My Life As Jacque Cousteau
No, I'm not an oceanographer, a scientist, or an inventor. I like the water well enough, and I’m certainly not afraid of it. Boats are intriguing, the open ocean is spellbinding in all its forms, and snorkeling is okay. Nothing about the salty wet equivalent of space draws me in quite the way it did for Cousteau. On the other hand, I have my own world of fascinating mysteries I can’t wait to explore. This is the world of cinema. Herein is where our stories overlap. Truthfully, I could have used any person whose name is synonymous with their work: Walter Murch, Amelia Earhart, Ansel Adams, to name a few. Cousteau was on my mind because I began to wonder if learning more about his subjects somehow made them less desirable. Before I begin delving too far into this original question, let me lay the groundwork. First of all, I know many people who watch movies simply for the surface of pleasurable eye candy, and certainly many films go no further than this superficial layer. For me, ho