Time for 2 more scenes from Flipper (the newer series)!
This episode has 2 really good peril scenes with a frogwoman that keeps getting in trouble underwater! 😉
I divided it into 2 videos as there was so much material.
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Preview, Scene 1:
But someone gets….
….in trouble!
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And here is the 1st video:
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A really fine peril scene….and a rather unusual one!
She was lucky this time…. but she soon gets into trouble again.
Will she get out of it alive again?
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Preview, Scene 2:
Flipper is trapped!
And so is she!
Entangled in the net!
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And here is the 2nd video:
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Well, as soon she was trying to free Flipper it was rather obvious what would happen 😉
Divers in movies have the tendency of losing their knives and getting entangled in the net, so they would need to be saved.
Here is seems quite strange that she couldn’t get out of the net as it clearly looks as she should be able to get out of it in some scenes.
But well, then we wouldn’t have the fine scene in the show 😉
Another standard trope was missing this time. Normally when a scuba diver in a movie or TV show gets trapped he/she normally has only a few % of air left… 😉
I like how they all work together here to free her and Flipper from the net.
And I also enjoy how many scenes with women in full-face scuba masks this show has to offer. 🙂
My view on the plus and minus points of this scene hasn’t changed (from my old post):
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The struggle between her and the attacker is much too short. The camera work is too fast and too shaky. We don’t see very much of her….
Many “mistakes”: Her tanks emptied so fast…. if she had more than a few % of her air left…that’s a mistake. It should take much longer until she is out.
She doesn’t fight back and her only action is to use the octopus.
And why is her dive buddy suddenly so far away from her? He was pretty close as he was cutting these cables.
Additional – points:
Why does she drown that fast? I often laugh at some scuba fetish videos where it takes up to 5 or more minutes for someone to drown which is just hilarious. But ok, I guess some folks wanna see it so long. Here it is quite the opposite: He cuts her air hose and she drowns in a matter of a few seconds. Equally weird. Especially as she uses her 2nd regulator and should get air from it as long the tank still has air in it.
Her male buddy behaves really completely insanely. He manages to disarm the attacker, who closes his air valve. But what does the guy do? Trying to reach it, and fails to do so. Ok, yeah, it’s not so easy to reach it with shorter arms. But…..why doesn’t he get out of his BCD-vest? Then he could easily reach the valve and turn his air back on! Instead, he dives to his now-dead girlfriend. He realizes that she is dead and that her air hose is cut. But he tries to get air from his tank! WHY? How is there supposed to be air left in there as the air hose is sliced and no more air escapes the cut hose? Completely moronic move. He still doesn’t think of turning his air back on and ascends rapidly, nearly dying in the process.
+ points:
First of all, this is the ONLY scene I know (in a movie or TV series) where a female diver is attacked…her air hose gets cut…AND she actually drowns afterward. In every other scene with an air hose cut…the female diver always survive. This aspect makes it unique! GREAT! A real big + point! (*EDIT* Now in 2021 it’s one of two scenes I know of that kind)
After she drowns we get to see a lot of scenes of her dead body. That is very rare too.
I guess many will love all these “death stare” scenes. And let’s be honest: I do ….like them….somehow. (But my main interest is to see the struggle before the drowning)
Additional + points:
The scuba fight with the two men is actually not bad. I wish he would have struggled with her like that. He manages to disarm the attacker and injures him.
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Later on, her fires an emergency rocket and gets saved by the Barracuda crew. But some minutes later he gets shot by the killer….
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Some more pictures:
Too late….
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But as I mentioned there is another scuba scene, check it out:
First of all, I love the end result! The evil scuba killer who drowned one frogwoman gets now (seemingly) drowned by another female diver (from the Barracuda police crew).
A really great, fitting result! 🙂
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But…..
….what has happened down there?????? It isn’t shown and it isn’t explained at all. She doesn’t speak about it with the other crew members, no one asks her.
That way we totally have to use our imagination.
Has she somehow turned his air off? Has she stabbed him with a knife that was never shown? Was there a struggle between the two? Why didn’t both dive to the surface to find out what was going on there?
Well, all questions we never get an answer for….. 🙁
I really like to see her in closeups in her full face mask! Would have loved to see them fight against each other! With him trying to drown another frogwoman….but this frogwoman would be far better skilled than his last victim with her police scuba training (it was mentioned in the movie).
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I guess in the end they may have been run out of money (or time) and just didn’t film some more scenes underwater.
