Regarding the lessons she learned after telling the story, Vasarhelyi says: “It comes back down to this idea of sheer moral courage and generosity. They were finally able to secure 87 hours of never-before-seen footage, which proved pivotal to their film “The Rescue.” It was the footage of the Thai Navy SEALs that Vasarhelyi and the filmmakers negotiated over for two years. There was the newscast that would allow us to drop in some facts.” He adds, “The Navy SEALs tie came early, so we could get their early experience and then hand off to the divers.” The other element was that there were many, many threads to this story, and to try to weave them together and keep the story going forward was tricky. “We had to rely on the footage of the recreations to tie all that together. “We had the diver interviews early, but no one knew the whole story - there were 3,000 people, and we were piecing it together,” Eisenhardt says. We never would have had that access to the cave because of the pandemic.” So a cave was made, but at the time, they could only afford “five feet of cave.” As events unfolded, they suddenly had “three times as much cave.”Īs the story came together, editor Bob Eisenhardt wove in news footage with talking heads and reenactments. Says Vasarhelyi, “We had inherited from National Geographic a 3D scan of the cave. Never having done a reenactment before, they would have to create a water tank. In piecing the storytelling together without access to footage, dramatic reenactments with divers would play a crucial role.
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