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The Abyss

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The Abyss	label	The Abyss
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The Abyss	comment	The Abyss is a 1989 Science Fiction film, written and directed by James Cameron and starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn. The original musical score was composed by Alan Silvestri.The movie follows the efforts of a U.S. SEAL team, inserted into a civilian experimental underwater oil rig, to salvage a nuclear submarine that sank after an encounter with an unknown underwater presence. Before long, they find themselves trapped underwater in the Cayman Trough and their communications with the surface cut off while a hurricane rages above them. As tension mounts and tempers flare in the tight quarters, they discover that they are not alone in the Cayman Trough - something unknown and inhuman is watching them...The Abyss might forever hold the record for the most technically complex film ever made. In order to make it, Cameron, crewmembers and major cast members had to become dive-certified since some of the filming took place in a set built inside (and under the surface of) a flooded, partially-built nuclear reactor containment vessel.note Cameron spent so much time underwater that he regularly had to spend time in decompression chambers, viewing dailies while hanging upside down in the pressure tank. Many of the visual effects shots were done with precisely constructed models and green screens; the "water tentacle" was a wildly expensive, difficult and groundbreaking piece of CGI effects.note It was considered so difficult that the script was written in such a way that, if the shots couldn't be pulled off, the entire sequence could be dropped without significant changes to the rest of the film. With today's tech-infrastructure, the movie could be made at a fraction of the cost with full CGI, but in 1989 the shots were often live footage combined with green screen models, matte photography, animatronics and CGI elements.A novelization of this film was written by Orson Scott Card, based on the screenplay. Mastrantonio, Biehn, and Harris read the first two chapters, which were extrapolated by Card from the script, to prepare for their characters.Character tropes (including the aliens) go on to the Characters Sheet.
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The Abyss / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
The Abyss / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Bud and Lindsey Brigman, who are on the brink of divorce at the beginning but have a long-distance heart-to-heart while he's a mile down in the trench.
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The Abyss / int_16b75555	type	Ominous Crack
The Abyss / int_16b75555	comment	Ominous Crack: Coffey's fate is sealed when a first crack appears on the windshield of his minisub.
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The Abyss / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Abyss / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The novelisation was developed alongside the film. Orson Scott Card wrote three chapters for the hypothetical backstories of Coffey, Bud and Lindsey. When Cameron saw these, he gave them to the actors to help them develop the characters. Lindsey's reason for being hard on people is that she grew up the youngest in a family with five brothers - and had to fight to be noticed. The biographies of Coffey, Bud and Lindsey are the first three chapters of Card's Novelization. The aliens themselves have a name: They refer to themselves as the Builders of Memory. Information gathering, archiving and peaceful colonization of habitable oceans are their primary goals - but do not make them angry. The aliens are revealed to be responsible for Jammer and Lindsey recovering, as well as giving Catfish the stamina to swim the last leg of the trip to rescue Bud.
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The Abyss / int_18314bc3	type	You Had Us Worried There
The Abyss / int_18314bc3	comment	You Had Us Worried There: Two of them in particular: Those pants-crapping tense seconds when Bud is cutting the wire, and when Bud resumes communication with the crew after meeting the aliens.
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The Abyss / int_1c6a80fe	type	Dropped in the Toilet
The Abyss / int_1c6a80fe	comment	Dropped in the Toilet: Bud, in a moment of temporary spite about his ex-wife coming to his underwater rig, tosses his wedding ring inside of the chemical toilet he just vacated, but instantly regrets it and fishes it back and puts it back on. This decision ends up saving his life later on when his hand is trapped in a closing hatch and the ring stops the hatch from crushing it.
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The Abyss / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Abyss / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Coffey is killed when the immense pressure of the trench causes his damaged submersible to implode.
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The Abyss / int_1e7f218c	type	Drowning Pit
The Abyss / int_1e7f218c	comment	Drowning Pit: Several scenes. First three of Bud's team mates die when their quarters are flooded. Then he himself narrowly avoids drowning in a corridor. And lastly, when Bud and Lindsey's minisub starts leaking and Lindsey gets the idea to allow herself to drown on the remote chance she could be towed back to Deep Core and resuscitated.
