POSEIDON MOVIE MOVIE
The Poseidon Adventure marked a rare occasion where the Academy seemed to have responded to a film’s box office rather than its critical reputation (or Oscar bait properties) as the movie described by Roger Ebert as “the kind of movie you know is going to be awful, and yet somehow you gotta see it” received a total of nine Academy Award nominations, winning two for Best Song and Best Visual Effects. “Come on out to Poughkeepsie, we’ll pick our feet, have a few laughs…” After that, it’s a surreal, inverted hellscape through dimly lit corridors and air shafts, years before John McClane made it cool. Rosen with whom he comes close to, uh, “getting familiar” as he gives her considerably more than a helping hand on her way up the crooked Christmas tree. I love Hackman’s take-charge attitude, an alpha energy that won’t be suppressed by his super-’70s combover and seems to win him the affection of every woman on the ship… though it’s only Mrs. Life is up there, and life always matters very much, doesn’t it?”
Belle Rosen (Shelley Winters), who insists that “a fat woman like me can’t climb” asks, “There’s something different up there than there is down here?” The good reverend is only able to muster nine others that will join him to work their way up-or down, rather-into the ship’s intestines until they can attempt to cut their way out through the inch-thick steel hull to possible rescue. Scott pulls a small group together to commandeer a decorative Christmas tree to climb up and out of the dining room and through the galley to potential freedom. While most of their fellow passengers follow the boorish purser’s overly cautious advice, Rev. We’re floating upside-down… we’ve gotta climb up. Poseidon and quite literally turning the lives of its passengers upside down.Ģ020, as summed up by The Poseidon Adventure. While the champagne pops and auld acquaintances be forgot, the crew learns of a massive undersea earthquake that results in a rare wave that strikes the ship broadside, capsizing the S.S. Seated at the captain’s table are New York detective Mike Rogo (Ernest Borgnine), his ex-prostitute wife Linda (Stella Stevens), and Reverend Frank Scott (Gene Hackman), a controversial cleric yet popular passenger who had captivated a congregation earlier that day with his religious philosophy said to be based on director Ronald Neame’s own hybrid of Christian, Buddhist, and New Age spiritualist beliefs. The cautious Captain Harrison (Leslie Nielsen) finds his authority challenged by the ship’s aggressive owner Linarcos (Fred Sadoff), establishing the dangers of hubris that would remain a consistent theme throughout the disaster sub-genre.ĭown in the ship’s elegant dining room, the Poseidon‘s glamorous passengers are celebrating New Year’s Eve amidst their own personal dramas or crises of faith. Poseidon-partially filmed aboard the decommissioned Cunard liner RMS Queen Mary-is making one last run before it will be scrapped in Athens.
Unlike the ill-fated Titanic which sank during its maiden voyage in 1912, the fictional S.S. While Airport had originated the disaster film boom of the ’70s, The Poseidon Adventure proved its enduring box office power, recouping more than 25 times its initial budget and paving the way for a decade’s worth of similar stories set amidst tropical storms, within fire-prone skyscrapers, and even aboard a famous airship. Produced by “Master of Disaster” Irwin Allen, The Poseidon Adventure followed the Airport template of a star-studded cast fighting to survive a perilous disaster while tackling their own personal issues. Happy New Year’s Eve… and #TurtleneckThursday? After this disaster of a year, I can’t think of a better movie to bid good riddance to 2020 than one of the most famous disaster movies of the ’70s. Poseidon en route Athens, New Year’s Eve 1972Ĭostume Designer: Paul Zastupnevich Background Gene Hackman as Reverend Frank Scott, fiery, independent-minded ministerĪboard the S.S. Gene Hackman as Reverend Frank Scott in The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Vitals
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