On a 15h45min flight yesterday (a flight from the Middle East that took the long route) one of the movies I saw was "Against the Current" a drama about someone who swam down the Hudson River from Troy NY to the Verrazano bridge. I thought it would be about swimming, and it really wasn't.
I know it's fiction but here's the thing: he just decides to do it, no training, first day he swims 3 miles then a few days later he's up to 10, swims every day, swims with his head and shoulders above the water, no permits (although this is mentioned in the film)...
Guess distance open water swimming isn't that hard after all.
Anyone else see this one or other films that show how easy it is?
Swimming Upstream was a pretty good movie and the swimming was reasonably believable:
www.imdb.com/.../
Its also apparently a true story, for what that's worth.
In the special features the actors talk about the difficulty of the swimming scenes as they were doing backstroke and couldn't use stunt doubles (or whatever you would call a replacement swimmer).
I'll also vote for "On A Clear Day" its a pretty good movie.
Swimming Upstream was a pretty good movie and the swimming was reasonably believable:
www.imdb.com/.../
Its also apparently a true story, for what that's worth.
In the special features the actors talk about the difficulty of the swimming scenes as they were doing backstroke and couldn't use stunt doubles (or whatever you would call a replacement swimmer).
I'll also vote for "On A Clear Day" its a pretty good movie.