A real shame, but it is cool to have another scuba scene in this movie….
The scuba scenes were oddly edited together with some scenes at the airport, so I edited that stuff out of the video as it was most annoying during the scuba scene.
(*EDIT* After over this year it was now taken down on Youtube…. had to post it elsewhere)
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This was the only female scuba scene in the movie.
Ok, as much as I love to see some frogwomen in peril, there is SO much going wrong in this scene!
Ok, it can happen that you dive against some rocks as she does but the way she does it, it shouldn’t damage the valve(?) like that from the angle she hits the rocks.
Also, there are bubbles coming from nearly every direction :lol:. How is that supposed to happen? Ok, the valve is (seemingly) broken but it looks like she is leaking air in quite a lot of different places! Most bizarre!
Ok, let’s say this happens to you as a diver. You could continue to breathe as long as the tank isn’t empty and ascend slowly. If you are then out of air you could make an emergency ascend. Or better, just wait for your buddy to reach you in the first place. That situation shouldn’t be dangerous at all with the buddy close by. But what does she do? She doesn’t use any of her 2 regulators, she doesn’t ascend, she doesn’t swim towards her buddy. She seemingly spits out her regulator and then calmly is waiting to drown!?! Surely she is surprised of how quickly she loses her air reserves, but her reaction doesn’t make any sense at all.
This is SO odd, who thinks of such a scene? Pretty sure no one involved with the script had any knowledge of scuba diving. Or the writer was just going to create a dangerous situation for he could be able to rescue her, which is later in the movie an important plot point…..no matter how crazy it is.
However, as much there is to criticize, I do like the scene. Certainly a nice, odd addition to the collection.
And in general, it’s never wrong to have a scene where oxygen is escaping like that. The audio alone is…… 😉
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Odd little detail:
They are using scuba gear from Mares. Whenever the whole lettering is visible it gets blurred, so you can’t really see it very well.
Although you know in any case that “Mares” is lettered there.
Especially in other scenes, it’s most obvious that they tried to hide the fact that this is Mares equipment (very unsuccessful though! 😆 )
Why did they do that?
My only explanation is that Mares was perhaps ashamed of being involved in this movie?
Perhaps they thought it would be bad publicity…..
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In another 2 weeks, the next movie is shown and then I can make a longer cut with improved picture quality of this one:
I thought about this one for a while now as some folks recommended this one over the years. Thanks for that! 🙂
As available material and taste change over the years….it’s now time to post it as I think many of you might like these scenes more than I do.
Preview:
What is going on here?
Seems like she doesn’t wanna dive….
Tied up underwater!
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And here is the video:
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Perhaps you have a hunch why I didn’t upload this one until now.
I really love the storyline and the hideous villainess plot! Kidnapping that beautiful woman, putting her in scuba gear and a sexy wetsuit, and then tying her up underwater.
But I do have quite a lot of problems with how they presented it.
First of all, the camera is so far away most of the time! It’s hard to really see her. And underwater it’s rather murky so you can’t get a good look at her…a real shame!
Some closeups of her in distress as she realizes her situation, fighting against her restraints, breathing faster and faster….that would have been great!
Also, I would have discarded the whole bomb plot. Just let her air run out as the time limit.
And the end is very odd. She is more or less unconscious when she is finally at the surface. Why? Did she run out of air after all? If yes, why didn’t the hero give her air?
And then the odd cutting as suddenly her father is in the boat as the hero is in a real hurry to leave. Strange.
In my version, she would wear a full wetsuit like the male divers. But once again the female divers in a movie need to show more skin as they think it will make them more attractive.
Thanks to a nice guy on a forum I was pointed towards a youtube video in which I learned that there is a documentary TV special “The Incredible World of James Bond” from 1965 to promote the Bond movies and to keep the hype up about the franchise who was at an all-time high back then.
There seems to be quite a lot of Thunderball behind the scenes snippets in it, so I would LOVE to see the whole thing!
I tried any source to get my hands on this documentary, but no luck.
So, has anybody perhaps an idea where to get it?
It wasn’t ever released on any media as I think. Perhaps it was put as a special on a DVD or Blu-ray of a James Bond movie, but I haven’t found any proof of that.
So, if anyone has a nice link…. please use the contact form to get in touch with me!
Or leave a comment below!
If the video quality is ok, I would say I would like to offer 3 free months for the VIP club as a reward.
I already made a nice little “Thunderball bond girls on set” video out of the making of and the video mentioned above that I will post shortly.
