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Actors: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Stella Stevens, Shelly Winters
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Poseidon Adventure |
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It's New Year's Eve, and the passengers of the luxury liner, S.S. Poseidon, fill their glasses and begin the countdown to midnight. In the midst of the black-tie celebration, an undersea earthquake off Crete sends a massive tsunami crashing into the ship, capsizing her, and tossing the first-class party-goers around the dining room like so many rag dolls. After the ship finally settles, upside-down, Reverend Frank Scott, a minister, is able to convince only a small group of survivors that the path to survival means a harrowing climb upward, through the overturned decks, to reach the hull. Braving fire, blocked exits, submerged corridors, unexpected explosions, and the continually-rising water, the rag-tag group finally reaches the promised land of the engine room -- and eventual rescue -- but not before losing four of the ten adventurers in the unforgiving bowels of the ship.
--JR, Resident Scholar
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Ocean liner S.S. Poseidon is capsized by a 90 foot tidal wave at midnight on New Year's Eve. Gene Hackman, a minister, leads a handful of passengers up through the decks of the ship to the hull, their only hope for survival.
--Steven J. Urbanowicz, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Poseidon Adventure |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 65%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 25%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Disaster, big vehicle
Yes
Kind of vehicle:
- boat
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- religious figure
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Slightly see-through clothes
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard wavy
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- natural phenomena
- fight for survival
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Setting
Water?
Yes
Water:
- pleasure/love boat
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- hundreds
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- frying (cooking)
- crushed
- drowned
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
- Some foul language
Lot of special effects?
Yes
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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