I totally agree it is the most realistic mermaid tail I have seen. All the other mermaids are cgi or use a really fake looking tail with strange unnatural colors.
Peter Salucci scientifically speaking mermaids would be a gray color with a plus size body and wrinkled skin due to where they live and the climate and Based on real world mammals so no it’s not a good representation of mermaids. Mermaids are only the way that they are because of media.
I remember sneaking the Morton salt canister upstairs after everyone had gone to sleep and sprinkling it into my bathwater just like Madison did lol. Unfortunately, I didn't grow a mermaid tail.
When she was five years old, her parents bought her a mermaid costume; and, in those days, people weren't as "rule minded." The lifeguard at the local pool let her swim while wearing it. While most movie "mermaids" bend their knees and kick to propel themselves forward, Darryl Hannah imitated the motions of a cetacean. She swam so well that the "Splash" camera crew had a hard time keeping up with her. To this day, I still think of her as the best mermaid I've ever seen. Glynis Johns, who will turn 100 this October 8, was second best. She didn't have as many swimming scenes as Darryl Hannah.
That's because Daryl Hannah really liked mermaids when she was a kid. Although I guess after making this movie, she saw how complicated it was and that's why she doesn't appear in Splash 2 🤣
And can we give a round of applause to Darryl Hannah for doing her own mermaid stunts and swimming? It takes an incredible amount of athleticism, just look at Mermaid Melissa. 👏👏👏👏
Did you know that she did all of her swimming because the stunt people couldn’t swim naturally with the tail. She was the perfect choice for the role of a mermaid.
I read that Darryl Hannah said that the other underwater fish treated her like a big fish as well. She even had her own pilot fish at one point. If you can fool the fishies, you've won the mermaid game. Best movie mermaid there ever was and it's not even close.
@@user-ey9uj6vp9s Jokes on you! We almost didn’t get the ANIMATED film “The Little Mermaid” because Disney CEO Michael Eisner and Disney studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg were both concerned that it sounded too similar to “Splash”. According to Michael Eisner’s memoir “Work In Progress: Risking Failure, Surviving Success”: *”I had always loved the idea of setting an animated movie underwater, but both Jeffrey and I were concerned that this idea sounded too much like the live-action ‘Splash’, which Disney had released early in 1984, six months before we arrived.”* And well, they weren’t exactly wrong about that: ruclips.net/video/5K5_sGzckvc/видео.html (In fact, I’d be lying too if I said that *I* didn’t notice the similarities the first time I saw “Splash” at the age of 12! 😂) Although Eisner and Katzenberg would greenlight “The Little Mermaid” (thanks to a 2-page treatment written by “Little Mermaid” co-director Ron Clements!), the concerns about the similarities to “Splash” didn’t end there! When it came to deciding what Ariel’s hair color should be, originally Ariel was going to be a BLONDE (in fact, you can find concept designs of blonde Ariel online: www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/take-a-magical-look-at-the-concept-art-used-to-make-the ). However, the Disney animators decided to make Ariel a REDHEAD instead, in order to avoid accusations of ripping off “Splash”. (Although is it really plagiarism if both of those films were made by Disney? Just asking for a friend! 😂)
I am so blown away by how real the scenes are! It is truly remarkable! I watch a lot of mermaid stuff and this is just as good as any, and better than many! Splash was made in 1984. Incredible!
Sure if you wanted 50% of the film with no dancing, singing or talking in the water lol. Somethings in ones mind doesn't always translate into reality lol and your comment is one of them.
It’s a really smart shot because to a human the sight of a sea turtle would be majestic. But she’s a mermaid so to her it’s probably like a pigeon…or lunch.
Originally, they wanted a stunt woman to do the swimming. They made the tail and had the crew and some of the cast ( including darly Hannah) come to the pool to see the stunt woman swim. She did a bad job, looking very awkward. Then Hannah asked if she could try swimming, and got in the tail. She swan perfectly, expecting the dolphin kick and other trick.
Agoroy Agoroy Carolyn Turgeon wrote a book called “ the mermaid handbook” and there was a whole section on splash about the tail design and making and how it all worked.
This is the movie that made me believe mermaids really exist when i was a kid. Watching it now as an adult now i know why.. she swam like it was really her tail. She made it look so easy.❤️
They auditioned Olympic swimmers who couldn't do what Daryl Hannah could. She was fascinated with Hans Christiansen's 'the little mermaid' when she was young and used to practice swimming with her ankles tied. Also she was so fast with her tail that they would have trouble keeping up with her to give her air
Always loved this movie, I remember watching Splash multiple times as a child. I was always fascinated with how realistic and beautiful the mermaid scenes were filmed 🤍
To me, there will never be a more realistic looking and believable mermaid live action movie than Splash. All done without cheap cgi. Daryl did all of her own stunts and never swam in a pool. It was all shot under natural ocean water. The prosthetic tail is so realistic looking and fully functional. No live action mermaid movie can hold a candle to Splash.
Nope, this mermaid tail is probably the most realistic tail from American movies but the 1994 Chinese version "mermaid got married" has an even more realistic tail from the way the tail moves to the scales.
I have the Collectors Edition of this movie and the behind the scenes information is astounding! Darryl was basically born to play this part from a very young age!
ohhh. it's been my life-long dream to explore the ocean first hand. Watching this makes my soul just ache to go into the ocean and just enjoy the beautiful world of freedom and peace that lies under the surface.
She’s still the only one who has the swiftest mermaid moves amongst all mermaids then and nowadays. Her knees doesn’t bend too much making her underwater movements look natural and smooth. Mermaids nowadays move a bit awkward bending their knees too much.
It helped that as a child, Daryl Hannah was so obsessed with the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale “The Little Mermaid” that she would tie her feet together in the pool and practice swimming like a mermaid at a very early age, so by the time that she got the role of Madison in “Splash”, it was easy for Daryl Hannah to swim in the ocean with the 35 lb. mermaid tail attached to her lower half: ruclips.net/video/YB7dLBQTnTk/видео.htmlm5s
DBold Francis Ironically, Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” was initially rejected for being too similar to the movie “Splash” (which had also been released by DISNEY five years earlier, albeit under its adult-facing label “Touchstone Films”). To add insult to injury, Disney was busy developing a sequel to “Splash” (yes, there’s a sequel!), and they felt that two mermaid movies being made at the same time would conflict with one another. In order to avoid the inevitable comparisons between “Splash” and “The Little Mermaid”, Ariel was given red hair and a green fish tail in order to distinguish herself from the blonde, orange-tailed mermaid Madison from “Splash”.
