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Great read on how ILM made the shots. As a crew member on the USS Salt Lake City (SSN-716), we took many of the cast and crew out to sea for 24 hours before the

Great read on how ILM made the shots. As a crew member on the USS Salt Lake City (SSN-716), we took many of the cast and crew out to sea for 24 hours before they made the movie to get a feel for what sub-life was like before they made the movie. All the cast and crew were great, and I think it made the movie better. Actor Scott Glenn, who plays the Captain of Dallas, modeled his character after our Captain, Tom Fargo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rjO_VrESNo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rjO_VrESNo It is a great movie!

encoderer 2y ago
You read the book? I’m curious how all of the operational details and jargon held up to a real sailor.
- gwbennett 2y ago
  yes, I read the book before I got to the boat when I was at nuclear reactor prototype training in Idaho. Read it on the long bus rides back and forth to the site. Yes, it was good and pretty operationally accurate. All the sub lingo etc, is accurate. Some of the actors on the bridge of the Dallas were active duty sub sailors at the time.
  - dctoedt 2y ago
    > the long bus rides back and forth to the site Did you live in IF or Pokey? For some reason an image of my small green bus pillow came to mind. I wonder what happened to it.
- cwillu 2y ago
  In case you didn't know, Tom Clancy has also written a lot of non-fiction military reference material: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy_bibliography#Non-fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy_bibliography#Non-fi...
  - encoderer 2y ago
    Oh cool — no I didn’t know. Loved Red October - it somehow seemed to be faster paced than the movie was, which seems rare.
jayrot 2y ago
>Actor Scott Glenn, who plays the Captain of Dallas, modeled his character after our Captain, Tom Fargo. Terrific character. I just love the competency and leadership. Hopefully your Cpt. Fargo was just as good. My favorite exchange from the movie is when Jonesy brings his report to the captain. He's aware of how crazy this theory sounds, especially when his very serious and hard-to-read captain rephrases it back to him. Jonesy starts getting nervous and fumbling and Mancuso cuts him off -- "Relax, Jonesy. You sold me." Not quite sure why that simple line hits so hard. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7g6dKncO-I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7g6dKncO-I
- gwbennett 2y ago
  Capt Tom Fargo was better. As you learn from that YouTube video, he went on to run 7th Fleet as an Admiral. The stuff we did while he was CO was important in the Cold War for the security of the US.
  - dylan604 2y ago
    So did Mancuso if you followed the books.
- dylan604 2y ago
  I use the "runs home to mama" line a lot when describing an unexpected result from a black box we've integrated into our workflows. I love the "You sold me" line too, as it shows how Mancuso is willing to listen to his men even when they have such an out of the box idea. It also helps make Mancuso listening to Jack's port/starboard Crazy Ivan maneuver. He's kind of already bought into Jack's idea by that point anyways. Otherwise, he'd already had Jack into quarters somewhere
leopoldj 2y ago
Google search is weirdly hallucinating saying "Theodore Scott Glenn is an American actor and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University". As far as I can tell the actor and professor are two different people. Am I wrong? Can't tell what is true/false anymore.
- kens 2y ago
  I ran into a similar issue when researching Bill Paxton, a computer scientist who worked on the Mother of All Demos. Google's AI told me that he was also known for his roles in Aliens and Titanic, but that's a different person. I told Bill Paxton (the computer scientist) about this and he found it amusing.
  - nopelynopington 2y ago
    Search engines are getting less usable..I assume this is because they're leaning into LLMs
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emeril 2y ago
for those who didn't realize - same guy is Walton Goggins father in S03 of White Lotus
- thescobey 2y ago
  Bit of a spoiler, don't you think?
- MalcolmDwyer 2y ago
  Dude... delete that. That’s an important spoiler for a show that just came out a week ago. Yeah, he's in White Lotus S3. That’s all you needed to say.

encoderer 2y ago

You read the book? I’m curious how all of the operational details and jargon held up to a real sailor.

gwbennett 2y ago
yes, I read the book before I got to the boat when I was at nuclear reactor prototype training in Idaho. Read it on the long bus rides back and forth to the site. Yes, it was good and pretty operationally accurate. All the sub lingo etc, is accurate. Some of the actors on the bridge of the Dallas were active duty sub sailors at the time.
- dctoedt 2y ago
  > the long bus rides back and forth to the site Did you live in IF or Pokey? For some reason an image of my small green bus pillow came to mind. I wonder what happened to it.
cwillu 2y ago
In case you didn't know, Tom Clancy has also written a lot of non-fiction military reference material: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy_bibliography#Non-fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy_bibliography#Non-fi...
- encoderer 2y ago
  Oh cool — no I didn’t know. Loved Red October - it somehow seemed to be faster paced than the movie was, which seems rare.

jayrot 2y ago

>Actor Scott Glenn, who plays the Captain of Dallas, modeled his character after our Captain, Tom Fargo. Terrific character. I just love the competency and leadership. Hopefully your Cpt. Fargo was just as good. My favorite exchange from the movie is when Jonesy brings his report to the captain. He's aware of how crazy this theory sounds, especially when his very serious and hard-to-read captain rephrases it back to him. Jonesy starts getting nervous and fumbling and Mancuso cuts him off -- "Relax, Jonesy. You sold me." Not quite sure why that simple line hits so hard. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7g6dKncO-I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7g6dKncO-I

gwbennett 2y ago
Capt Tom Fargo was better. As you learn from that YouTube video, he went on to run 7th Fleet as an Admiral. The stuff we did while he was CO was important in the Cold War for the security of the US.
- dylan604 2y ago
  So did Mancuso if you followed the books.
dylan604 2y ago
I use the "runs home to mama" line a lot when describing an unexpected result from a black box we've integrated into our workflows. I love the "You sold me" line too, as it shows how Mancuso is willing to listen to his men even when they have such an out of the box idea. It also helps make Mancuso listening to Jack's port/starboard Crazy Ivan maneuver. He's kind of already bought into Jack's idea by that point anyways. Otherwise, he'd already had Jack into quarters somewhere

leopoldj 2y ago

Google search is weirdly hallucinating saying "Theodore Scott Glenn is an American actor and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University". As far as I can tell the actor and professor are two different people. Am I wrong? Can't tell what is true/false anymore.

kens 2y ago
I ran into a similar issue when researching Bill Paxton, a computer scientist who worked on the Mother of All Demos. Google's AI told me that he was also known for his roles in Aliens and Titanic, but that's a different person. I told Bill Paxton (the computer scientist) about this and he found it amusing.
- nopelynopington 2y ago
  Search engines are getting less usable..I assume this is because they're leaning into LLMs

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emeril 2y ago

for those who didn't realize - same guy is Walton Goggins father in S03 of White Lotus

thescobey 2y ago
Bit of a spoiler, don't you think?
MalcolmDwyer 2y ago
Dude... delete that. That’s an important spoiler for a show that just came out a week ago. Yeah, he's in White Lotus S3. That’s all you needed to say.