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Originally Posted by krashkart
I had to allow the depth charge scenes as artistic license. Every submarine movies needs those explosions to be up close and personal, otherwise a general audience would shrug it off or miss the point.
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Pretty sure they talk about this in the commentary on the Director's Cut, and yeah... it was a matter of making the audience understand how perilous the situation was when one of those went off. If they had shown them at a "proper" distance, most people wouldn't know enough about the physics involved to understand why that was still such a big problem.
IIRC, it was also a matter of framing, i.e., they had to show them that close in order to show them at all and still get the explosions and the boat all in the picture while also giving enough of a "close-up" to the boat that you could tell what was going on in the murkiness of those underwater shots.
Kind of the same way they used dark colors for all the inside surfaces of the boat, when in reality they probably would've been painted in lighter colors to better reflect and maximize what little interior lighting they had on board. But that would have been a technical nightmare to shoot, and more importantly would not have conveyed the same claustrophobic atmosphere to the audience.
Anyway, Das Boot is awesome, the end.