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The Abyss / int_20215dc6	type	Primal Fear
The Abyss / int_20215dc6	comment	Primal Fear: The final act of the movie is chock full of it, and Bud goes through all of this, and we feel it and fear for him; hydrophobia aside, there's the deep dark abyss itself, the notion of falling further down away from the surface and human civilization, and the loneliness that he's experiencing with only Lindsey's voice on the radio to give him any comfort.
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The Abyss / int_21847ef5	type	Screen Shake
The Abyss / int_21847ef5	comment	Screen Shake: As the hurricane starts hitting the Explorer topside, the bridge crew is seen moving with the waves, the camera lurching - but all of the hanging coats, desk debris, and coffee supplies are rock steady.
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The Abyss / int_222969af	type	All There in the Script
The Abyss / int_222969af	comment	All There in the Script: One Night's full name is Lisa "One Night" Standing.
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The Abyss / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Abyss / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Bud's wedding ring, the explanation of High Pressure Nervous Syndrome, the liquid breathing system.
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The Abyss / int_24668f2e	type	Ocean Madness
The Abyss / int_24668f2e	comment	Ocean Madness: High Pressure Nervous Syndrome. It turns Coffey into a paranoid lunatic, and another soldier is on his way, but he gets better as soon as they reach the surface.
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The Abyss / int_24b88e85	type	Unwanted Assistance
The Abyss / int_24b88e85	comment	Unwanted Assistance: When Lindsey is trying to get the rest of the crew to believe her about the underwater aliens, resident conspiracy nut Hippy goes into his usual Conspiracy Kitchen Sink speech. This results in a zinger:
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The Abyss / int_24f4c82a	type	Semper Fi
The Abyss / int_24f4c82a	comment	Semper Fi: Retired Marine beats Navy SEAL.
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The Abyss / int_26d18908	type	Puny Earthlings
The Abyss / int_26d18908	comment	Puny Earthlings: Humans are depicted as technologically and morally inferior to the unnamed aliens in the Trough can control water with remarkable precision, and appear to have psychic powers of a sort.
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The Abyss / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Abyss / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: Lindsey hangs a lampshade on the entire crew getting to the surface without decompressing, presumably to let the audience guess the aliens did it. In the book, it's confirmed that the aliens were responsible.
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The Abyss / int_2f187e89	type	It Works Better with Bullets
The Abyss / int_2f187e89	comment	It Works Better with Bullets: As Lt. Coffey finds out when he tries to blow Bud's head off with his service pistol; Ensign Monk had removed the magazine. Presumably a SEAL should be able to tell the difference in weight between a loaded and unloaded weapon, but Coffey isn't all that mentally stable at that point.
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The Abyss / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Abyss / int_3114c1e5	comment	Ramming Always Works: Lindsey's mini-sub battle with Coffey, ending when she hits him hard enough and shorts out his engine, causing him to plummet over the edge of the trench.
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The Abyss / int_34e3784f	type	Please, Don't Leave Me
The Abyss / int_34e3784f	comment	Please, Don't Leave Me: After they've reconciled, Lindsey pleads with Bud not to "leave [her] here all alone now" as he struggles against increasing water pressure during his dive to find the wayward nuke.
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The Abyss / int_3510766b	type	Alarm SOS
The Abyss / int_3510766b	comment	Alarm SOS: After Lindsey finds out that the Navy SEALs have brought a nuclear warhead onto the rig, she goes to their room and demands that they remove it. When one of them threatens to have her forcibly removed and has another SEAL grab her, Bud triggers an alarm. This brings the rest of the rig's crew to the room on the double and causes the SEALs to let Lindsey go.
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The Abyss / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Abyss / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: After Bud defuses the nuke, he only has 5 minutes of oxygen left (when just getting down there took 30 minutes). He types out his last messages to Lindsey, telling her that he knew the trip would be one-way only, asking her not to cry, and telling her he loves her. Then he calmly waits on the ledge for his oxygen to run out. Fortunately, the aliens come to his rescue.
