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Actors: Robert Shaw, Nick Nolte, Louis Gossett Jr., Jacqueline Bisset, Eli Wallach
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"The Deep" is Peter Benchley's 1977 successor to "Jaws," and arguably more frightening. Magnificently photographed, the film features David (Nolte) and Gail (Bisset, wearing the wettest T-shirt imaginable), on a Bermuda diving vacation. When they inadvertently discover the wreck of "The Goliath," a supply ship laden with 98,000 ampoules of morphine, word spreads to nasty drug lord Henri Cloche (Gossett). He kidnaps the pair, instructs his strongarm, "if (David's) tongue moves again, cut it," then strip searches Gail.
When the couple enlist expert diver Romer Treece (Shaw), it becomes his movie. When the next dive reveals a 1764 treasure-laden galleon beneath The Goliath, pure adventure follows with double-crosses and creative ways to kill.
Finally, it is Gail who deduces that the older ship's "manifest" is really a queen's shopping list, any single item of which could authenticate the entire treasure. So Gale and David want this evidence, Cloche wants the morphine and Creece wants to blow up everything with a three-minute fuse. Who will get there first?
--Angry Jim Magin, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Technology/treasure/info search
Yes
involving:
- money/gems/treasure
Water adventure?
Yes
Water plotlets
- Pirate attack!
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- civilian sailor
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard curly (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (man) very short/crewcut
Body type
- very skinny (man)
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- muscular (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Water?
Yes
Water:
- scuba under
Island?
Yes
Island:
- on vacation
- Caribbean Island
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
- scientific labs
- cave
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 4 ()
Kind of violence:
- mission to rescue
- mission to destroy something
- mission to protect something
- mental battles
- karate chop
- hand to hand
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
- dropped from large heights
- eaten
- drowned
- decapitated
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding bombs
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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