But with the full documentary, I think I can make a better and longer video…..
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*EDIT*
Case closed as I got a hint by a nice guy about where to get that documentary!
Guess I will make a post about the Thunderball girls with some behind the scenes footage Sunday next week.
I saw a trailer for this one a couple of months ago and now I finally saw the movie.
In this new german movie, we have a happy couple going scuba diving in a big reservoir.
But the dive doesn’t go as planned….
Preview pictures:
A loving couple on a scuba dive!
The frogwoman
Her scuba mask! What has happened?
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And here is the video:
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*EDIT* This is now the short version since Youtube blocked my earlier video due to “nudity”….which is SO completely bizarre! There is nothing to see. Yeah, he opens her wetsuit to revive her, but again, there is nothing shown there. Is reviving somebody now something sexual for Youtube? Verrrrrry strange…..
However, here is the longer version, I uploaded earlier:
*EDIT2*January 11: now actually with the longer scene on google drive (sorry for uploading the same shorter scene yesterday)
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Well, I guess most of you think: WTF? What is going on there???
Yeah, I thought the same as I watched it. As I finished watching the movie things became much clearer. But still, there are quite a few mysteries about certain scenes from the movie.
This movie has some fantasy elements, the frogwoman in this scene IS actually some sort of water spirit called “Undine” (an old myth you may check on google).
But why she is pulled away by the fish and why does the guy never even ask about what happened….I can’t tell you.
And also, when she is a water spirit, she may not need the scuba gear. I guess she puts it on so she can keep her secret in front of her boyfriend. But why does she nearly drowns when she is a water spirit….I don’t know. Perhaps she was just pretending to give him the opportunity to “save” her and thereby be her hero.
I really like the close-up shots of the frogwoman and her classic vintage (or vintage-style) scuba mask. The reviving scene is done quite well and is pretty sexy.
Sadly it was her only scuba scene in the movie. He is seen underwater quite more often as he is an industrial diver. Then he uses rather heavy gear of course.
Am I the only one who thinks he looks like a German version of Joaquin Phoenix? 😉
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The title of the movie is already in the text above, but here is the link:
– S.O.S. Barracuda is a german series consisting out of 8 movies made from 1997 to 2002. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1169951 During the summer of 2018 I heard that there was a rather fantastic scene (with some flaws) in one of the movies. But I thought I would probably never see it. These movies weren’t shown since the early 2000’s in german TV and there are no DVD/Blu-ray releases. Then I made a request for it on my blog. I was very lucky to get videos files from a friendly guy who read my request about these movies.
I subscribed to an email-alert that I would get if these movies ever would be shown again here in german TV. Since, as I said, the movies weren’t shown for over 15 years….I had very little hope that they would ever be shown again. But yesterday I got such an email alert….. …I was quite shocked….in a good way On January 23 a first movie of that show is shown on “RTL Passion” (german pay TV). Oddly enough they show movie number 3…at first. At my place where I have cable….I can’t get that channel, even I would want to.
I would love to get recordings of all 8 movies. AS I understand only 2 or 3 have scuba content in it. But I want all of them in a good quality. Especially that one with the epic scuba drowning!!!! Hopefully the channel will show all of them….
I will try to figure out if there is a way in which I could get these movies in nice quality files. Has anyone experience in recording from a TV airing? In a way that you would have a quality file on the computer afterwards? I have a digital recorder which I use to record movies all the time. But they are then on that recorder and can’t be moved to anywhere else. I also have an older recorder with DVD drive, which I could use to get it to the computer….but as I said, I can’t get that channel so….both recorders are not an option in this case. Perhaps getting it from a streaming site would be an option…
I hope someone here can help with advice! Or perhaps even record these movies…
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*EDIT* January 24th:
All issues have been figured out and I got the first one, check out the new post from January 24 for the scenes from the first movie.
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You can find the answers I got in the forum itself as I don’t want the made this post too long.
Well, I really hope that they will air all these 8 movies, especially the ones with female scuba content off course….
Posted it on Youtube, but it was blocked right away….
These full face scuba masks with radio must have been very high end back in 1955.
But I haven’t seen these in other movies of the time. I guess they had some problems or were very expensive.
The scenes are very interesting even I wish the creature would have wrestled a little longer with her….perhaps even grabing for her scuba mask or air hose.
However it was good to have some scuba peril in this one. Surely one of the earliest scenes like that in (movie-) history.
