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WHAT WENT WRONG

The Abyss

WHAT WENT WRONG

Sad Boom Media

Flop, Film, Film History, Blockbuster, Acting, Disaster, History, Tv & Film, Movie, Directing, Hollywood

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Life’s abyss and then you dive. This week, Chris & Lizzie go deep on the merits of shooting in a decommissioned nuclear power plant, the resilience of the cast and crew in the face of abyss-olute death, and the saga of Beansie the liquid-breathing rat.

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0:00.0

I don't know much about science but but I know about under water oil rigs and this

0:06.9

bitch can take it. I'm James Cameron. I'm James Cameron and I want to take you into a world of cold darkness and unrelenting

0:31.1

pressure.

0:32.1

The movie business.

0:38.0

Okay, so yeah, so I'm gonna go into that. It sounds like he's lecturing you from the bottom of a well.

0:44.4

It is because he is underwater.

0:46.0

And like the brilliant crazy person that he is,

0:49.3

he does much of his interviews for the documentary

0:51.5

that we've pulled these clips from underwater.

0:55.9

And just so you know most of the clips we're going to be using today, actually all the clips

0:58.8

are going to be using today are from a documentary called Under Pressure, Making the Abyss from 1993.

1:05.0

That noise that you just pointed out is in all of the underwater footage

1:11.0

because this was the first movie to ever use live underwater audio recording.

1:16.1

And what that is, it's the respirator.

1:18.8

And it's so annoying that they had to edit it out completely from the final film because it's awful.

1:26.4

It's just like they played a clip from the actual movie with the respirators in it in this documentary and

1:31.0

it's Ed Harris being like, yeah we have to go to go to go out at a

1:38.3

horrible. Was the documentary made to be like positive about the movie or you'll see I mean yes I do think it was a promo kind of thing

1:48.8

It's a bit of a I mean not really because it comes out after so the abyss is released in 1989 this

1:53.8

documentary is from 1993 and it is certainly made with the blessing of James

1:58.6

Cameron because he is obviously heavily participating in it.

2:03.0

One thing to keep in mind when you're hearing some of these interview clips from the documentary

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