"Open Water" Helmer Visits "Indianapolis" [Movie in the works about WWII Tragedy]

Dark Horizons ^ | December 6th 2006 | Garth Franklin

[SquirrelKing]

I've been fascinated by this incident since Quint scared the bejeebers out of me in the movie Jaws describing the survivior's ordeal. I've read several of the books written on this subject, including In Harm's Way. My only fear is that it'll get the "Hollywood Treatment": where heroes-are-losers-and-the-military-is the-pawn-of-pre-Halliburton-corruption.

We'll see.

"Eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out
and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945."

[nmh]

THAT was such a tragic situation.

My heart goes out to those men and the families they left behind.

[PetroniusMaximus]

"My only fear is that it'll get the "Hollywood Treatment": where heroes-are-losers..."

And they'll get rescued by Islamic "freedom-fighters" no doubt.

[Straight Vermonter]

Open Water may well have been the worst movie made in the last 50 years. I hope this movie is far better.

Hasn't there already been a couple of movies made on this subject?

[snippy_about_it]

You can read about the Indianapolis here, we did this thread about 2 1/2 years ago so some pictures may be missing but it's definitely a good read:

The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis (Jul-1945) - July 30th, 2003

[SquirrelKing]

Good post. Thanks!

[Dr. Frank fan]

Prediction: When all is said and done, this movie will end up having 'ominous parallels' to 'our current disaster in Iraq'.

[Dr. Frank fan]

P.S. And someone in the script will say 'bring it on'...

[Samwise]

I was getting ready to ping you to this thread, but you are already here.

Thanks for the Foxhole link; now I don't have to link it. :^)

[Strategerist]

I really wish the money devoted to that execrable disaster "Pearl Harbor" had been devoted to a good and intelligent remake of "Midway."

I'd rather see something on the Battle of Leyte Gulf than a retelling of the Indianapolis tragedy, too. Not going to happen though.

[SquirrelKing]

I'd rather see something on the Battle of Leyte Gulf than a retelling of the Indianapolis tragedy, too. Not going to happen though.

I agree, that would be cool. The "Battle of Anywhere" might be good if we aren't the losers or victims of war-bond chicken-hawk war-profiteer Dick Cheney lookalikes back home.

Nowadays video games like Medal of Honor and Call of Duty seem to be the only place to find heroic story lines and vivid recreations of WWII battle.

[fish hawk]

boy I can hardly wait for this movie. A ship sinking and sharks eating up our boys. You couldn't pay me to go to this movie. I guess the Chainsaw Massacre people will like it though.

[Maverick68]

That monologue by Shaw is one of the greatest moments in movie history. Guys like Shaw filled the screen, while today's "stars" lack the gravitas to make a dent on film...

[Thrownatbirth]

Swim call in the Navy was a lot more popular before "Jaws".

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

"You call that scar? That's not a scar. Now THIS is a scar."

[jaydubya2]

Open Water was pretty depressing and not very good. And I predicated the ending!

[Teacher317]

"Eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945."

The date is wrong (hate to admit that, since I love the movie)...

The Indianapolis was hit on July 30th, due into port on July 30, the search plane spotted them on August 2, and rescue operations didn't cease until August 8.

[Teacher317]

Oops! My turn for a wrong date... she was due into Leyte on the 31st of July...

[SquirrelKing]

The Indianapolis was hit on July 30th, due into port on July 30, the search plane spotted them on August 2, and rescue operations didn't cease until August 8.

You are correct! [great pic]

[snippy_about_it]

I can't believe I beat you to it!

We'll just see who the teacher's pet is now!