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When we see in these images
the beginnings of the great storm
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which forms the second climax
of the film...
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They're very picturesque,
they're beautiful.
:56:27
This is one of the great
nature sequences,
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really as fine as anything
in a French or a Russian film,
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in its rhythmic use
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of different textures,
different kinds of movement,
:56:40
as the wind begins to rise.
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In fact, what the film makers
were going through
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was much more terrifying
and even more elemental
:56:49
because a real storm blew up,
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they were cut off for some weeks
on Foula.
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The wind rose
and for ten days it blew.
:57:04
(Wind whistles)
:57:06
(Day-Lewis) The wind shifted
slowly but steadily into the south,
:57:11
and as steadily started to blow
with increasing force,
:57:14
until, by the 10th of October,
:57:16
the Geo, the shells of Hellabrick,
the Ness and the cliffs themselves
:57:22
had vanished into the grey
sound and fury
:57:27
of a full gale from the southwest.
:57:30
It blew until the mess hut shook
and heaved beneath our feet.
:57:34
We expected to see it torn to pieces.
:57:36
It blew the water
out of Mill Loch and up into the air.
:57:40
A whirling water spout,
300 feet high.
:57:43
It blew the camera off its legs,
with Skeets on top
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and Carl underneath.
:57:49
It blew until at night
sleep was impossible,
:57:52
while every hut tugged
and strained at its mooring ropes,
:57:55
the roofs vibrating like drums,
steel guys humming and twanging,
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and each gust tearing at
the boards beside our heads.