The Big Blue Page #3

Synopsis: Enzo and Jacques have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the Mediterranean. They were not real friends in these days, but there was something they both loved and used to do the whole day long: diving. One day Jacques' father, who was a diver too, died in the Mediterranean sea. After that incident Enzo and Jacques lost contact. After several years, Enzo and Jacques had grown up, Johanna, a young clerk in an insurance office, has to go to Peru. There she meets Jacques who is being studied by a group of scientists. He dives for some minutes into ice-cold water and the scientists monitor his physical state that is more like a dolphin than human. Johanna can not believe what she sees and gets very interested in Jacques but she's unable to get acquainted with him. Some weeks later back in her office, she finds out that Jacques will be competing in a diving championship that takes place in Taormina, Sicily. In order to see Jacques again she m
Director(s): Luc Besson
Production: 20th Century-Fox
  3 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
35
Rotten Tomatoes:
62%
R
Year:
1988
168 min
$80,804
240 Views


- Hah!

Glad I didn't go.

I... I can't hear you!

I said the snowmobile papers

are in the glove compartment.

Get the customs office to send me a copy.

We can't get you new equipment

until our file is complete.

All right. You'll have them

by the end of the week.

Great. You've made me a very happy

insurance person. Thank you.

- All right. Goodbye.

- Dr. Laurence?

Yes?

Um... You don't happen to know how I can

get in touch with that diver of yours?

Jacques Mayol?

The last I heard he was in Taormina,

at the World Diving Championships.

In Sicily.

Sicily?

Duffy, we got big problems in Sicily!

- What do you mean?

- Oh, God - the Mafia!

Cosa Nostra, De Niro, Coppola, Pacino!

I knew we shouldn't have written that policy!

- What happened?

- The documents are forged.

- No!

- Yes! The notary is a phoney.

He's got the same signature as the contractor.

- Wait, that can't be true!

- Well, it is!

We must send someone immediately. If we

prove the forgery, maybe we're off the hook.

There's a plane in four hours to Rome.

From there, it's not far to Sicily.

- I'm calling Cordoza. He'll get us out of this.

- No! I called him.

- His son's bar mitzvah is tomorrow.

- Oh, damn his son!

- I'll go.

- You'd do that?!

- Yeah, I'll go.

- Oh, thank you!

I thought it was Spanish you spoke.

Italian's... practically the same thing.

Thanks a lot!

(announcement in Italian)

Mayol... Mayol... No reservation.

- Are you sure?

- Positive, sir.

This is the Hotel San-Domenico?

Yes, it has been so for 127 years.

(air horn)

(tyres screech)

Be careful of that car.

It's a new paintjob. OK?

Contessa!

Avanti, avanti!

Ah! Jacques!

Giacomino, my friend!

My brother!

So, you finally decided to join us.

You did the right thing.

Paolo, come stay? C'e la chiave.

You remember my little brother Roberto?

- Hi.

- Hi, Roberto.

- What room have you got?

- I haven't got one.

You don't have a room? Paolo!

What did I just hear? I call you to reserve

a room for my friend Jacques Mayol...

..and you treat him like a stranger!

- It's OK, Enzo. I'll go somewhere else.

- Not only is he a very special friend.

But he is one of the best divers in the world.

And you sling him out!

Are you crazy or what?

Stupido!

Drop it, Enzo. I'll find something.

(keys jingle)

Take mine. I'll take the Countess's suite.

She told me she was leaving

for the cemetery.

She'll be more comfortable there! Ha!

I'm glad you're here.

So, after all these years, you must have

lots of questions to ask me. Am I right?

Yeah, sure, lots of questions.

Well, what are they?

I don't know how to ask the questions.

- Are you married?

- (laughs) No, no, no, no, no!

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Luc Besson

Luc Besson is a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He directed or produced the films Subway, The Big Blue, and Nikita. more…

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