Poseidon (2006)

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Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen

Starring: Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, Josh Lucas, Kevin Dillon, Emmy Rossum, Jacinda Barrett

Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller

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Trivia: The opening shot of the film is the most expensive shot ever produced using CGI, costing at around $2.5million.

Trivia: According to Entertainment Weekly, the CGI Poseidon is 218 feet longer than the Titanic, which would make it 1100½ feet long, 31½ feet shorter than the Queen Mary 2.

Trivia: The UK poster of the ship underwater isn't actually the Poseidon. It's actually the P&O Cruises Arcadia II. This is because they hadn't designed the Poseidon when the poster was released.

Trivia: Some reviews address the presence of a life raft with a flare gun inside. Life rafts are stored in containers which are lashed to deck with a hydrostatic release unit (HRU). Such a unit contains a weak link and a blade; the latter cuts the weak link at sufficient hydrostatic pressure when a ship sinks (or capsizes). The container is then free to float to the surface; a painter line, attached to the ship will activate and inflate the raft. A flare gun is inside as part of an emergency pack.

Trivia: During the filming of the scene where Robert drowns, Kurt Russell really started drowning.

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Mistakes

Factual error: After the ship capsized, the engines (and generators) could not have continued to run inverted due to lubrication and fuel delivery problems. Engines can not run upside down as they will fail due to lack of lubricant, since the pickups are at the bottom. Same for fuel - most fuel pickups are near the bottom of the tank so you can use the full capacity of the tank. With the ship upside down these pickups would fail. Even if battery power could run some emergency lights for a while, there would have been nothing to supply the massive energy needed to run the bow thrusters.

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Quotes

Dylan Johns: Does your husband.
Maggie James: Oh, does that work much?
Dylan Johns: What?
Maggie James: The tentative mention of a husband I'm supposed to correct, even though you clocked my wedding finger twice already.

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Questions

Question: There is a scene in which Robert Ramsey drowns. Is this true that, during the filming of this scene, Kurt Russell really started to drown?

Answer: According to him, yes: https://www.thefreelibrary.com/BOX+office%3A+Making+drowning+an+art+form%3B+Kurt+Russell+tells+Robin...-a0146253600.

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