![]() ![]() But as the recent book on the making of the film points out, getting US Navy cooperation for the making of the film also gave them controlling power over the script and that point in time they did NOT want to cooperate with any film production that depicted the Soviets as traditional bad guys (this was the age of "detente") Hence the reason why in contrast to the novel, where there is no handwringing about whether byzanium will be used for bad weapons, the film gives us something of a "moral equivalence" type ending in which the US can't get a big advantage up on the Soviets in the Cold War struggle. The film unfortunately was so wrapped up in the F/X work of raising the ship that it didn't even make any pretense of trying to also give us a crackling good spy type thriller surrounding the raising of the ship like the novel did. It was in this novel that Cussler found the formula that turned him into a best-selling author and made Dirk Pitt a franchise character by giving him a James Bond quality (and indeed one of his subsequent novels "Night Probe" has Pitt going up against a character who is supposed to be a retired James Bond). The novel was an entertaining Bondian thriller. ![]()
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