WIDOWMAKER, PARAMOUNT 2002 - Harrison Ford stars as a Russian naval officer who,Īt the height of the Cold War in 1961, has been given command of the Soviet Union’s first The past large scale models did not quite Improving the general feel of realism, where in With CGI reducing the cost of production and Though been a recent revival of naval movies Several submarine films use occasional 'dark humor' as comic relief to the tension, in common with other war films. This sets this sub-genre apart from its parent genre of war films, which tend to focus more on battle scenes. While submarine films do use dramatic battle scenes, much of the tension in these movies tends to be created using other devices, such as conflict between officers, a threatened mutiny, damage to the boat, or life-threatening problems with the diving equipment or the engines/nuclear reactor. Modern (post-World War II) movies often add conflict between different enemies.Īlso a typical feature in all depicted eras is the sudden switch from hunter to hunted while stalking enemy ships or carrying deadly nuclear missiles, the submarine often becomes, within moments, the hunted victim of overwhelming attack, the crew fleeing for its collective life.

A stock scene in the submarine genre film is the depiction of a grim-faced submarine crew waiting in silence as depth charges explode overhead and bolts fly out of bulkheads in the submarine (they are dead silent because sound carries extremely well underwater, and so even the sound of men talking on a submarine would be picked up by normal sonar on other ships). Films from this subgenre tend to feature dramatic scenes in which submarine-hunters try to destroy submarines with depth charges. To heighten this tension, these films often depict submarine commanders descending below 'hull crush depth' to evade attackers. The danger from the extreme pressure of deep water dives and the claustrophobic, cramped submarine quarters imbues films of the subgenre with a great deal of dramatic tension. Films of this subgenre typically focus on a small but determined crew of submariners battling against enemy submarines or submarine-hunter ships, or against other problems ranging from disputes amongst the crew, threats of mutiny, life-threatening mechanical breakdowns, or the daily difficulties of living on a submarine. Submarine films are a subgenre of war film in which the majority of the plot revolves around a submarine below the ocean's surface.

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