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Description of this Poster The Big Blue
The Big Blue is a 1988 drama film in the visual style of Cinema of the Look, directed by French director Luc Besson. It is a heavily fictionalized and dramatized story of the friendship and sporting rivalry between two contemporary freediving champions in the 20th century: Jacques Mayol (played by Jean-Marc Barr) and Enzo Maiorca (renamed "Enzo Molinari " and played by Jean Reno), as well as Mayol's fictional relationship with his girlfriend Johana Baker (played by Rosanna Arquette).
The film became one of France's biggest commercial successes (although an adaptation for the United States was a commercial failure in that country). French President Jacques Chirac referenced the film when describing Mayol, after his death in 2001, as an enduring symbol for the generation of "great blues".[4]
The story was heavily adapted for cinema. In real life, Mayol lived from 1927 to 2001 and Maiorca retired from diving to devote himself to politics in the 1980s. Both set deep diving records with no category limit below 100 meters , and Mayol did participate in scientific research into man's aquatic potential, but neither reached 400 feet (120 meters) as shown in the film, and they were not direct competitors. Mayol himself wrote the screenplay for the film[5]. Mayol's search for love, family, "fullness" and the meaning of life and death, as well as the conflict and tension between his longing for the depths and his relationship with his girlfriend are also major elements of the last part of the film.
Two children, Jacques Mayol and Enzo Molinari, grew up on the Greek island of Amorgos in the 1960s. Enzo challenges Jacques to pick up a coin from the bottom of the sea, but Jacques refuses. Later, Jacques' father, who harvests shellfish from the seabed using an air hose and helmet provided by a pump, goes diving. His breathing apparatus and rope were caught and pierced by rocks on the reef and, weighed down by the water, he drowned. Jacques and Enzo can do nothing but watch in horror as he is killed.
By the 1980s, both were noted freedivers, swimmers able to stay underwater for long periods of time and at great depths. Enzo is now in Sicily, where he rescues a diver stuck in a shipwreck. He is a world freediving champion and has a strong personality. He now wants to find Jacques and persuade him to return to freediving without limits in order to prove that he is still the better of the two, in a friendly sporting rivalry. Jacques himself works extensively with scientific research as a human research subject, and with dolphins, and temporarily participates in research on human physiology in the frozen lakes of the Peruvian Andes, where his remarkable bodily reactions and dolphins to the immersion in cold water are recorded. Johana Baker, an insurance broker, visits the resort for business and is introduced to Jacques. She secretly falls in love with him. When she learns that Jacques will be present at the world diving championships in Taormina, Sicily, she invents an insurance problem that requires her presence there, in order to meet him again. She and Jacques fall in love. However, none of them realize the extent of Jacques' attraction to the depths. Jacques beats Enzo by one meter, and Enzo gives him a crystal dolphin, as well as a measuring tape to show the small difference between Jacques' and Enzo's records. Johana returns home to New York, but is fired after her deception is discovered; she leaves New York and begins to live with Jacques. She hears the story that if one truly loves the depths of the sea, a mermaid will appear in the depths of the sea and lead the diver to an enchanted place.
During the next diving world championships, Enzo beats Jacques' record. The depths the divers compete at are new and the diving doctor suggests they stop competing, but the divers decide to continue. Jacques is asked to examine a local dolphinarium where a new dolphin has been placed and where the dolphins no longer perform. Assuming that the new dolphin is homesick, the three men enter the dolphinarium at night to free the dolphin and return it to the sea. Back at the competition, other divers try to beat the new dolphin record. 'Enzo, but all fail. Jacques then attempts his next dive and reaches 400 feet (120 m), breaking Enzo's world record. Furious, Enzo prepares to beat Jacques' new world record. The doctor supervising the dive warns the competitors that they should go no further - based on Jacques' bodily reactions, at around 400 feet the conditions and, in particular, the pressure, will become deadly and the divers will be killed if they persist in attempting such depths. Enzo ignores this advice and tries to dive anyway, but he is unable to return to the surface. Jacques dives to save him. Enzo, dying, tells Jacques that he was right and that it is better down there, and begs him to help him go back down to the depths, where he belongs. Jacques, overcome by grief, refuses, but after Enzo dies in his arms, he finally honors his last wish and brings Enzo's body 400 feet away, leaving it to drift to the bottom of the ocean. Jacques, himself a victim of cardiac arrest after the dive, is rescued and brought to the surface by supervising divers. His heart needs to be restarted using a defibrillator before being placed in a medical facility to recover.
Jacques seems to be recovering from his diving accident, but then he has a strange hallucinatory dream in which the ceiling collapses, the room fills with water and he finds himself in the depths of the ocean surrounded by dolphins. Johana, who has just discovered that she is pregnant, returns to see Jacques in the middle of the night, but finds him awake but unresponsive in his bed, his ears and nose bleeding. Johana tries to help him, but Jacques starts to get up and walks towards the empty dive boat to get dressed and dive one last time. Desperately, Johana begs Jacques not to go, saying that she is alive but what happened in the depths is not, but he says he has to. She tells Jacques that she is pregnant and sadly begs him to stay, but he finally understands that he must leave. The two kiss and Johana breaks down in tears. Jacques then places the diving weight release cord in her hand and, still sobbing, she pulls it, sending him into the depths he loves. Jacques descends and floats for a short moment, staring into the darkness. A dolphin then appears, Jacques releases his harness and swims with it in the darkness.
