Here comes the monster wave towards Geiranger – Dagbladet.no

(Filtermagasin.no): Next year, Norway’s first disaster film, “The wave” wash over the audience.

Here the public will take part in the panic that occurs when actors Ane Dahl Torp and Kristoffer Joner (which currently plays in film with Leonardo DiCaprio) struggles against the wet element.

The film depicts what happens when large amounts of mountain masses races into the Geiranger fjord – with a subsequent tsunami indulging 85 meters up on the shore.

– We have been doing this project here in six or seven years. Ever since I first heard about the slide in Tafjord in 1934, I was fascinated in a way or another, says the film’s producer Martin Sundlandveien to Filter.

– It is incredibly scary that there are places like that in Norway there This may … or rather will to happen again. Somewhere sneaked it is also an idea that this is something we can make movies of.

Had to wait

But the time was not quite built for a film of the dimensions Sundlandveien so itself. He plans on the shelf, and made in the meantime films as “Cold Prey” and “Supremacy Ragnarok.”

– Film technology developed in the meantime something violent, especially when it came to technology related to visual effects. Now we have come so far that we can look at references films like “Day After Tomorrow” and “2012″ – and we can do the same in Norway, says Sundlandveien to Filter.

– In the meantime, we worked as best we can with the script. But now it is therefore true. I saw the rough cuts yesterday, and this is very, very good, he adds.

Now the first teaser to “wave” out there, and for the first time we’ll see how the monstrous film wave will see out – watch the video at the top of the case.

– You’re the into the disaster film genre at a good time, which effects no longer necessarily play the main role?

– Yes, it’s got to be an exciting story at the bottom – it’s supposed to be real people who experience this here. Fortunately we have two of the best actors gestalts lead roles, says Sundlandveien, and continues:

– Our film is about the people who act up in here. They are the ones you should care about that effects will have a impact.

– Good timing

Movie Roar Uthaug agree that the timing of “wave” is very good:

– I am very pleased that we are making the movie now and not five years ago. Things are developing all the time and now I feel confident that we can achieve what we want to achieve within the Norwegian framework. Technologically we are now on a par with the rest of the film world, he says to Filter.

– How has it been to direct a movie that, as far rely on special effects

– First, it is always fun to be allowed to play in such a sandpit, with so much available of techniques and skills that I had around me. But it also offers the challenges when to frame the actors in a scene where the elements to be added on later, says Uthaug.

– But we have tried to combine the digital effects with practical effects, so we can get close to the action, while a greater realism in the image.

Adding constraints

Among these were built two water deposits with a total of 40,000 liters of water, which would burst at some point – which (despite the fact that 4000 liters of water, according to Aftenposten errant) eventually ended up smashing set as planned, thus becoming one of the most expensive single scenes in Norwegian film.

When producer Sundlandveien initially mentioned that the film’s disaster not something you can, but will happen in real life, it also adds constraints on how the film handles the many delicate topic.

– It adds a special veil around the project, we have known. Home to the human lives here living under a real threat, and it must treat carefully and sensitively, says Sundlandveien.

– Excited movie

He says most people he spoke with in the affected areas are happy that the film is made:

– A film like this will of necessity be talked about, with all that entails. Norway is an extremely safe from avalanches country, and every year we hear about the avalanche that takes lives, properties and insulates whole communities. Maybe we should do more to secure us?

Also director Uthaug have been was the theme during the recording of “wave.”

– It makes enough that taking things a bit more seriously and try to treat the subject with respect – and not just stock mindless entertainment.

– It is interesting that this film – the human aftermath of such a disaster – comes in the wake of avalanches in the Swedish Oscar hopes “Tourist”?

– Hehe, yes – it is well almost talk about a wave of Scandinavian film, says Uthaug.

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This case was originally published on film and TV blog filter.