Of all the genres, the most shocking is the disaster film.
If the movie makes us experience different lives, as if we have lived several times, then the disaster movie will take us to experience the rest of our lives and know how to cherish the rare life.
What disaster movies make people regain is the reverence for nature and the consideration of human nature.
Even more terrifying than a disaster movie is the disaster itself.
On July 5, 2018, the Phoenix capsized on its way back to Phuket, boarding 122 people and killing 47 people.
The waves are said to be up to 5 meters high
Zhang Haofeng, a young man in Xinyang, has saved 4 people and drifted at sea for 15 hours and was found by fishermen, known as the hero in the shipwreck incident.
He "didn't think so much" and pushed the surfboard to the strange old couple.
Good virtue is like a lustful person, who saves people by instinct
We see the brilliance of human nature in Zhang Haofeng's almost instinctive act of saving people.
There is also a brilliance that is reflected in self-help.
In 1983, a 23-year-old California girl drifted in the Pacific Ocean for 41 days.
The girl, tammy Oldham, wrote her story in her memoir Red Sky 15 years after the shipwreck.
Thirty-five years later, [The Waves of The Waves] was released in the United States, recreating the book's "love at sea, despair and survival," and the New York Observer said that "every element of the film is perfect enough to make me tremble and shock."
[Stormy waves] imdb6.7, Douban 6.8, resources have been out
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[Crashing Waves] is a very literary disaster film.
General disaster films are typical commercial blockbusters, with huge production scale and huge investment in special effects.
For example, the Titanic, which has a budget of 200 million US dollars (about 1.6 billion yuan) and has produced a 1:1 replica ship;
[Titanic] began production in 1995 at a cost of $200 million, a record at the time
In order to shoot the New Delhi street market, more than 1,000 Indian expatriates were hired [the day after tomorrow];
Earth returns to the Ice Age, statue of Liberty, [the day after tomorrow] imdb 6.4, Douban 8.0
Post-production of 14 months with more than 500 special effects scenes[2012];
[2012] Production costs were also $200 million, using 1400 CG lenses
In terms of scale[ the waves] can't compare with these blockbusters, with a budget of only $35 million, two people, a small boat, and a disaster movie.
[Waves of Shock] is not so ambitious.
It did not want to show the human group portrait before the sinking of the giant ship and after the arrival of the end, only to explore how strong a person can be in the disaster, and how the desire to survive can create miracles.
Its IMDB rating surpasses the popular "Acquired Day" and [2012] in China, obviously different from domestic audiences, foreigners pay more attention to individual lives and true stories than big scenes.
[Hurricane Waves] focuses on the individual, a bit like the real-life version of [Teen Pi].
During the days of drifting at sea, Pai witnessed the beast's predation, but in fact it was cannibalism; Tammy did not eat people, she ate canned lunch meat, and killed fish—she was originally a vegetarian.
In the face of life, what ethical principles and what love and hate are insignificant.
[Hurricane Waves] does not follow the disaster film routine in terms of narrative.
Whether it is [Titanic], [2012] or [Tsunami Miracle], it was the quiet years ahead, when suddenly there was a big hole in the ground, a big ice lump, and the world collapsed without warning.
[2012] imdb5.8, Douban 7.7
[The waves of the waves] are not this kind of flat and direct narrative, but two narrative lines are carried out side by side: one side of the years is quiet, and the other side is falling apart.
The film begins with the heroine Tammy waking up in the cabin. She was soaking in the water below her neck and in a pile of debris, and the boat was crooked, and she almost slipped when she got up.
The deck was not much better than the cabin, the mast was broken, and the sails were floating in the sea.
She couldn't take care of that, she was looking for someone.
Richard, the name she cries out, is her fiancé.
After explaining Tammy's current situation, the film goes back to the story of her and Richard before they went to sea.
Just looking at this part, it is a romantic literary and artistic romance.
In Tahiti, 23-year-old Tammy and 34-year-old Richard met for the first time, and their love of sailing and adventurous spirit brought them together and made them start planning for their future lives and sailing.
It also allows them to step into the center of the Pacific Ocean.
The past interspersed in the shipwreck seems to be a sweet moment remembered by Tammy in despair. But that didn't change much, and she was still standing on the deck searching the sea with a telescope.
The lifeboat not far away excited her—she saw Richard lying on his stomach in the lifeboat.
Tammy embarks on a journey to survival.
From the first time they saw a hurricane, Tammy and Richard's story is stitched together little by little in the interlude.
When memories and reality finally converge, a terrible truth follows...
Although [The Waves of Shock] are artistic in both intention and narrative, its reality is very reductive.
Tammy and Richard met in Tahiti, the "Fairy Island", and stayed for 3 months, which was the starting point of the shipwreck. The most beautiful pictures in the film come from here, and they are filmed in real time.
