Don't they say kilometers?
When the boat cap-sizes and they are weighing their options. Luke says Turtle Island is 10-12 miles. In Austraila wouldn't you use kilometers?
shareYes, but film producers have always got their eye on the North American market. Thus there are frequently American actors cast somewhere in Australian films (not in this case thankfully,) and terms like miles are used, to be easier touch points for Americans.
shareNautical miles are the unit of measurement at sea (and in the air for that matter), speed being measured in 'knots'-many people also mix the units of measure in conversation as metric isn't much good for talking about the human body for example and of course anyone who's read or seen old media material will be familiar with both metric and imperial-as far as the US is concerned, its military uses metric measurement as well.
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Nautical miles are the unit of measurement at sea...True! But the people in this group (even the more experienced ones) are not sailors and are unlikely to use such nautical distance terms, as well as measurement terms like knots, just because they boarded a yacht. It was undoubtedly slipped in there as mentioned, so as not to confuse North Americans. share
The recent Malaysia Airlines tragedy has had extensive news coverage here in Australia and around the world and both units of measurement have been used, even on the local Oz coverage (have seen US news shows as well as they are broadcast here as late night 'filler'). Given this movie was a low budget production with no US stars or actors with any sort of Hollywood profile, I doubt it would even have crossed the makers' minds to try to pander to a US audience-if they'd wanted that, it would have been set in the US with their accents...
'What is an Oprah?'-Teal'c.
I don't know what news coverage you've been watching but mine has been all in km, except for the occasions they've specifically mentioned nautical miles.
I doubt it would even have crossed the makers' minds to try to pander to a US audience...I don't, in simple ways like this. If Andrew Traucki had whacked in American accents, which has happened occasionally in the past, he would have lost the domestic market. share
'Dead Calm' did reasonably well...again 'Reef' was a low budget film-didn't set any box office on fire-Traukl seems to only make one type of movie.
'What is an Oprah?'-Teal'c.
I like The Reef a lot better than say Open Water, though I'm sure Traucki borrowed from it, as well as the 1983 real life event, upon which The Reef was based. I like his approach. He makes well-acted, economical, low budget, "B" movies. It's a pity that I don't think he's got the success he probably deserves overseas.
Traukl seems to only make one type of movie.I kind of agree with you. Black Water was a very similar film, exchanging sharks for a crocodile. But here's the thing. I liked it better than the bigger budget Rogue, which was released around the same time. (You wouldn't credit it would you; 2 Aussie croc movies.)But yeah same sort of thing. Take a factual past event and build a horror story set against a natural back drop around it.
Dead Calm is a very classy film that I'd like to see again sometime in the near future. But it was well before Traucki's time. It was directed by one of our very fine directors Phillip Noyce, before he went and made a name for himself in Hollywood.
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Traukl's latest seems to follow the familiar path of small group goes into the wilderness and becomes lunch (actual or potential) for something nasty 'out there'.
'What is an Oprah?'-Teal'c.
It's called The Jungle and I believe it uses the found footage approach, which while suiting his low budget approach, I personally can't stand and am pretty much over. Has it been released? I've seen no promotion of it at all.
shareApparently it was released on DVD last year to an utterly underwhelming response-I expect his next film will be the epic story of a young woman in a bikini who goes to make a call in a telephone box only to find it already occupied by a dingo-a life or death struggle then ensues for 90 minutes...
'What is an Oprah?'-Teal'c.
LOL!
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