Hostage is a 2005 thriller film with Bruce Willis that was directed by Florent Emilio Siri. The film was based on a novel by Robert Crais, and was adapted for the screen by Doug Richardson.
The film's plot is roughly the same as the novel; the main difference is that a complicated subplot involving the Mafia was removed and the ages of the first group of hostage-takers was lowered slightly. In the novel, Smith's employer is Sonny Benza, a crime overlord whose influence reaches throughout the entire West Coast.
Former SWAT officer Jeff Talley is a hostage negotiator in Los Angeles. Talley is negotiating with a man who has taken his wife and son hostage after learning she has been cheating on him. Talley denies a SWAT commander's request to give snipers the green light to take out the suspect. There are three gunshots in the house. Talley runs through the barricaded door and finds the man and his wife dead. In the boy's room he finds the son, who passes away in Talley's arms. This leaves Talley emotionally scarred. He moves with his family to become police chief in Bristo Camino, a peaceful suburban hamlet in Ventura County, California.
You can't speak, you can't sleep.
You daren't move, you're confused.
You never talk, you can't walk.
You can't feel, you're not real.
If I open my eyes, just far enough,
I can see what you're doing.
Go on, fight to the end, it's tough enough
When you're on the road to ruin. Yeah!
[ Chorus ]
You're a hostage of the heart,
Twisted 'round the smallest finger.
Two burning eyes are tearing you apart,
Turn your soul into a cinder.
There's no rest, you're possessed.
You can't leave, you can't breathe.
The door slams, your head hangs.
You blank stare, you don't care.
If you open your eyes just far enough,
You see the street lamps flicker.
Go on, fight to the end, it's tough enough
When you know the end is bitter.
[ Repeat Chorus ]
You're number's up, you're eyes shut.
You're on the brink, you can't think.
You wanna run, but you're stunned.
You can't lie, you don't try.
If I open my eyes, look hard enough,
I see the blue light flashes.
Go on, fight to the end, it's tough enough,
Riding on the road to ashes.
[ Repeat Chorus ]
[ Repeat Chorus ]
I'm a hostage of your heart,
You can twist me 'round your finger.
Your burning eyes are tearing me apart.
Turn my soul into a cinder.
Boy, boy, hostage of your heart.
fuck it all, don't wanna be free. i wanna break outta reality. humanity has given me a reason to despise a life of which i'm captive. i've seen with open eyes. and while we bang the bars inside the prison we've created, we never noticed we've already been annihilated.
Swell and swallow
Licked by gray tongues of insatiable and greedy wolves
There is no famine, no drought, nor dearth
Many lifetimes away from sincerity,
from commitment, from honesty
And yet the wolves still feed and fatten us for abolishment
Covet the seeping fumes as all skull content ferments
Look yourself in the eye and suck it in
Suck it in, suck it in
Spit it out into the green grasses
while they still remain that way
Bloodied blemishes in the comatose
Earth where your cancer abandoned its host
Rest and ferment, Three degrees from a zombie
A trillion thoughts from a solution
All I can seem to do is sleep and
dream of a world in technicolor-green
No better than a limbless blind man
More useless than a ball-gagged scream
Indefinite journeys toward a revolution
that will char the soils back to tranquility
[*phone rings*]
[Pharrell] Hello?
[Terrar] Yo Pharrell, get the fuck up
Get the fuck up right now
[Pharrell] Huh?
[Terrar] Yo, it's your day date and we go this nigga tied down, right now
[Pharrell] Yo, wait til' I get there
[Malice] Dawg, you ain't gonna make it out of here bitch
Fuck what you thinkin' nigga?
