The Big Blue (1988)
May 10, 1988Release Date
The Big Blue (1988)
May 10, 1988Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Jean-Marc Barr
Jacques Mayol
Jean Reno
Enzo Molinari
Rosanna Arquette
Johana
Paul Shenar
Dr. Laurence
Sergio Castellitto
Novelli
Jean Bouise
Uncle Louis
Marc Duret
Roberto
Griffin Dunne
Duffy
Andréas Voutsinas
Priest
Marc Perrier
Writer
Kimberly Beck
Sally
Valentina Vargas
Bonita
Alessandra Vazzoler
La Mamma
Luc Besson
Director
Patrick Fontana
Alfredo
Robert Garland
Writer
Geoffrey Carey
Supervisor
Jan Rouiller
Noireuter
Marilyn Goldin
Writer
Pierre Semmler
Franck
Jacques Mayol
Writer
Pierre-Alain de Garrigues
Superintendent
Patrice Ledoux
Producer
Claude Besson
Jacques' Father
Éric Serra
Composer
Bruce Guerre-Berthelot
Young Jacques
Carlo Varini
Cinematographer
Olivier Mauffroy
Editor
Gregory Forstner
Young Enzo
Nathalie Chéron
CastingDirector
Eric Do
Japanese Diver
Jacques Lévy
Doctor
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 10, 1988
Original NameLe Grand Bleu
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 48m
Content RatingPG-13
Budget$14,390,509
Filming LocationsUnited States Virgin Islands · New York City, United States · Peru · Greece · The Bahamas
Genres
Wiki.
The Big Blue (released in some countries under the French title Le Grand Bleu) is a 1988 drama film in the French Cinéma du look visual style, made by French director Luc Besson. It is a heavily fictionalized and dramatized story of the friendship and sporting rivalry between two leading contemporary champion free divers in the 20th century: Jacques Mayol (played by Jean-Marc Barr) and Enzo Maiorca (renamed "Enzo Molinari" and played by Jean Reno), and Mayol's fictionalized relationship with his girlfriend Johana Baker (played by Rosanna Arquette).
The film became one of France's most commercially successful films (although an adaptation for US release was a commercial failure in that country). French President Jacques Chirac referred to the film in describing Mayol, after his death in 2001, as an enduring symbol for the "Big Blue" generation.The story was heavily adapted for cinema. In real life, Mayol lived from 1927 to 2001 and Maiorca retired from diving to politics in the 1980s. Both set no-limits-category deep diving records below 100 metres, and Mayol was indeed involved in scientific research into human aquatic potential, but neither reached 400 feet (120 metres) as portrayed in the film, and they were not direct competitors. Mayol himself was a screenwriter for the film, and Mayol's search for love, family, "wholeness" and the meaning of life and death, and the conflict and tension between his yearning for the deep and his relationship with his girlfriend are also major elements of the latter part of the film.