The film was shot in just 40 days, and the entire film was filmed on 35mm film.
The film is based on the 2004 biographical essay Soul Surfing: A True Story about Faith, Family, and Getting Back on a Surfboard.
Growing up on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, Bethany Hamilton (Anna Sophia Rob Anna Sophia Robb) is a natural surfing genius who has shown great talent for surfing since childhood. She competed in a national surfing competition with her friend Elena (Lorraine Nicholson) and achieved good results. But one morning when she was 13, a 14-foot tiger shark attacked her while she was surfing, biting off her left arm. In an instant, her life and future were washed away. Just as everyone was preparing to find another way for her, she decided to use her mutilated body to return to the surfing arena. With the help of her best friends Tom, Cherry and Sarah, she regained her footing with her amazing perseverance and stood on top of her surfboard and waves.
During a mountaineering exercise, Peter's father resolutely chose to cut the rope and fell off a cliff in order to save him. Due to the shadow of inner pain, Peter (Chris O'Donnell) gives up his mountaineering career and breaks up with his sister, who is also a mountaineer.
My sister was in distress on one occasion when she challenged the towering K2 peak in the western foothills of the Himalayas, and the whole team was trapped in a cave on the peak. Their lives are at stake due to the shortage of food and medicine. In order to rescue his sister, Peter risked his life and once again ascended the Himalayas to compete with time and challenge the limits of nature.
A young FBI agent, Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey), lurks in a team of bandits who like to find exciting challenges, led by charismatic Baudy (Edgar Ramírez) by the charismatic Baudy (Edgar Ramírez). These bandits are suspected of committing a series of crimes in a very unusual way. In his dealings with Baudy's gang, Utah finds himself unable to escape the camaraderie with this gang, Utah is caught in the contradiction between professional ethics and the pursuit of his true self, he gives up everything and joins the pursuit of the eight peak challenges of the human limit world...
Jean-Marc Barr grew up by the greek sea, and although he watched his father die in a diving accident as a child, he did not cut jack's love of the sea. When Jack's friend Enzo (Jean Reno) finds him and persuades him to enter the Diving Championship Competition, Jack agrees, winning the championship with outstanding results and getting the love of Joanna (Rosanna Arquette). The two fight fiercely, but Jack realizes that he can't put it down and can't leave the sea.
An accident happened. His friend Enzo was unfortunately killed in the dive, Jack put Enzo's body into the sea, Jack's heart is very confused, he feels that he no longer belongs to human society, he just wants to dive into the deep sea, like a dolphin to accompany the sea for a lifetime. Despite the news that Joanna was pregnant, Jack looked at his lover affectionately and turned into the arms of the sea.
In 1936, the Nazis launched a national youth challenge to the back of the Alps, which many people thought was the wall of death, but there were still 2 German teenagers who challenged and ultimately failed. People found their bodies in the snow-capped mountains, and one of them clutched a small page of blood and wrote, "Give me a set of equipment." I can climb to China..."
Eric Wei henmeier was completely blind at the age of thirteen due to congenital retinal dissociation. By chance, he became fascinated by climbing and conquered the highest peaks of the world's three continents... By chance, Eric met the famous climber PV, and with his encouragement, Eric decided to climb the world's highest peak, Mount Everest. Although Eric's wife is distressed about her husband, she still boldly supports him to march towards Mount Everest in order to realize his lifelong dream. During the climb, Eric and his teammates PV, Chris, Jeff and sherpa were brave, working together, helping each other, and finally standing at the top of Everest, touching the top of the world, Eric became the first blind person in the world to reach Everest.
Taylor is a successful prosecutor, Harlow is a top professor of physics at the university, the former selfish, proud, radical and never let anything stand in his way, while the latter is a good person who is kind, considerate and has a sense of justice. Both have a common goal – to climb more than eight thousand meters of the world's mountains...
Sarah's (Shauna Macdonald) was accidentally shattered by a car accident, her husband and daughter were killed in the accident, she survived but never recovered, in order to revive Sarah, her five female friends arranged an adventure trip for her in a remote and ancient cave in the jungle, Juno (Natalie Jackson Mendoza) is one of the most experienced wild adventures and she chose to come here. Just when the girls were amazed by the scenery in the cave, they unconsciously disturbed another creature in the cave, they had no vision, relying on the source of the sound to brutally hunt them, the girls united in order to save themselves, but in the escape of friends suspicious of each other, in order to survive, how do they find their way out of the narrow and dark cave?
Brother Jack (Cole Hauser) and Taylor (Eddie Spian Cole Hauser) are two exploration-loving cave experts who, at the invitation of biologists Nicholas (Marcel Iures) and Dr. Janice (Lena Headey), arrive in Romania's Carpathian Mountains with an experienced team to investigate the huge caves they stumble upon and the ancient churches in them.
Expedition team member Briggs (Rick Ravanello) was the first to enter the water to survey, but lost contact with his teammates shortly after communicating. To be on the safe side, Jack and Taylor decide to set out to look for them. Along the way, they saw all kinds of strange creatures that they had never seen before, and it turned out that in this closed cave, there was a completely independent paleontological system. But these discoveries did not surprise them much, the explorers were trapped in caves, and the threat from unknown creatures was gradually approaching them...
