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| Name | Speed |
|---|---|
| Caption | Theatrical poster |
| Director | Jan de Bont |
| Producer | Mark GordonIan Bryce |
| Writer | Graham YostJoss Whedon (uncredited) |
| Starring | Keanu ReevesDennis HopperSandra BullockJeff DanielsJoe MortonAlan RuckGlenn Plummer |
| Music | Mark Mancina |
| Cinematography | Andrzej Bartkowiak |
| Editing | John Wright |
| Distributor | 20th Century Fox |
| Released | |
| Runtime | 116 minutes |
| Country | |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $28 million |
| Gross | $350,448,145 |
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The next day, Jack observes as a Santa Monica Municipal Bus Lines bus explodes near him, killing the driver, who is an acquaintance of Jack's. Payne calls Jack on a nearby pay phone, revealing that he is alive and has rigged another bus to explode. Once the bus reaches 50 miles per hour, (80km/hour) the bomb will be armed. When it drops below that speed, it will explode. Payne will detonate the bus manually if anyone gets off the bus, or if the ransom is not delivered on time. The bus Payne rigs is an express bus, making an effort to stop the bus before the bomb arms futile. Jack locates the bus and jumps aboard, but the bomb has already been armed.
When Jack identifies himself as a police officer, one man draws a gun, believing Jack has come to arrest him, and accidentally shoots the driver, Sam (Hawthorne James). Another passenger, Annie Porter (Sandra Bullock), takes the wheel and is forced to desperately maneuver through the city's congested streets at all costs. Meanwhile, the police department receives their own extortion threat from Payne and responds with an escort for the bus while Jack's superior directs it from a following helicopter to the unfinished 105 freeway where a commandeered flatbed truck joins it to disembark the passengers. Jack, aware that the trailing news helicopters covering this emergency will inadvertently alert Payne, negotiates for the wounded bus driver to be evacuated from the moving bus. However, when Payne witnesses a terrified passenger named Helen trying to get off as well, he detonates a small bomb under the steps. This causes Helen to fall under the bus, where she is crushed to death beneath the wheels.
They drive to LA International Airport where they can safely maintain their speed by driving in circles on the runway and, being a restricted airspace, the police can operate without Payne seeing them in the media from the news helicopters. Jack goes under the bus on a sled in an attempt to defuse the bomb, but when the sled loses control, he tries to grab hold of the bus and accidentally ruptures the fuel tank with a screwdriver.
Harry learns that Payne was once an Atlanta bomb squad sergeant who retired after being severely injured while defusing a bomb. They manage to locate and raid Payne's retirement residence, but Payne has already rigged the house with a bomb which explodes, killing Harry and his team. When Payne gloats to Jack about Harry's death, Jack has a brief meltdown.
Once he calms down,Jack discovers that Payne is monitoring the bus with a hidden camera. Jack's colleagues loop the footage being transmitted to Payne so that the passengers can be evacuated safely to another bus. Jack and Annie are the last to evacuate, after which the bus crashes into a fully fueled cargo plane and is destroyed. The police plan to catch Payne as he picks up the ransom money but Payne discovers the looped video feed. He kidnaps Annie and straps a bomb with a pressure release detonator to her chest. Payne then escapes into the subway station, where he collects the ransom money. Jack catches Payne, ordering for Annie's release, saying that he can get away with the money. Payne refuses to let Annie go and carjacks a subway train, handcuffing Annie to one of the poles inside. Jack manages to get inside the train just as it starts moving.
Payne catches the conductor of the subway train calling the authorities and kills him. He discovers his money has been tainted when a dye pack bursts in his face. Payne gets on top of the subway car and fights with Jack until Jack lifts Payne, decapitating him with a incoming tunnel light. Jack grabs the detonator and disarms Annie's bomb. However, the train cannot be stopped, because its control panel is heavily damaged by Payne's bullets. Jack also tries to free Annie from her handcuffs but fails. Jack observes the map and discovers that the track dead ends into the construction site under Hollywood/Highland. Jack accelerates the train, intentionally derailing it. The derailed train breaks through a wall where it comes to rest on Hollywood Boulevard. When Annie realizes that Jack stayed with her rather than saving himself, she passionately kisses him as shocked pedestrians watch.
Many of the freeway scenes in the movie were filmed on California's Interstate 105 and Interstate 110, which was not officially open at the time of filming. While scouting this location, De Bont noticed big sections of road missing and told screenwriter Graham Yost to add the bus jump over the unfinished freeway to the script.
