Crash Dive subtitles. AKA: Crash Dive: The Chase Is On. The crew of the nuclear submarine USS Ulysses rescues supposed victims of a boat disaster, but the victims turn out to be terrorists intent on capturing nuclear weapons aboard the sub. Only a former SEAL, now a submarine consultant, can save the crew by sliding aboard while the sub is underwater. In this actioner, former Navy SEAL James Carter comes out of retirement to secretly board a U.S. Submarine that is being hijacked by terrorists. If Carter does not somehow stop the terrorists, the.

. Canada. United KingdomLanguageEnglishBudget$9 millionBox office$23.2 millionCrash is a 1996 Canadian-British film written and directed by, based on 's controversial 1973.

It follows a film producer as he becomes involved with a group of who are sexually aroused. The film also stars, and.The film generated considerable controversy upon its release and opened to mixed and highly divergent reactions from critics.

While some praised the film for its daring premise and originality, others criticized its combination of graphic sexuality and violence. It premiered at the, where it received the, a unique award that is distinct from the Jury Prize as it is not given annually, but only at the request of the official jury (for example, the previous year, both a Jury Prize and a Special Jury Prize were awarded). When then jury president announced the award 'for originality, for daring and for audacity,' he stated that it had been a controversial choice and that certain jury members, 'did abstain very passionately.' The award has not been given since. It received six from the, including awards for Cronenberg as director and screenwriter; the film was also nominated in two further categories, including Best Picture. Contents.Plot James Ballard and his wife, Catherine , are in an. The couple engage in various trysts but, between them, have unenthusiastic.Their arousal is heightened by discussing the intimate details of their.

She recounts sex that day with a stranger in a prop plane hangar, where she caresses the plane hull with her bare breast as the film's opening scene. She was, however, left unsatisfied. When Ballard replies he did not achieve satisfaction with his office sexual encounter that day, as he was interrupted, his wife replies 'maybe the next one'.While driving home from work late one night, Ballard's car collides head-on with another, killing its male passenger. While trapped in the fused wreckage, the driver, Dr. Helen Remington , wife of the dead passenger, exposes a breast to Ballard when she pulls off the shoulder harness of her seat belt.While recovering, Ballard meets Remington again, as well as a man named Bob Vaughan , who takes a keen interest in the brace holding Ballard's shattered leg together and photographs it. While leaving the hospital, Remington and Ballard begin an affair, one primarily fueled by their shared experience of the car crash (not only do all of their sexual assignations take place in cars, all of Remington's off-screen sexual encounters take place in cars as well).

In an attempt to make some sense of why they are so aroused by their car wreck, they go to see one of Vaughan's cult meetings/performance pieces, a re-creation of the car crash that killed with authentic cars and stunt drivers. When Department of Transport officials break up the event, Ballard flees with Remington and Vaughan.Ballard becomes one of Vaughan's followers who car crashes, obsessively watching car safety test videos and photographing traffic collisions. Ballard drives Vaughan's around the city while Vaughan picks up and has sex with street prostitutes and, later, Ballard's wife. In turn, Ballard has a dalliance with one of the other group members, Gabrielle , a beautiful woman whose legs are clad in restrictive steel braces and who has a -like scar on the back of one of her thighs, which is used as a substitute for a vagina by Ballard. The film's sexual couplings in (or involving) cars are not restricted to heterosexual experiences. While watching videos of car crashes, Remington becomes extremely aroused and gropes the crotches of both Ballard and Gabrielle, suggesting an imminent. Later, Vaughan and Ballard eventually turn towards each other and have sex while, also later, Gabrielle and Remington have sex with each other.Although Vaughan claims at first that he is interested in the 'reshaping of the human body by modern technology,' in fact his project is to live out the philosophy that the car crash is a 'benevolent psychopathology that beckons towards us.'

The film's climax begins with Vaughan's death in an intentional crash. It ends with another deliberate crash where Ballard rams his wife's car, as she unbuckles her seat belt intentionally. As he caresses her bruised body on the grass median near the crash, she replies that she is unhurt. As they lovingly copulate under the overturned car, the film ends with Ballard whispering in her ear, 'Maybe the next one', implying their fetish involves death.Cast. as James Ballard.

as Catherine Ballard. as Bob Vaughan. as Dr.

Helen Remington. as Gabrielle. as Colin Seagrave. as Salesman. as Tattooist. as Grip.

