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- IMDb page: The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
- Rate: 5.5/10 total 168 votes
- Genre: Drama | Romance
- Release Date: December 2011 (USA)
- Filming Location: Aldwych Underground Station, Aldwych, Holborn, London, England, UK
- Director: Terence Davies
- Stars: Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale
- Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
- Plot Keyword: Based On Play
- (in alphabetical order)
- Terence Davies screenplay
- Terence Rattigan play
Known Trivia
Plot: The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot. | »
Story: The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
FullCast & Crew
Produced By:
- Katherine Butler known as executive producer
- Eliza Mellor known as line producer
- Sean O'Connor known as producer
- Kate Ogborn known as producer
- Lisa Marie Russo known as executive producer
- Rachel Weisz known as Hester Collyer
- Tom Hiddleston known as Freddie Page
- Simon Russell Beale known as William Collyer
- Karl Johnson known as Miller
- Ann Mitchell known as Mrs. Elton
- Harry Hadden-Paton known as Jackie Jackson
- Sarah Kants known as Liz Jackson
- Jolyon Coy known as Philip Welch
- Danny de Warren known as Aldwych evacuee (uncredited)
- Elisha Stimson known as Aldwych evacuee (uncredited)
Supporting Department
Makeup Department:- Sally Rose Davidson known as make up trainee
- Sophia Knight known as makeup artist
- Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou known as make-up and hair designer
- Dan Crandon known as construction manager
- Joe Goulding known as BBC design trainee
- Peter Hallam known as property master
- Lara Murray known as scenic painter
- Rebecca White known as art department assistant
Companies
Production Companies:
- Camberwell / Fly Films
- Film4
- UK Film Council
- Lipsync Productions
- Protagonist Pictures
- Fulcrum Media Services
- Artificial Eye
Other Companies:
- Bonded Services film storage
- Dolby Laboratories sound mix
- Kodak motion picture film supplier
- Production Copier Company production equipment and services
- Sapex Scripts post-production script services
Distributors:
- Music Box Films (2011-2012) (USA) (theatrical)
- Front Row Filmed Entertainment (2011) (United Arab Emirates) (all media) (Middle East)
- Music Box Films (2011) (USA) (all media)
Other Stuff
Special Effects:
- Lip Sync Post (visual effects)
- Luke Butler known as digital effects supervisor
- Sam Cox known as visual effects artist
- Stefan Drury known as head of visual effects
- James Elster known as digital compositor
- Sean Farrow known as executive visual effects supervisor
- Scott Goulding known as online editor
- David Lloyd known as senior system administrator
- Daniel Spain known as system administrator
- Lucy Tanner known as visual effects coordinator
- Daniel Tomlinson known as scanning & recording manager
- Sheila Wickens known as digital compositor
- Canada 11 September 2011 (Toronto International Film Festival)
- Spain 18 September 2011 (Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival)
- Ireland 25 November 2011
- UK 25 November 2011
- USA December 2011
- Denmark 2012
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Filmography links and data courtesy of The Internet Movie Database
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17 Nov 2011, 12:05 am
I was a little anxious before getting into this film that I might not belong to the right audience for it, mainly because it was adapted from a play that I had no knowledge about. I probably did not get it exactly like critics who studied literature extensively, or someone familiar with another film based on the same play featuring Vivien Leigh.
However, as it turns out, The Deep Blue See is something that you are not supposed to get at the first time. Director Terence Davies himself admitted later in the Q&A, that he didn't know what the play was really about until he read it 3 or 4 times. Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston weren't very familiar with it before they joined the project, either. If anything, they were at first just as clueless as regular filmgoers about this legendary play.
There is a pretty good amount of background music going on throughout the film, but the most artistic part is the long sequence near the end that uses no music. The scene has limited dialog, contrasted only by the sound of a pendulum or, if I'm not mistaken, children playing somewhere afar, while two main characters take turns to express their feelings. At that point, it becomes clear that the film's theme is rather simple, but the director is using all the time in the world to convey it. I noticed a similar approach when I watched a French film called "Lourdes" about a year ago. It must be a fairly common technique outside the Hollywood system.
The problem with this technique, though, is sometimes it is hard to tell what's exactly going on in the protagonist's mind. It's a flip side of relying on elliptical shots that can also misguide the audience if they're not well attuned to the cadence of the moment. Perhaps the film should have continued to use background music to set the mood correctly, or better yet, it should have been made into a musical as the director half-jokingly suggested during the Q&A. Although it might have involved more funding and risks, the musical format might have been more appealing to the general public.