Speed was a critical and a commercial success. On the review website Rotten Tomatoes, 90% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 41 reviews, and an average rating of 7.6/10 . Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars and wrote, "Films like Speed belong to the genre I call Bruised Forearm Movies, because you're always grabbing the arm of the person sitting next to you. Done wrong, they seem like tired replays of old chase cliches. Done well, they're fun. Done as well as Speed, they generate a kind of manic exhilaration". In his review for Rolling Stone, Peter Travers wrote, "Action flicks are usually written off as a debased genre, unless, of course, they work. And Speed works like a charm. It's a reminder of how much movie escapism can still stir us when it's dished out with this kind of dazzle". Hal Hinson, in his review for The Washington Post, praised Sandra Bullock's performance: "The only performer to stand out is Sandra Bullock as Annie ... If it weren't for the smart-funny twist she gives to her lines — they're the best in the film — the air on that bus would have been stifling ... she emerges as a slightly softer version of the Linda Hamilton-Sigourney Weaver heroines: capable, independent, but still irresistibly vulnerable". In her review for The New York Times, Janet Maslin wrote, "Mr. Hopper finds nice new ways to convey crazy menace with each new role. Certainly he's the most colorful figure in a film that wastes no time on character development or personality". Entertainment Weekly gave the film an "A" rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, "It's a pleasure to be in the hands of an action filmmaker who respects the audience. De Bont's craftsmanship is so supple that even the triple ending feels justified, like the cataclysmic final stage of a Sega death match". Time'' magazine's Richard Schickel wrote, "The movie has two virtues essential to good pop thrillers. First, it plugs uncomplicatedly into lurking anxieties -- in this case the ones we brush aside when we daily surrender ourselves to mass transit in a world where the loonies are everywhere".
Entertainment Weekly magazine's Owen Gleiberman ranked Speed as the eighth best film of 1994. The magazine also ranked the film eighth on their "The Best Rock-'em, Sock-'em Movies of the Past 25 Years" list. Speed also ranks 451 on Empire magazine's 2008 list of "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time". The film was also placed at #99 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years...100 Thrills list, detailing the 100 "most heart-pounding" American movies of all time.
Speed: Songs From And Inspired By The Motion Picture
#Billy Idol - "Speed" #The Plimsouls - "A Million Miles Away" #Gin Blossoms - "Soul Deep" #Cracker - "Let's Go for a Drive" #Blues Traveler - "Go Outside and Drive" #Ric Ocasek - "Crash" #Pat Benatar - "Rescue Me" #Rod Stewart - "Hard Road" #Carnival Strippers - "Cot" #Gary Numan - "Cars ('93 Sprint Remix)" #Saint Etienne - "Like a Motorway" #Kiss - "Mr. Speed"
In addition to the above release, a separate album featuring 40 minutes of Mark Mancina's score from the film was released.
There was some hype over a third film entitled Speed 3: Ignition (with the title sometimes spelled as "Sp3ed Ignition". The film appears to be about a spaceship or a rocket. There was a website set up which contains a poster type advert for the upcoming film and nothing more . There is very little information elsewhere on the internet (including no reference on the IMDB website) which makes people believe it is a hoax . A trailer on Youtube has a comment that the film is due out in 2011, although the actual trailer states 2009. .
Currently there appears to be no such sign of any film in progress or completed.
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| Caption | John Malkovich, August 2009 |
|---|---|
| Birth name | John Gavin Malkovich |
| Birth date | December 09, 1953 |
| Birth place | Christopher, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Spouse | Glenne Headly (1982–1988) Nicoletta Peyran (1989–present) |
John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor, producer, and director. Over the last 25 years of his career, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. For his roles in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire, he received Academy Award nominations. He has also appeared in critically acclaimed films such as Empire of the Sun, The Killing Fields, Dangerous Liaisons, Con Air, Being John Malkovich, and Changeling.
In a 2008 interview on College Hour, Malkovich revealed that he has been discussing making a motion picture adaptation of the Arnon Grünberg novel The History of My Baldness.
In November 2009, Malkovich appeared in an advertisement for Nespresso with fellow actor George Clooney. He portrayed Quentin Turnbull in the film adaption of Jonah Hex. Malkovich was due to play the role of The Vulture in Spider-Man 4, but the project was canceled in January 2010.
Malkovich is known for his distinctive voice, which The Guardian describes as "a reedy, faintly orgasmic drawl".
In a 2002 appearance at the Cambridge Union Society, when asked whom he would most like to "fight to the death," Malkovich replied that he would "rather just shoot" journalist Robert Fisk and British MP George Galloway. Fisk reacted with outrage. When interviewed by The Observer, Malkovich elaborated on his comments: "I hate somebody who is supposed to be a Middle Eastern expert who thinks Jesus was born in Jerusalem. I hate what I consider his vile anti-semitism. This being said, I apologize to both Fisk and Galloway; they seem like good men but if they make such a heinous mistake again, I will not hesitate to murder them brutally by way of the gallows." Malkovich later added: "I'm a Christopher Hitchens fan myself, but no one has thinner skins than journalists, in my experience, and I come from a family of them... They can dish it out but they can't take it. But the reason I don't like the topic, why I don't really say anything about a whiner like Fisk, is it gives them more oxygen."
Malkovich is fluent in French and for nearly 10 years, lived and worked in a theater in southern France. He and his family left France in a dispute over taxes in 2003, In a 2008 interview on The Late Show With David Letterman, Malkovich said he had just spent five weeks that summer living in France.
Malkovich is a confirmed atheist.
In April 2005, while speaking at Illinois State, Malkovich was awarded his bachelor's degree in theatre. When attending the university as a student in the 1970s, he failed to take his last remaining graduation requirement, a test on the United States Constitution; this requirement was waived for Malkovich.
Malkovich lost millions to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme when it collapsed in 2008.
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