The Deep (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Deep |
| Original title | The Deep |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | shot 1966–1969, no premiere |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Orson Welles |
| script | Orson Welles, Charles Williams |
| production | Orson Welles |
| music | François Rabbath |
| camera |
Willy Kurant , Ivica Rajkovic |
| cut | Gerd Berner, Nina Palinkas |
| occupation | |
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The Deep is an unfinished film that Orson Welles made from 1966 to 1969. The plot is based on the novel Dead Calm by the writer and screenwriter Charles Williams . Welles produced the film and also wrote the script; he also plays in the film alongside Jeanne Moreau and Laurence Harvey .
background
Welles, who shot the film on the Yugoslav Mediterranean coast between 1966 and 1969, left the film unfinished; several key scenes (like the spectacular explosion at the end) were never realized, parts of the soundtrack were not recorded. The original film negatives are considered lost; There are only two working copies of the film , one in black and white and the other as color film (as the final film was intended to be).
The film Dead Calm by Phillip Noyce from 1989 is also based on the template Deadly doldrums of Charles Williams from 1963. In this - this time finished - version played Nicole Kidman , Sam Neill and Billy Zane the leading roles.
action
A young couple is on their honeymoon on a yacht off the Dalmatian coast. When there is no wind, they meet another ship, from which a man on a rubber dinghy is translating to them. After he reports that everyone on his ship is dead, the young husband crosses over to the other ship. Too late he notices that the stranger has captured his wife and drives away with her.
production
With The Deep, Welles intended to make a less personal than more commercial film; he said about the project:
My hope is that it won't be an art-house movie. I hope it's the kind of movie I enjoy seeing myself. I felt it was high time to show that we could make some money.
Nonetheless, Peter O'Toole , who was to play a leading role in the film, loved The Deep .
The film project, on which Welles worked with the cameraman Willy Kurant , failed due to financial and technical problems. Work on the film was sporadic and difficult until Welles got tired of the project. As a result of the death of actor Laurence Harvey in 1973, the shooting, which had been interrupted four years earlier, could not be completed.
Existing versions
The Munich Film Museum has a copy of the film based on the two raw versions. Parts of The Deep were used in the documentary Orson Welles: One-Man Band (1995).
review
Fritz Göttler wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung :
- “Ingeniously, the film alternates between amateur and professional filmmaking, creating a cinema of particular transparency, erotic and comical. What Truffaut wrote about Mr. Arkadin can also be said of The Deep : 'In this beautiful film you can feel Orson Welles' breath behind every picture, the trace of madness and the trace of genius, his power, his stunning health and his corpulent figure Poetry."
Web links
- The Deep in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b French, Lawrence. "Notes on Orson Welles' THE DEEP," Wellesnet (Jan. 27, 2007). Accessed Nov. 10, 2011.
- ↑ Orson Welles the Unknown - Harvard Film Archive ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Joseph McBride, What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? A portrait of an independent career (University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 2006) p.166
- ^ Fritz Göttler: Bad man on board Süddeutsche Zeitung from 30./31. January 2016, p. 63.