The movie Splash was a huge hit and Madison became a popular girls name b/c of this movie and I loved the underwater scene with Daryl Hannah as the mermaid. Tom Hanks and John Candy were so young in this****
Lets see, what is the difference between these two films? What could it possibly be? Oh yeah TLM has singing, dancing and talking mermaids and sea creatures, this doesn't! 🤦♂️
after all these years, Daryl is still the best mermaid out there. She has down the dolphinkick, and it shows. She also has charisma, not like all those newer "H2O ordinary girls" who can barely swim 1 meter before they have to switch to CGI.
Can't barely swim? Bitch try to swim underwater with a tail that is 40 kilos when wet. Do your research before judging them too quickly. And newer!? That was nearly a decade ago
@@marhawkman303try to talk, sing and dance underwater and see how effective it is. Daryl didn't have to do any of that. Not to mention, the singing and dancing sealife wouldn't have worked either due to no control. Something like TLM has to be done in a very controlled environment.
Same! Ironically, we almost didn’t get the animated film “The Little Mermaid” because of how similar it was to “Splash”. Not to mention how if it weren’t for “Splash”, Ariel would’ve been another BLONDE Disney princess.
1984 GOD! why so HD😍😍😍 well thank you disneyplus for this movie "SPLASH" TOM HANKS really my best actor and daryl wow just wow, she's so pretty & sexy incredible movie 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I was born year 1989 and I'm still here😍
The tail was heavy and expensive so they likely wouldn’t do this again. They only lucked out that Daryl Hannah was such a good swimmer even with the tail and able to act so well underwater, neither of which they expected when casting her.
@@nickimillennium You are right, they would probably use CGI. I just hope not. For a major movie it wouldnt be that expensive. The tail man has been making gorgeous tails for less than 10 thousand dollars. Which is very expensive for a private person, but not for a major movie. Seems like they wont be making it anyway. So its just a hope
@@danytargaerys712but you don't always just have one tail. A lot of times they have at least 2 just in case any of them gets damaged during production.
CAN'T BELIEVE ITS FROM 1984! Its just so soooo beautiful, and very realistic! Not like todays ones which are shoot in exotic aquariums with bunch of colorful fish... this one looks very natural, especially that sea ground, shipwreck and a turtle! Its so pleasant! The ones from 2000s up until now are all destroyed by heavy CGI, sadly the same is gonna happen with Live Action Ariel -_-
Just a little fun fact, they werent going to let her be the mermaid in the underwater scenes, they even auditioned several women. But daryl hannah could hold her breath longer than any of the women and was so natural underwater she got to do her own scenes! Which im so happy because we wouldnt have gotten this scene!! This is one of my favorite movies of all time.
Why would they remake “Splash” when the original was already great? The TV sequel “Splash, Too” was bad enough without Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah reprising their roles since they were too expensive to get, therefore Disney had to rely on C-list actors like Amy Yasbeck and Tod Waring to play the leads. Also instead of Hollywood remaking unfairly forgotten films, they should just release those unfairly forgotten films to the public. To quote Jay Sherman from the animated TV series “The Critic”, *”If it’s a remake of a classic, rent the classic”.*
@@beethovensfidelio A lot of original movies were great and made a stupid sequel/remake anyway. I am not wishing for a remake, I am just wondering why such a great movie has not been remade since they are so prone to slaughter great classics.
@@conatcha Well it’s worth noting that back in 2016, It was announced that there would be a gender flipped remake of “Splash” starring Channing Tatum, and Jillian Bell. Yes really! However, as of now, the remake still remains in development hell. And honestly, it should stay there, since the original “Splash” already did some gender flipping with Madison constantly rescuing Allen from drowning, and Allen giving up his life on land to live with Madison under the sea.
@@conatcha Agreed. It’s been SIX years since the the gender flipped remake was announced and nothing has come of it. Ironically, the 1984 movie “Splash” took SEVEN years to make, and the first six years alone were finding a studio that would greenlight “Splash” (from “United Artists” to “The Ladd Company” to finally “Disney”). At least the original “Splash” had the excuse of Brian Grazer being a novice film and TV producer so it’s understandable why studios didn’t want to take a chance on a mermaid film made by a no-name producer. Nowadays, Brian Grazer is one of the most successful, powerful producers in Hollywood, since thanks to the success of “Splash”, he formed his own studio “Imagine Entertainment” and could easily produce the movies he wanted to make. Brian Grazer should have had no trouble getting the “Splash” remake produced, yet it’s never been produced as of now, which just makes me think that deep down, Brian Grazer thought the remake would’ve made a SPLAT with critics and audiences.
