Yeah, I know, this post isn’t about scuba diving at all…but from time to time I like to post about other breathing devices too.
The movie to which these scenes belong is by far the oldest which I ever posted about…it’s from 1933!
The chances are big I never would have stumbled upon this one if not a friendly user had recommended it to me.
I watched the whole movie and this scene was the dramatic finale!
It’s important to know the story behind it:
A woman becomes a pilot in an era where women weren’t “supposed” like that. She gets into an affair with a married man and ends badly.
She thinks about him as she tries to get the world record flight altitude title.
Preview:
Time to put on that oxygen mask!
(…a very early version)
Now she is in trouble!
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And here is the video:
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Well, that happens when you are without oxygen for too long…..
She was thinking about the tragic love of her life and pulled off her oxygen mask perhaps without thinking about the danger.
I love that moment as she realizes how badly she needs her oxygen mask again.
Hastily she tries to get it back on, but too late….she gets unconscious and the plan gets out of control.
The actress is actually is Katharine Hepburn who was 26 when this movie came out!
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Ok, hard to say how realistic that scene is, as she is only without oxygen for some moments. I think it might actually take a bit longer from what I read.
However, this peril scene is quite unique! Never saw that type of oxygen mask and a woman passing out in such a scene…. that’s certainly something new for me!
And the moment from which she realizes her error until she tries hastily to get her mask back on….that’s quite thrilling for me. It seems that for a second she forgot where her oxygen mask is. Hard to say if that was in the script or not.
However, she is in great distress as she tries to get the mask back on.
*EDIT*
A second theory is that she wanted to kill herself. She had some seconds thought about it….but too late……
I know about this scene for quite a while but haven’t posted it here so far.
A nice guy asked if I would know it and now, I wanna make a post about it.
Here we have the two scuba scenes of the movie.
In the first one, a young couple dives around…each on their own(!), and soon the guy gets into trouble…
In the main scene at the end of the movie they are diving again, and this time the frogwomen gets into trouble….big trouble!
Preview:
….trouble! She is trapped in a net!
A happy diver-couple!
She gets into…..
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And here is the video:
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Sorry, but that is actually the best picture quality available for this rare greek movie.
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Well…..I would say….WOW! And not really a good wow…. 😆
They have a gorgeous woman in a solid wetsuit. She dives into a net. A good scenario!
But so many aspects here are really badly done….
First the music: Sounds like a madman on drugs playing some most annoying sounds on his electric keyboard. I get headaches from that…..
And there are so many logic plotholes I don’t know where to start!
Ok, why the happy couple is always diving each on their own….I don’t know….pretty reckless, but ok, not unlogical at least.
Two times she reaches for her knife more or less, why doesn’t she get it???? She isn’t so trapped that she couldn’t reach it.
I guess her tank is supposed to be empty at one point but she is exhaling all the time through her mouthpiece on regular basis. When is she supposed to be out of air?
Of course, it’s the usual theme: when a diver is trapped he/she has only a few % of air left…. oh man.
Why are they cutting SO often (in way too long scenes) to him setting on these rocks???? That interrupts way too often her dramatic scenes.
He decides that she may be in trouble so starts looking for her. Good idea! But why is he diving as slow as a 100-year-old grandma? The love of your life seems to be in trouble… man! She is diving alone and her tank must be pretty empty!!!! You should HURRY….a bit at least….
Often it seems like she isn’t really trapped in the net as it is floating pretty high above the ground. It looks like she even could reach the surface sometimes.
He finally finds her! And what does he do??? He starts yanking on the net! ARGGGGGGGGHHHHHH
Perhaps she needs air???? You could give her some!!!! You also have a knife! Use it, damn it!
All the time she is still conscious and kicking. Just before they reach the surface she doesn’t move anymore. Is he sharing his air with her? NOOOO, still he does nothing like that.
They reach the surface, she still has the regulator in her mouth, which would be very unusual for someone out of air….
But what then? Does he give her mouth to mouth? No, she pushes and pulls a little on her!!!?! Ok, I know that mouth to mouth rescue isn’t a very old technique. And there were older ones before that.
But good god, he moves so slowly! So very slowly …like she would be a puppet on a first aid exercise….no rush….she isn’t breathing…but take your time.
Then she is seemingly conscious for some seconds….but quickly dies afterward??????
And he is still very relaxed… maybe he is thinking: “what the hell, my beloved is dead now….well, then I can go home now and make dinner”.
WHAT???? Who comes up with all that madness?
I guess the screenwriter/director was as mad as the music composer.
Ok, I admit I haven’t seen the full movie as it is in greek language. But so much is going wrong in this final dive scene which could have been so much better!
*EDIT*Here are some background news I got from the nice guy who reminded me about this movie:
The translate of the title is “that summer”. She is scuba teacher but has cancer as the script says. Althought decided to dive with her ex husband. At the second dive she didn’t felt ok underwater because of her illness and finally died. For this reason her ex husband didn’t do her anything to save her.
Well, there you can see how important a background story can be to understand this weirdness better.
But still, I am convinced of many of the things I wrote above.
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For you folks I edited the final scene to a much BETTER version …with an open ending (blog exclusive):
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The title of the movie is already in the video…but here is the IMDB page:
Ok folks, time to make a BIG, juicy post about a new movie that deserves it! I am sure this will be one of the longest posts I made on this blog.
You all should know Deep Blue Sea (1999), certainly one of the best shark movies with a big budget (60 million $….and that was 20 years ago).
Then in 2018, there was a successor with a tiny budget, practically the same plot…..but it wasn’t good. In fact, it was quite horrible. It had a short and uninteresting scuba scene.
This June I posted about the trailer for Deep Blue Sea 3. It was promising as it had quite a lot of scuba content and the female lead had some scuba scenes as well.
