Dark scenes!


Wtf. Why film this at night?? The scenes are so dark we can't see much action. How cheap.

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That's a strange question.
For starters disasters don't operate from 7 til 5. Norway is a Scandinavian country, meaning it's up north. Depending on the season days could get very short and nights as long as 16-17 hours. A lot of the scenes were shot on location. That's certainly not making it cheap. Realistic, yes.

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For starters disasters don't operate from 7 til 5. Norway is a Scandinavian country, meaning it's up north. Depending on the season days could get very short and nights as long as 16-17 hours.

But in the summer it is the other way round. And as this was certainly not set in the winter half of the year, and they referred to it as being tourist season, this should be the brightest part of the year. Meaning it doesn't really get dark at night. This being in the middle of Norway, there would be no midnight sun, but visibility would remain good throughout the day and night.

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I remember seeing snow on the mountains and hearing one of the chaps at the observation station saying 'would you stop the tourist season before it has even started?'. So it wasn't taking place in the summer.

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You're right, your memory is better than mine. However, it clearly wasn't winter. I'd say no earlier than late May. There was just too much green for April; the trees had leaves and all. As for snow in the mountains, you have snow in those mountains even in summer time; it is not unusual anymore for all the snows to melt, but that won't happen until well into the summer.

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