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* DoingItForTheArt: The special effects crew went to great effort to create an accurate female shark; WordOfGod said the shark had to be female, because they are naturally more protective and "carry great scars from mating". They even joked they knew how much the shark weighed, and every story behind the scars on her body.



* ShownTheirWork: If one looks at WordOfGod, the shark's underbelly matches that of a female.
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* ActorInspiredElement: The nickname 'Steven Seagull' was Blake Lively's idea.
* AwesomeDearBoy: Blake Lively signed on mostly because she loved the challenge behind doing a film with a MinimalistCast, partly inspired by [[Creator/RyanReynolds her husband's]] film ''{{Film/Buried}}''.


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* DoingItForTheArt: The special effects crew went to great effort to create an accurate female shark; WordOfGod said the shark had to be female, because they are naturally more protective and "carry great scars from mating". They even joked they knew how much the shark weighed, and every story behind the scars on her body.


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* EnforcedMethodActing: Nancy's look of disgust when eating the crab comes from the fact that it was a genuine dead crab the art department had found on the beach that morning.
* FakeNationality: The beach Nancy travels to is in Mexico, but Carlos is played by Spanish actor Óscar Jaenada.


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* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals:
** Subverted! The plans were to use CGI or puppetry for Steven Seagull because of this trope. But in location scouting, they saw Blake Lively being able to feed a group of seagulls and realised they'd be able to use a real one. Three were used, and the only problem was that seagulls are naturally very clean animals; so the birds kept trying to clean off the fake blood.
** Likewise any other live animals were done with CGI. The shark was done so for [[ThreateningShark obvious reasons]], and the crabs were CGI because the production was prevented from harming real ones on camera.
* NoStuntDouble: Blake Lively did most of her own stunts. She only had a double for the surfing scenes, as she is unable to surf; 19-year-old Australian surfer Isabella Nichols. Some scenes used CGI to put Blake's face on Isabella's body.


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** Nancy in the first draft of the script was imagined to be a younger and more naïve character. When Blake Lively came on board, she was tweaked to fit the actress more (she was 28 when it was filmed).


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--> "...we didn't want her to be like Snow White talking to animals. When you see her predicament, you get it. You don't need her to explain everything to a seagull!"
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** In the original script, Nancy ended up losing her leg in the climatic battle, but still survived in the end. The script also featured a much more somber ending.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The film already had an uphill battle by being the first shark movie to take the genre seriously since ''Film/DeepBlueSea''[[note]]the genre had largely been killed off by the 2 ''Franchise/{{Jaws}}'' sequels[[/note]], but it was pretty much sunk due to the decision to open very close to ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'' and ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''.
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* InternationalCoproduction: Not the film, but the Latin American "Spanish" dub. The reason why Spanish is in brackets is becuase the dub was done between a Mexican voice acting studio (Labo Prime Dubbing Producers) and a ''Brazilian'' one (All Dubbing) featuring Mexican and Brazilian voice actors. This was an intentional artistic choice, because in the Latin American dub, the setting was changed from Mexico to Brazil and the "Mexican" characters are voiced by Brazilians in Portuguese, while the Mexican voice actors dubbed the American characters in Spanish instead. This is to this date the first and only Mexican dub done in colaboration with voice actors from a non-Spanish speaking country, in this case Brazil.

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* ActorAllusion: Nancy gets asked if she's from California by two other surfers. Blake Lively actually is from California, though she plays a Texan.



* WorkingTitle: Was originally titled ''In the Deep.'' This is actually referenced in its tag-line, ''"what was once in the deep is now in the shallows."''

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* WorkingTitle: Was originally titled ''In the Deep.'' This is actually referenced in its tag-line, ''"what was once in the deep is now in the shallows."''"''
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The film already had an uphill battle by being the first shark movie to take the genre seriously since ''Film/DeepBlueSea''[[note]]the genre had largely been killed off by the 2 ''Franchise/{{Jaws}}'' sequels[[/note]], but it was pretty much sunk due to the decision to open very close to ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'' and ''Film/FindingDory''.

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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The film already had an uphill battle by being the first shark movie to take the genre seriously since ''Film/DeepBlueSea''[[note]]the genre had largely been killed off by the 2 ''Franchise/{{Jaws}}'' sequels[[/note]], but it was pretty much sunk due to the decision to open very close to ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'' and ''Film/FindingDory''.''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The film already had an uphill battle by being the first shark movie to take the genre seriously since ''Film/DeepBlueSea''[[note]]the genre had largely been killed off by the 2 ''Franchise/{{Jaws}}'' sequels[[/note]], but it was pretty much sunk due to the decision to open very close to ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'' and ''Film/FindingDory''.
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* DuelingWorks: With ''In the Deep,'' a shark film with a similar concept (and the original title of this film). Said film eventually became ''47 Meters Down'' and went from direct-to-video to theatrical release.