I love this movie! I know Daryl Hannah was a swimmer and athlete but I can not find how long she could hold her breath underwater? I did find she used an oxygen tank when she needed air. She really did do an amazing job!!!! 🧜😍
@@alanodonnell4788 Ironic since the Godiva Hair was the result of a compromise that “Splash” producer Brian Grazer made with the nipple averse Disney board members who wanted the mermaid to wear a bathing suit top instead: ruclips.net/video/eJRJ_0DQOc0/видео.htmlm49s After all, we can’t show breasts in a live action Disney movie. What would the children think? WHAT WOULD WALT HAVE DONE? 😂 😂
Same. But you can blame Hollywood sexism and lack of CGI for that! What you might not know is that when Brian Grazer first pitched the movie “Splash” back in the late 70s and early 80s, it was actually going to be told from the MERMAID’s point of view, in which Madison got washed up on the shore and found herself having to adjust to being a human in New York City. However, according to Grazer’s book, “A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life”, “Splash” got rejected by a lot of studios due to the fact that Brian pitched it *”too much from the perspective of the mermaid”.* Unsurprisingly, once Grazer flipped the perspective from the mermaid to the GUY who falls in love with the mermaid, he found that the studio executives (read: mostly male) were much more receptive to his pitch. The problem with telling “Splash” from the mermaid’s POV was that the underwater scenes would have been unfilmable, since directing actors in mermaid tails would be difficult due to having to signal “cut” every 30 seconds because the actor needs a respirator. Also, the sets would be impossible to build and the dolphin squeaks that the mermaids speak in would get old and annoying fast. Nowadays, you could easily accomplish all that through CGI and green screen thanks to “Aquaman”. Therefore the POV was given to the human guy Allen because land scenes are much easier to film. Also, according to “Splash” screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, it was a case of “Write what you know!”: *”That script was a fantasy that took place underwater with King Neptune. It was basically ‘The Little Mermaid’ before ‘Little Mermaid’. Brian [Grazer] asked us what we thought, and we said we didn’t like it. We told him that we didn’t grow up in an underwater kingdom, so we wouldn’t know how to write it. But from the point of view of a young man disappointed in love, we could write it.”* Source of quote above: www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/writers-babaloo-mandel-lowell-ganz-reflect-splash-genesis-1185960/
@@jpfshowtime You’re welcome! “Splash” producer Brian Grazer said that the remake was going to be told from the mermaid’s point of view: ew.com/article/2016/06/06/splash-remake-brian-grazer/ . At first, I was excited by that idea because it would be nice to know what Madison’s life was like after she met Allen as a kid. Maybe she got tired of dating mermen. After all, 🎶flippin’ your fins you don’t get too far. 🎶 But in all seriousness, the gender flip might fix some of the plot holes from the original (like the “rules” Madison had to follow), as well as provide more insight into Madison’s character *(What is it about Allen that attracts her to him? Why does she drag Allen’s unconscious body at the beach and then swims away only to then hide behind the bushes until he wakes up?).* Thanks to the success of “Aquaman”, you could easily show Madison’s underwater world of merfolk via CGI and green screen (in fact, part of the reason Bruce Jay Friedman’s original screenplay of “Splash” was rejected by both United Artists and 20th Century Fox was due to the concern that the underwater scenes would be unfilmable, thus making “Splash” *”prohibitively expensive”).* And hey, with the technology available, perhaps they could bring back the scene where Madison encounters a sea hag who, much like the sea witch in Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid”, refuses to help Madison go after the man Madison saved from drowning, but nonetheless relents by telling Madison the “rules” (Madison can only be on land for six days until the moon is full, and if she stays longer than that, she can’t ever come back to her underwater home). The good news is that snippets of the “sea hag” scene can be found in the film’s “Making A Splash” documentary on the 20th Anniversary Edition DVD: ruclips.net/video/yPyftEuJb7U/видео.htmlm All of that sounded great, until I learned that the mermaid in the remake was going to be played by a GUY (Channing Tatum). Wait, what? Why? I mean, the word “mermaid” literally implies a WOMAN who is half-fish, so technically, the correct term for a man who is half-fish is MERMAN. Semantics aside, unless this is William Shakespeare’s “Splash” where the mermaid is going to be played by a dude in drag, I’m not interested. I feel like having a “Splash” remake told from the POV of the male character (in this case, a merman) only vindicates the sexist Hollywood executives who rejected “Splash” back in the 70s because it placed too much emphasis on the mermaid (you know, a FEMALE character! 😂).
@@Mr.PR2000 There were two foreign remakes of “Splash” released in the 1990s: the Bollywood romantic fantasy “Laal Paree” (ruclips.net/video/5TnB3E3r4SQ/видео.html ) and the Hong Kong fantasy rom-com “Mermaid Got Married” (ruclips.net/video/WToiM50uvMA/видео.html ). If Madison can be played by an Asian woman in those aforementioned remakes, then I don’t see why Madison can’t be played by a black woman in the hypothetical “Splash” remake. Madison is a mermaid, so she can be any race or ethnicity. Madison’s skin color has no impact on her characterization or on the overall plot. “Splash” takes place in Manhattan, one of the most ethnically and racially diverse cities in the USA, so it makes sense to have black characters in the hypothetical “Splash” remake.
For all the people saying “this is how the new little mermaid should’ve looked” sound so dumb because only a few of the scenes in TLM were actually shot underwater. It would be impossible for them to film the movie like this because none of the characters would be able to talk.
Somedays, I wish I was Madison. To be able to swim underwater like that, detached from the land, not having to breath air like land peeps. Yeah, that sounds awesome to me.
Michael Song You can watch the 1987 Fairy Tale Theatre episode of “The Little Mermaid” starring Pam Dawber and Treat Williams. It’s available on RUclips.
@@ifloridawarriorcatfan9918 They were supposed to, but it kept being pushed back. Joe Wright was supposed to direct it, but that was dropped. Then lastly Sofia Coppola was picked to direct, and it seemed like it was beginning to move forward, but that was also dropped. So currently from what little info I have, is that the project or what's left of it is suspended indefinitely until they pick it up again. That's all I know, please correct me if I'm wrong.
Daryl Hannah is a smart girl. I've never seen Splash, but I'm impressed by her realistic swimming movement and ability to use tools and understand human geography.
Daryl Hannah was obsessed with Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” to the point that as a little girl, she would tie her feet together in the pool and swim like that at an early age. So by the time, the film came around, she was able to do her own underwater stunts due to years of practicing.
I loved Little Mermaid when i was little. I'm not even a fan of rom-coms but i fell in love with this movie when i was 5. I so wanted to be Daryll Hannah and i so wanted young Tom Hanks if ya know what i mean😄❤
That’s correct! Ironically, we almost didn’t get the ANIMATED film “The Little Mermaid” because Disney CEO Michael Eisner and Disney studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg were both concerned that it sounded too similar to “Splash”. According to Michael Eisner’s memoir “Work In Progress: Risking Failure, Surviving Success”: *”I had always loved the idea of setting an animated movie underwater, but both Jeffrey and I were concerned that this idea sounded too much like the live-action **_Splash,_** which Disney had released early in 1984, six months before we arrived.”* And well, they weren’t exactly wrong about that: ruclips.net/video/5K5_sGzckvc/видео.html (In fact, I’d be lying too if I said that *I* didn’t notice the similarities the first time I saw “Splash” at the age of 12! 😂) Although Eisner and Katzenberg would greenlight “The Little Mermaid” (thanks to a 2-page treatment written by “Little Mermaid” co-director Ron Clements!), the concerns about the similarities to “Splash” didn’t end there! Originally, Ariel was going to be BLONDE, but the Disney animators decided to make Ariel a REDHEAD instead, in order to avoid accusations of ripping off “Splash”: ruclips.net/video/XdMMg6OSn1Q/видео.htmlm15s (Although is it really plagiarism if both of those films were made by Disney? Just asking for a friend! 😂)
they don't need technology, they need an actress who is capable of swimming and acting underwater like a first-class freediver while also looking the part of the mermaid and let me tell you, Daryl was quite unique. If they ever make that movie, it will be a stupid CGI-fest with a pretty airhead who can't swim, and 99% of the action will take place on land. Like every other mediocre mermaid movie/series out there.
