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?
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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…
This one is a classic that I know for a while but somehow didn’t upload.
By now a fine HD quality is available… so this scene finally makes it to this blog.
Let’s check out the scene!
Preview:
She gets ready…
….for a nice dive with the guy.
But suddenly….
…he isn’t so nice anymore!
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And here is the video:
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You may already know what my problems with this scene are 😉
She looks great in her bikini, even though I would prefer a wetsuit.
It’s great to have him chasing her, but of course, I (and nearly everybody else) was looking forward to a nice scuba fight scene.
Yeah, that doesn’t happen 🙁
A shame she didn’t also have a knife and confronted him.
Many might say that it’s odd that she is able to outswim him as she manages to not only get away from him, there is quite some distance between them as she leaves the water.
But I can easily accept that a well-trained woman like her can outswim an average guy.
I don’t get why he waited so long to attack her and especially since he was drawing the knife as she was watching him. He wasted the moment of surprise.
I haven’t watched the whole episode (the 2nd part of a two-parter) and the scene on the boat quite confuses me.
She swims away from him just to go back onto their boat?
He throws the knife after her (deliberate miss?) and she is quite relaxed and didn’t even grab the knife that is next to her.
What happened? He was trying to kill her and she doesn’t seem to have a big problem with that!?
From what I saw the two really liked each other and he found out that she is actually a cop and has to kill her.
But well, seems like he isn’t so motivated to do that and she has no problem with him trying to kill her.
Quite odd……. maybe I will watch both episodes one day, but this way it’s all quite confusing!
However, we do have a hot frogwoman getting chased by another diver, which is still a rare thing….so, after all, I enjoy this scene, even though it has some flaws.
In my version, they would have fought underwater and only one would have returned to the surface. 😉
I am away over the weekend as I am leaving the country for a short vacation/city visit.
So, there won’t be a post on Sunday this week.
Also, the VIP club will get its monthly update, a little later than usual….on August 3!
That means the VIP club members will receive the password as well on August 3.
So, please be patient, it will come 😉
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I will reply to emails of course, but only once or twice a day.
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But I do have a recommendation for you folks!
My TV magazine recommended a documentary named “Waterwoman” some weeks ago which is currently still running on German TV.
I watched all 4 episodes and it was quite fascinating.
It’s about German freediving champion Anna von Boetticher who is holding several national records.
In these episodes, she is diving in Mexiko, Iceland, the Acores, and (under) Budapest…. and she is wearing smooth skin wetsuits while doing so 😉
Yeah, she isn’t exactly the youngest (52), but she looks great in these suits, is highly skilled and the episodes offer great pictures of beautiful underwater landscapes!
So I really recommend watching the episodes, even though there are some obstacles for folks outside Germany.
Yeah, the audio is German and the episodes are only available online here if you are in Germany:
Scenes from the first movie were blocked on Youtube back then and this is quite brutal (even you don’t see much) so I decided to post this one on Drive as well.
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Well, for me the scene is ….ok. Some others may like it better than me… I guess.
The shark scenes where a real shark was filmed are good, the cheap prop they used for some closeups is really… cheap.
Yeah, I know the budget was small and CGI wasn’t really an option back in 2000…but the result just looks bad.
Also, the roaring sounds of the shark are just laughable! Reminds me of Tomb Raider 2 😉
What morons come up with such fantasy sounds?
The camera work during the attack is quite bad, most likely as they couldn’t show the prop shark for too long.
On the plus side, the dive equipment is solid and there are some intense perilous moments as the divers are quite “loud”.
Ok, for me that kind of peril isn’t exciting at all… but well, others may see that differently.
Also, I wonder why they didn’t have at least one or two minutes with these women on the surface with some dialogue lines.
I mean she gets chomped by that shark and we know nothing about her and didn’t hear one word from her. That way the audience doesn’t care too much about her.
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The next scene that I will present in a future post is more interesting… at least for me.
