00:00I think the key to Deepwater being as effective as it is, is the characters.
00:06Because, yes, you can crash a plane in a spectacular way and you can have the ocean full of sharks
00:11and all those things,
00:13but it's the characters that you deeply care about and that you want to follow and watch and root for
00:20and see what becomes of them under these incredible circumstances.
00:26And I think that's what makes the movie an enjoyable experience.
00:30The quality. First it began with a script that, wow, if you can film this, this is going to be
00:39a spectacle.
00:40But then when you start to see the various creative layers, the attraction of the scenic designers,
00:46and the cinematographers, the people who actually are responsible for filming this thing,
00:51and the money people starting to come in because it's a quality script,
00:55but how do you make all that happen?
00:58And finally with the actors, Aaron Eckhart, Sir Ben Kingsley, Academy Award winning actor.
01:05And, of course, they wouldn't be on it if there was a bad director.
01:10Sir Ben Kingsley put his hope and his, well, hope that his performance is going to be shining on the
01:20screen,
01:21and it all has to do with our director.
01:23It's really a spectacular performance by everyone involved, but especially of our director.
01:29You want to have, you know, people have seen plane crashes before, but you want to have the most spectacular
01:35and intense and realistic plane crash ever filmed.
01:38And you want to have the best sharks and scariest possible situations in the water.
01:45But it really boils down to, do we care about the character?
01:51So that, to me, was my focus.
01:54And I think that it gave me a new kind of vision into something like that.
02:01The fact that in the last five years my life has changed a lot and I got married and I've
02:07had three kids and had one kid just five days ago, actually.
02:11Thank you, my poor wife. And so it gave me a different point of view to life and relationships.
02:23And, you know, you could say that this movie is about explosions and it's about shark attacks.
02:28For me, it's about family and it's about love.
02:31And I think that that ultimately is what makes it entertaining for the audience.
02:37Well, this is not the first film I've been involved in as producer or co-producer, but it is by
02:44far the largest and most spectacular.
02:48Being in this, wearing the producer hat means you've got to get rid of your ego because it's not about
02:57you.
02:57You're just here to try to help build this movie.
03:02And there are different kinds of producers. People don't know this.
03:05There's a line producer. The line producer is on the set every day making sure the crew gets transferred on
03:14time to be on the set to make sure that they get fed and so on.
03:17They take care of the things we don't even think about.
03:19So there's a lot of creative people all helping the director deliver the great film because you don't want to
03:27stop the motion picture from moving forward
03:30because people forgot the food truck that didn't show up to get the, you know, all those things.
03:35So I'm way in the background, way even before the other people in the background doing the political stuff, making
03:43sure the distribution company is doing their job.
03:47God bless us all. The money people are going to actually have the real money on the table, things like
03:53that.
03:53So that takes a creative village all there to help the director deliver the goods.
03:59God bless us.
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