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...director had busted budgets before (on The Abyss, Terminator II, True Lies). But his pictures have grossed more than $1 billion, all told. So Fox was moved at once to green-light his tale of young lovers (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) who meet aboard the ill-fated ship. It's seen through the eyes of an elderly survivor of the 1912 disaster (Gloria Stuart), who recounts her ordeal to treasure hunters (led by Bill Paxton) seeking a jewel believed to be submerged in the wreck...
When Liemandt and his buddies realized that they would have to raise their own money they decided "to jump into the abyss...
...acted in my best interests, the decision and its impact were presented so coldly and disinterestedly that it almost became the final straw that pushed me to suicide. Only a serendipitous e-mail note from a friend, urging me not to "let them win" pulled me back from the abyss. In the end, the only official body which addressed my condition nearly killed me in the process...
When Malick gives concrete notes, he tends to speak in metaphors as singular as the images in his films. He talks about the "green poison of war," and instructed one actor to play a scene like "a squid being thrown up on the beach from the abyss." On the other hand, the stage directions in his script could be dauntingly airy for an actor: "Fife's terror passes gradually over into a longing for life and peace." How do you play that...
...riding a two game win streak the team treks into the abyss of New Haven where it cannot merely progress. They must excel...