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...Before the last market tank [April's NASDAQ collapse], I could have retired, bought three houses and my dream boat, and had $150,000 a year in interest to live on. Now I'm back where I started," says a senior engineer at a West Coast Web-services company, whose stock was briefly worth $9 million and is currently underwater. That means it has sunk beneath the price at which he originally bought...
...there were no guarantees; while water has been digitally drawn before (notably in Titanic and Waterworld), The Perfect Storm would require a level of simulation that had never been attempted. On Warner Bros. soundstage No. 16, a shipping vessel doubling for the Andrea Gail was harbored in a large tank 22-ft. deep (the same tank where Spencer Tracy sailed in The Old Man and the Sea 42 years ago). In front of a blue screen, mounted on a gimbal, the Andrea Gail tossed and turned while the actors (in addition to Clooney and Wahlberg, the boat's crew includes...
...bother carping about script lapses involving the crew (or an even sillier subplot of an upper-class twit on a yacht)? Humans are irrelevant to an effects extravaganza. The money shots come out of a computer or a studio tank. And though a storm is not a shark, the technical artistry plugs into a viewer's neurons to create a churning queasiness. You won't be moved. You will...
...What about the troubles you had shooting at the Warners Studio tank? I heard Karen Allen got banged around pretty severely there and other actors got bumped and bruised...
...comes with the territory. These films are not easy to make. Everybody knows when we go into it there will be physical things - tough stuff to go through like working in a tank with water cannons and the gimbal and the locking bolt and creating 100-foot wave effects. They know it's not easy stuff. I must tell you, I'm immensely impressed how all the actors were up to it. We had no real problems; I could do whatever I wanted to do with them. It was hard for them, yes, but they...