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The Abyss / int_3c4c5d6f	type	Crowd Panic
The Abyss / int_3c4c5d6f	comment	Crowd Panic: When the giant tidal wave threatens the city, the people at the beach flee in terror.
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The Abyss / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
The Abyss / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: Played with in the novel, as the Builders realize that their own practice of "remembering" and then destroying aberrant individuals is exactly the kind of behavior they have come to abhor in humans.
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The Abyss / int_3d7ff013	type	How Dare You Die on Me!
The Abyss / int_3d7ff013	comment	How Dare You Die on Me!: When CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable goes from partial aversion, to full-on enforced to the point of Worst Aid, Please Wake Up meets Cluster F-Bomb. And the situation is inverted later when Bud is resigned to a Heroic Sacrifice after disarming the nuke. This time, with Lindsey begging him not to go through with it.
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The Abyss / int_3fb6b526	type	Delayed Reaction
The Abyss / int_3fb6b526	comment	Delayed Reaction: When Catfish sees the fluid water creature in the room, it takes him a second to realize what he just saw.
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The Abyss / int_42cb59a4	type	Was Just Leaving
The Abyss / int_42cb59a4	comment	Was Just Leaving: Bud defuses the heated situation when Lindsey is confronting Coffey about the nuclear warhead by mentioning that she was just about to leave.
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The Abyss / int_449584c	type	Giant Wall of Watery Doom
The Abyss / int_449584c	comment	Giant Wall of Watery Doom: In the director's cut, aliens threaten to annihilate humanity with mile-high tidal waves rearing up on every coast. Instead, it turns into a harmless demonstration of the aliens' power when they stop the waves just short of breaking over the coast. And when the Deep Core is damaged, one of these hits the barracks module, killing Finler, Perry, Mc Whorter and Dietz. Also, one of these gushes through the nuclear sub at the beginning.
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The Abyss / int_4a0ec526	type	Harmless Freezing
The Abyss / int_4a0ec526	comment	Harmless Freezing: A realistic application of this trope - Lindsey isn't actually frozen, just very cold, in order to slow her body functions.
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The Abyss / int_4d30004d	type	Wedding Ring Removal
The Abyss / int_4d30004d	comment	Wedding Ring Removal: Following an argument with his estranged wife Lindsey, Bud tosses his titanium wedding ring down a toilet. He quickly runs back into the head and fishes it back out. It later saves his life by keeping a bulkhead door from closing all the way, allowing him to escape one of the flooding compartments of Deep Core after the crane crashed on the rig.
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The Abyss / int_506ffa51	type	Tears of Joy
The Abyss / int_506ffa51	comment	Tears of Joy: Lindsey wipes them off of Bud's face after her coming Back from the Dead.
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The Abyss / int_50cc01e1	type	Do Not Call Me "Paul"
The Abyss / int_50cc01e1	comment	Do Not Call Me "Paul": Bud's real first name is Virgil. Inverted at the end when he allows himself to be called that. Lindsey also asks the SEALs not to call her Mrs. Brigman, prompting Coffey to snidely ask whether they should just call her "sir." However, this is inverted at the end.
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The Abyss / int_54cb0416	type	Dramatic Alien VTOL
The Abyss / int_54cb0416	comment	Dramatic Alien VTOL: The dramatic scene where the entire alien mothership lifts to the surface of the ocean taking Deep Core with it to save the remainder of the crew.
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The Abyss / int_55473bc9	type	CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable
The Abyss / int_55473bc9	comment	When CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable goes from partial aversion, to full-on enforced to the point of Worst Aid, Please Wake Up meets Cluster F-Bomb.
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The Abyss / int_55f92df9	type	Wire Dilemma
The Abyss / int_55f92df9	comment	Wire Dilemma: Bud is told to cut the blue wire with the white stripe, and not to touch the black wire with the yellow stripe. This piece of information turns out unhelpful due to his yellow-green chemical light making both look identical, so he just has to guess. This is also a bit of Artistic License â€“ Engineering, as the whole point of striping one and only one wire out of a pair is to make them distinguishable even under coloured lighting.
