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The Deep (1977)
In director Peter Yates' deep sea adventure, based
on Jaws author Peter Benchley's best-selling book, about a
couple who journeyed to Bermuda to dive at the wreckage sites of
sunken ships:
- the beautiful cinematography of underwater diving,
including the memorable opening title sequence - scuba diving images
of sunken treasure divers David Sanders (Nick Nolte) and British
girlfriend Gail Berke (Jacqueline Bisset) in a revealing white,
clingy see-through T-shirt - during the dive, most audiences ignored
Gail's discovery of an ampoule of an amber-colored liquid (medicinal
morphine)
- their visit to crusty treasure hunter-expert Romer
Treece (Robert Shaw) who asked about the ampoule: "Where'd
you get this exactly?" - and the realization that
there were more - over 90,000 ampoules of morphine in a sunken
WWII freighter known as ‘The Goliath’ - sitting atop
another sunken early 18th century Spanish ship
- the repeated full-screen, jump-scare appearances of
a moray eel
Gail's Topless Strip in Front of 'Cloche' (Louis
Gossett, Jr.)
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- the threatening character of ruthless Haitian drug
lord-dealer Henri 'Cloche' Bondurant (Louis Gossett Jr.), who ordered
his thugs to search both Gail and Nick; Gail removed her bikini-top
to bare herself before the drug lord to prove she wasn't hiding
anything; he then threatened the two: "Be Off the Island By
Tomorrow!"
- the scary and lengthy shark attack sequence
- the horrific voodoo ritualistic rape scene in which
Gail was confronted by a Haitian practitioners in her hotel room
who smeared rooster blood all over her naked mid-section
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Gail (Jacqueline Bisset) and David (Nick Nolte)
Romer Treece
(Robert Shaw)
Sunken Treasure - Ampoules of Morphine
Giant Moray Eel
Shark Attack
Voodoo-Rooster Blood Assault/Rape
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