Abyss - Abgrund des Todes

Originaltitel: The Abyss

1989
12
2 Std. 20 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,5/10

198.816

IHRE BEWERTUNG

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1.492

137

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Sea Adventure Adventure Drama Mystery Sci-Fi Thriller

Ein ziviles Tauchteam wird angeheuert, um nach einem verlorenen Atom-U-Boot zu suchen und bei der Begegnung mit einer fremden Wasserart Gefahr zu laufen.Ein ziviles Tauchteam wird angeheuert, um nach einem verlorenen Atom-U-Boot zu suchen und bei der Begegnung mit einer fremden Wasserart Gefahr zu laufen.Ein ziviles Tauchteam wird angeheuert, um nach einem verlorenen Atom-U-Boot zu suchen und bei der Begegnung mit einer fremden Wasserart Gefahr zu laufen.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,5/10

198.816

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

1.492

137

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

1 Oscar gewonnen
- 9 Gewinne & 16 Nominierungen insgesamt

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Real oxygenated fluorocarbon fluid was used in the rat fluid breathing scene. Dr. Johannes Kylstra and Dr. Peter Bennett of Duke University pioneered this technique and consulted on the film, giving detailed instructions on how to prepare the fluid. The only reason for cutting to the actors' faces was to avoid showing the rats defecating from momentary panic as they began breathing the fluid.

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When the divers are swimming, you can see bubbles with every breath, meaning that they are on an open-system (i.e. scuba). However at that depth (2000ft), a standard scuba tank would be exhausted in under two minutes, or much less with any kind of exertion.

Zitate
Lindsey Brigman: We all see what we want to see. Coffey looks and he sees Russians. He sees hate and fear. You have to look with better eyes than that.

Crazy Credits
In the cast list, Super Seal Rover is credited as Big Geek and Mini Rover Mk II is credited as Little Geek. These are the actual models used for the unmanned submarines.

Alternative Versionen
The end credits were famously shortened to run under 5 minutes in 1989 in order to hit a target runtime and maximize daily showings; doing so also made the crawl almost illegibly tiny and fast. The credits on the extended edition were almost 10 minutes, with a bigger and slower crawl, and extended/alternate music. Several home video releases of the theatrical edition on laserdisc and DVD actually use the newer credits, so they are not entirely faithful! One VHS tape (Fox Video Selections 1561), at least, uses the original short credits; though the tape is formatted for 4:3, the credits merely gain picture information above and below the intended window (which, for some reason, is very high up in the frame after the first few names). However the new HD master, which has popped up on a few HDTV broadcasts (like Cinemax) go back to the original shortened credits, plus is in the original theatrical aspect ratio, making it the most faithful version available.

Verbindungen
Edited into No Feat But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects (2003)

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Written by Lowell George
Performed by Linda Ronstadt
Courtesy of CEMA Special Markets and Capitol Records, Inc.

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9/10

An excellent movie

This movie is extremely well made. Make sure you get the original director's cut, or Special Edition as they are calling it on the DVD. It includes the real ending, along with more than 20 minutes of additional footage. The morons from the studio in Hollywood decided that the public wouldn't want to see a nearly 3-hour underwater adventure, and forced James Cameron to cut it down and change the ending. The ending the studios insisted on is your typical boring old done-a-million-times happy ending, and does not work. It betrays the message of the film, and makes it nothing more than a good underwater shoot-em-up. This movie is much more than that. See the REAL ending to understand why it is so important to this film. As opposed to the canned studio ending, the REAL one makes you think. Well, what did you expect? Hollywood executives make movies for the common herd, they dumb them down to make sure every patron goes away feeling happy. God forbid that anyone actually may have to think a little. At the time, despite a few solid hits (such as the original Terminator), James Cameron wasn't enough of a power in La-La land to force the studios to release the movie as he wanted it to be. After Titanic, they will do whatever he says, so we can now expect some great Cameron films to look forward to, rather than having to wait for the REAL movie to come out years later on a Special Edition DVD.