To whom did Luc Besson dedicate “The Big Blue”, which he completed after a long struggle?

The angel finally smiled on the 13th day!

Then, on the 13th day of underwater shooting, the angel finally smiled. The weather is clear, the sea is calm, and underwater equipment is secured. Besson and Petron sink into the water, each carrying a camera. Jean-Marc follows behind. Jean Reno follows a few minutes later. Two cameras captured a total of 10 descents, 5 times each, resulting in a total of 20 scenes. Two days later, I saw Rush in the screening room at Gaumont. As the camera pans across the turquoise sea, Jean-Marc crosses the 12-meter screen like The Birds in the moonlight. Everyone was so moved and had a sense of accomplishment that they couldn't stand up. In this way, Besson and his sea friends finally reached the exit of the labyrinth.

Besson's innovations linked to Christopher Nolan

Besson's challenge for ``The Big Blue'' was not only underwater photography using film. It is an outstanding sequence that depicts ``Jack's nightmare,'' in which Jack, sleeping in bed, is submerged in water that approaches from the ceiling, and is still etched in the eyes of movie fans both then and now. Here are the steps to take a photo. First, the room set was built upside down, with Jean-Marc standing by on a bed on the ceiling that had his body molded in advance with synthetic resin. A room suspended by a crane descends into the pool. A machine creates exquisite ripples on the water surface. The production of this wave is especially excellent. The camera is also held upside down just like the set. As a result, the audience is given the illusion that water is falling. Regarding this shooting, Besson clearly stated that he would ``shoot the special effects live,'' meaning that he prioritized set shooting over compositing processing.For example, this concept was used by Christopher Nolan in `` Inception '' (10). I think this is a visual innovation that is connected to the method used to create a zero-gravity state by rotating the hotel corridor set. To reiterate, ``The Big Blue'' was made in 1988, on the eve of digital photography, and when compositing technology was lower than it is today.

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Late 1987, seven months after Klein-in. The team's final day of filming has finally arrived. On this day, in Van d'Isere, a town on the Italian border, a scene was filmed in which Jack and Enzo, dressed in formal clothes, dive to the bottom of a pool and drink champagne while blowing air out of their mouths. He said everyone was laughing. Besson remembered the difficult journey he had taken to get to this point. I might have been a little sentimental. Afterwards, the crew will travel to Tignes in the French Alps for a grand farewell party. The party, which included Jean Reno from Paris and Rosanna Arquette, continued into the morning. Besson will later confirm the incident on video. I was so drunk that day that I didn't remember anything. Except that I went skiing with Jean Reno at 7am.

"The Big Blue" opened at the Cannes Film Festival in 1988, and although it received harsh reviews from the media, word of mouth spread and it became a cult movie, attracting 10 million viewers in the 10 years after its general release. It will be passed down from generation to generation.

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