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The Abyss / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
The Abyss / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: Catfish boasts on that he's an experienced hand-to-hand fighter -They used to call me 'The Hammer'-, but he's quite chubby, and can't keep up with Bud when they try to reach the villain by swimming. However, when Bud gets in a tight situation later, Cat arrives just in time, and knocks the villain out with one punch.
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The Abyss / int_56f49e74	type	Mouth Taped Shut
The Abyss / int_56f49e74	comment	Mouth Taped Shut: Throughout the film, Lindsey Brigman and Navy SEAL Lieutenant Coffey have been arguing and verbally sniping at each other. Finally, when it's revealed that the SEALS are planning to detonate a nuclear weapon to destroy a disabled U.S. submarine (which will kill everyone on Deep Core One), Coffey takes over and threatens Brigman's team. Coffey tells Lindsey, "This is something I've wanted to do since we first met," indicating that he's going to kill her, but instead he pulls off a strip of tape and puts it over her mouth to shut her up.
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The Abyss / int_571a3c67	type	Power Incontinence
The Abyss / int_571a3c67	comment	Power Incontinence: The aliens' presence within a certain proximity causes electrical systems to go haywire or stop working entirely. At no point in the film do they do anything to mitigate this effect or even indicate that they are aware of it. This phenomenon is what triggers the plot due to it being directly responsible for the USS Montana's collision with a cliff wall via loss of propulsion control at a critical moment, leading to the escalation surrounding US Navy efforts to recover the submarine while in close proximity to a major Soviet ally. The only exception to this is when Bud is able to re-establish communication with the survivors on Deep Core after being rescued by the aliens and taken to their city at the bottom of the trench.
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The Abyss / int_57bb7b55	type	Near-Death Clairvoyance
The Abyss / int_57bb7b55	comment	Near-Death Clairvoyance: The CPR scene was meant to invoke an out-of-body experience.
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The Abyss / int_59eeb877	type	Career Not Taken
The Abyss / int_59eeb877	comment	Career Not Taken: Catfish is shown to be a pretty competent fighter, with the implication that he used to be a boxer, but had to quit at some point. Catfish later proves he wasn't exaggerating when he floors Lieutenant Coffey with one punch.
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The Abyss / int_5c47ec4	type	Eldritch Ocean Abyss
The Abyss / int_5c47ec4	comment	Eldritch Ocean Abyss: The film's about a United States SEAL team trying to salvage a destroyed nuclear submarine in the deep ocean, but underwater aliens are watching them...
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The Abyss / int_5eca52dc	type	Distress Call
The Abyss / int_5eca52dc	comment	Distress Call: The divers are responding to a crashed nuclear sub.
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The Abyss / int_6070670f	type	Complete-the-Quote Title
The Abyss / int_6070670f	comment	Complete-the-Quote Title: The movie title come from a quote by Friedrich Nietzsche shown in the opening scene in the Special Edition. The theatrical release removed it because another movie used it before them.
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The Abyss / int_61375e57	type	BigDamnKiss
The Abyss / int_61375e57	comment	Big Damn Kiss: Between Bud and Lindsey at the end.
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The Abyss / int_61e43473	type	Dramatic Space Drifting
The Abyss / int_61e43473	comment	Dramatic Space Drifting: An underwater version where corpses are floating inside the wreckage of the sunken U.S.S. Montana.
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The Abyss / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Abyss / int_6439de78	comment	And the situation is inverted later when Bud is resigned to a Heroic Sacrifice after disarming the nuke. This time, with Lindsey begging him not to go through with it.
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The Abyss / int_67e9df66	type	Empty Quiver
The Abyss / int_67e9df66	comment	Empty Quiver: The setup is an attempt to decommission a lost nuclear sub. You just know something bad's gonna happen with that nuke on board.
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The Abyss / int_68069489	type	Nipple and Dimed
The Abyss / int_68069489	comment	Nipple and Dimed: The film is rated PG-13 even though Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio's breasts are visible during the CPR scene. Possibly because the context of the scene is not at all sexual or erotic. It even counts as Shown Their Work, since you can't use a defibrillator through clothing.
