#1 | The Dropout

Blockbuster

Epicleff

Tv & Film, Drama, Film History, Fiction

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Premiere. 1977: College dropout James Cameron, a 22-year-old truck driver, aspires for something more.

This award-winning 10-part original miniseries stars Ross Marquand (The Walking Dead, Avengers: Endgame) as up-and-coming writer-director James Cameron, and tells the story of how he fought through decades of personal struggles and career setbacks to assemble the most expensive and grueling movie production of all-time, Titanic, that nearly sank two film studios.

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0:00.0	The September 1995.
0:31.0	41.73 degrees north, 49.95 degrees west.
0:37.0	Nearly halfway across the Atlantic Ocean, and two miles deep. James Cameron, his cinematographer Al Giddings, and a Russian pilot, Anatoly Seagalovich, were plunging
0:49.0	into a pitch-black abyss, with no visibility and only their radar to guide them. And I totally, is that her?
1:05.0	What? What did you say?
1:10.0	That radar blip, in the middle.
1:13.2	Blip? What is it, blip? Is that her?
1:17.0	Had to tell from this far way.
1:20.0	The trio was trying to relax inside the cramped cabin of a submersible called
1:24.7	Mere One. From the outside it resembled a small blimp with a propeller that
1:28.9	operated in extreme water pressures and by request of James, a hydraulic arm with a 35 millimeter
1:35.6	camera and two custom built racks of high intensity lights. They'd need them in
1:41.3	the pitch black of the Atlantic Ocean floor.
1:44.0	Boy, the manual really doesn't tell you how tight it isn't here.
1:50.0	You claustrophobic?
1:52.0	Just six foot two. All right, firing up the lights.
1:58.7	What was that? Their tiny submersible rumble.
2:02.2	Whoa, totally.
2:04.0	Was that the motor?
2:05.0	No, we lost one of the lights.
2:07.0	Oh, yeah, okay, I see.
2:10.0	At this depth, even the smallest pocket of air, like the housings that encased the lights, could create a dynamic shock if they collapsed, force equivalent to a pipe bomb that could damage their sub.
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