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Plot. In January 1993, Jerry Shepard, guide at a National Science Foundation Antarctic research base, is asked to take UCLA professor Dr. Davis McClaren to Mount Melbourne to find a rare meteorite from Mercury. Since the ice conditions are poor, the best way to the mountain is by dog sled.
Plot. The film begins with a flash-forward in which a man (Robert Redford) narrates a letter addressing people he will miss, as the camera pans across a lost shipping container. In the Indian Ocean eight days earlier, the man wakes to find water flooding his boat. It has collided with a wayward shipping container, ripping a hole in the hull.
17 lut 2022 · The film is based on a 1983 Japanese film, Antarctica, which itself was inspired by the 1958 Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (Showa Station). David Diglio’s script moves to events up to 1993 because it was the final year that sled dog teams were used for Antarctic expeditions.
17 lut 2006 · "Eight Below" is "inspired by a true story," although most of the inspiration seems to have arrived second hand: Its source is the 1983 Japanese movie "Nanyoku Monogatari," - which I have not...
1 sty 2021 · All Is Lost's final scenes see Robert Redford's character, who at this point is adrift in his life raft, making one last desperate call for help to a passing ship. He lights a fire to draw attention to himself, but it burns out of control and forces him into the water.
Based on true story, Eight Below is a dramatic adventure story set in the ice and snow of Antarctica—a landscape that’s the perfect antidote to the dog days of summer.