They're actually making a live-action version of The The Little Mermaid. And, yeah, they gonna use a lot of CGI and other effects on it. I like the way they did Splash, but I prefer CGI over real swimming. The Little Mermaid is a cartoon, so it's universe is much more expansive and magical than Splash one. They need to use these effects because it's impossible to teach real marine animals how to dance and move their mouths. Btw, the underwater movements seems more natural and real in CGI. Real swimming is slow, and The Little Mermaid characters move like us. The tail is more real in the computer too.
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The BEST MERMAID SCENE of all history of movies. Realistic and natural.
ehhh, her tail was really bad. she plays the part tremendously well, but natural? definitely not. the best mermaid tails will always be h2o.
I totally agree it is the most realistic mermaid tail I have seen. All the other mermaids are cgi or use a really fake looking tail with strange unnatural colors.
What about the mermaids on pirates of the Caribbean ?
@Peter Salucci also the mermaids from stranger tides , pirates of the Caribbean 4
Peter Salucci scientifically speaking mermaids would be a gray color with a plus size body and wrinkled skin due to where they live and the climate and Based on real world mammals so no it’s not a good representation of mermaids. Mermaids are only the way that they are because of media.
Daryl hanna can even act underwater..very underapreciated as an actress.
This movie made every little girl in the 80s want to grow up to be a mermaid.
Ikr, I was one of those little girls. Ever since I was little, I dreamed of growing up to be a beautiful mermaid and just swim all day.
@@ebonypantalion5154 same 🥰
90s too ! 🙋♀️ :')
I remember sneaking the Morton salt canister upstairs after everyone had gone to sleep and sprinkling it into my bathwater just like Madison did lol. Unfortunately, I didn't grow a mermaid tail.
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Ikr 😭💔
I can watch this underwater scene over and over, the way she swims as a mermaid is uncanny, I haven't seen anyone else doing it like her...
The mermaids in "Hook" were amazing!
watch Hannah Fraser videos! she's a professional mermaid
@@mateuscabot she´s alright, Darryl Hannah did a better job as a mermaid
When she was five years old, her parents bought her a mermaid costume; and, in those days, people weren't as "rule minded." The lifeguard at the local pool let her swim while wearing it. While most movie "mermaids" bend their knees and kick to propel themselves forward, Darryl Hannah imitated the motions of a cetacean. She swam so well that the "Splash" camera crew had a hard time keeping up with her. To this day, I still think of her as the best mermaid I've ever seen. Glynis Johns, who will turn 100 this October 8, was second best. She didn't have as many swimming scenes as Darryl Hannah.
That's because Daryl Hannah really liked mermaids when she was a kid. Although I guess after making this movie, she saw how complicated it was and that's why she doesn't appear in Splash 2 🤣
And can we give a round of applause to Darryl Hannah for doing her own mermaid stunts and swimming? It takes an incredible amount of athleticism, just look at Mermaid Melissa. 👏👏👏👏
Did you know that she did all of her swimming because the stunt people couldn’t swim naturally with the tail. She was the perfect choice for the role of a mermaid.
@@user-ey9uj6vp9s Wow! That's incredible. I fell for this movie at a young age.💙 🌊🐚🐬🐋🐳
Yeah well how about you watch h20 just add water, those girls did that for 2 seasons lol.
@@ImNeoFr Yea But it looks cheap and stupid.
@@nicostone2800 not really, yeah the cgi is bad but they did they swimming just as well.
I read that Darryl Hannah said that the other underwater fish treated her like a big fish as well. She even had her own pilot fish at one point. If you can fool the fishies, you've won the mermaid game. Best movie mermaid there ever was and it's not even close.
Dollars for donuts, “Splash” is a better live action remake of “The Little Mermaid” than the actual 2023 live action remake.
@@beethovensfidelio Babe Splash came out 5 years before Disney’s The Little Mermaid, it aint no remake.
@@user-ey9uj6vp9s Jokes on you! We almost didn’t get the ANIMATED film “The Little Mermaid” because Disney CEO Michael Eisner and Disney studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg were both concerned that it sounded too similar to “Splash”.
According to Michael Eisner’s memoir “Work In Progress: Risking Failure, Surviving Success”:
*”I had always loved the idea of setting an animated movie underwater, but both Jeffrey and I were concerned that this idea sounded too much like the live-action ‘Splash’, which Disney had released early in 1984, six months before we arrived.”*
And well, they weren’t exactly wrong about that: ruclips.net/video/5K5_sGzckvc/видео.html
(In fact, I’d be lying too if I said that *I* didn’t notice the similarities the first time I saw “Splash” at the age of 12! 😂)
Although Eisner and Katzenberg would greenlight “The Little Mermaid” (thanks to a 2-page treatment written by “Little Mermaid” co-director Ron Clements!), the concerns about the similarities to “Splash” didn’t end there!
When it came to deciding what Ariel’s hair color should be, originally Ariel was going to be a BLONDE (in fact, you can find concept designs of blonde Ariel online: www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/take-a-magical-look-at-the-concept-art-used-to-make-the ).
However, the Disney animators decided to make Ariel a REDHEAD instead, in order to avoid accusations of ripping off “Splash”.
(Although is it really plagiarism if both of those films were made by Disney? Just asking for a friend! 😂)
To Jaymes Warde: This scene is so beautiful. Exactly how a mermaid is supposed to swim.