Somewhere in Papua New Guinea, in the heart of a rare primeval jungle, there is a giant cave known as the mother of caves, Issa Allah. The well-to-do explorer Carl (Ioan Gruffudd) spends a fortune hiring Frank (Richard Roxburgh), who has extensive experience in caving, and his team to investigate the place. Fast forward a few months, and Issa Allah's exploration, while fruitful, is still slow. Meanwhile, a strong tropical storm is coming and caving is imminent. Carl gets into an argument with Frank, who is desperate to dive into the water with his exhausted partner, Judd (Allison Cratchley), to challenge the sinister passage known as the "Limit of the Devil". On the other hand, Carl's girlfriend Victoria and Frank's son Josh also ventured into the cave. As everyone knows, the catastrophe is approaching...
Based on Andrew Wight's real-life experiences during his caving in Western Australia, the film was shot with Avatar's 3D camera.
The friendly and discreet New Zealand team leader Rob Hall (Jason Clarke) has a team named "Adventure Advisors", while Scott Fisher (Jack Gyllenhaal) is funny and leads the "Crazy Mountains" climbing team from Seattle. They compete with each other and help each other.
The warriors in both teams came from all walks of life, including postmen, journalists, doctors, and a professional woman from Japan. These climbers may seem ordinary, but each has a dream behind them that inspires them to reach Mount Everest, which is more than 8,000 meters above sea level and has thin oxygen. During the climb, their physical functions plummeted, and while dealing with physical exhaustion, lack of oxygen, and snow blindness, they were extremely unfortunate to encounter a fierce snowstorm, so their lives were hanging in the balance.
The film is based on a true adventure in 1996.
There is a Tibetan village in the mangy mountains connected to the sky, which has been transporting salt for generations because it does not produce enough food for self-sufficiency. The son of the old chief Tianni, who was supposed to be the next head of the village, died unexpectedly on the way to carry salt, and the much-anticipated successor, Karma, was in Tianni's eyes a criminal who deliberately killed his son in order to seize the throne. On the eve of a new salt journey, the two factions in the village, led by Lao Tianni and Karma, each holding their own words and not giving in to each other. Eventually Karma led the young men on ahead of the day of divination for the older people, while Tianni led his son and grandson as lamas before a group of old retinues on the day of divination. The salt transport team not only has to eat and sleep all the way to deal with unexpected dangers in the mountains, but who of the two salt transport teams can overcome the difficulties and obstacles to reach the end of the journey first? The style of the film's images is rough and beautiful, swinging back to the intestines, and the Tibetan secret Sanskrit sound like fairy music runs through the whole process, which is heart-warming and pleasant.
The film was a nine-month drama and documentary film produced by France, Nepal, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, and was nominated for the 72nd Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the 2000 European Film Best Cinematography Award, where it won the César Award for Best Cinematography and Music.
Lieutenant Dunbar (Kevin Costner) was instrumental in the Civil War, and the government rewarded him by giving him the privilege of choosing his station at will. Longing for a new life, Dunbar chose the remote western outpost of Seckwick. There are a large number of Indian Sioux people living here.
At first, the Sioux resisted his arrival, and when Dunbar took the initiative to approach and understand their lives and rescue a white girl who grew up in the Sioux clan, the relationship between the clan and him began to warm up. He got an Indian name: Dancing with Wolves. Dunbar's riding skills amazed the tribesmen, his kindness was praised by everyone, and he and the white girl also fell in love with him for a long time. In a war against foreign invasion, Dunbar was named a national hero of the Sioux.
However, the decline of horseback culture has become inevitable, white soldiers come to this land, drive out the Sioux, capture the "traitor" Dunbar, this simple land slowly changed its appearance...
Joe Simpson and Simon Yates are a good mountaineering pair, and together they have challenged countless peaks, this time the Peruvian Andean Peak. After successfully reaching the top, on the way down, Joe had an accident, fell down a steep slope, and broke his right leg. Simon grabbed him tightly with a rope and retreated in the snowstorm. However, on the way, Joe once again fell into the ice cave, and the two had difficulty communicating, and they were connected to each other by a rope. They could fall off a cliff at any time, and the stiff two people didn't have enough food and water to get through the storm. The knife in Simon's hand hesitated on the rope, and his tears were already flowing uncontrollably. At the other end of the rope, what kind of expectations does Joe have, can he survive in a desperate situation?
Adapted from a true story, the film presents the legend of an idealist, the story of a wanderer.
Christopher (Emile Husky) is a well-off student at Emory, a prestigious private school in Atlanta, with a bright future. But after graduating from school, he chose a very different life, gave up enviable work, donated his savings to charity, and went to Alaska to find himself. In the voice of his family's persuasion, he embarked on a slow and long road back to nature and became a veritable wanderer.
Along the way, he met many people, but also suffered several times the challenge of survival in the wild, each step is full of hardships, he with tenacity and perseverance, practice the dream of finding himself...