Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings is out today and hoping to surpass its $140 million budget in box-office revenue. Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 biblical epic The Ten Commandments cost a little north of $13 million and grossed $80 million. In that film's most memorable scene, Moses parts the Red Sea to create two cascading wave walls. Special effects supervisor John P. Fulton achieved this feat by constructing two massive water tanks on the Paramount backlot, as well as a 200,000-cubic-foot swimming pool with hydraulic equipment that could dump 360,000 gallons of water in two minutes. To create the illusion of a parting sea, Fulton merely projected the footage in reverse. To simulate thunder, Fulton reportedly used audio that was recorded during one of the atomic bomb tests.
The Exodus wave is all CGI, but it looks particularly epic. Disaster movies have ruled the box office for the past several decades, and big waves have been at the heart of many extended action sequences, biblical or otherwise. Here, on the occasion of Exodus and the year's other much-discussed cinematic crest in Interstellar, are 10 memorable waves in movie history.
BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (1979)
Target of destruction: A luxury cruise liner
Wave size: Pretty decent, though as we'll see soon, it can get much worse.
Notable occurrence: Underwater explosions!
POINT BREAK (1991)
Target of destruction: Patrick Swayze
Wave size: Tubular
Notable occurrence: Sad Keanu face
DEEP IMPACT (1998)
Target of destruction: New York City (and much of the eastern United States)
Wave size: Enough to knock over skyscrapers; your biggest fear realized.
Notable occurrence: It rolls in from the southern tip of Manhattan, which is surrounded by the Hudson River, not the Atlantic Ocean, so this really doesn't make sense.
THE PERFECT STORM (2000)
Target of destruction: George Clooney's commercial fishing boat
Wave size: Bigger than Clooney's ego at the 2006 Oscars
Notable occurrence: The boat does a backflip.
THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW (2004)
Target of destruction: New York City (again)
Wave size: Okay, this one is pretty scary.
Notable occurrence: This film was meant to be a warning about the perils of climate change. Not much has changed since its release 10 years ago.
POSEIDON (2006)
Target of destruction: A luxury cruise liner (duh)
Wave size: Slightly bigger than said luxury cruise liner
Notable occurrence: Nobody actually saw this movie, so...
2012 (2009)
Target of destruction: A house on a cliff
Wave size: Majestic
Notable occurrence: This is very peaceful to watch.
SHARKNADO (2013)
Target of destruction: Santa Monica Pier
Wave size: Pretty rad
Notable occurrence: The camera is so shaky you can barely tell what's going on.
INTERSTELLAR (2014)
Target of destruction: McConnaissance
Wave size: Alright, alright, alright.
Notable occurrence: Did anybody understand the science here?
NOAH (2014)
Target of destruction: Russell Crowe's body of work
Wave size: Biblical
Notable occurrence: Christian Bale turned down this role to play Moses in Exodus, which has a bigger wave.
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