After my old Youtube channel was killed about one year ago I had to re-upload all the videos to the new channel and had to edit hundreds of blog posts here.
Basically, I finished that in the first part of last year, but a handful of blog posts are still left that need a proper video and text.
Deep Gold is one of my all-time favorite scuba movies and for that, I wanna present each interesting scuba scene with a blog post in the next weeks.
And then I will …finally ….also update the links in the Hall of Fame section to this movie.
That movie has a LOT to offer and I actually have the 3D Blu-ray in my collection.
The 3D isn’t really good here, but it looks (even) better than in 2D 😉
And right now, even the 2D Blu-ray isn’t available on US Amazon anymore.
Here in the blog post, 2D will have to suffice… and don’t worry, these scenes are very special.
So, let’s start with the first scene!
Preview:
Time for some sneaky….
….sabotage!
Problems? Well… yes!
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And here is the video:
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…. and that was only a moderate entry as the first scuba scene. MUCH more to follow 😉
This first scene is a nice short scuba peril scene for starters. Not often do you see a female scuba diver sabotaging another boat/yacht.
And I kind of like that she gets entangled in her own net. Not a good place to be when the yacht is about to start moving 😉
In this scene she has a rather “normal” scuba outfit on… in comparison to later when the naughty producer (of this movie) puts her in a totally unusual, sexy/bizarre scuba outfit 😆
Also, a nice aspect here is that we have this couple who speak German and won’t get dubbed or subbed for some reason.
Maybe the German producer of this movie just wanted some lines of German in the movie? Hard to say….
I will post the next scene next week and then is get even more interesting 😉
(the chances are very high that Youtube would have blocked this long video)
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What a naughty, weird villain 😉
She looks stunning in that gorgeous vintage beavertail wetsuit!
And his ideas to torture her are quite…. creative… (and insane).
She is really lucky that he showed up to save her from her… explosive… fate.
Also, in reality, her eardrums would burst as she can’t make the ear clearing with her hands tied up… unless she is one of those who can make it by just moving the jar around a little.
The submarine that he uses is really a cool vehicle, don’t remember seeing that one in any other movie.
In my version, she would have been in some nice scuba fights with the henchmen and henchwomen of the villain 😉
I placed it on google Drive as the video is very long (nearly 10 minutes) and it wouldn’t “fit” into my Youtube channel anyway
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Sorry, for the temporary visible ADs in the upper right corner. Someone recommended me a site where this movie can be found and it was difficult…
Hopefully, there will be a better-quality file available someday, but the movie is hard to find as it is a French TV movie.
For me, this scene has basically just one major flaw… that no frogWOman is involved 😉
The killer and his evil plan are quite unique. Knocking him out, tieing him up, and cutting his air hose? Quite a combo!
Also, the police diver and his twin tanks are a rather rare combo as well.
I don’t fully get how his tanks and his air hoses are connected and I don’t know much about the connections with a twin-tank setup.
The bad guy slices the air hose of the hero without an instant effect. The hero just swaps his regulator and closes one valve to stop the air leak.
Does he then only gets air from one of his tanks? In that case, the bad guy would have significantly reduced the air reserves of the hero.
The second possibility I see is that his second regulator is connected to another valve. In that case… slicing the air hose… would basically have no effect at all.
Certainly, the bad guy had some fun 😉
I mean he came up with a rather perilous plan, he could have just stabbed the hero from behind after the sneaky knockout blow… but he had a more sinister plan.
The “stuck underwater” scenario somehow reminds me of a certain pilot in a Bond movie… but he was equipped much worse than this diver.
At first, I wondered why the evil diver instantly left. I mean he could have watched him drown, but ok, that would have been a risk as it was possible that more divers could have shown up.
The good guy was really lucky that his partner found him and called for backup.
In my version of the story at least one of these divers would have been a woman. Imagine a villainess completely in black attacking the hot female police diver 😉
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If you wanna know what happens to the bad guy at the end of the movie:
Well, quite a good scuba peril scenario with some unusual aspects.
She gets trapped with 80 bar left which is unusually “much” for such a perilous scenario in a movie or TV show. I mean that is still 40% of her normal tank capacity which is 200 bar (mostly).
Normally scuba divers get trapped and have only some minutes of air left 😉
Also, it’s interesting that the diver with the full tank just arrives some seconds too late, rather unusual.
I mean ok, in the end, she seemingly survives ….as I have checked just one more episode where she is in the hospital…. so he was quick enough for her to survive. And well, her guy would have drowned as well, since his tank was empty as well.
It’s a shame that it’s only shown how she reacts as her tank is finally completely empty, but her actual drowning isn’t shown and she then floats on the ceiling, even that discovery is quite dramatic as well.
All in all a really good “trapped underwater” scenario.
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The episode numbers for this video are 1145 and 1146… of this show in case you wanna know:
If you wanna get the videos from November from the VIP club… incl. some of the videos from “Project F”, then you should act soon, as December is approaching quickly 😉
Thanks to the guy who recommended me this Chinese movie!
100% sure that I would have never seen this one without a recommendation as Chinese movies mostly are never shown outside of China.
Preview:
His hands are on her tank valve!
He attacks her!
Is she dead?
(click to enlarge)
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And here is the video:
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Watch the video before you continue!
I bet you are confused right now! 😉
Well, I was too… until the guy who recommended this one explained it to me.
I would love to watch the whole movie, but since I don’t speak Chinese, that doesn’t make sense.
I hardly doubt this movie will ever get subtitles or a dub.
The overall story is seemingly that he wants to drown his wife and then get the insurance money, claiming she died by accident.
But he then gets stuck in a time loop(!) and in one version he kills her again (version 2 in the video), perhaps in others too but it isn’t shown on screen.
