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Action Movie Quiz answers
7 years ago
1) 'Die Hard" was Alan Rickman's introduction to major movie roles, just like it was Willis'. Before "Die Hard", Rickman was known mostly for his stage-work and roles in British television shows.
2) Yes indeed. Ford was sick as a dog with a stomach ailment during the scene and after a couple of failed attempts, he is reported to have told Spielberg: "I have a goddamn gun! Why don't I just shoot the fucker?" He did, of course, and it is one of the most memorable scenes in the movie.
3) Robert Shaw did the whole thing in one continuous take. The changes of angle in the scene are due to the fact Speilberg had extra cameras running. It was cut and wrap in one try.
4) The body-count on Lara Croft's guns is zero ---unless you count the bad guy who was clocked over the head with one. That's right. In the entire movie, she shot no one.
5) "The Towering Inferno" was a collaboration between Warner Bros and 20th Century Fox. Both movie companies were making high-rise fire disaster films and decided to pool their resources rather than compete. And never mind that each movie was based on a different book, "The Tower" and "The Glass Inferno". The collaboration led to a war of attrition between McQueen and Newman over who got top billing, who got more screen-time and how many lines each had.
6) In both "Lord of the Rings" and "Hidalgo", Viggo Mortensen bought his equine co-stars and installed them on his ranch. He wanted to make sure that they were well-treated and nothing bad could happen to them. (He also happened to like the horses a lot.)
2) Yes indeed. Ford was sick as a dog with a stomach ailment during the scene and after a couple of failed attempts, he is reported to have told Spielberg: "I have a goddamn gun! Why don't I just shoot the fucker?" He did, of course, and it is one of the most memorable scenes in the movie.
3) Robert Shaw did the whole thing in one continuous take. The changes of angle in the scene are due to the fact Speilberg had extra cameras running. It was cut and wrap in one try.
4) The body-count on Lara Croft's guns is zero ---unless you count the bad guy who was clocked over the head with one. That's right. In the entire movie, she shot no one.
5) "The Towering Inferno" was a collaboration between Warner Bros and 20th Century Fox. Both movie companies were making high-rise fire disaster films and decided to pool their resources rather than compete. And never mind that each movie was based on a different book, "The Tower" and "The Glass Inferno". The collaboration led to a war of attrition between McQueen and Newman over who got top billing, who got more screen-time and how many lines each had.
6) In both "Lord of the Rings" and "Hidalgo", Viggo Mortensen bought his equine co-stars and installed them on his ranch. He wanted to make sure that they were well-treated and nothing bad could happen to them. (He also happened to like the horses a lot.)
( The Koreans actually made a modern-day version of it called The Tower or Tae-wo. A crashing aircraft (blown accidentally into the tower) starts the blaze. There's an elevator full of people who are stupid enough to try and take it down past the fire; the elevator and doors jam, and they cook alive. The water tank trope makes another appearance, but this time far more realistically - it's used to blow the survivors out beneath the building into a nearby river, before the burning tower is deliberately brought down into said river to save the whole downtown area. If you're a fan of the original, you'll be a bigger fan of this one. )
It can be interpreted for people reading left to right to see McQueen billed first...or people seeing Newman billed on top higher than McQueen. Goes either way who got billed first.