( voice) as Auto salesmanProduction The film was an between the British company, and Canadian companies,. Release Controversies The film was controversial, as was the book, because of its vivid depictions of graphic sexual acts instigated by violence.The controversial subject matter prompted and to orchestrate an aggressive campaign to ban Crash in the United Kingdom. In response to this outcry, the (BBFC) inquired with a and a psychologist, none of whom found any justification to ban it, and 11 disabled people, who saw no offense with its portrayal of the physically challenged. Seeing no evidence for a ban, Crash was passed by the BBFC uncut with an 18 rating in March 1997.The film was still banned by, meaning it could not be shown in any cinema in the, even though they had earlier given special permission for the film's premiere, and it was easily seen in nearby Camden. In the United States, the film was released in both versions. In Australia, a cut version rated R18+ was given a limited release; it was later released uncut on in early 1997, and then on DVD in 2003.

The American NC-17 version was advertised with the tagline 'The most controversial film in years'.An academic study of the controversy and audience responses to it, written by Martin Barker, Jane Arthurs and Ramaswami Harindranath, was published by in 2001, entitled The Crash Controversy: Censorship Campaigns and Film Reception. Critical reception It has a 59% 'rotten' rating on based on 51 reviews, with an average score of 6.59/10. The consensus reads: 'Despite the surprisingly distant, clinical direction, Crash's explicit premise and sex is classic Cronenberg territory.' On, the film's score is listed as 47 out of 100, as determined by 22 critics, signifying 'mixed or average reviews'.In his contemporary review, gave the film 3.5 out of 4 stars, writing:'Crash' is about characters entranced by a sexual fetish that, in fact, no one has. Cronenberg has made a movie that is pornographic in form, but not in result. Crash is like a porno movie made by a computer: It downloads gigabytes of information about sex, it discovers our love affair with cars, and it combines them in a mistaken algorithm. The result is challenging, courageous and original—a dissection of the mechanics of pornography.

I admired it, although I cannot say I 'liked' it.In 2000, a poll done by of film critics listed Crash as the 35th Best Film of the 1990s. A similar poll done by placed it 8th. In 2005 the staff of listed it at #21 on their list of the all-time greatest films. March 18, 1997. Retrieved March 2, 2013. March 25, 1997.

Retrieved March 2, 2013. JP. Retrieved November 2, 2017. August 11, 2010, at the, Students' British Board of Film Classification page.

Barker, Arthurs and Harindranath (2001). The Crash Controversy: Censorship Campaigns and Film Reception. Wallflower Press. Retrieved June 28, 2019. Retrieved September 12, 2017. Ebert, Roger (1997).

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The Stinkers. Retrieved October 6, 2019.Further reading. Tibbetts, John C., and James M. The Encyclopedia of Novels Into Film (2nd ed.

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Contents.Plot USS Corsair, operating in the North Atlantic, hunts out German preying on shipping. Its new, Ward Stewart , has been transferred to submarines after commanding his own. At the in, he asks his new captain, Dewey Connors , for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for, Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.His infatuation with PT boats irritates Connors but the two become friends after engaging a in which Connors is injured and Stewart sinks it. Connors, unbeknownst to Stewart, is already in love with Jean but delays marrying her until he gains a promotion to, and the commensurate pay raise it provides, so he can properly support her. Tension between the men ensues when Connors discovers that the woman Stewart is wooing is Jean.

The film culminates in a commando raid by Corsair on an island supply base for the German raiders. After the raid, the two men make peace, and after the Corsair 's return to New London, Stewart and Jean are married.

Cast As appearing in screen credits (main roles identified):ActorRoleLt. Ward StewartJean HewlettLt. Dewey ConnorsChief Mike 'Mac' McDonnellGrandmotherLt. Monster hunter 3 ultimate carpenter bug. 'Brownie' BrownOliver Cromwell JonesNotes Part of the movie was filmed at Submarine Base New London,. A few naval combatants rarely seen in Technicolor are visible in the early part of the film.

The PT boats seen near the beginning are the 77-foot type. The submarine primarily featured as Corsair was the experimental, with a modified to resemble her. A few and submarines, built in World War I and used for training in World War II, are visible in the background of some shots. For wartime security reasons, no submarine classes used in combat in World War II appear in the film. Is seen in one shot; there are probably not many good Technicolor views of a available today. Semmes was being used as a at the time.One of the scenes in the movie was similar to that in the film (1943) starring, where the submarines follow an enemy into their naval base through a. Another similar plot theme was in the 1954 movie about an island base to be used to launch a in U.S.

Markings for an attack.One interesting feature of the film is the significant role of actor as messman Oliver Cromwell Jones. While most World War II movies (particularly those made during the war) feature few, if any, African-American characters, Crash Dive is a notable exception.

Although Carter plays a stereotypical role as a low ranking sailor, his character is more developed than most character of the time by being shown to be a confidant to a higher ranking crewmember. Jones (Ben Carter) also participates in a commando raid late in the film.

A scene which subtly comments on the racial mores of the time depicts the white sailors blackening their faces in preparation for that nighttime raid. Upon walking in and seeing them Jones laughs then reports loudly 'I'm the only born commando here!' .Awards The film won the (, ) at the. References.