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The Abyss / int_6bfc52a3	type	A Wizard Did It
The Abyss / int_6bfc52a3	comment	A Wizard Did It: The ending, more or less.
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The Abyss / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
The Abyss / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License â€“ Military: Both variations of Trident missile only carried a complement of 100kt yield warheads (Coffey stated 50kt). Physical size of the package was fudged a little, and weight was fudged a lot.
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The Abyss / int_704d7e91	type	No Ontological Inertia
The Abyss / int_704d7e91	comment	No Ontological Inertia: Lampshaded when the "aliens" return everyone to the surface with no pause for decompression. "We should be dead!"
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The Abyss / int_713e479	type	Sensor Suspense
The Abyss / int_713e479	comment	Sensor Suspense: In the opening scene a U.S. Navy submarine is tracking an unknown underwater object by sonar. The sonar blip is projected on a screen, showing the object maneuvering near the sub.
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The Abyss / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Abyss / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Let the mining team disconnect the cable connecting them to the surface so it neither yanks them off the cliff edge or snaps loose to fall on them? Nah! Take the Idiot Ball and head to the submarine to retrieve a nuclear weapon because evidently, decommissioning a nuclear submarine is much more important than being alive to do it! Of course, Coffey is already starting to mentally deteriorate at this point, and isn't thinking clearly - he's probably focusing entirely on his orders, regardless of how much sense it makes to continue following them at this point.
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The Abyss / int_77414bc2	type	Action Prologue
The Abyss / int_77414bc2	comment	Action Prologue: The submarine accident.
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The Abyss / int_776c2ba4	type	Send in the Search Team
The Abyss / int_776c2ba4	comment	Send in the Search Team: The main cast is sent to search a sunken submarine.
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The Abyss / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
The Abyss / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: Cameron was going through a rather messy divorce while writing this movie. Many critics questioned how much this influenced the Brigman estrangement subplot.
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The Abyss / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Abyss / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: A rare non-verbal example is given to Bud by the aliens in a slide show of all of humanity's famous atrocities.
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The Abyss / int_7ed96790	type	Trapped in Containment
The Abyss / int_7ed96790	comment	Trapped in Containment: When the rig is flooding.
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The Abyss / int_7f2c7fae	type	Explosive Instrumentation
The Abyss / int_7f2c7fae	comment	Explosive Instrumentation: When the nuclear submarine crashes into the wall of the underwater canyon, fires break out in the control room instrument panels.
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The Abyss / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
The Abyss / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: The scene where the rat is immersed in a breathable liquid isn't a special effect - the rat really is breathing liquid fluorocarbon emulsion. (Not in the UK release, however). The same technology is used in modern medicine, to treat extremely premature babies whose lungs aren't developed enough to handle breathing air. In real life, these liquids not only don't remove enough CO2 from the lungs, the liquid is so much heavier than air that the lungs can barely move it in and out, the effort of which, of course, builds up more CO2.
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The Abyss / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Abyss / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: What happened to that poor crane operator? The book explicitly states that he died. The pet rat, who people will definitely worry about (including the British Board Of Film Classification - the shots of the rat in the breathing fluid were cut from the UK release). The American cut reveals that the actual rat was unharmed. When the actors were doing press for the movie, there were actually requests to bring the rat along because the scene made such an impact - the fact that the rat had died of natural causes after filming wrapped but before release led to some awkward questions, according to Hippy's actor Todd Graff.
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The Abyss / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Abyss / int_87504252	comment	The Big Board: The transparent variant, onboard the U.S.S. Montana.
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The Abyss / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
The Abyss / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: Coffey pins Lindsey up against a wall, and says "This is something I've wanted to do since we first met." Then we hear two ripping noises â€¦ and he produces a piece of tape, which he sticks over her mouth. (The trivia subtitle track on the DVD release pops up with "What did you think was going to happen in a PG-13 movie?" just after this happens.)
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The Abyss / int_889f217f	type	Hot Sub-on-Sub Action
The Abyss / int_889f217f	comment	Hot Sub-on-Sub Action: The minisubs involved aren't fighting with weapons â€” they're fighting over a weapon.
