Hi Y'all,
I don't know about you, but family and people at work have been asking me
repeatedly about the trailers they've seen about the cave thriller movie The
Cave, which I guess is about to be released. I've heard it said that it's
based on Huautla caving with some fiction thrown in to make it scary.
Bill
This from TagNet yesterday:
"The Cave" the movie
By: Brian Williams (Hawthorne, Florida)
[email protected]
I'd like to thanks to Wes Skiles and Jill Heinreth for an outstanding
job on the movie and a great time at the premieire on Tuesday night !.
It was great watching the movie with all the folks that made it happen
and worked so hard on it. A whole theater full of cavers. Yeah, it was
Hollywood monster movie typical, but the thing that was far from typical was
the way it was filmed, the realism of the sets, and of course the awesome
underwater videography of the whole Karst Productions Team.
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Wes, Jill and the whole team once again proved why they are the
best in the business when it comes to underwater videography. It
was their direction that made the constructed cave sets believable,
and even the dialouge was not too Hollywood contrived.
I will admit they had some gadets that don't really exist ( like the
wonderfully simple handheld cave sonar mapper) but for the most part,
the gear was right. Fun to see all the Dive Rite gear, represented, including
the new scooters!
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It was great to see the credits roll and hear the crowd roar for a
local bunch of cavers gone Hollywood! The last credits on
the film included a line where the entire cast and crew thanked the
cave divers of North Florida for teaching them to appreciate caves,
cave diving and the explorers who go there.
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Maybe for the general public, this will do for caving what Jaws did
for swimming in the ocean ?
(You know, my wife always told me there were cave monsters !)
I won't give the film away only to say this was certainly, "the sump
trip from hell" Enjoy the film for what it is folks, don't get too
wrapped up in the logistics of the trip.....
.....or the flying hodags !
Brian
See:
http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050824/LOCAL/50824022/1078/news
