![]() With no special effects from CGI avail back in 1981, this movie was wonderfully shot and staged the use of all Incandescent lighting right down to the old 500 watt Appleton fixtures in the uboat pens was crazy accurate. The uboat pen scenes showing multible uboats were the same hollowed replica but were dubbed together that’s why a welder is throwing sparks between each pen but only one pen was set for filming. The uboat pen was actually reflooded for the first time in 1981 since ww2 ended. A hollowed out 3/4 replica was used for filming at sea on bridge scene, a 1/16 replica with a diver in it (about 19ft long) was used with the camera over clocking to provide a (heavy feel to it) and underwater outside depth charge scenes were brilliantly filmed with M60s and a 1/32 model and super clocked cameras. The set is still used as a training for foreign mariners to learn German incase of capturing one. ![]() It’s all about trying to fix a radio for 1 hour which on LAs the eas radio is redundant and swap out and takes only 36 seconds to do it so again watching that actual killed me with boardom. What’s bad is you figure out that Gene and Denzel won’t get along in the first 5 minutes. Crimson is more a doomsday movie but it’s tolerable but again from a suber the set drives me nuts to the point of loosing the plot. The cat and mouse destroyer versus uboat is classic down right great plot. This according to old uboat hands who trained us. Stuff like that vexed me as a mariner but Das Boot is certainly worth the watch pretty accurate authenticity even the acting. The safe was cheap painted plywood and simple magnets holding it shut. Example of cheapness would be Sean Connery getting into the safe in his cabin to get the orders. As I’ve toured a typhoon the boat is obviously not like the movie set. My favorite movie as a submariner is Red October. We trained in a Uboat incase we capture a sub with controls in German we would know how to operate one. Das Boot is as real as it gets in authenticity. I served in the “silent service” aboard an LA class atk sub.
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