The deep novel peter benchley7/4/2023 ![]() 4) The great supporting turns from Eli Wallach and Lou Gossett, Jr. ![]() As a 13 year old boy, I can assure you that she made a pretty indelible impression on me. What an amazing run he had over the last five years of his life, highlighted by THE STING in '73, THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1-2-3 in '74, JAWS in '75, BLACK Sunday in '76 and THE DEEP in '77. While his performance is slightly overbaked (while also channeling and lazily riffing on Quint), his performance still manages to be larger than life - the delightful glue that keeps this movie together. All the Bermuda based location work in this movie is top notch, adding a rich and handsome texture to the otherwise middling narrative. ![]() For all its flaws, allow me to wax poetic about the many virtues of this sublime cinematic guilty pleasure: 1) That amazing opening aerial montage of Bermuda - maybe the greatest opening establishing shot in the history of cinema. ![]() For me, THE DEEP is JAWS-lite - a kind of melodramatic, soap-opery version of JAWS. In spite of its many shortcomings (lazy direction, over-the-top acting, gratuitous violence, to name a few), you really HAVE to love this movie! Two years removed from the sensational release of JAWS, THE DEEP in many ways had some very big shoes to fill. ![]()
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