He’s in the steep mountainside.
Soon Kristoffer Joner walk backwards towards the edge of the 600 meter long and at worst 80 meters deep gap near rips massif Åknes in Strand two.
Later, 54 million cubic meters of rock loosening here, slide into the fjord below, forcing 200 depth meters of water moving at a very tsunami that will wash over headlands and feather stones.
Monster Wave will wallow 85 meters up on the land in the village Hellesylt, 70 meters in Geiranger, washing away soil and soil, smashing buildings to pieces, making people homeless and changing geography of Sunnylvsfjorden forever.
On film. In the first place.
Transmissions pushes the helmet into his forehead and breathe out hard twice, almost snarling:“Is this fuck shoulder, hm? Bad-assen? “
And looking down the north country’s large crack.
Controversial
” The mountain crevices, “was the headlines in the national press for over ten years ago. In Storfjord region knew all about the crack in Åknes massif. But in 2003 struck geologists alarm. It was worse than previously thought. The mountain acquired the status of high-risk item.
It was not a question of if, but when. It would breed. And it would probably be ugly.
In Oslo sat filmmaker Martin Sundlandveien and swallowed articles. So frightening, so fascinating! He read up on avalanche history, scenarios and geology, and the idea grew. Could it be possible?
The answer was disheartening.
– It would cost huge sums of money to make a movie. The technique made it not possible to create such a credible and monumental wave, says Sundlandveien to A Magazine.
Better effects
And seven or eight. Sundlandveien made “Cold Prey” and “Supremacy Ragnarok”. The technology progressed. The special effects were better. Two years ago, the production company Fantefilm finally started his groundbreaking and controversial film project.
Innovative because it is the first disaster film, a genre film of such dimensions never been made in Scandinavia.
Controversial because it creates entertainment of a threat as thousands of people daily, literally, has hanging over it.
When the alarm went ten years ago, the villages Hellesylt and Geiranger purely down by journalists from Norwegian, Swedish Radio and the BBC. Checkout lady at the convenience store got microphones thrust in his face: “How do you feel now?”
When the news of the film came in 2012, many thought, “Not again.” Politicians frowned, and industry feared that cruise tourists would be frightened away.
in one year, the film première.
As and crack
As Åkernes and family actually lived where no one thought anyone could live in a farms up in the cliff where the scenery starts to look like barskest out.
When Per was a kid, flew him and his siblings over heath and mounds, up the slope, over the tree line was exciting stuff going on. A crack system meandering across the mountainside, as if a giant had carved slope with a sharply pointed knife.
As went to fetch the goats before milking time. Here he hunted small game. He had the whole mountain as their playground and garden.
But Peter and siblings moved with care, for they knew this: The mountain was moving, crack lived in a way. Per la stones across the fissures in the rock fall. The next time they came up, the stones disappeared, the crack had swallowed them.
In 1957, Per marriage and moved from the farm. He did not return until 1983, when he was on a hike in the area. He jumped.
The crack had widened dramatically. As before there was room for a fist, the distance was two feet. At its widest was slit over twenty.
– When did I anskrik, says Per Åkernes, which is now 83 and living in Fiskarstrand, near Ålesund.
He said, concerned his 26 years ago was attempted shut up. The local environment wanted no negative publicity in the newspapers. What would happen to the tourist traffic? But it was impossible to fight.
Avalanche risks. Sooner or later, this mountain side race out into the bay and set off a tsunami Sunnylvsfjorden. PHOTO: Carl Martin Nordby
rips the mountain was growing. Today all know Åknes-crack, and Per Åkernes has over the years served as the local expert for geologists and other professionals. Now it is two years since he was there last. He does not know whether there will be a next time. No one knows.
– For once let the mountain. We can only hope not all breeds at once, says Åkernes.
– Then it jauligt
Action Filled
“Bæng æksjen,” says Kristoffer Joner rogalandsk and shot himself somehow into the bubble jacket. The wind bites fresh here in height. Joner sitting on a stone and place an snuff. Venting, coffee and snuff, it gets a lot of it. So: Bang action.
– It is very good, this here.
Transmissions has starred in the film. He plays a geologist who has Åknes-chute under surveillance. He discovers that something disturbing is afoot, but are opposed. Then it happens. The slide runs, the wave frames, and Joners character comes away from the family for wave chaos.
The actress, who has a fear of heights and not raving for water, has been tested their limits during recording.
– There have been many physical challenges. And it’s the first time I have been involved in such large film set.
The wave is a film with many X-factors, many carriers or breaking points, according to director Roar Uthaug – a sworn disaster film enthusiast who loves armageddon, bang and pyro.
As when they built up an entire hotel lobby in a pool of water in a studio in Romania, with only one chance to clear the 40,000 gallons of water over the set of six huge water tower with explosives. It had to vote for one sampling, and it went way. The whole set imploded in laughter and tears.
It is also the most expensive single scene in Norwegian film history. In total wave a budget of 48 million.
– It is magnificent and spectacular, but firmly rooted in the Norwegian reality, advertising Uthaug.
A truth with some modifications .
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In the film escapes the population of a fjord beast that resembles a huge surf wave with white, lapping foam on top.
The reality is somewhat different.
Geologists and engineers have calculated the aforementioned wave heights from a worst-case scenario, or “Åknes 1C”, as it is called in the professionals’ excelark. In this scenario, races 54 million cubic meters of rock into a block and stock millennium giant splash in Synnylvsfjorden.
