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NBC has this ship actually sinking?

posted 19 years ago by charlesadams1
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I just looked at the www.nbc.com site and the promo section they have there for this tv movie shows the ship actually sinking below the surface of the ocean?!!

What is the point of that? I mean if anybody does survive to climb to the hull of the ship to escape they will drown (assuming they can somehow cut thru the hull). Remember in the original it took a navy rescue team with a blow torch to cut thru and save those people.

I hope they can hold their breaths aloooooooooong time.

I hate remakes.

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[–] hughie522 19 years ago

It's funny that. I remember the end of the novel where the 'Poseidon' sinks and drags a German tugboat down with it. I was really looking forward to that in the original but (unfortunately) it wasn't shown.

It's like H.G. Wells 'War of the Worlds' in a way; there are films (and in the case of WOTW, radio serials) that attempt to 'update' the story and change elements but there hasn't yet been a truly faitfhul adaptation. But, then again, how many 'faithful' novel to film adaptations have there been in the past?

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[–] cellapie 19 years ago

After re-reading the original novel some years ago, I thought that it would make a better mini-series in that you could see the prolonged suffering of the survivors while also having more invested emotionally in the characters. Using the book's original characters would have been a hoot. It would've been a much darker version than Irwin Allen's ---or NBC's, although I haven't seen it yet---but more real I think.

[–] Batgirl4ever 19 years ago

:::Caution, Novel spoilers::::

I also have to admit, I love the book, but what a bunch of depraved whackos were on that ship. Nonnie (Carol Lyndley's character) talks of having an abortion and, if I remember correctly, compares it to going to the dentist, her Senator lover (whom she met after the capsizing) prompty shuns her upon being saved. Linda Rogo has the hots for the Priest who I think she sleeps with in the novel, even though he is a priest he's engaged to some older rich woman to fleece her. Robin and Susan's parents were there and were stuck up rich whackos (dad played college football with the priest). Susan is raped by a crew member after the disaster, and isn't upset, in fact hopes that she is pregnant. What a bunch of weirdos.

The only people in the original movie who are remotely like the novel's charaters are the Rosens (though Belle meets her death at a different time in the book)and Mike Rogo. Though, Linda was similar, just more out there.

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