Let's take a moment to recognize the real star of this scene. The turtle. It was apparently saved from a fish market or something by the film crew!
This underwater scene is so beautiful and well done.
I am so blown away by how real the scenes are! It is truly remarkable! I watch a lot of mermaid stuff and this is just as good as any, and better than many! Splash was made in 1984. Incredible!
No CGI or green screen back then. All shot underwater.
This is how the little mermaid 2023 underwater scenes should have looked…
if it was then there would be no dialogue underwater
Sure if you wanted 50% of the film with no dancing, singing or talking in the water lol. Somethings in ones mind doesn't always translate into reality lol and your comment is one of them.
@@davecook-vann7336 So you ignored all of the parts of the movie... except the singing and dancing? Those weren't even the GOOD parts of the original.
I love the little annoyed look she gives the turtle lol
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That poor turtle didn't do anything to her lol
@@sarahlundgren3358 he just wanted attention so badly 😂
It’s a really smart shot because to a human the sight of a sea turtle would be majestic. But she’s a mermaid so to her it’s probably like a pigeon…or lunch.
Daryl Hanna is a good swimmer, perfect for her embodying the beautiful mermaid..
Originally, they wanted a stunt woman to do the swimming. They made the tail and had the crew and some of the cast ( including darly Hannah) come to the pool to see the stunt woman swim. She did a bad job, looking very awkward. Then Hannah asked if she could try swimming, and got in the tail. She swan perfectly, expecting the dolphin kick and other trick.
@@sicksadsawedoff how did u know bout the stunt hehe
Agoroy Agoroy Carolyn Turgeon
wrote a book called “ the mermaid handbook” and there was a whole section on splash about the tail design and making and how it all worked.
This is the movie that made me believe mermaids really exist when i was a kid. Watching it now as an adult now i know why.. she swam like it was really her tail. She made it look so easy.❤️
They auditioned Olympic swimmers who couldn't do what Daryl Hannah could. She was fascinated with Hans Christiansen's 'the little mermaid' when she was young and used to practice swimming with her ankles tied. Also she was so fast with her tail that they would have trouble keeping up with her to give her air
Well, Olympic swimmers have a specific set of skills, they should have tried reef Divers. that's a different skills et. :D
Always loved this movie, I remember watching Splash multiple times as a child. I was always fascinated with how realistic and beautiful the mermaid scenes were filmed 🤍
This is one of the best mermaids I’ve seen
This is THE best.
This scene was so cinematic, I love it
Still haven't seen a mermaid movie like this since! Still looks beautiful and believable to this day!
To me, there will never be a more realistic looking and believable mermaid live action movie than Splash. All done without cheap cgi. Daryl did all of her own stunts and never swam in a pool. It was all shot under natural ocean water. The prosthetic tail is so realistic looking and fully functional. No live action mermaid movie can hold a candle to Splash.
Nope, this mermaid tail is probably the most realistic tail from American movies but the 1994 Chinese version "mermaid got married" has an even more realistic tail from the way the tail moves to the scales.
Excellent swimming...very believable.
Loved this movie as a kid
Kitty Kat same
I did too and still do. Such comfort.
I watched this as a small kid...my mom never thought anything was wrong with it..lol :P
First watched this round my grandmothers house nearly 15 years ago, still love it now :)
ariel was out of her mind to give this all up
Ariel lived before New York had Bloomingdales, and she lived in Denmark anyway.
😂🤣
Lol
I would rather be a Zora instead
Same 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I have the Collectors Edition of this movie and the behind the scenes information is astounding! Darryl was basically born to play this part from a very young age!
ohhh. it's been my life-long dream to explore the ocean first hand. Watching this makes my soul just ache to go into the ocean and just enjoy the beautiful world of freedom and peace that lies under the surface.
Merscuba until you run into a shark
You’ve never been?
Same..ever since I was little :(
@@amberwarnke6434 Oh I have. :)
This one of my favorite films of all time
This movie completely captivated me as a child. I would watch this scene over and over again.
She’s still the only one who has the swiftest mermaid moves amongst all mermaids then and nowadays. Her knees doesn’t bend too much making her underwater movements look natural and smooth. Mermaids nowadays move a bit awkward bending their knees too much.
It helped that as a child, Daryl Hannah was so obsessed with the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale “The Little Mermaid” that she would tie her feet together in the pool and practice swimming like a mermaid at a very early age, so by the time that she got the role of Madison in “Splash”, it was easy for Daryl Hannah to swim in the ocean with the 35 lb. mermaid tail attached to her lower half: ruclips.net/video/YB7dLBQTnTk/видео.htmlm5s
1:17 the most beautiful mermaid with a gold fish like tail you ever saw. 🧜♀️
This is the best Mermaid Movie up to this day... none top it this is like the real version of the little Mermaid.
Pirates of the Caribbean stranger tides
Dwayne mcCartney no.
DBold Francis Ironically, Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” was initially rejected for being too similar to the movie “Splash” (which had also been released by DISNEY five years earlier, albeit under its adult-facing label “Touchstone Films”).
To add insult to injury, Disney was busy developing a sequel to “Splash” (yes, there’s a sequel!), and they felt that two mermaid movies being made at the same time would conflict with one another.
In order to avoid the inevitable comparisons between “Splash” and “The Little Mermaid”, Ariel was given red hair and a green fish tail in order to distinguish herself from the blonde, orange-tailed mermaid Madison from “Splash”.
Families 4331 that was all CGI though. This was an actual woman taking on and accomplishing that role. No glamour.
@@families9654
HELL NO.
The movie Splash was a huge hit and Madison became a popular girls name b/c of this movie and I loved the underwater scene with Daryl Hannah as the mermaid. Tom Hanks and John Candy were so young in this****
The new Little Mermaid could never…
The new Little mermaids swimming looks fake.
Lets see, what is the difference between these two films? What could it possibly be? Oh yeah TLM has singing, dancing and talking mermaids and sea creatures, this doesn't! 🤦♂️
I love splash I could watch it every day
My the music in the movie is beautiful and the ocean looks beautiful but that music is so lovely.
after all these years, Daryl is still the best mermaid out there. She has down the dolphinkick, and it shows. She also has charisma, not like all those newer "H2O ordinary girls" who can barely swim 1 meter before they have to switch to CGI.
