after careful consideration and soul-searching, I have decided The Hunt for Red October will be the next movie I write about for my patreon

incredibly good idea to start watching this at 3am

an exceptional & iconic turtleneck (and Caravaggio-like lighting courtesy Jan de Bont)

love how this movie smoothly transitions from Russian to English language - when this character reads a passage from the Book of Revelation and says the word 'Armageddon'

I admire the balls it takes to write a Dear John letter to a whole-ass country

damn, John Milius https://uk.ign.com/articles/2003/05/07/an-interview-with-john-milius

someone asked if a movie prior to The Hunt for Red October used the 'trick' where a character seamlessly transitions from speaking another language into English and the answer is Judgment at Nuremberg (& I'm pretty sure it's the movie that inspired McTiernan to do it)

absolutely love this shot

so satisfying to watch this movie about men who excel at their jobs

great shot of a brooding Stellan Skarsgård

love Sam Neill's performance in The Hunt for Red October, especially the way he delivers his very pure Montana monologue

"Aye, I widowed that poor girl when I married her, Starbuck" - Ahab

yet another great shot, and a good time to mention that Baldwin remains the best Jack Ryan. so earnest.

I'm officially crying

would absolutely walk down the aisle at my wedding to this song https://open.spotify.com/track/4V4VuNh68MJzUoGPyyHMa7?si=t4mhXobPThGGUyFI-a331w

quarantine status: I have written 1600 words (and counting) on The Hunt for Red October

one of my favorite shots in this movie (and in any movie)

tacking this rogue Hunt for Red October-related thread on to the Big Thread https://twitter.com/BBW_BFF/status/1248469662674763781

want to mention again that this isn't a matte painting, it's a 3-level set courtesy production designer Terence Marsh. there's a background painting to give depth, but most of this is real. in the 2nd image, you can see the painting begins where the angle of the lights changes

The Hunt for Red October crew built this set, the interior of a submarine that's accurate to the smallest detail. it was on a gimbal, made to move 45 degrees backward, forward, sideways - and even the gauges inside worked.

cast & crew had unprecedented access to U.S. subs and the film accidentally revealed their use of gravimetry as a method of covert navigation. this technology was "coincidentally" declassified a few months after The Hunt for Red October premiered https://twitter.com/theawesomeshow/status/1248493580802347010