This week the movie was actually released and I watched it in the hope of being entertained and, of course, to find some good scuba scenes.
Deep Blue Sea 3 has an estimated budget of 5 million $. Certainly not an A-list movie.
I don’t know if they planned (before Covid) to release it on cinema screens, but I guess not, especially after the 2nd one was a disappointment.
Even after watching the trailer….I certainly didn’t expect to get HYPED like this 🙂
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The setting is already nice with a tiny island that slowly gets swallowed by the ocean due to climate change. Even some parts are made by CGI, a pretty impressive setting for that limited budget.
Tania Raymonde, the lead actress, looked already familiar to me in the trailer, but I didn’t know for sure. After a check on IMDB, I knew for certain: Actually, I know her since the start of her acting career as she had a small role in “Malcolm in the middle” in the early 2000s. She was also in “Lost” and “Goliath”.
After 90 seconds she appears in the movie in a black, smoothskin shorty…. and ….my eyebrows…. moved up already. 😉
Preview – scenes from before AND after her first dive in the movie:
After her first dive of the movie…
…. Tania is still…
….in her smoothskin wetsuit (shorty) 🙂
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And here is the video – scenes from before AND after her first dive in the movie:
If I would post all the scenes of her scuba diving …and/or …wearing sexy wetsuits/bikinis throughout the movie it would practically be half the movie 😉
Here is a selection of her outfits that she wears both underwater and above the surface :
Smoothskin wetsuit (shorty)
full wetsuit
Bikini
Wetsuit(?) (shorty)
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The ultimate HIGHLIGHT of the movie is around minute 70.
[small SPOILERS ahead!]
The bad guys have placed an underwater mine that would not only kill the sharks but also sink the (artificial) island.
So, Tania gets into scuba gear once again and wants to defuse the mine. But the villain has sent a diver after her to stop her!
And what followed…let my lower jar drop… (+other things happened as well).
(*EDIT January 2022*: Now on Google Drive since it is suddenly not welcome anymore on YouTube)
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Over the years I have seen quite a lot of scuba fights. Some were good, others were bad.
But DAMN! THIS is how you make a scuba fight!!!!!
Ok, there are things you can improve here….but SO many things are done realllllly good:
– It’s a little weird that he doesn’t use the speargun that he still had as the villain sends him after her. He also doesn’t have a knife, or he doesn’t wanna use it. And he also fails to use the element of surprise. She was fully focused on the mine, so he could have sneaked up from behind her and ripped her mask off, stabbed her, cut her air hose etc.. Maybe he was too incompetent, he underestimated her… or he just wanted to have a real challenge instead of a “dishonorable” kill.
– The whole time you hear her breathing sounds from that FFM. It’s thrilling to hear both of them grunting and moaning as the fight goes on. You can really HEAR the struggle! A pretty rare thing when it comes to underwater fights.
– Tania really fights back! She is not the easy victim he may suspect. I love how she tries EVERYTHING: She attacks him with her knife, reaches for his mouthpiece, beats against his mask, claws into his hand, uses her elbow to hit him as he is behind her. Pretty sure I have never seen so many different moves from a frogwoman in a scuba fight! Love the fight choreography here! Often the bad guys (try to) yank out the mouthpiece of a frogwoman to drown her and that’s it. Tania has an FFM, so he can’t do that. She struggles frantically to keep the mask on as he is trying to yank it away from her forcibly.
– The whole struggle as he yanks on her mask…..is really awesome! A verrrry intense scene! A close-up of his hand yanking on her mask would have been great, but that’s only a minor issue. My slightly bigger issue is that the white shark rescues her a little too early 😉
Would have loved to see her struggling for some time without the mask, while her mask would be spitting her precious air. However, it’s great that he did manage to rip that mask off after all the struggle. The evil frogman had no luck after he finally managed to overpower her, he had a BIG advantage…..he got eaten… 😆
This scuba fight is one of the very best in my opinion. Certainly in my TOP 5 of all time!
It’s great that we still get fights like this one! I guess I know at least 95% of the good ones….so I am VERY happy about the new material! 🙂
Fun fact with some spoilers about the ending of the movie, don’t read it if you haven’t seen the whole movie!
Spoiler title
Actually, all the women survive…and all the men get eaten/killed during the movie
I guess some trolls and other sorts of morons think that this movie is a feministic movie against men …and thereby part of a feministic worldwide conspiracy 😆
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Always wanted to see the whole movie since I heard about the scuba scene in it.
Never found the movie so far….but I found a nice clip that I wanna share with you. No edits were needed.
2 frogwomen and a frogman dive together.
But soon one of them realizes that evil forces have sabotaged her scuba gear (tank)!
Sorry for the bad picture quality but this was the best I found so far. And it’s a rare TV movie from the 90’s so……
Preview:
The two frogwomen are ready….
…to dive!
But something is….
….wrong!
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Here is the video:
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Still would love the see the movie to get the story!
Who are these people? Who wants to kill her….and WHY?
Why are all 3 of them diving alone each after a while?
Well, from this clip the guy would be my primary suspect as the other woman decides to help her.
But who knows without more info….
If you know a way to get the full movie, please let me know!
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Quite a nice scene! Especially as her gear was sabotaged! Someone wanted her dead since her gauge isn’t showing that her tank is empty.
A little odd is the fact that she isn’t moving at all. If I would be out of air I would swim towards the rescuer who has spotted me but is still in some distance.
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The movie title is already in the post title, but there are tons of movies with that title….so here is the link to the movie:
Looks like a good amount of scuba scenes! 🙂
And besides the CGI….the trailer looks pretty good in my opinion!
It won’t be as good as Deep blue sea was…but hopefully it’s better than the second.
As long we get a lot of frogwomen scenes I’m happy. Especially when they get into some serious action.