Can't barely swim? Bitch try to swim underwater with a tail that is 40 kilos when wet. Do your research before judging them too quickly. And newer!? That was nearly a decade ago
@@innyweasel5601 at least she actaully looks real and the tail looks real. H20 looks nowhere near real especially the tails
Imm Mina what do you mean not real? Though her swimming is good but the tail is made out of thin silicon which makes her knees visible
Faewaterspirit even those h2o .mermaid could swim in the sea i am sure you wouldnt swim in a pool with a tail of 48 kilo when wet
women
Beautiful in every way. How I miss the 80's, things done properly.
If only the little mermaid was shot like this.
if it was then there would be no dialogue underwater
@@internetv4mpire254 enh, you can dub that.
@@marhawkman303 true but I feel like it wouldn’t look or sound as good
@@internetv4mpire254 hm... maybe.... lots of factors there.
@@marhawkman303try to talk, sing and dance underwater and see how effective it is. Daryl didn't have to do any of that. Not to mention, the singing and dancing sealife wouldn't have worked either due to no control. Something like TLM has to be done in a very controlled environment.
Daryl Hannah was so gorgeous! The perfect mermaid!
I’m gonna tell my kids that this was the original little mermaid 😊
Same!
Ironically, we almost didn’t get the animated film “The Little Mermaid” because of how similar it was to “Splash”.
Not to mention how if it weren’t for “Splash”, Ariel would’ve been another BLONDE Disney princess.
Good
1984 GOD! why so HD😍😍😍 well thank you disneyplus for this movie "SPLASH" TOM HANKS really my best actor and daryl wow just wow, she's so pretty & sexy incredible movie 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I was born year 1989 and I'm still here😍
I hope in the new one, they use one of these tails instead of CGI. Looks so pretty, it's perfection
New one?
Dryocampa there’s a remake of this movie in development, with a gender flip
The tail was heavy and expensive so they likely wouldn’t do this again. They only lucked out that Daryl Hannah was such a good swimmer even with the tail and able to act so well underwater, neither of which they expected when casting her.
@@nickimillennium You are right, they would probably use CGI. I just hope not. For a major movie it wouldnt be that expensive. The tail man has been making gorgeous tails for less than 10 thousand dollars. Which is very expensive for a private person, but not for a major movie. Seems like they wont be making it anyway. So its just a hope
@@danytargaerys712but you don't always just have one tail. A lot of times they have at least 2 just in case any of them gets damaged during production.
CAN'T BELIEVE ITS FROM 1984! Its just so soooo beautiful, and very realistic! Not like todays ones which are shoot in exotic aquariums with bunch of colorful fish... this one looks very natural, especially that sea ground, shipwreck and a turtle! Its so pleasant! The ones from 2000s up until now are all destroyed by heavy CGI, sadly the same is gonna happen with Live Action Ariel -_-
Omg I loved this movie. I still do to this day
Just a little fun fact, they werent going to let her be the mermaid in the underwater scenes, they even auditioned several women. But daryl hannah could hold her breath longer than any of the women and was so natural underwater she got to do her own scenes! Which im so happy because we wouldnt have gotten this scene!! This is one of my favorite movies of all time.
This *is* and underrated and unfairly forgotten movie.
I can't believe that the industry has not made a remake already.
Why would they remake “Splash” when the original was already great?
The TV sequel “Splash, Too” was bad enough without Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah reprising their roles since they were too expensive to get, therefore Disney had to rely on C-list actors like Amy Yasbeck and Tod Waring to play the leads.
Also instead of Hollywood remaking unfairly forgotten films, they should just release those unfairly forgotten films to the public.
To quote Jay Sherman from the animated TV series “The Critic”, *”If it’s a remake of a classic, rent the classic”.*
@@beethovensfidelio A lot of original movies were great and made a stupid sequel/remake anyway. I am not wishing for a remake, I am just wondering why such a great movie has not been remade since they are so prone to slaughter great classics.
@@conatcha Well it’s worth noting that back in 2016, It was announced that there would be a gender flipped remake of “Splash” starring Channing Tatum, and Jillian Bell.
Yes really!
However, as of now, the remake still remains in development hell.
And honestly, it should stay there, since the original “Splash” already did some gender flipping with Madison constantly rescuing Allen from drowning, and Allen giving up his life on land to live with Madison under the sea.
@@beethovensfidelio So glad that that remake with Channing Tatum was cancelled ***shivers***
@@conatcha Agreed.
It’s been SIX years since the the gender flipped remake was announced and nothing has come of it.
Ironically, the 1984 movie “Splash” took SEVEN years to make, and the first six years alone were finding a studio that would greenlight “Splash” (from “United Artists” to “The Ladd Company” to finally “Disney”).
At least the original “Splash” had the excuse of Brian Grazer being a novice film and TV producer so it’s understandable why studios didn’t want to take a chance on a mermaid film made by a no-name producer.
Nowadays, Brian Grazer is one of the most successful, powerful producers in Hollywood, since thanks to the success of “Splash”, he formed his own studio “Imagine Entertainment” and could easily produce the movies he wanted to make.
Brian Grazer should have had no trouble getting the “Splash” remake produced, yet it’s never been produced as of now, which just makes me think that deep down, Brian Grazer thought the remake would’ve made a SPLAT with critics and audiences.
Her hair is stunning ! And beautiful so healthy!!
I love this movie! I know Daryl Hannah was a swimmer and athlete but I can not find how long she could hold her breath underwater? I did find she used an oxygen tank when she needed air. She really did do an amazing job!!!! 🧜😍
I read somewhere that at the time this was filmed she was able to hold her breath underwater for 3 minutes at a time
With the sun sparkling on the water it's so beautiful looking
Besides "Steel Magnolias", Daryl Hannah did very well in this movie alongside Tom Hanks. And it was one of her big starting and breakout roles, too!
For those of yall that came from charlie here ya go 1:42
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God it was great she didn't have a braw on. She has some nice boobs there.
