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The Big Blue (Director's Cut) [DVD]
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Genre | Drama |
Format | NTSC, Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Director's Cut, Subtitled, DVD, Widescreen |
Contributor | Weintraub Entertainment Group, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette, Luc Besson, Jean-Marc Barr |
Language | English, French |
Runtime | 2 hours and 48 minutes |
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Product Description
Product Description
A compelling adventure and romance, shot in New York, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. A young couple embark on a passionate romance complicated by an all-consuming love of diving and the siren call of the sea.
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A hit in Europe but a flop in the U.S.--where it was trimmed, rescored, and given a new ending--Luc Besson's The Big Blue has endured as a minor cult classic for its gorgeous photography (both on land and underwater) and dreamy ambiance. Jean-Marc Barr is a sweet and sensitive but passive presence as Jacques, a diver with a unique connection to the sea. He has the astounding ability to slow his heartbeat and his circulation on deep dives, "a phenomenon that's only been observed in whales and dolphins until now," remarks one scientist. Kooky New York insurance adjuster Joanna (Rosanna Arquette at her most delightfully flustered and endearingly sexy best) melts after falling into his innocent baby blues, and she follows him to Italy, where he's continuing a lifelong competition with boyhood rival Enzo (Jean Reno in a performance both comic and touching).
Besson's first English-language production looks more European than Hollywood, and it suffers from a tin ear for the language. At times it feels more like an IMAX undersea documentary than a drama about free divers, but the lush and lovely images create a fairy tale dimension to Jacques's story, a veritable Little Merman. More dolphin than man, he's so torn between earthly love and aquatic paradise that even his dreams call him to the sea (in a sequence more eloquent than any speech).
Besson has expanded the film by 50 minutes for his director's cut, which adds little story but slows the contemplative pace until it practically floats in time, and has restored Eric Serra's synthesizer-heavy score, a slice of 1980s pop that at times borders on disco kitsch. Most importantly, he has restored his original ending, which echoes the fairy tale he tells Joanna earlier in the film and leaves the story floating in the inky blackness of ambiguity. --Sean Axmaker
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Package Dimensions : 7.5 x 5 x 0.6 inches; 4 ounces
- Director : Luc Besson
- Media Format : NTSC, Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Director's Cut, Subtitled, DVD, Widescreen
- Run time : 2 hours and 48 minutes
- Release date : August 15, 2000
- Actors : Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette
- Dubbed: : French
- Subtitles: : English, French, Spanish
- Language : French (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B00004TWZF
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #58,980 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #2,399 in Romance (Movies & TV)
- #5,889 in Action & Adventure DVDs
- #9,988 in Drama DVDs
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Esta es la versión larga de la película o corte del director.
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2023
Esta es la versión larga de la película o corte del director.
It arrived much quicker than promised, and works perfectly fine. This is one of my favorite movies and I watched many times in a small little culture film theater in Munich called Cinema. I’m very happy that I found the extended directors cut version and very happy it arrived on time or rather sooner than on time in perfect condition.
A DVD player that can play multiple regions is required though. Just be aware of that!
Anyway, I'm really disappointed that I can't share this wonderful movie with my diving friends here in Texas as the rights have yet to be released here. I think I can get a regular DVD in French with English Subtitles but some of my friends are still hooked into that old "Freedom Fries" boondoggle from a few years back so it probably would not be a good idea...
As for the movie itself, I saw it many years ago when living in Montreal (in French) and still have flashbacks of the wonderful imagery, superb sound track etc etc etc...
As a side note I was offered a full refund, minus shipping, handling and a 20% restocking fee but have decided to keep it and look into a universal player as my girlfriend and I are big fans of foreign films and we will undoubtedly run into this situation again.
I was once told that if you learn something new you can go home... so I am going to do that and perchance watch something on my new blu-ray,... formatted for region A of course:)... cheers!
It's a show done around the world free diving championships (meaning no air tanks but your lungs). I thought it would bore me but discovered that Jean Marc-Barr, Jean Reno & Rosanna Arquette (I like her) put together a fun, quirky & believable show. Marc-Barr plays Jacques Mayol who starts the show as a little French kid that likes to dive on the same island as Enzo played by Reno. Mayol's father is a sponge diver that dies picking sponges. It has an impact on young Jacques. Fast forward 15 - 20 years & Enzo is the worlds best free diver. He is not content however as his old competitor Jacques is not in sight.
We find Jacques diving for the sake of science in the Andes Mountains. The scientific expedition has had an accident that requires the insurance company to send a rep down to investigate. That's Arquette's entrance as Johana Baker a quirky fun lady. She is immediately smitten with Jacques & that begins the rest of the show that revolves around the three of them & the dolphins Jacques admires. Jacques gets involved in Free diving because Enzo has him located & big Enzo who must be first in all things believes he will successfully romance Johana. The competition for Johana & the free diving world record begins. It plays much better than it reads with interesting looks at the world of diving as a sport, as a living, as fun & as science. The world of human relationships isn't left out. The love story is from as slightly unusual aspect due to Mayol's character.
The American ending differs from the others but that didn't upset me. It wasn't that big a thing & I'm not big on the integrity of a storyline as I believe the rash of director cuts are more tied to ego than integrity. Their validity or necessity surely isn't much.
The Directors cut I thought a travesty of time waste so many of its scenes really served no purpose. The French version was a much better length but I thought it suffered from having the same score as the Director's cut. Done by Eric Serra (the original composer) I felt the music was unrelated to the subject of the movie. The American version was cut a little short but had a new score done by Bill Conti. That score was perfectly suited to the water theme & as the music is a large part of your experience I prefer it by a bunch. The American ending is over dramatic but I'll put up with that for the change in music. I really like this show & when it comes to mind I always hear the American score not the original. Sometimes change is good as they say. I feel you should watch both the French & the American version. The Director's is just not good film.
I give the Director' 2 1/2 Stars, the French 4 Stars & the American 5 Stars.
I'm rating all three versions together as 4 Stars. Take a look!