In the end, he gets out of the time loop (as he doesn’t kill her in version 3 in the video)… and there seems to be a happy ending.
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Now to the different versions:
Version 3 is interesting as the audience thinks he will turn off her air once again, but actually, he doesn’t do it this time.
Version 1 is shot quite weirdly as big parts of the action aren’t shown properly. It’s cut too fast and she drowns nearly instantly.
Version 2 is the most interesting and best for me. It’s shown how he turns off her air, and the struggle is a little longer. She fights back a little more, but still drowns very fast. Certainly, there is a lot of room for improvement, but it’s a good and thrilling scene for me.
This is kind of a cheat post in terms of female divers… but I think you will find it interesting!
Thanks a LOT to the guy who recommended me this movie.
There is also quite an even better male scuba peril/fight scene in it, maybe I will add that to the post as well in the next weeks.
Preview:
Concentration!
Someone is waiting for her! Someone who wants her to stay underwater….
Scuba…
….fight!
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And here is the video:
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Watch the video before you continue!
Damn, what I would give if we had the female cliff divers and (at least) one female diver!
But still, the scene is very interesting as the scuba fight is well done and quite long. 🙂
You might wanna know the background story behind this:
The naughty scuba killer killed her brother earlier in the movie and (obviously) wants to kill her as well.
This is a French TV movie, and I doubt there will be a dub or subs for this one. And my French from school isn’t good enough to watch the whole movie.
The police anticipated that move and set up a trap for the bad guy. The scuba diver with the blue wetsuit is the hero of the movie.
It’s quite strange that both divers were very close to her landing spot, but seemingly the bad guy didn’t notice the police diver before… which is odd as divers make a lot of bubbles (unless they use rebreathers).
But ok, that is basically my only complaint (besides the gender issue) with this scene.
The scuba fight is filmed well in my opinion, and it takes the detective quite some strength and time to disarm the evil diver that never had a real chance as there are also additional police divers at the scene to intervene.
The detective uses these huge twins tank in all his scuba scenes in the movie. Well, quite a BIG air supply! And he actually needed that earlier on 😉
An evil female diver is sending top-secret info to a foreign government. A female detective is on her trail and we have the final showdown between those two in a scuba fight!
That sounds like a story that I would have written 😉
Let’s check out the scene and see if it can live up to the promise….
(EDIT October 17: Video was blocked…. had to move it)
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Watch the video before you continue!
I wanted to show both in their wetsuits on dry land and build in short scenes with both of them prior to the underwater fight.
I cut out some surface scenes as they slow down the action.
A little confused by the video? (It helps to watch the scene several times)
Let me summarize the action:
The villainess is sending top-secret data via that computer thingy.
Meanwhile the “good guys” arrive on top and check out the boat of the villainess, the villainess knows that as she has cameras on board.
The villainess hides and waits for the detective to arrive.
Her knife attack fails and the detective yanks out her regulator.
She puts it back and attacks a second time with her knife.
The detective manages to close the air valve of the villainess who retreats then.
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Hmh, let’s start with the positive aspects in my opinion:
We have some good moves like stealing a regulator and closing the tank valve. Plus there is a scuba knife involved, even if it is quite tiny.
Also some (weird) yanking on the strap(!) of a scuba mask. Very unusual, never seen that in a movie or TV show!
It’s good that they have some different colors on their scuba gear so you can tell who is who. Nothing I should mention as a positive aspect, but that isn’t something that can be taken for granted as some movies/TV shows demonstrate.
Now to the bad aspects…
The background music may be ok as long there is no action. But as the scuba fight starts the music doesn’t react at all to it, completely lame snooze music.
That is totally bizarre as the music is supposed to underline what is happening on screen. The music/sound department screwed up here big time 😆
You can actually see a safety diver/cameraman in the background several times during the underwater action…. that isn’t supposed to happen 😉
As the villainess attacks, the “good” diver has suddenly no regulator in her mouth but a tube of some sort!?! WTF?! (at 02:54)
The yanking on the strap of the scuba mask of the detective is a nice aspect, but why can’t she get her scuba mask off in the process? Come on, that is quite easy then.
The whole action is mostly quite weird as they don’t control each other’s arms but just hold onto each other for most of the time.
Their hands are free very often…they could easily go for the other one’s mask or regulator, but they don’t… they are holding back a lot.
It’s a little weird that the villainess gives up like that.
Yeah, her air was turned off, but that isn’t a problem since the detective isn’t following her.
She could easily turn it back on and attack again. But I guess she was demoralized after she lost twice times against her.
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Well, if you take the description the actual video is a little disappointing if you consider all aspects.
But it certainly delivers a pretty long scuba fight between two frogwomen, so that is already a great thing! 🙂
Yeah, many things could be improved here… but is certainly is a remarkable scene.
After all, there aren’t exactly many female scuba fights to be found in movies.
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Fun facts:
The villainess works for the “evil” Americans while the detective works for the “good” Chinese.
Looks like this Chinese TV show has some propaganda messages in this one 😉
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Wanna know from which movies this is?
Don’t have an IMDB link since it is a Chinese TV show, but here is the title:
Yeah, no real action, nothing spectacular, but I am happy about every new movie that actually does have scuba scenes in it… as there are only very few which have that.
She looks just fine in her wetsuit and the scuba gear is ok. Sadly there are no scuba action scenes in this one as it is a romantic comedy.
The story is rather simple, she loses her ring as she is doing some sort of yoga on a surfboard, a valuable heirloom.
He is the slightly strange, but handsome scuba teacher of the hotel, and they fall in love etc..
In my version, I would have added a scene where he would have heroically saved her as she becomes stuck underwater or something and nearly drowns 😉
That would still be fitting in such a genre movie.
Or I would actually gender swap the roles and the scuba teacher would be a woman, and she would get in trouble underwater…
