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Le jour du dauphin

Titre original : The Day of the Dolphin
  • 1973
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  • 1h 44min
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Le jour du dauphin (1973)
A marine biologist teaches his dolphins to communicate in English but shady characters plan to kidnap the trained mammals for a more sinister purpose.
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Un biologiste marin apprend à ses dauphins à communiquer en anglais, mais des personnages louches envisagent de kidnapper les mammifères entraînés dans un but plus sinistre.Un biologiste marin apprend à ses dauphins à communiquer en anglais, mais des personnages louches envisagent de kidnapper les mammifères entraînés dans un but plus sinistre.Un biologiste marin apprend à ses dauphins à communiquer en anglais, mais des personnages louches envisagent de kidnapper les mammifères entraînés dans un but plus sinistre.

  • Réalisation
    • Mike Nichols
  • Scénario
    • Buck Henry
    • Robert Merle
  • Casting principal
    • George C. Scott
    • Trish Van Devere
    • Paul Sorvino
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  • NOTE IMDb
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    3,8 k
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    • Réalisation
      • Mike Nichols
    • Scénario
      • Buck Henry
      • Robert Merle
    • Casting principal
      • George C. Scott
      • Trish Van Devere
      • Paul Sorvino
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  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
    • Nommé pour 2 Oscars
      • 1 victoire et 4 nominations au total

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    George C. Scott
    George C. Scott
    • Jake Terrell
    Trish Van Devere
    Trish Van Devere
    • Maggie Terrell
    Paul Sorvino
    Paul Sorvino
    • Curtis Mahoney
    John Dehner
    John Dehner
    • Wallingford
    Severn Darden
    Severn Darden
    • Schwinn
    Elizabeth Wilson
    Elizabeth Wilson
    • Mrs. Rome
    William Roerick
    • Dunhill
    Phyllis Davis
    Phyllis Davis
    • Receptionist
    Pat Zurica
    Pat Zurica
    • First Mate
    Jon Korkes
    Jon Korkes
    • David
    Edward Herrmann
    Edward Herrmann
    • Mike
    Leslie Charleson
    Leslie Charleson
    • Maryanne
    Victoria Racimo
    Victoria Racimo
    • Lana
    John David Carson
    John David Carson
    • Larry
    Willie Myers
    • Stone
    • (as Willie Meyers)
    Julie Follansbee
    • Women's Club
    Florence Stanley
    Florence Stanley
    • Women's Club
    Brooke Hayward
    Brooke Hayward
    • Women's Club
    • Réalisation
      • Mike Nichols
    • Scénario
      • Buck Henry
      • Robert Merle
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    8jzappa

    Utterly Irreparable Heartbreak

    Marine biology scientist Dr. Jake Terrell, his wife Maggie and a crew of ecologists for the last few years have been financed by an organization to study confined dolphins on a distant Florida island. They've conditioned a male and a female dolphin to say "fa," "ma," "pa" and other basic vocabulary, and to comprehend English sufficiently enough to have simple dialogue. But Alpha can't be trained to think in English. He can merely mimic, until Jake teaches him a lesson about loss. He introduces a female dolphin, Beta, watches Alpha fall for her, then splits them up until Alpha can demand her, in English. The wholesale sequence showing Alpha swimming frantically around, thrashing his tail on the enclosure that divides them, is heartrending.

    Jake is like the classic father of the baby-boom bracket, unwavering in teaching valuable lessons even when he feels his child's anguish, in this case a dolphin who loves him like a father. When Alpha at last begs for Beta by name, it's an intensely gratifying moment, exemplifying the identity-related idea of language as a conciliation intuited out of loss. And, much to our grief, Alpha is now disposed to all kinds of anthropomorphic cognizant suffering.

    And naturally, trouble lies ahead in the form of a thriller plot true to the pinnacle era of conspiracies and rogue government. Initially, a young Paul Sorvino's slippery pollster blackmails his way onto Dr. Terrell's island, and before long, a sinister regime faction is revealed to intend to use the newfound capacity for communication in these dolphins to their advantage by abducting them for function in a presidential assassination, of all things.

    In training Alpha and Beta to verbalize, Jake destines them for humanity, initiating them into ceaseless yearning and unlocking the floodgates to advantage being taken of them. In due course, with the purpose of thwarting Alpha and Beta more exploitation, Jake must make a decision that is inconceivable to the living, beating heart. Pure as they are, dolphins comprehend mere absolutes. How can you make a dolphin understand not only that humans can be both good and bad, tell lies and kill their own, but that rejection, abandonment can still mean undying love, ultimate sacrifice? "Men are bad," he tells them, hardly suppressing his utterly irreparable heartbreak, and ours. "All men bad."
    5SnoopyStyle

    problem with premise

    Jake Terrell (George C. Scott) and his wife Maggie are trying to train their dolphin Alpha "Fa" to communicate in English. They bring in a female dolphin for companionship. The problem is that the foundation funding the research has different objectives for the dolphins.