@@alanodonnell4788 Ironic since the Godiva Hair was the result of a compromise that “Splash” producer Brian Grazer made with the nipple averse Disney board members who wanted the mermaid to wear a bathing suit top instead: ruclips.net/video/eJRJ_0DQOc0/видео.htmlm49s
After all, we can’t show breasts in a live action Disney movie.
What would the children think? WHAT WOULD WALT HAVE DONE? 😂 😂
This movie made my childhood
My favorite scene
There can never be a mermaid movie like splash! In the history of ever! Pls bring splash to Netflix
Fadilah Fapus Well the good news is that it’s coming to Disney+ this year on Valentine’s Day. So mark your calendar!
Darryl Hannah in her prime. OH WOW!!!
A true childhood inspiration. One that let me to becoming a merman later on.
BEAUTIFUL
I would love to see a movie just on her backstory. Her parents, other “merpeople”, and her underwater home!!
Same.
But you can blame Hollywood sexism and lack of CGI for that!
What you might not know is that when Brian Grazer first pitched the movie “Splash” back in the late 70s and early 80s, it was actually going to be told from the MERMAID’s point of view, in which Madison got washed up on the shore and found herself having to adjust to being a human in New York City.
However, according to Grazer’s book, “A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life”, “Splash” got rejected by a lot of studios due to the fact that Brian pitched it *”too much from the perspective of the mermaid”.*
Unsurprisingly, once Grazer flipped the perspective from the mermaid to the GUY who falls in love with the mermaid, he found that the studio executives (read: mostly male) were much more receptive to his pitch.
The problem with telling “Splash” from the mermaid’s POV was that the underwater scenes would have been unfilmable, since directing actors in mermaid tails would be difficult due to having to signal “cut” every 30 seconds because the actor needs a respirator.
Also, the sets would be impossible to build and the dolphin squeaks that the mermaids speak in would get old and annoying fast.
Nowadays, you could easily accomplish all that through CGI and green screen thanks to “Aquaman”.
Therefore the POV was given to the human guy Allen because land scenes are much easier to film.
Also, according to “Splash” screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, it was a case of “Write what you know!”:
*”That script was a fantasy that took place underwater with King Neptune. It was basically ‘The Little Mermaid’ before ‘Little Mermaid’. Brian [Grazer] asked us what we thought, and we said we didn’t like it. We told him that we didn’t grow up in an underwater kingdom, so we wouldn’t know how to write it. But from the point of view of a young man disappointed in love, we could write it.”*
Source of quote above: www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/writers-babaloo-mandel-lowell-ganz-reflect-splash-genesis-1185960/
@@beethovensfidelio wow!!!! That’s good to know
@@jpfshowtime You’re welcome! “Splash” producer Brian Grazer said that the remake was going to be told from the mermaid’s point of view: ew.com/article/2016/06/06/splash-remake-brian-grazer/ .
At first, I was excited by that idea because it would be nice to know what Madison’s life was like after she met Allen as a kid.
Maybe she got tired of dating mermen.
After all, 🎶flippin’ your fins you don’t get too far. 🎶
But in all seriousness, the gender flip might fix some of the plot holes from the original (like the “rules” Madison had to follow), as well as provide more insight into Madison’s character *(What is it about Allen that attracts her to him? Why does she drag Allen’s unconscious body at the beach and then swims away only to then hide behind the bushes until he wakes up?).*
Thanks to the success of “Aquaman”, you could easily show Madison’s underwater world of merfolk via CGI and green screen (in fact, part of the reason Bruce Jay Friedman’s original screenplay of “Splash” was rejected by both United Artists and 20th Century Fox was due to the concern that the underwater scenes would be unfilmable, thus making “Splash” *”prohibitively expensive”).*
And hey, with the technology available, perhaps they could bring back the scene where Madison encounters a sea hag who, much like the sea witch in Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid”, refuses to help Madison go after the man Madison saved from drowning, but nonetheless relents by telling Madison the “rules” (Madison can only be on land for six days until the moon is full, and if she stays longer than that, she can’t ever come back to her underwater home).
The good news is that snippets of the “sea hag” scene can be found in the film’s “Making A Splash” documentary on the 20th Anniversary Edition DVD: ruclips.net/video/yPyftEuJb7U/видео.htmlm
All of that sounded great, until I learned that the mermaid in the remake was going to be played by a GUY (Channing Tatum).
Wait, what?
Why?
I mean, the word “mermaid” literally implies a WOMAN who is half-fish, so technically, the correct term for a man who is half-fish is MERMAN.
Semantics aside, unless this is William Shakespeare’s “Splash” where the mermaid is going to be played by a dude in drag, I’m not interested.
I feel like having a “Splash” remake told from the POV of the male character (in this case, a merman) only vindicates the sexist Hollywood executives who rejected “Splash” back in the 70s because it placed too much emphasis on the mermaid (you know, a FEMALE character! 😂).
They would make her black that’s for sure ..
@@Mr.PR2000 There were two foreign remakes of “Splash” released in the 1990s: the Bollywood romantic fantasy “Laal Paree” (ruclips.net/video/5TnB3E3r4SQ/видео.html ) and the Hong Kong fantasy rom-com “Mermaid Got Married” (ruclips.net/video/WToiM50uvMA/видео.html ).
If Madison can be played by an Asian woman in those aforementioned remakes, then I don’t see why Madison can’t be played by a black woman in the hypothetical “Splash” remake.
Madison is a mermaid, so she can be any race or ethnicity.
Madison’s skin color has no impact on her characterization or on the overall plot.
“Splash” takes place in Manhattan, one of the most ethnically and racially diverse cities in the USA, so it makes sense to have black characters in the hypothetical “Splash” remake.
beautiful childhood movie. love as a kid. merveilleux film que j'ai vu enfant, et musiques superbes
She's good at keeping her eyes open underwater
This scene is everything 💙
For all the people saying “this is how the new little mermaid should’ve looked” sound so dumb because only a few of the scenes in TLM were actually shot underwater. It would be impossible for them to film the movie like this because none of the characters would be able to talk.
Somedays, I wish I was Madison. To be able to swim underwater like that, detached from the land, not having to breath air like land peeps. Yeah, that sounds awesome to me.
Madison can sure swim beautiful
She makes an amazingggg mermaid 😅
Her tail is soooooo realistic
That’s because it wasn’t CGI.
