Talk:All Is Lost

Budget

J.C. Chandor said, just now in a Q&A, that the film cost 9 million to produce. Might want to look for more RS for the film budget (listed in infobox -- and sourced -- as 8.8 million) Raquel Fitleigh (talk) 00:40, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Plot

Could there be more than one edit of the film? The version I saw had a different order of events, where he repairs the radio antenna after the radio repair and after the failed attempt to make an SOS call, not before. In fact, it is while repairing the antenna that he spots the oncoming storm. Can anyone confirm? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.62.173.152 (talk) 02:55, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

I have just watched the DVD movie again. Although the radio stopped working during his attempt to make the SOS call, his climbing the mast to reconnect the antenna told that, although the radio might or might not have been a complete loss, this situation was becoming increasingly desperate.

Because it wasn't entirely clear, I think it's something of a stretch for the article to say "although the purpose of this action is unclear as all radio equipment is either destroyed or completely inoperable by this stage", so I have rewritten it accordingly to exclude any guesses.

Yes, as you wrote, it was while he was at the top of the mast that he saw the oncoming storm and immediately descended to make some preparation for it. I don't believe there is more than one edit of the movie. Twistlethrop (talk) 07:16, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

The plot is not necessarily chronological or linear. It is in form a flashback. There is a tremendous amount of ambiguity in it, and the viewer is left to piece it together and fill in the blanks and connect the dots. The radio is largely fried as a result of the flooding, and he has to clean it with fresh water and dry it out. It does work briefly and weakly sometime later. The antenna connector on the mast is broken, and he uses a bosun's chair to ascend the mast. When or how the connector broke is never established to my way of thinking. We see "Our man" problem-solving a lot. Of course, we don't know who he is, how he got there, or why. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 09:13, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Screened out of competition

Means what, exactly? Is that movie/film vernacular? Blondesareeasy (talk) 06:38, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

I linked the term to the section on the Cannes page that describes it a little better. --Fru1tbat (talk) 12:35, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

D/M/Y or M/Y/D

This article has some style creep. It is a Hollywood movie, but some of the commentary is from Great Britain. Do we need to be(or should we be) consistent? 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:17, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Yes we should be. Since it is an American production, we should follow m/d/y. I'll fix this now. Corvoe (speak to me) 18:11, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Example farm and "technically difficult"

What is the source that shooting this film was technically difficult? It was tagged as needing a citation for something like two years, was removed, and then it came back without a source. Per WP:BURDEN, a citation needs to be provided when restoring unsourced content. Also, the extended note looks like mostly-unsourced trivia to me. For one thing, there's only one source in the entire thing, and it predates this film's creation. If no reliable source connects this film with those others, it is original research for us to make the connection ourselves. Please do not restore this section without properly sourcing it – ie, a reliable source that specifically says this shoot was difficult because of the water, and, if the example farm is restore, a source that explicitly compares this film to any others listed. The IMDb trivia page would be a better place for this if no sources can be found. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 15:34, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

Excellent suggestion. "All is Lost: Behind the scenes making of the film". www.sailingscuttlebutt.com. October 10, 2013. Retrieved July 9, 2016. Filming in water is notoriously challenging, and that was certainly the case with All Is Lost, which does not feature a single shot set on dry land. Camera crews filmed in various parts of the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean, including off the coast of Ensenada, Mexico, about 80 miles south of San Diego. At one point, Redford sailed the Virginia Jean into port there, complete with a patched-up hole in the side of the boat. ... DeMarco says shooting interior shots in the tight space of a yacht's cabin was also tricky—for example, when Redford had to squeeze past the camera on DeMarco's shoulder or during very close shots. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:26, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

It looks like those are the official production notes posted in a self-published newsletter. For example, this site has the same content and labels it as "production notes". That's good enough to say that the production was difficult, but, as a glorified press release, it would have to be used with some care. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 16:51, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

I was simply trying to answer your question about this film. I've got more on other films, which note that filming amidst wind and water, and in cramped quarter, make sea films especially difficult. I'll be back. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:52, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

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