Masses follow the sea bottom over to the other side and put the whole of the 200 meter deep water massif in motion.
Half of the energy turns into the bay, half beyond. The water level rises drastically, and the wave peaks will propagate inward and outward the fjord.
Depending on the avalanche size will range from a few hundred to several thousand people had to be evacuated, several roads and ferry services can be destroyed.
– In some areas of the fjord we will get a raising of the water level of over 30 meters. As the wave reaches shallower areas in the country, amplified it and rise vertically two to five times before it breaks and flooding the country, says the head of Åknes / Tafjord Preparedness in Strand, Kjell Jogerud.
Some edge wave in the fjord is therefore not a question.
Jogerud and his men assisted during the entire filming. The footage in the mountains trumps geologists know the area and helicopter pilots all decisions. There is no risk-free recording disaster movie.
Frames whole bay
In The wave unfolding drama in Geiranger. In reality, the cruise ship magnet at the head of the Geirangerfjord, next to the next village Hellesylt most vulnerable. From the landslide hit the fjord to the wave reaches land, it will take five minutes.
Another four community centers can be badly affected – The beach, Jam / Norddalselva, Stordalselva and Sjøholt / Ørskogfjellet. But tsunami can cause damage throughout the fjord system, Ålesund and villages, Ørsta and Hareid.
Depending on the avalanche size will range from a few hundred to several thousand people had to be evacuated, several roads and ferry services can be destroyed.
In a more modest scenario loosen only the most unstable part of the mountain and avalanche will “only” be 12 million cubic meters.
It will still be four times larger than Tafjord landslide in neighboring fjord arm in 1934 – a horror chapter in Norwegian history books.
40 people died when Lang hammer slid into the sea and launched a devastating tsunami.
The time was run-14-15 meters.
In other words: Tafjord landslide 80 years ago is nothing compared to the future wave.
– People think and do many different . The only thing we know is that the mountain is heading for collapse
Tourist Magnet
Producer Martin Sundlandveien in Fantefilm says they therefore have been keen to team up with municipality and the local population and treat the imminent threat humbly. In the beginning was great resistance, but it has softened along the way, he says.
When the film crew needed several hundred extras to shoot the dramatic evacuation scene on Eagle Road, the interest was enormous. Entire families participated with their own cars and thick layers of patience. So they stood there and waited for hours for the right light.
– We now see that most are confident that we have honorable intentions. We create something extraordinary, high quality, says Sundlandveien.
– A film of this size will help to increase awareness of landslide hazards. Norway is of course an extremely safe from avalanches countries, many live with similar threats. You can do more to make them better, says Sundlandveien, which has high hopes that the film will be a success internationally.
– We are keen to use the wonderful Norway has to offer in our movies. I also believe Wave will have a positive impact on tourism.
100 years. 10. A few months. There are many predictions, but no one can say for sure when the spectacular landslide will occur.
– People think and do many different things. The only thing we know is that the mountain is heading for collapse, says chief geologist Lars Harald Blikra the avalanche center in the beach. Avalanche Centre was established in 2004 and has a total of five mountain massifs – three in Møre og Romsdal and two in Troms – under continuous surveillance.
Åknes-mountainside flashes of metal and aluminum – an ingenious system of radar , GPS and laser monitoring are established, movements in many parts of the mountain mapped. Camcorders sends continuous surveillance photos, tension measuring cracks and slippages.
More stag disappeared down the crack, which extends between two to three and seven to eight centimeters a year.
First, when movement enters the geologist calls an “acceleration phase”, one gets an idea of when “the mountain of sticks.”
slippage then will increase from 0.1 millimeters to several centimeters a day. Then roll it only on the mountain collapses completely and goes like an avalanche with speeds up to 70 meters per second at the end.
According Blikra it will take from a few weeks to a few months of slippage increases in speed and to the mountain collapses and accelerating. This is observed in many historical landslide events both in Norway and other countries.
But you never know quite how it happens.
– All the mountains are individualists, he said.
– But you will have plenty of time to initiate evacuation. The challenge is when to start.
Power
At some point in the future, a siren howl over the beach, the Geiranger and Hellesylt and residents receive an evacuation SMS. Possibly it will be the last time many of them see their homes.
When the wave has première, at worst catastrophe have happened. But most likely not. Or?
Again: No one knows for sure.
– Honestly. If it happens in our lifetime: As a geologist – are you looking forward?
– When it happens, it will be hectic, a large strain, with many decisions that must be taken. It does not rejoice, says Blikra.
– But it will be a tension that is there. Always. That’s why we’re making a movie of it?
“Cut”
Movie Roar Uthaug rødskjeggete face cracks into a big smile behind the monitor in the mountains. Scene set 1029
– It was good to stop us. We’re idiots, says Kristoffer Joner, and looks enough once down “fuck shoulder.”
So it is with geologist gear, hooks and helmets for the last time. Transmissions and teammate Arthur Berning resumes mobile chess party and looking forward to drinking beer in front of the fireplace at The beach hotel tonight.
It has been a struggle, but now the last scene shot.
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Soon the helicopter carrying the lot of from the bunker Ørnereiret and down on flat ground again.
There they will celebrate with three course dinner. At 22 o’clock, the entire film crew retreat to the hotel lounge. There waiting extra dessert – a preview of the trailer for Norway’s first disaster movie.
And where should it go sucking “who-hooo” through space, when the crew sees the monster wave thundering over Geiranger.
It is so powerful. And once it’s going to happen.
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