I am very much divided about this one, but it clearly has some interesting aspects in it!
Thanks to the friendly guy who recommended me this one!
It’s a fine example of how one video can be really good and really bad at the same time 😉
Preview:
Nice wetsuits!
Is it a sea monster? A scuba diver? A mermaid? Take your guess 😉
Frogwomen in sexy wetsuits!!
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And here is the video:
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Quite a rollercoaster ride! You have two frogwomen in great vintage wetsuits, really great!
On the other hand, you have completely murky underwater shots where you can see not much or even nothing.
Oddly enough, their scuba gear changes as they are underwater. No one is ever seen with a double hose regulator above the surface….but as soon they are underwater they mostly use double hose regulators….WTF?! Also, the wetsuits tend to change and have stripes they don’t have had on the surface.
It seems like they made all underwater scenes with stunt divers and not with the actors. But why does no one notice the different types of gear? And why do they film in such murky waters where you have to guess what is going on? If they would have filmed that in some tank or pool it might have looked weird (like many underwater shots in Baywatch) but at least you would see what is going on. So, the underwater parts are totally uninteresting for me, and I think many see it like that.
But back to the good aspects. The black wetsuits look really great on the 2 women and it would have been great to actually “see” these women underwater. Especially as one of them gets into trouble as she is stuck on something for a while.
The new(er) Flipper TV show offers a lot of scenes with female scuba divers as you may already know.
I already posted some of them and today I wanna present another one!
Preview:
Our diver….
…is in danger!
Can she get help from the nearby sub?
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And here is the video:
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A fine peril scene, even it has some obvious flaws 😉
Ok, don’t know if any dolphin could distract/fend off a great white shark…but that’s one of the less problematic points. Still, the shark is so much faster than she is, he could easily catch up with her again, even there is Flipper around.
I don’t remember the full episode but she obviously has some trauma with sharks. Which is quite a problem if you work half the time underwater as she does in her job….
But overall the scene has its plus points as well. I always enjoy seeing women in full-face masks in action. Quite rare stuff, even today.
If I would ever make a shark movie, I guess these sharks would be trained to have a taste for air hoses instead of human meat 😆
With all the crazy shark movies out there, I wonder why no one did that so far. 😉
There is another scene with her in scuba gear as she tags a shark from a really thin shark cage. But that’s very short and without action.
It shows how you can incl. a pretty good scuba peril scene into a complete mess of filming.
My jaw dropped open pretty wide as I saw this for the first time. Thanks again to the guy who recommended me this episode!
I edited the peril scene heavily so I cut out all the few bits as they were constantly showing some of the folks on the yacht while she was diving.
It was insanely scripted…but more on that later on 😉
Preview:
Some seconds underwater….
…and already trapped!
She is in big trouble….
….and “loses” her regulator!
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And here is the video:
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Well………WOW! What the hell is going on here? And how can you film it like this?
Let’s start at the beginning. I don’t know what they are talking about at the beginning as I don’t speak Turkish.
But I would guess they aren’t so happy that she is diving alone. But seemingly there is no other dive equipment on the yacht or no one wants to dive with her.
As most know it’s not the best idea to dive alone.
But within seconds she gets managed to trap herself as her leg gets stuck in some rocks (always think about Thunderball when that happens 😉 ).
And almost instantly the situation gets out of control as she is breathing very heavily. I mean she is underwater for such a short time…she should have at least around 40 minutes of air if she remains calm. Plenty of time to get rescued, plenty of time to free herself.
But what does she do? She passes out and loses her regulator?????? Well….. how can that happen?
Whoever it was who wrote that scene, doesn’t really have knowledge about scuba diving. And seemingly no one in the production had.
But what happens next? She is underwater for a minute or two and already they are thinking that something is wrong and the guy jumps into the water.
Why? They couldn’t have had any clue about something being wrong.
He puts the regulator back in her mouth and we can see her clearly breathing from it.
He gets her on the ship and starts to resuscitate her. Check out how he positioned his hands:
Certainly, no method from which I ever heard of 😀 ….that naughty guy!
Oh boy….so many strange things. Well, yeah, it’s a Turkish soap opera. And you shouldn’t expect much from such a diving scene in it.
But some sort of logic in all of that would be nice….
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However, the scene in which she struggles to get free and starts heavily sucking on her regulator….is very sexy!
Sadly that’s just some seconds…but well, that’s at least something.
As I mentioned above I cut out all the little parts where they are constantly cutting from her in struggle underwater to one of the random folks on that yacht for some seconds which interrupts the underwater scene constantly and is a very irritating method.
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….
A nice guy on a forum recommended me a certain video that was reviewing a James Bond documentary from 1965.
So, if you read 1965 you already may think of Thunderball as that was its release year. 😉
Well, the documentary actually deals with the first 4 Bond movies…incl. Thunderball.
In the documentary, you get some really nice scenes with the three major Bond girls of Thunderball.
As you (should) know there is only one scuba scene with Domino (Claudine Auger) in the movie.
In this documentary, there are some promo shots of the girls in bathing suits, bikini, and even wetsuits!
Let’s start with the most interesting part of the documentary you can find in the video below.
Preview:
Domino in her famous bathing suit
Oh my…. that lucky Bastard!
Scuba tank and speargun?!
Wetsuit and speargun?!
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And here is the video:
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Well, with that kind of narration …you wouldn’t get away with it today 😉
But I like the voice, very fitting.
Sadly that was everything to find in this documentary related to the Bond girls in Thunderball. But it is very interesting material after all! 🙂
It’s great to see the women on the set in such outfits. Seeing Domino in wetsuit…in a nice glimpse in the department of “What could have been”.
And I still imaging Fiona Volpe (Luciana Paluzzi) in a black Spectre rubber wetsuit in the final scuba battle of the movie 😉
That would have been a proper ending for her.
Also in quite some footage, you see Paula (Martine Beswick) in action scenes against Spectre divers who seemingly wanna kidnap or kill her.
Sadly, they didn’t give her these kinds of scenes in the movie.
Here is some additional promo footage of these Bond girls:
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If you wanna see more of Thunderball and my opinion on certain aspects and scenes, feel welcome to check out my “Thunderball project” with quite a lot of content!
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.