Robert Richardson ([The Assassination of Kennedy], [The Aviator], [Hugo]), who won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography three times, gave away the beauty of "Fairy Island" without wasting anything.
Tammy is a very wild young girl
Red Sky, the source of the title
The hazana that happened was almost exactly the same as in the photo.
Tammy and Richard were supposed to send the ship to San Diego, three weeks after departing for a hurricane
Of course, the brutal storm is also very real, taking you to see the category 4 hurricane.
It was pitch black, and it was a wave about ten meters high brought by a Category 4 hurricane
These are not the main ones, basically the cost of disaster films can make a very realistic effect. The main thing is that the degree of reduction of the characters and events is recognized by Tammy Oldham himself.
After the sea saddle, Tammy was depressed for a while, feeling that he would never fall in love again. Later she realized that writing this story was the only way out of the darkness.
Today, she is already married and has children, and hopes to share this experience and let people know how powerful women can be.
Tammy Oldham, today's cheerful and optimistic shipwreck survivor
Tammy is played by Sherlyn Woodleigh and Richard by Sam Claflin, both actors from the United States and the United Kingdom, the same as the corresponding characters.
Contrast the real (top) with the movie (bottom).
Tammy spoke highly of both protagonists, saying that Sam "reminds me of Richard when he laughs" and "it seems like God sent him to play Richard."
Sherlyn is tammy's best candidate.
The child star, who starred in her first TV series at the age of four, is best known for the American ABC family drama [Youth Whisper]." In 2017, she co-starred with Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman on the 'Big Little Lies] imdb rating of 8.6.
[Big Little Lies] Douban 8.9, she has black hair in the play, which is very different from [Shocking Waves].
Sherin is also active in environmental protection, politics and is a feminist.
When Tammy saw her on the boat with tape to patch up the cracks, she cried directly: "She is alone, and at a glance there is no land, only the shipwrecked." Gosh, that brings me back in time, and that's who I am. ”
Sherlyn's performance in the film did not disappoint, and the young actor born in 1991 was unanimously praised by the major media in the United States.
Variety says that "Sherlyn Woodley immerses herself in the ocean, in love, in the performance—somehow connecting them." Even if lost in the ocean, she made us feel this. ”
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The Los Angeles Times said, "She has the gift of reconciling inner strength and vulnerability until the two merge." ”
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To play Tammy, Sherin consumed 350 calories a day for two weeks — a box of canned salmon, steamed broccoli and two egg yolks — and drank some wine when she was too hungry to sleep.
If that's not intuitive enough, look at a comparison chart —
Before departure, after 41 days of rafting
In addition to the proximity of the actors to the archetypal characters, the film also recreates the scene of that year - Tammy ate peanut butter, canned and fruit cocktails during the 41 days of drifting, which appear in turn.
Peanut butter, canned sardines, fruit cocktails rolled out of the cabin
Helping Tammy determine the location and orientation were a watch and a sextant, a navigation instrument, and she still wears a diamond-encrusted hexagonal pendant.
Use a watch to estimate the speed for positioning, and use a sextant to determine the direction through the sun and the horizon
Tammy keeps talking to himself on the boat, cheering himself up, and you can see this in the film.
This film is highly restored, but it has the most different place from reality, that is, narrative.
The constant flashbacks in the real situation weaken the impact of the disaster, and also make the focus of the film not only on the impact of the disaster, but also on a gentle force.
"I had to stop crying because I was dehydrated and I didn't have much water to drink. I was sad and calm – I had to go on in order to survive. It wasn't until I reached land that I relaxed, no longer feared death, and grief began to surface. It's really, really painful. ”
This is how Tammy Oldham felt for 41 days, an explanation of [The Waves]. Good art films are the perfect combination of flesh and spirit, and the narrative method and expression content of [The Waves of The Waves] are unified.
After watching it, you will understand why the film chose to interpolate.
Tammy, after seeing an island and realizing it was an illusion, once put a rifle in his mouth. But she chose to persevere, and what supported her all the way down was not a moment's courage, but an instinctive desire to survive, perseverance, and love.
Love is a part of human nature, and perhaps it boils down to a desire to survive.
This gentle power, like those sweet pictures that appeared intermittently in front of her eyes, like Ruth's vows, made her unbearable to give up the world.
Without giving up, she had the opportunity to fall in love again, get married, be the mother of the child, and experience the vicissitudes of life; she had the opportunity to continue sailing, to ride alongside the hurricane in the waves, proudly declaring: "This is nothing, I have seen worse"; she has the opportunity to see her and Richard's story being made into a movie, inspiring so many people;
Without giving up, she had the opportunity to say to the whole world —
"I'm thankful to live in an age where women have a say. It had always been heard that men could overcome wolves and men could conquer the sea, and it was time to show the power of women— they could overcome any obstacle in their lives. ”
Her persistence, in the end, became the best proof.