I have no idea. The more I hear the more I think the movie was referencing more real happenings than I had understood. Very early in the movie Seaman Jones (the golden ear) and rookie Beaumont are at the sonar station and Jones pulls a little training stunt. He chides the Beaumont: "like Beethoven on the computer, you have labored to produce... a biologic. ... ... A whale, Beaumont, a whale, a marine mammal that knows a hell of a lot more about sonar than you do."
I read the book. And there were certainly real references to submarine hunting. But the reference to preventing WW3 by finding a enemy sub is still lost on me.
My personal favorite of the sub movies is Phantom with Ed Harris, and it gets a little more philosophical. Basically in these kinds of dramas, escalation itself is the enemy: the move that triggers the countermove that triggers the countermove that triggers the war that ends the world
Erm, are we talking about a hollywood movie or reality?
And to my knowledge, the october missile crisis has nothing to do with that movie, except submarines are the topic.
I have no idea. The more I hear the more I think the movie was referencing more real happenings than I had understood. Very early in the movie Seaman Jones (the golden ear) and rookie Beaumont are at the sonar station and Jones pulls a little training stunt. He chides the Beaumont: "like Beethoven on the computer, you have labored to produce... a biologic. ... ... A whale, Beaumont, a whale, a marine mammal that knows a hell of a lot more about sonar than you do."
I read the book. And there were certainly real references to submarine hunting. But the reference to preventing WW3 by finding a enemy sub is still lost on me.
My personal favorite of the sub movies is Phantom with Ed Harris, and it gets a little more philosophical. Basically in these kinds of dramas, escalation itself is the enemy: the move that triggers the countermove that triggers the countermove that triggers the war that ends the world