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The Abyss / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
The Abyss / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Lindsey Brigman, who deliberately drowns so her husband can use the diving suit to get back. Hooray for the Mammalian Diving Reflex!
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The Abyss / int_8b4f2a4f	type	'80s Hair
The Abyss / int_8b4f2a4f	comment	'80s Hair: Not quite so obvious on the crew, but the SEALs have some rather non-regulation hair going. In the extended version, the newscast reveals some spectacular 80s hair on the newscasters and crowds. A bit of Truth in Television, since SEALs are free to have non-regulation hairstyles (within reason) as long as it doesn't interfere with their operations, though most still keep their hair fairly short while on deployment.
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The Abyss / int_8dca1883	type	Abstract Scale
The Abyss / int_8dca1883	comment	Abstract Scale:
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The Abyss / int_92474ca6	type	Resurrection Gambit
The Abyss / int_92474ca6	comment	Resurrection Gambit: When Bud and Lindsey are trapped in a flooding chamber with only one air supply, the only plan they can think of is to let Lindsey drown so that she can be dragged back to safety and resuscitated, counting on the extreme frigidity of the water to prevent brain damage for an adequate amount of time. It barely works.
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The Abyss / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Abyss / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Bizarrely, this is half the moral of the book, and it's the moral the aliens learn from it all. They realize that they're actually just as bad as the humans, and need to grow up just as much as the humans do.
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The Abyss / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Abyss / int_9b34ee31	comment	Marriage of Convenience: Bud explains that he and Lindsey only married to get better sleeping quarters on one of their projects.
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The Abyss / int_9c47b23b	type	Dirty Communists
The Abyss / int_9c47b23b	comment	Dirty Communists: The setup for the plot was for an American salvage team to recover a sunken American nuclear submarine before the Soviets did. The Director's Cut expands on the Cold War subplot, with the salvage efforts being likened to a second Cuban Missile Crisis due to the wreck's close proximity to Cuba.
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The Abyss / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Abyss / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: "They used to call this 'The Hammer'." Think Catfish will use The Hammer to deck someone later at a key moment? Monk is the only SEAL to not be afraid and even enthused at seeing the alien probe.
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The Abyss / int_a31b47ae	type	Rapid-Fire "No!"
The Abyss / int_a31b47ae	comment	Rapid-Fire "No!": Bud, when realizing that the crane wreckage is toppling over the trench and is going to pull the entire rig with it.
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The Abyss / int_a5c30aec	type	Floating Water
The Abyss / int_a5c30aec	comment	Floating Water: The water tentacle.
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The Abyss / int_ac320c0e	type	Nuke 'em
The Abyss / int_ac320c0e	comment	Nuke 'em: Paranoid delusions + Access to nukes = BAD THING.
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The Abyss / int_ac9af088	type	Relationship-Salvaging Disaster
The Abyss / int_ac9af088	comment	Relationship-Salvaging Disaster: Bud and Lindsey are estranged at the start of the film. Getting caught in the deep sea rig together results in them falling in love again.
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The Abyss / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Abyss / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: "They used to call thisnote Catfish referring to his fist 'The Hammer'." Lieutenant Coffey later discovers firsthand that Catfish wasn't bragging.
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The Abyss / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Abyss / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The entire crew's reaction when the crane falls into the trench, and watching the tether slowly following - with the rig still attached. And the reaction of Coffey, Lindsey, and Bud when Coffey's mini-sub tumbles down the trench. Lindsey and Coffey even reflexively reach out to each other, a failed Take My Hand! moment that shows that, as far gone as Coffey is at that point, he's still human, and that Lindsey would help him if she could.
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The Abyss / int_ad54ff39	type	Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure
The Abyss / int_ad54ff39	comment	Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure: Invoked when Lindsey asks Coffey how powerful the nuclear warheads are.
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The Abyss / int_b0362613	type	One-Way Trip
The Abyss / int_b0362613	comment	One-Way Trip: Bud's decision to go disarm the nuke. Subverted in that the aliens intervene to let him live.
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The Abyss / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
The Abyss / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Coffey's explanation to Bud as to why the SEALs stole the sub: they were Just Following Orders.
