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Savage Sea
Whaleboat
action, the storm
sequence and
the sinking of
the Essex were
filmed at the
outdoor D Stage
water tank at
Warner Bros.
Studios
Leavesden.
quality to many of the images - ones
that would remind you of a 19thcentury work hanging in some gallery
- but others are so personal and
immediate, much like what we were
able to do on Rush."
Speaking to AC from Munich,
Germany, where he was prepping to
shoot Oliver Stone's political drama
Snowden, Dod Mantle offers, "This
film was an orgy of interior and exterior studio work, water-tank shooting, location shooting, second- and
third-unit work, underwater photography, aerial work and visual effects.
Fortunately, we had a long prep
phase, and all the department heads
- including production designer
Mark Tildesley and visual-effects
supervisor Jody Johnson - broke the
script down with Ron to determine
exactly how to shoot it. It's all about
the methodology, because if you don't
get that right on a film like this, you're
stuffed."
These preproduction talks
resulted in a shooting schedule that
called for the production to do all the
stage work first, and then match that
footage while out on location. "It
went against logic," admits Howard,
"but we had special considerations
because of the controlled-starvation
diets our actors were on in order to
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