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Whalefall

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A scuba diver in search of his deceased father's remains gets swallowed by an 80-foot, 60-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out. After giving up on life, the young man is surprised to find a reason to live in the most dangerous and unlikely of places.

Screenplay
Brian Duffield · Daniel Kraus
Cast
Austin Abrams · Josh Brolin · Elisabeth Shue · John Ortiz · Jane Levy
Genre
cine de supervivencia · cine de suspenso
Runtime
98 min
Country
United States
Music
Joseph Trapanese
Cinematography
Aaron Morton
Based on
Whalefall

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Moby Dick and the white sperm whale

Square-headed sperm whales, braided harpoons, whaleboats, teeth scratched with a jackknife. The designs draw on the Pequod's inventory exactly as Melville describes it: bulwarks bristling with sperm whale teeth, a tiller carved from a jawbone, the gold doubloon nailed to the mainmast, Queequeg's coffin turned into a life-buoy. And, from the far end of the family tree, Jonah going head first into a pair of open jaws.

The Engraved Bible

A bear up on its hind legs stealing a honeycomb (the Basel title page, 1569); Ezekiel's ophan, a wheel set inside another at right angles with eyes all round the rims; Dürer's four horsemen in a pile-up rather than a line; the ark as a crate with no prow, the tree with the serpent coiled round it, the two tablets with the top corner rounded off. And the way the Mozarabic Beatus painters drew: bands of flat colour, no depth, outsized eyes and beasts that look cut out with scissors.

Forms of Nature

Millimetre-wide radiolarians turned into rose windows, siphonophores hanging like chandeliers, jellyfish trailing golden filaments, diatoms, lichens, orchids, bats and antelopes arranged by symmetry on black. Birds at life size and caught mid-violence, the flamingo bent into a U because there was no other way to fit it on the sheet. And a whole metamorphosis in a single print: the plant, the egg, the caterpillar, the chrysalis, the adult — plus a pinktoe tarantula eating a hummingbird.

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