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The Abyss / int_b53c57d5	type	Epigraph
The Abyss / int_b53c57d5	comment	Epigraph: The movie opening on a quote by Friedrich Nietzsche "...when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."
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The Abyss / int_b628db4c	type	"Hey, You!" Haymaker
The Abyss / int_b628db4c	comment	"Hey, You!" Haymaker: Cat delivers a devastating one to Coffey who thrown into the water by the sheer force of it and immediately retreats rather than dare to take Cat on in a fair fight.
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The Abyss / int_b6738eed	type	Hint Dropping
The Abyss / int_b6738eed	comment	Hint Dropping: While Bud is diving down into the trench.
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The Abyss / int_b7efeb58	type	Magical Defibrillator
The Abyss / int_b7efeb58	comment	Magical Defibrillator: Justified in that the device in question is an early-80's model without a quick-look ECG function.
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The Abyss / int_b87e9bc7	type	Sensory Tentacles
The Abyss / int_b87e9bc7	comment	Sensory Tentacles: A tentacle-like construct made of animated water makes initial contact with the human explorers.
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The Abyss / int_bba30aeb	type	Late to the Tragedy
The Abyss / int_bba30aeb	comment	Late to the Tragedy: The more paranoid crew members believe the "visitors" are responsible for crashing the sub.
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The Abyss / int_bffc7851	type	Humanity on Trial
The Abyss / int_bffc7851	comment	Humanity on Trial: The aliens consider washing humanity away for all its warmongering and cruelty. They even raise huge tsunami waves all around the globe and held them erect for a while just to make their point perfectly clear, but changed their minds when Bud willingly sacrificed himself on a One-Way Trip to the depths in order to save the aliens from a nuclear warhead sent down by an Ax-Crazy U.S. Navy SEAL. (It's debatable whether the nuke would have hurt them, but still...) They even save Bud's life as a "thank you".
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The Abyss / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
The Abyss / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Bud, after Lindsey drowns. She gets better. Earlier in the film, after the crane accident and the damage to Deep Core, as the crew tries to escape the flooding modules, one of them gets trapped in a sealed-off module behind Bud. They beat on the hatch for about 30 seconds, then stop, signifying that they drowned. Bud cries out no there as well, but his mourning time is limited as that module immediately starts flooding as well.
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The Abyss / int_c3ae004a	type	Re-Cut
The Abyss / int_c3ae004a	comment	Re-Cut: But not because of Executive Meddling; James Cameron cut out almost a half-hour of footage himself because he felt at the time that it didn't work correctly; ironically, Cameron said that when he told the suits this, they were the ones who didn't like the change. There were also issues with the cut CGI that later technology allowed him to go back and fix, leading to the release of a "Special Edition".
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The Abyss / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Abyss / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The opening scene with the sub is one big shout out to Das Boot.
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The Abyss / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
The Abyss / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Man. Lindsey is a little high-strung, which Bud has to remind her.
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The Abyss / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
The Abyss / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Lindsey spends the first half of the film trying to convince the crew that there's something not human in the trench. Nobody believes her until they see a giant Russian water tentacle in front of their faces. As Bud reaches near the bottom of the trench, he types there's light everywhere. Monk comments that he must be having serious hallucinations due to the depth. Nope. Just an alien city.
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The Abyss / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Abyss / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: You could easily throw a massive one of these at the Starfish Aliens, as they decided it was the best way to send their peaceful message to humanity to grow up and stop trying to kill each other by threatening to hurl worldwide giant tsunamis at them. Perhaps justified by the fact that the humans, in their bickering, had tried to attack them. Further justified with the tsunami being a demonstration of their power - it's easier to show that humanity would be totally outclassed if they tried to start something with the aliens. "We want to live in peace - bear in mind what we can do if you force us into defending ourselves..." Then again, this entire situation is happening because the aliens accidentally crashed a nuclear submarine and killed 159 people... While trying to prevent a nuclear exchange.
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The Abyss / int_d44ea142	type	You Are Not Alone
The Abyss / int_d44ea142	comment	You Are Not Alone: Lindsey and the crew to Bud Brigman, during his deep suit dive.