Thanks Charlie
I like this scene.
Daryll Hannah was a good underwater breathholder girl for this movie
As tragic as it is, I want to see hans christian andersen's version. That was a great story.
Yess!❤ It's a shame that most people here probably don't know him, even though this man wrote the most beautiful, sad fairy tales...
@@user-bj2lu9qt3o who doesn't know Andersen? Lol
Michael Song You can watch the 1987 Fairy Tale Theatre episode of “The Little Mermaid” starring Pam Dawber and Treat Williams. It’s available on RUclips.
I thought Universal was suppose to develop one?
@@ifloridawarriorcatfan9918 They were supposed to, but it kept being pushed back. Joe Wright was supposed to direct it, but that was dropped. Then lastly Sofia Coppola was picked to direct, and it seemed like it was beginning to move forward, but that was also dropped. So currently from what little info I have, is that the project or what's left of it is suspended indefinitely until they pick it up again. That's all I know, please correct me if I'm wrong.
Me: Re-watching this beautiful swim scene.
Also Me: Hold my breath and back hurting.
you gotta love splash
Deobolique Rogers it splashed into our hearts
never saw this movie(born in 2000)
I need to find it
Critikal
Daryl Hannah is a smart girl. I've never seen Splash, but I'm impressed by her realistic swimming movement and ability to use tools and understand human geography.
😅
@@andresuston7692 It read to me as if he thinks she's really a mermaid and not human. :D
0:19 what y’all came here for fellows 🙏
Fave scene ever
I wish we had this mermaid now
Daryl Hannah is too old to play Ariel. 😂
I love this movie
my first childhood love. That's why I like mermaids uwu
She seems to use that piece of that sunken ship as an office building.
😅
Viewing an underwater scence it seems that i cant breath also by holdimg my lungs!
Its amazing how this woman swims!!!!
Daryl Hannah was obsessed with Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” to the point that as a little girl, she would tie her feet together in the pool and swim like that at an early age.
So by the time, the film came around, she was able to do her own underwater stunts due to years of practicing.
If only Disney paid attention…
I guess CGI tails are cheaper and less time consuming to put on. 😂
Ironic since “Splash” was also produced by Disney.
Daryl Hannah was the perfect choice, she had such a beautiful body and lovely hair too
My gorgeous and beautiful mermaid sister Madison 😍 I am a mermaid too 🧜🏻♀️
I loved Little Mermaid when i was little. I'm not even a fan of rom-coms but i fell in love with this movie when i was 5. I so wanted to be Daryll Hannah and i so wanted young Tom Hanks if ya know what i mean😄❤
Yeah, I do admire Tom Hanks’ curly hair and full lips.
Daryl is perfect.
Her tail looks very similar to that of lyretail anthias , one of the most beautiful reef fish in the ocean
the seabed near new york aint nowhere near that beautiful
It's a movie
+MsPrettypinkpanther8 I understand, I'm just speaking from a Brooklynite point of view, I say this movie back when I was 4-5 years old.
For your information, this is supposed to be Cape Cod.
This scene was shot in the Bahamas
Shes a Massachusetts mermaid though.
The tail is very Flexible
Every mermaid possesses the power of love and a tinge of curiosity.
Moist sent me
The new little mermaid can't actually swim so it was all faked lol
Halle Bailey can swim, but sadly all of her stunts were done via CGI, wires, and green screen.
2:28 is the longest I've ever seen someone hold their breath
It’s called the power of editing.
Love this
1984? Before Disney's The litle mermaid? Wow!
That’s correct!
Ironically, we almost didn’t get the ANIMATED film “The Little Mermaid” because Disney CEO Michael Eisner and Disney studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg were both concerned that it sounded too similar to “Splash”.
According to Michael Eisner’s memoir “Work In Progress: Risking Failure, Surviving Success”:
*”I had always loved the idea of setting an animated movie underwater, but both Jeffrey and I were concerned that this idea sounded too much like the live-action **_Splash,_** which Disney had released early in 1984, six months before we arrived.”*
And well, they weren’t exactly wrong about that: ruclips.net/video/5K5_sGzckvc/видео.html
(In fact, I’d be lying too if I said that *I* didn’t notice the similarities the first time I saw “Splash” at the age of 12! 😂)
Although Eisner and Katzenberg would greenlight “The Little Mermaid” (thanks to a 2-page treatment written by “Little Mermaid” co-director Ron Clements!), the concerns about the similarities to “Splash” didn’t end there!
Originally, Ariel was going to be BLONDE, but the Disney animators decided to make Ariel a REDHEAD instead, in order to avoid accusations of ripping off “Splash”: ruclips.net/video/XdMMg6OSn1Q/видео.htmlm15s
(Although is it really plagiarism if both of those films were made by Disney? Just asking for a friend! 😂)
@@beethovensfidelio Wow! Thanks! Now I have to watch both movies.
Such an amazing scene and movie. I hate that Kornbluth dude though! >:(
Why?
I couldn’t stay under water that long
" DISNEY DON'T HAVE TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE A LIVE-ACTION LITTLE MERMAID "
Okay.
they don't need technology, they need an actress who is capable of swimming and acting underwater like a first-class freediver while also looking the part of the mermaid and let me tell you, Daryl was quite unique.
If they ever make that movie, it will be a stupid CGI-fest with a pretty airhead who can't swim, and 99% of the action will take place on land. Like every other mediocre mermaid movie/series out there.
The Little Merman darn right
Most remakes are Awful
They're actually making a live-action version of The The Little Mermaid. And, yeah, they gonna use a lot of CGI and other effects on it. I like the way they did Splash, but I prefer CGI over real swimming. The Little Mermaid is a cartoon, so it's universe is much more expansive and magical than Splash one. They need to use these effects because it's impossible to teach real marine animals how to dance and move their mouths. Btw, the underwater movements seems more natural and real in CGI. Real swimming is slow, and The Little Mermaid characters move like us. The tail is more real in the computer too.
The actors have to talk too, and it's almost impossible to shoot every dialogue scene underwater.
charlie im on a hunt
I shall join you
Penguinz0 fans here? Dont worry i was curious like u guys