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* DuelingWorks: With At first, with ''In the Deep,'' a direct-to-video shark film with a similar concept (and the original title of this film). Said film eventually became ''47 Meters Down'' and went from direct-to-video to theatrical release.release the following year.
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* DuelingWorks: With ''In the Deep,'' a shark film with a similar concept (and the original title of this film).

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* DuelingWorks: With ''In the Deep,'' a shark film with a similar concept (and the original title of this film). Said film eventually became ''47 Meters Down'' and went from direct-to-video to theatrical release.
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* ActorAllusion: Nancy gets asked if she's rom California by two other surfers. Blake Lively actually is from California, though she plays a Texan.

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* ActorAllusion: Nancy gets asked if she's rom from California by two other surfers. Blake Lively actually is from California, though she plays a Texan.
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* ActorAllusion: Nancy gets asked if she's California by two other surfers. Blake Lively actually is from California, though she plays a Texan.

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* ActorAllusion: Nancy gets asked if she's rom California by two other surfers. Blake Lively actually is from California, though she plays a Texan.
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* ActorAllusion: Nancy is mistaken for a Californian by two other tourists. Blake Lively actually is from California, though she plays a Texan.
* CaliforniaDoubling: The film takes place in Mexico [[spoiler: (except for the final scene with Nancy and her sister at a beach in Texas)]] but was shot in Australia.

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* ActorAllusion: Nancy is mistaken for a Californian gets asked if she's California by two other tourists.surfers. Blake Lively actually is from California, though she plays a Texan.
* CaliforniaDoubling: The film takes place in Mexico [[spoiler: (except [[spoiler:(except for the final scene with Nancy and her sister at a beach in Texas)]] but was shot in Australia.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: The film takes place in Mexico [[apoiler: except the final scene with Nancy and her sister at a beach in Texas]], but was shot in Australia.

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* CaliforniaDoubling: The film takes place in Mexico [[apoiler: except [[spoiler: (except for the final scene with Nancy and her sister at a beach in Texas]], Texas)]] but was shot in Australia.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: The film takes place in Mexico [[apoiler: except the final scene with Nancy and her sister at a beach in Texas]], but was shot in Australia.
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** Louis Letterrier was the original director but he dropped out and was replaced by Jaume Collet Serra.

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** Louis Letterrier Leterrier was the original director but he dropped out and was replaced by Jaume Collet Serra.

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* ActorAllusion: Nancy is mistaken for a Californian by two other tourists. Blake Lively actually is from California, though she plays a Texan.



* ShownTheirWork: If one looks at WordOfGod, the shark's underbelly matches that of a female.
* ThrowItIn: Blake Lively actually did break her nose in a scene where Nancy slams into the side of the buoy. [[spoiler: You can see the damage to her nose in the ending scene, meant to be a year later]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Louis Letterrier was the original director but he dropped out and was replaced by Jaume Collet Serra.
** The script had more of Nancy talking to the seagull, but it was lessened due to potential {{Narm}}.



** Even if he hadn't, anyone who knows a thing about shark biology/anatomy would know this with look at the shark's underbelly.
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** Even if he hadn't, anyone who knows a thing about shark biology/anatomy would know this with look at the shark's underbelly.
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* DuelingWorks/Film: With ''In the Deep,'' a shark film with a similar concept (and the original title of this film).

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* DuelingWorks: With ''In the Deep,'' a shark film with a similar concept (and the original title of this film).

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* DuelingWorks: With ''In the Deep,'' a shark film with a similar concept (and the original title of this film).
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* WorkingTitle: Was originally titled ''In the Deep.'' This is actually referenced in its tag-line, ''"What was once in the deep is now in the shallows."''

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* WorkingTitle: Was originally titled ''In the Deep.'' This is actually referenced in its tag-line, ''"What ''"what was once in the deep is now in the shallows."''
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* WorkingTitle: Was originally titled ''In the Deep.'' This is actually referenced in its tag-line, ''What was once in the deep is now in the shallows.''

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* WorkingTitle: Was originally titled ''In the Deep.'' This is actually referenced in its tag-line, ''What ''"What was once in the deep is now in the shallows.''"''
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* WorkingTitle: Was originally titled ''In the Deep.''

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* WordOfGod: In a interview shortly before the film's release, the director revealed that the shark is a female.

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* WordOfGod: In a interview shortly before the film's release, the director revealed that the shark is a female.female.
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* WordOfGod: In a interview shortly before the film's release, the director revealed that the shark is a female.

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