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...Andrea Gail's captain, Billy Tyne. Let it be said right up front that Clooney is a terrific actor, a funny guy and a sexy movie star (he and co-star Mark Wahlberg never looked better, by the way, than they do here), but even director Wolfgang Petersen--who was drawn to the project because of his interest in the characters--concedes that the storm is the movie's major player. "It is massive; it is gigantic; it is something made from nightmares," says Petersen. "It is the bad guy of all bad guys...
...perfect? We'll answer that question in the last paragraph. For now, let's say that it is something of a milestone in filmmaking. Although computer-generated images, or CGI, have been around for a couple of decades, Petersen's film is traveling the highest plane of the state of the art. Using weather reports, scientific formulas and frequent flights of fancy, a team of artists at Industrial Light & Magic, the prolific special-effects house behind Terminator 2 and the Star Wars franchise, has rendered the roiling seas and crashing waves almost entirely on computers (no miniature boats were used...
...smashing against the sides of the Andrea Gail replica as it sat anchored about 12 miles out from Dana Point, Calif., during production of "The Perfect Storm" late last year. It was a beautiful, crisp, clear day when TIME Los Angeles correspondent Jeffrey Ressner spoke to movie director Wolfgang Petersen on the Gail, but the ship was rocking back and forth so badly that the cast and crew were not at their peak. Mark Wahlberg looked as gray as a ghost from vomiting throughout the morning, while George Clooney was recovering from a bout of the flu. During a lunch...
...Wolfgang Petersen: I'm having a blast because I'm lucky that these seas don't affect me. I'm perfectly fine. This movie is my kind of thing. I love the water and the sea and being able to do a story about people who make their living out here, doing all this crazy, adventurous stuff to get a paycheck. So I'm having a lot of fun, even if it's a very tragic movie...
...excuse me for a second. I think I have to hurl. (At this point, your humble correspondent succumbs to a bout of seasickness, while director Petersen takes the opportunity to deliver a monologue into the still-running tape recorder. His statement follows verbatim...