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Inspired by an Australian Story.

posted 12 years ago by Mercurio_Cristallo
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It was inspired by an Accident that happened her in Australia, where 13 people where trapped in a cave system which the entrance had collapsed because of a cyclone caused a flash flood. Everyone Survived after 36 hours of being trapped. This Happened in 1988 at Nullarbor Plain, Aus, and the Writer Andrew Wight was part of this exploration.

I know a lot of you don't like it, but its based on an accident that is apart of my history and I shall never forget it.

This is the news story that was from the Sun Herald in 1988.

http://www.cavediving.com.au/cave-diving-articles/1988/12/4/13-hauled-to-safety-from-cave/

[–] squirt_fry 11 years ago

Yeah, I'm going to be a grammar Nazi.

apart = to keep separated. eg "keep those two dogs apart or they'll fight!"

a part = means exactly that; a part of something. eg "this is a part of history" or "that's a part of my car".

Apart from this, thanks for the information on the incident. Very interesting.

[–] Mercurio_Cristallo 11 years ago

Hey, thanks for the grammar correction. I actually didn't know the difference between them. Always happy to learn something new.

[–] DurakSuka 9 years ago

You're not a grammar Nazi. You're a *beep* up *beep*

Hama cheez ba-Beer behtar meshawad!

[–] SpiltPersonality 11 years ago

Yes, and Apollo 18 was based on the real moon shot... and both this piece of crap and Apollo 18 equally follow the history of both real events. In fact Apollo 18 was probably more historically accurate.

SpiltPersonality

[–] avnrulz 11 years ago

http://www.cavediving.com.au/cave-diving-articles/1988/12/4/13-hauled- to-safety-from-cave/

SP, read the IMDB trivia section where it explains the co-writer's experience.

The paper actually spelled his name wrong!

Among those safe outside the cave were fellow Sydneysiders Andrew Wright, Fiona Wight and Vicki Bunwick.

BOHICA America!

[–] SpiltPersonality 11 years ago

I wasn't saying that there wasn't a case where cave divers were trapped. I wasn't saying there isn't a crappy movie made called 'Sanctum'. I was saying that the link between the crappy movie 'Sanctum' and the real life story has as many similarities as the real life Apollo moon shots have to the crappy movie 'Apollo 18'.

Or, in other words, over-use of the 'based on/inspired by a true story' tagline makes any real links tenuous at best.

I'd be able to make a movie where I was an SAS soldier who rescues a beautiful princess from the clutches of an evil alien space bat and have it 'based on my life' and probably have more related facts than this piece of steaming bowel movement.

SpiltPersonality

[–] avnrulz 11 years ago

My point was, the guy who wrote it lived it.

BOHICA America!

[–] fluffchop 11 years ago

I absolutely agree with you. When it flashed up based on a real story and then directed by James Cameron that was two strikes. I kept watching up until they flew the helicopter over the cave entrance where they cued up the awe and wonderment music in 3, 2, 1. I was waiting for the guy to turn around and say welcome to Jurassic Park it was so contrived. At that point I selected 128X forward play until the end credits. You could honestly get the whole story. They went in the cave, somehow it turned into the ocean and they were trapped. Some people died and one person survived. I've never seen a movie like it and with so little point. At least in other cave diving stories such as "The Descent" or "The Cave" there are some creatures to deal with. Makes it like an actual movie rather than a low budget snore fest.

[–] Angel_c4 10 years ago

You know, based on a true story, and inspired by true events, are two very different things right?.

For example, i could be making my usual breakfast toast and see an odd image burnt on it, and i could say that event inspired me to write a movie called "The Passion of the Crust".

I do agree that hollywood usually plays very loose when making movies based on real events, but that is not what this movie claims to be.

[–] Obnoxiously-Adorable 10 years ago

*loose

And I would pay money to see Passion of the Crust.

Not very much mind you, but I'd pay a little.

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[–] spookyrat1 8 years ago

When it flashed up based on a real story and then directed by James Cameron that was two strikes.

At that point I selected 128X forward play until the end credits.

... somehow it turned into the ocean ...

Here's a few hints. Watch it in normal speed and you'll realise: 1 James Cameron wasn't the director. 2 The cave didn't turn into the ocean 3 It's a survival movie, not a creature feature. 4

Actual movies ...

... don't always have monsters in them. 5 It doesn't always reflect well on your intellect, if you watch 95% of a film at 128x speed, then try to convince people your comments are well-informed.🐭

[–] fluffchop 11 years ago

A part of your history? Could you be more dramatic! I live in Australia and don't remember this nor do I care weather it happened or not. If you are going to go explore uncharted caves it's practically inevitable that something untoward will happen. Why is it that stupidity is so often regarded as newsworthy? Does that mean we need a movie based on said stupidity? No!

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[–] pjsurgical 10 years ago

do you mean weather of whether in this context? You could say the former spelling is tongue in check (given that the film is a consequence of poor weather).

[–] xdeeviusx 10 years ago

They did not; "go to explore uncharted caves" duck egg! If you knew about the true event or bothered to read the news article above you'd know that they wen't down there to film a documentary, there was a landslide and they became trapped.

This event, and personal experience, inspired one of the survivors to write a more elaborate and valuable screenplay for a movie, nothing wrong with that, happens all the time and it makes for great movies (sometimes).

The problem is that foolish people like you read the text at the start of the movie stating that it was 'Inspired by true events' and erroneously assume that it is a reconstruction of real life events, you therefore believe the movie to be crap because it in fact was not true to real life.

Learn the difference between 'Based on a true story' and 'Inspired by true events' and also learn what the term 'production value' means.

[–] Darvidd 9 years ago

There's no set difference between the 2 phrases-both mean it's not an accurate reconstruction of events-if a film was described as 'the true story of ...' then that would be held to a higher standard of accuracy-what annoys me is 'Fargo', for example (film and series) baldly stating that they're based on true events when they are not.

"What is an Oprah?"-Teal'c.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 7 years ago

"Based on true story" or "inspired by true events" has no correlation with the truth at all. It's just a moniker to state that the movie won't contain high fantasy elements like monsters, aliens, ghosts, elves, androids or superheroes.

Even with that already said front and center, some people still expect movie monsters or what not in this movie. It's just a drama about caving and caves.