uniformly silver. The color of the sharks seen in the film is more like great white sharks.
  • The tiger shark robot that can be seen at the beginning of the film is anatomically completely wrong. Tiger sharks have very flat, rounded snouts. Only the “normal” shark robot model of the film (Mako) was given a different skin.
  • The final scene in which the last shark is blown up by the explosives on a harpoon was the subject of a series of Mythbusters . On the one hand, it was found that it is not possible to get the equivalent of 2.5 sticks of dynamite (approx. 700 g black powder) from ten flare cartridges. In order to achieve this explosive power with black powder, around 400 signal cartridges would have had to be recycled. Furthermore, the amount of black powder that fits into the container used in the film would have injured the shark as easily as possible and would not have created the column of water shown in the film. Such a large column of water required approx. 200 kg of black powder in tests and would have killed Blake with its pressure wave at the distance from the shark in which he was in the film. It was also found that it is not possible to ignite the black powder with the method used in the film, because the electrical resistance of the salt water is too great even over short distances.

Allusions

  • The license plate stuck between the teeth of the very first shark is the same one found in the mouth of the tiger shark in Great White Shark . The deaths of the three mako sharks each correspond to the showdowns of the first three Jaws films (gas explosion, electric shock and detonation of an explosive device).
  • Director Renny Harlin has incorporated various references to his home country Finland : including a small flag in Janice's quarters, Finnish vodka and a press article about Mika Häkkinen as world champion. As the tall, long-haired blonde who leaves the station for the weekend with the other crew members, he can also be seen in a guest appearance.
  • The scene in which Carter, hanging upside down from a ladder, tries to save the life of his colleague Janice and fails, is a reference to the opening scene of the film Cliffhanger - Only the Strong Survive (also directed by Renny Harlin).

criticism

"Simple mixture of horror and action film, in which the characters are reduced to vicarious agents of the simple dramaturgy, which is at least offset by an effective staging."

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deep Blue Sea. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on January 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Season 2008, episode Phone Book Friction
  3. ↑ Deep Blue Sea - Trivia: "Director Trademark". Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Deep Blue Sea. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used