The movie "The Big Blue" has created too much excitement about snorkeling. Many accidents. Jacques MAYOL with researchers from Marseilles built a new scuba diver. Jacques Mayol will dive at minus 60 meters with electrocardiogram and encephalogram devices to know the reactions of the heart and brain during apnea. Interview of Jacques MAYOL on the dangers of diving and the craze caused by the film "the big blue". "The big blue has certainly created an exaggerated craze, you have to put the pedal on the brakes."
Interviews of the spectators after the screening of the Grand Bleu in Cannes: Grace de CAPITANI, Régine and Tcheky KARYO give their impressions. Tchecky KARYO " I am very moved by this film", Régine "I think the story is great".
Before starting the interview, Patrice DREVET tells Eric SERRA that he is in the top CD sales for 4 weeks for the "Grand Bleu" soundtrack. Eric SERRA looks back on his career, he was Jacques Higelin’s bass player for 7 years. He evokes his friendship with Luc Besson, says that they went diving together before writing the music of the film.
Pierre TCHERNIA and Bertrand RENARD reflect on the enthusiasm of the public especially among young people for the film "le grand bleu". Bertrand RENARD shows the dithyrambic letters received by the film production. Testimony of a fan "I saw it exactly 26 times".
On set at 1 pm, journalist Jean CHATEL evokes the divorce between the public and the critic regarding Luc BESSON’s film "Le Grand Bleu" presented in official selection at the last Cannes Film Festival. He goes back to the bad reviews in the press, recalls the success in the cinema of the film and quotes the mail of a Télérama reader who supports Luc BESSON and testifies to his happiness to have seen this film. Interviewed, Luc BESSON confirms the public success of the Grand Bleu, which has so far reached more than one million admissions in France. He explains these bad criticisms by the fact that the journalists did not have the opportunity to see the film before its screening in Cannes.
Interviews in Mulhouse of Jean RENO and Jean Marc BARR, the two heroes of the film "le grand bleu". Jean RENO talks about "war" with critics in Cannes. Jean-Marc BARR talks about the difficulty of filming.
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