'THE PERFECT STORM' TEMPESTUOUS TECHNOLOGY AT ITS BEST.Byline: - Glenn Whipp When Wolfgang Petersen talked to actors about being in the film adaptation of Sebastian Junger's runaway non-fiction best seller, ``The Perfect Storm,'' he had one question he'd always ask first: Do you know what you're in for? ``I wanted them to know that this was not going to be an easy shoot,'' Petersen says. ``I wanted to get them psyched up for something that would be a little frightening, but also very exciting.'' Ultimately, George Clooney George Timothy Clooney (May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter who gained fame as the lead doctor in the long-running television drama, ER and Mark Wahlberg For the actor and television game show host, see Mark L. Walberg. Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5 1971) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and television producer. signed on to play the leaders of the six-man crew of the Andrea Gail The fishing vessel Andrea Gail was a commercial fishing vessel lost at sea during the "Perfect Storm" of 1991. Background The Andrea Gail was a 72 foot commercial fishing vessel That was constructed in Panama City, FL in 1978, originally named the "Miss , the fishing boat that endured a Force 12 storm off the coast of Newfoundland. Petersen, who, with ``Das Boot'' on his resume, knows a thing or two about waterlogged wa·ter·logged adj. 1. Nautical Heavy and sluggish in the water because of flooding, as in the hold: a waterlogged ship. 2. movies, spent three weeks filming at sea in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. But the majority of the shoot took place inside Stage 16 at Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) ., where the filmmakers created their own version of the great gale Great Gale may refer to:
``You've never seen so many wind machines in your life,'' Petersen says. ``The actors really were good sports because we pelted them with tons of water non-stop for days on end. Mark Wahlberg told me he felt like he was enduring a beating, but two days after we finished filming, he wanted to come back.'' In the editing room, Petersen combined the soundstage work with the state-of-the-art special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. from Industrial Light and Magic. He says the results were so seamless that he sometimes would ask his editor if they shot it or if it was a full CG (computer-generated) shot. ``You couldn't have made this movie even two years ago,'' Petersen says. ``The technology is so advanced that I promise you, the audience is going to feel like wringing the water out of their clothes when they leave the theater.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: George Clooney hangs on for dear life in the high-tech film ``The Perfect Storm,'' opening June 30. |
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