1/16
@TrungTPhan
Production for James Cameron’s 1989 film “The Abyss” was wild.
It was made in an abandoned nuclear power plant in South Carolina. To create the “ocean”, the crew pumped in 11m gallons of water from a river (became largest filtered fresh water tank in the world).
With 40% of filming underwater, they invented special equipment for cameras, air refilling stations and custom diving suits (hooked up with mics and light to get film-quality footage).
“One engineer said ‘you’re all gonna die’,” Cameron said of the production. “The other engineer said ‘I know what to do…we’ll use double in-line interrupters, to make sure there’s no short-circuiting that injures anybody’, so we went with engineer B obviously.”
The film did meh: $90m on a $70m budget.
But Cameron used FX learnings for Terminator 2 (1991) and learnings for “insane plan to film underwater” for Titanic (1997) and Avatar films (2009, 2023).
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Unreal and full 23-min vid from “it was a shyt show”: https://invidious.poast.org/4k1y6TGW24I?si=ZMCxnQxlTtYtIXG6
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1846999616949993472/vid/avc1/1280x710/4ebDSu8R7VCwQcvd.mp4
2/16
@TrungTPhan
On a very related note, here is confluence of events that led to Titanic’s 15-week run at top of box office (Leo/Kate, scheduling, weak competition, Celine etc) Titanic & the greatest film run ever
3/16
@TrungTPhan
Cameron legit turned this into t-1000
[Quoted tweet]
Every time I see your post.
4/16
@BusinessFamous
BEADS!
5/16
@TrungTPhan
insane right … just insane
6/16
@Richard_WEF
Every time I see your post.
7/16
@TrungTPhan
precursor to T-1000 rigth thurr
8/16
@KurumaTesla
One of my favourite films.
9/16
@Xanares_
Abyss is an amazing movie though.
10/16
@SoulTechSage
One of the most underrated movies, I’ve always said.
11/16
@henrykmin
Classic. JC always hits. Also the only Director I know who can deliver better sequals than the original hits.
12/16
@Jk91185408
The "drowning" scene
most intense thing to watch in any movie
13/16
@Antisimplistic
One of my all time favorites. I’m so glad he finally got the remaster done so we can enjoy it again.
14/16
@m_grinvalds
One of the best movies. Unfortunately, hugely underrated
15/16
@jasonprgressive
Great movie.
16/16
@AshworthAfrica
Ed Harris
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@TrungTPhan
Production for James Cameron’s 1989 film “The Abyss” was wild.
It was made in an abandoned nuclear power plant in South Carolina. To create the “ocean”, the crew pumped in 11m gallons of water from a river (became largest filtered fresh water tank in the world).
With 40% of filming underwater, they invented special equipment for cameras, air refilling stations and custom diving suits (hooked up with mics and light to get film-quality footage).
“One engineer said ‘you’re all gonna die’,” Cameron said of the production. “The other engineer said ‘I know what to do…we’ll use double in-line interrupters, to make sure there’s no short-circuiting that injures anybody’, so we went with engineer B obviously.”
The film did meh: $90m on a $70m budget.
But Cameron used FX learnings for Terminator 2 (1991) and learnings for “insane plan to film underwater” for Titanic (1997) and Avatar films (2009, 2023).
***
Unreal and full 23-min vid from “it was a shyt show”: https://invidious.poast.org/4k1y6TGW24I?si=ZMCxnQxlTtYtIXG6
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1846999616949993472/vid/avc1/1280x710/4ebDSu8R7VCwQcvd.mp4
2/16
@TrungTPhan
On a very related note, here is confluence of events that led to Titanic’s 15-week run at top of box office (Leo/Kate, scheduling, weak competition, Celine etc) Titanic & the greatest film run ever
3/16
@TrungTPhan
Cameron legit turned this into t-1000
[Quoted tweet]
Every time I see your post.
4/16
@BusinessFamous
BEADS!
5/16
@TrungTPhan
insane right … just insane
6/16
@Richard_WEF
Every time I see your post.
7/16
@TrungTPhan
precursor to T-1000 rigth thurr
8/16
@KurumaTesla
One of my favourite films.
9/16
@Xanares_
Abyss is an amazing movie though.
10/16
@SoulTechSage
One of the most underrated movies, I’ve always said.
11/16
@henrykmin
Classic. JC always hits. Also the only Director I know who can deliver better sequals than the original hits.
12/16
@Jk91185408
The "drowning" scene
most intense thing to watch in any movie
13/16
@Antisimplistic
One of my all time favorites. I’m so glad he finally got the remaster done so we can enjoy it again.
14/16
@m_grinvalds
One of the best movies. Unfortunately, hugely underrated
15/16
@jasonprgressive
Great movie.
16/16
@AshworthAfrica
Ed Harris
To post tweets in this format, more info here: https://www.thecoli.com/threads/tips-and-tricks-for-posting-the-coli-megathread.984734/post-52211196
