One of the very few places on Earth where a piece of terrain has yet to ever be seen by human eyes is found within the deep recesses of caves. The process of cave-diving can be one enthralling adrenaline rush for the brave, but at the same time can be equally dangerous. Alister Grierson drops you into the dark corners of this world with "Sanctum," a fictionalized gripping tale of survival written by Andrew Wight and John Garvin. One of the main plugs for "Sanctum" is that the story, said to be "inspired by true events." The art of cave-diving is fascinating, but co-writer Andrew Wight knows how equally frightening it can become. Wight, an experienced cave-diver, slowly formed "Sanctum" in his mind when his expedition fell victim to a random storm that trapped himself and fifteen other people in a cave. Two days later they were rescued, including Wight, but it was in-between those for! ty-eight hours where the idea first blossomed."It was in the course of those events, when you're really staring death in the face, and how everybody responded, is what inspired what came to be the 'Sanctum' story. It's of people's will and the struggle to survive along with the human dynamics of that. That's what really struck me." The same is to be said about director Alister Grierson who one day found the script of "Sanctum" on his desk and immediately was won over. "The screenplay was so rich and real, I wanted to do this because it matches my kind of ideas for film making."
Once the production ball began rolling for "Sanctum" with casting, all of the main actors had to undergo a rigorous four week training period. Not only did the have to learn how to scuba dive, they had to properly use the re-breathers and even know how long they could hold their! breath underwater in case of disaster. Then you can be like a! ctor Ioa n Gruffudd where the intensity on set is raised by who you're acting next to than the environment you're in. "When you're playing against somebody like (Richard) Roxburgh it always raises your game as an actor. He's got such an incredible intensity on-screen, and also live when he's just standing there. Equally, with every other actor on the set, I think the commodity that developed and evolved through the training I think gave us a free relationship, a history, before we stepped on set." Although the film immediately plummets you into a life-or-death kind of scenario, there is more to the production than watching the characters try to claw their way out. There's a lot of human drama that's flooded throughout the perilous journey, and the main one in the crop is the relationship between Frank (Richard Roxburgh) and Josh (Rhys Wakefield). The story could have completely sunk to the bottom, but Roxburgh made sure this wasn't the case. "There was always stuff being thrown at yo! u and sometimes you feel like kind of the key ingredients of story-telling could have been swept away with it. And so there was a strong sense of us looking after that. Trying to preserve that father-son relationship, especially since we both felt it was a real core to the story."Although the characters are enclosed in this horrible situation, Rhys Wakefield was able to expand the layers of their relationship that attracted him so much to the adventure. "There's a charge that we had to find within the character through the terrible things that happened about it. With Frank, it was about him sort of softening and accepting that his son not only was a human being but that his son perhaps has skills that he didn't have. I suppose, you know, it's sort of the deflowering of his pride with his son which appealed for me in this story."
In the end you can peel! away all the bits of "Sanctum" to find a simple tale of peopl! e's figh t to survive. Executive Producer James Cameron is very familiar with these fictionalized scenarios, giving his insight on the psychology of people when they are thrust into these new and frightening developments. "We can get into that thing that happens inside people where they have to adjust to a situation that appears completely hopeless. Some people are able to make that adjustment, some people become more heroic than they could have imagined what's possible to themselves. Other people who you think of as leaders can become quite cowardly or implode. Everybody reacts quite differently. "I think the kind of appeal to this for audiences in general is to test themselves in the circumstances of the film and think, 'What would I do if I were in that situation?' People ask themselves these questions when watching a movie like this in the safety of a movie theater because, in a way, you never know when something bad can happen. And, God willingly, we don't have to experience any! thing as extreme like what happens in 'Sanctum.' I think that's why we have nightmares, because our brain is running simulations to put us in jeopardy, to see what we do or to acclimatize us to the idea that something bad could happen. It's just how human beings are wired. Because the entire time we're evolving we had to jump quick or whatever it was would get us."If you want to take a plunge into this nail-biting fictionalized account of struggle and survival, check your local show times for a screening of Universal Pictures' latest film "Sanctum."Source: Latino Review
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