The latter begins to get attracted to Susan, although Karel believes that Susan is interested in him.įollowing a mission to France where the squadron attacks a train, Karel is shot down, but Franta lands and rescues him, a move that shows that their friendship endures. The next day, after returning to the aerodrome, Karel brings Franta to meet Susan. There he meets and falls in love with Susan (Tara Fitzgerald), although she thinks he is far too young. However, he manages to survive and find his way to a farm. While shooting down a Heinkel He 111 bomber, Karel's Spitfire fighter aircraft is shot down. Franta becomes the unit commander, with the younger Karel under his charge. After their first sortie they realise why the British have trained them so intensely: a young Czechoslovak nicknamed "Tom Tom" is shot down by a Messerschmitt Bf 109 and killed. The RAF is in such a dire need of pilots during the Battle of Britain that eventually the Czechoslovak airmen are allowed to fly. Karel also sees the compulsory English language lessons as a pointless waste of his time. The British make the Czechoslovaks retrain from the basics, which infuriates them, especially Karel, who is both impatient to fight the Germans and humiliated at being retaught what he already knows. However, Franta and his young friend Karel Vojtíšek (Kryštof Hádek), among others, refuse to submit to their occupiers and flee to the United Kingdom to join the RAF. After the invasion, the Czechoslovak Army is disbanded and its Air Force has to surrender its aircraft. His recollections of the war begin in 1939, just days prior to the German invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 1950, during the Cold War, František (Franta) Sláma (Ondřej Vetchý) is incarcerated in Czechoslovakia, because of his prior service in the RAF. British actors include Tara Fitzgerald, Charles Dance and Anna Massey. The film stars Czech actors Ondřej Vetchý, Kryštof Hádek and Oldřich Kaiser. The screenplay was written by Zdeněk Svěrák, the director's father. quality as a cook whose best friend is a parrot, and who hides from the shark in an oven, which the shark cleverly sets to 500 degrees.Dark Blue World ( Czech: Tmavomodrý svět) is a 2001 film by Czech director Jan Svěrák, the Academy Award-winning director of Kolya, about Czech pilots who fought for the British Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. The surprise in the cast is LL Cool J, who has a kind of Cuba Gooding Jr. Jane handles most of the action duties, convincingly if of course not plausibly (in other words, he looks like he can hold his breath underwater indefinitely, even though we know it's impossible). Jackson is more or less the straight man in the cast. There's a little perfunctory scientist-bashing, but not much (the Burrows character violates ethical guidelines, but, hey, it's for a good cause-fighting Alzheimer's). The sharks exist in "Deep Blue Sea'' as the Macguffins, creating situations that require the characters to think fast, fight bravely, improvise their way out of tight spots, dangle between flames and teeth, etc. The most obvious problem with this premise is that just because a shark is smarter doesn't mean it has more information the smartest shark in the world would only know how to be a smart shark unless it had a way to learn.īut never mind. Its premise is that the shark brains have been increased fivefold, with a corresponding increase in intelligence, so that the sharks can figure out the layout of the station and work together to batter down watertight doors, swim down corridors, etc. The shark attacks are intercut with a desperate escape plot, after storms and explosions incapacitate the station and the characters are trapped below the waterline in areas threatened by water pressure and sharks.Ĭommon sense of course has nothing to do with the screenplay, ingeniously devised by Duncan Kennedy, Donna Powers and Wayne Powers. Some of these characters turn up on the shark menu, although the timing and manner of their ingestion is often so unexpected that I'll say nothing more. Jackson) pays a visit to the station and meets the other key characters, including a shark wrangler ( Thomas Jane), a Bible-quoting cook (LL Cool J), and crew members including Jacqueline McKenzie, Michael Rapaport, Stellan Skarsgard and Aida Turturro. One of the sharks escapes and tries to eat a boat. A big corporation underwrites the research, and maintains a deep-sea station with shark corrals and underwater living and research areas. The premise: A scientist ( Saffron Burrows) has devised a way to use the brain tissue of sharks to cultivate a substance that might be useful in fighting Alzheimer's disease.
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