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The Abyss / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The Abyss / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Lindsey tells the Navy SEALs to watch for signs of High Pressure Nervous Syndrome and yet continually jerks Coffey's chain when he's clearly showing signs of it. It's only when the rig crew are at gunpoint, that she tries to be diplomatic, but by this point, he's completely flipped.
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The Abyss / int_d99af77b	type	Breathable Liquid
The Abyss / int_d99af77b	comment	Breathable Liquid: The divers breathe perfluorocarbon to help with the pressure, in one scene the crew actually immersed a rat in the liquid.
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The Abyss / int_dbb414ed	type	Hand Wave
The Abyss / int_dbb414ed	comment	Hand Wave: The only explanation the movie gives for why the crew isn't dead of decompression barotrauma at the end is that the aliens must have done something to prevent it. It is explicitly stated in the novelization, in addition to being the reason for Bud Brigman actually being alive and functioning by the time he gets down to the nuke, and for Lindsey's recovery from drowning.
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The Abyss / int_dcaf20c4	type	Space Suits Are SCUBA Gear
The Abyss / int_dcaf20c4	comment	Space Suits Are SCUBA Gear: Inverted. Bud's deep diving suit resembles an armored space suit.
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The Abyss / int_dddbdc26	type	Monumental Damage
The Abyss / int_dddbdc26	comment	Monumental Damage: Subverted. In the special edition we see giant tidal waves about to wipe out the Golden Gate Bridge, Lady Liberty, and a few others but then it stops.
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The Abyss / int_dfbd69d5	type	Underwater Base
The Abyss / int_dfbd69d5	comment	Underwater Base: The drilling rig.
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The Abyss / int_e206977a	type	In Space, Everyone Can See Your Face
The Abyss / int_e206977a	comment	In Space, Everyone Can See Your Face: The masks were specially designed to show the actors' faces.
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The Abyss / int_e61d9a3c	type	Clothing Damage
The Abyss / int_e61d9a3c	comment	Clothing Damage: Coffey's shirt suffers from it.
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The Abyss / int_e73f6217	type	Feet-First Introduction
The Abyss / int_e73f6217	comment	Feet-First Introduction: Lindsey's legs amongst the crew that leave the helicopter.
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The Abyss / int_e80cdd72	type	Almost Out of Oxygen
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The Abyss / int_eb2195d9	comment	Rousseau Was Right: The aliens initially wanted to wipe out humanity since they thought Humans Are the Real Monsters. However, they change their minds when they witness Bud's Heroic Sacrifice.
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The Abyss / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: When Coffee is about to strangle Bud, Catfish appears out of nowhere to save the day.
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The Abyss / int_f2480a42	comment	Futile Hand Reach: Despite their antagonism Lindsey and Coffey both instinctively place their hands on the windshields of their subs just before his sub is destroyed with him still inside.
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The Abyss / int_f8ec3418	comment	Someone Has to Die: Bud and Lindsey are trapped underwater with one set of breathing equipment, which Bud is already wearing. Bud offers the gear to Lindsey, which would doom him. Lindsey presents what she calls "the logical option", which gives both of them a chance of survival: she drowns, and Bud drags her body to safety, and hopes she can be revived. Bud is the stronger swimmer, so Lindsey has to drown. Bud's initial response is "Fuck logic!", but he soon comes round.
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The Abyss / int_fd0925ef	comment	Bitch Alert: Lindsey, coming complete with a character introducing her as "the Queen Bitch of the Universe" and another character making a gagging gesture when Lindsey's put on the radio. Of course this merely sets her up as a Defrosting Ice Queen who's shown in a more complicated light and ultimately proves the introduction wrong.
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The Abyss / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Early on, Bud calls Lindsey a "cast-iron bitch". When he's doing his suicide dive, well...
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The Abyss / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Cameron manages to work in obscure (but real) things like High Pressure Nervous Syndrome and the Mammalian Diving Reflex into the plot.
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Heartcatch Pretty Cure Variations / Fan Fic	seeAlso	The Abyss
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