    Despite the weirdness of talking broken English with a dolphin, I try to take this movie seriously on its own level. It is certainly sincere in creating this world and its people. I appreciate the ultimate message. The problem is that I don't get why the foundation is funding the dolphin to talk English. It makes no sense. They don't need to discuss philosophy with the dolphins. They just need it to carry stuff. Ultimately, the movie does not make sense in its central premise.
    7preppy-3

    Highly improbable but not bad

    George C. Scott stars as a scientist who has trained dolphins to speak and understand English. Naturally some bad guys find out and want to use the dolphins in an assassination attempt.

    One of the many ecological "message" films of the 1970s. The plot is, technically, pretty silly but they pull it off. It has a great director (Mike Nichols) and Scott and Trish Van Devere are very good--but this just misses the mark. It's not a BAD movie just not a great one and I personally had some trouble taking it seriously. It was supposed to be a big hit and cost quite a bit to make. Unfortunately it was a HUGE bomb and disappeared quickly. That's too bad because it's actually pretty good. It's well done and the voices of the dolphins are (at first) frightening but you get used to them. Also it does have an ending which had me crying. I defy anyone to sit through that and not be moved.

    So, despite the scientific improbabilities, a pretty good movie that deserves a wider recognition.
    8thinker1691

    " If word get's out before I can explain my work, it will turn into a freak show "

    Throughout the motion picture business there is many a thespian who truly believes in their role. Some more than others and is why a few become exceptional. The original script called " The Day of The Dolphin " was delivered to several actors, prior to the film's inception. When the principal actor read the interesting dialog between himself and his subject called Alpha, he was not only intrigued, but anxious to begin. The story centers around a Research Scientist named Dr. Jake Terrell (George C. Scott) and his wife Maggie. (Trish Van Devere) Their secret island project concerns a special Dolphin, whom they have raised since birth. In an amazing feat of Phonetic science, laboring on the cutting edge and years of patience instruction, they have taught their unique Dolphin to speak English. However, their financial benefactors are not men with lofty ideals like Dr. Terrell or his staff. Indeed their primary goal is to use the amazing oceanic mammal to swim underwater undetected to a secured location where the President of the U.S. is vacationing and eliminate the Chief Executive. Although it's Harold DeMilo (Fritz Weaver) the C.E.O. of the funding institute who plans on subverting Dr. Terrell's innovative project, it's a strange, mysterious and uninvited visitor, Curtis Mahoney (Paul Sorvino) whom they suspect is behind the theft of their special Dolphin and a midnight murder. Trust is not inherent between the characters, indeed the audience is in for a surprise or two. However it's this very element which gives the film it's dramatic texture. The cast is incredible and delivers a dynamite performance which as a result allows this film to become a Classic. Excellent movie. ****
    nld_coder

    Favorite All-Time Movie

    I think I was six when I first saw it. I might have been five. It's always been my favorite movie.

    All I can remember, and I don't know how many times I've seen it since, is that I cry when I do. I wouldn't have known who George C. Scott was, then, but he certainly adds to the drama.

    This is a classic. This is about the United States, about the people of the world. This movie is a classic - eternal.

    I don't know that I understood, then, what was truly going on - that scientific discovery, technology - as precious and valuable as it is, was going to be corrupted to carry out an assassination plot.

    It's almost eerily reminiscent of 9/11. But we didn't stop 9/11.

    Maybe what needs to change is the way we see the world, whether we're 6, or 86. This is a movie for all to see, especially children. This is a movie that will bring us together, and instruct us about the dangers of not only technology, but also the sometimes destructiveness of human nature.

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    • Anecdotes
      The trained dolphins who played Alpha and Beta were named Buck (for screenwriter Buck Henry) and Ginger (for dancer Ginger Rogers). On the next to the last day of filming, when their parts were done, they escaped and never returned.
    • Gaffes
      Toutes les informations contiennent des spoilers
    • Citations

      Harold DeMilo: Are you blackmailing me, Mr Mahoney?

      Curtis Mahoney: Goodness, no! I'm just an average person with an above average curiosity... and of course I make friends easily.

    • Connexions
      Featured in Cursed Films: Rosemary's Baby (2022)
    • Bandes originales
      Theme From The Day Of The Dolphin
      Written and Performed by Georges Delerue Et Son Orchestre

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    • Date de sortie
      • 15 mars 1974 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • The Day of the Dolphin
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Abaco Islands, Bahamas
    • Société de production
      • AVCO Embassy Pictures
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    • Budget
      • 8 500 000 $US (estimé)
    • Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
      • 2 300 000 $US
    • Montant brut mondial
      • 2 300 000 $US
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    • Durée
      • 1h 44min(104 min)
    • Couleur
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    • Mixage
      • 4-Track Stereo
    • Rapport de forme
      • 2.35 : 1

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