Q. What happens at the end of Big Blue?
SPOILER: The French and European versions end with Jaques swimming off with the dolphin, after having reached a depth where he can not survive. In the American version, a happier ending was added, where the dolphin takes Jacques to the surface.
Q. Is The Big Blue based on a true story?
Released in 1988, The Big Blue is based on real-life free-diving frenemies, Frenchman Jacques Mayol, played by Jean-Marc Barr, and Italian Enzo Maiorca, renamed Enzo Molinari in the film, played by legendary Jean Reno.
Q. What language is The Big Blue in?
French
ItalianEnglish
The Big Blue/Languages
Q. What is the movie The Big Blue about?
Director Luc Besson is famous for his imaginative visual technique and breathtaking action sequences. One of the most stunningly beautiful films ever made, “The Big Blue” features gorgeous underwater photography and spectacular location shooting in the French Antibes, the Greek islands, Peru, and Taormina in Sicily. But it is the emotional intensity of the film experience and mystical themes of the story that have made it a cult phenomenon.
The Big Blue/Film synopsis
Q. How old is Enzo Mallorca?
85 years (1931–2016)
Enzo Maiorca/Age at death
ROME (AP) — Enzo Maiorca, a legend in free diving, died on Sunday in his native Sicily. He was 85.
Q. Where was Le Grand Bleu filmed?
Amorgos
Amorgos and Ios Islands were used as filming locations in Luc Besson’s 1988 big success, ‘Le Grand Bleu’. The film stands out for its breathtaking underwater shots, and is set partly in Amorgos’ Chora, the island’s white capital town, and the spectacular monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, clinging to a steep cliff.
Q. Is The Big Blue in French or English?
Q. Does Big Blue taste the same as Big Red?
Big Red has a big more sugar per ounce than Coke, but Big Blue has about a third more than Big Red. Big Red says that it has natural and artificial flavor. Big Blue only claims artificial flavor.
Q. Is Big Blue different than Big Red?
Description. Big Blue is a variant of Big Red which is blue in color, similar to Crush Berry Punch. Its flavor is a Blue Creme. There was speculation from many people saying that the flavor tastes like cotton candy with a blue bubblegum feel.
Q. Where did the movie The Big Blue take place?
The Big Blue. The film, which covers their childhood in 1960s Greece to their deaths in a 1980s Sicilian diving competition, is a cult-classic in the diving fraternity, and became one of France’s most commercially successful films (although an adaptation for US release was a commercial failure in that country).
Q. Who is the director of the Big Blue?
Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. The Big Blue (released in some countries under the French title Le Grand Bleu) is a 1988 English-language film in the French Cinéma du look visual style, made by French director Luc Besson.
Q. Who are the divers in the Big Blue?
Production. Besson has a cameo appearance as one of the divers in the film. The Big Blue was the most financially successful French film of the 1980s, selling 9,193,873 tickets in France alone, and played in French theaters for a year.
Q. Who are the characters in the Big Blue?
The Big Blue. The film 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…
