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Stephen Fenech

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Two Blokes Talking Tech
Movies: Dead Calm

Filming took almost six months.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Movies: Dead Calm

Coordinating on the ocean, I guess, is hard.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Movies: Dead Calm

You heard all the horror stories about films like Jaws and Waterworld.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Movies: Dead Calm

It's hard to film when it's on water.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Movies: Dead Calm

But, you know, staff costs are low.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Movies: Dead Calm

It's just three cast members.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Movies: Dead Calm

This was based on a novel.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Movies: Dead Calm

There was a novel by Charles Williams called Dead Calm, inspired by the real-life murders of a family on a sailing catch off Florida's coast in 1961.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Movies: Dead Calm

So the case involved a โ€“ there was a decorated veteran named Julian Harvey who was hired by a family to skipper a boat from Fort Lauderdale to the Bahamas.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Movies: Dead Calm

The Harvey's wife, the veteran's wife, was also on the boat.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Movies: Dead Calm

Upon returning from the Bahamas, Harvey went on to murder his wife, hoping to collect an insurance policy and four members of the family, of the Duperault family who hired him.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Movies: Dead Calm

But he thought one of the โ€“ when he went along, killed everyone, thought one of the daughters had died, but they were asleep below deck.