Hold him up yo, ya'll ready to do this nigga
Why not, I got his ass, I got his ass
[Verse - Malice]
You don't really want none of this though
I let 'em know from the get go
See ya'll is a bit slow
Tryin' come wit the hits but they missed though
Retaliate make 'em drop like a six fo'
Why you hate 'cause I didn't give a shoutout
Or the way that my shine turn the spot out
You think you can rhyme but you not out
Or the way we drop the top when it's hot out
Anyone you can pick and choose
Why ya'll stagnant, my niggaz stick and move
My name say it all, ain't got shit to prove
My whole mental ain't shit to lose
You all niggaz snooze if you wanna
But you gonna be a gonna, please forgive me, your honor
But that fool tried to take what's mine
That's the reason I had to utilize my nine
Otherwise, you can be right here now
Talkin' bout how the Clipse don' bit his style (style)
Back in the day how we did him foul (foul)
Or how we don' switched, how you like me now?
And anything else that them haters may say
Come how you want, just bring it the right way
Mayday, what they gon say
Coming to they hood, the Clipse and Tammy
[Chorus - Tammy Lucas]
Mother fucker what you here for?
Now you wonder why I gotta the chrome four to your ear for
Fuel is running, fuel is coming
Fuel is running
Down, down, down my face
The line, the line
The line is drawn in the sand
It won't be long
We have to be strong
Before they drop
The final bomb
Before they drop
The final bomb
Human target identified
Neurotic psychotic
Mutated spies
Human target identified
Neurotic psychotic
Mutated spies
We've got to make a stand
We've got to kill the man
Tonight is when we go
Tonight is when things blow
Full throttle ahead
I think we're already dead
The night is here, I feel clear
I don't feel my head
Human target identified
Neurotic psychotic
Mutated spies
Human target identified
Neurotic psychotic
Mutated spies
Fuel, fuel, fuel
Fuel, fuel, fuel, fuel
Down, down, down my face
Down, down
Human target identified
Neurotic psychotic
Mutated spies
Human target identified
Neurotic psychotic
Mutated spies
Sabotage the system
Sabotage the system
Fuel is running down my face
This might hurt
Come back to earth, come back to earth
We don't mean to drag you down
Thin air, slingshot
You always find somewhere to wander off
When I need you around
So you went to the last song and
You say it was your only friend
But I won't hold you hostage
And I won't set you free
I'll always leave the lights on
And you'll return to me
Please don't lose the keys
I won't hold you hostage
I won't hold you
Pain will cease
All things will pass
And this is gonna pass, pass
I'm just trying to keep you calm
Oh and the fates
Of all your dreams they might soon slip away
And miss you when they're gone
And we waited for the cab outside
I offer you a place to hide
But I won't hold you hostage
Courtesy of
And I won't set you free
I'll always leave the lights on
And you'll return to me
Please don't lose the keys
I won't hold you hostage
Please don't lose the keys
I won't hold you hostage
This might hurt
Come back to earth, come back to earth yeah
I won't hold you hostage
And I won't set you free
I'll always leave the lights on
And you'll return to me
No I don't want your ransom
Just say you'll never leave
Just say you'll never leave
I'll always leave the lights on
And you'll return to me
Please don't lose the keys
I won't hold you hostage
Please don't lose the keys
I won't hold you hostage
Please don't lose the keys
I won't hold you hostage
It's alright to hate me
I don't mind if you leave
But it's not alright for you to say you love me
And this time
I've finally had enough
Cause I've tried
I should've given up
Now I'm just another casualty
Take what you want
Just let me go
Take what you need
And leave me alone
I don't wanna be the hostage anymore
We both know how it ends and been there before
I don't wanna be the victim of this pointless game
Cause over and over it's always the same
I don't wanna be the hostage
Hostage
Damage that we've done
Has left me so numb
I'm a prisoner to your manipulation
And I don't care now
Whatever I have to do
To find a way out
To escape from you
And all you've put me through
Take what you want
Just let me go
Take what you need
And leave me alone
I don't wanna be the hostage anymore
We both know how it ends and been there before
I don't wanna be the victim of this pointless game
Cause over and over it's always the same
And I can't believe
That I could be so blind
And let this happen to me
And I failed to see
The warning signs
Telling me what I should have known
Please just let me go
I don't wanna be the hostage anymore
We both know how it ends and been there before
I don't wanna be the victim of this pointless game
Cause over and over it's always the same
I don't wanna be the hostage
I don't wanna be just another victim
I'm not your hostage
Hostage
Falling up a flight of stairs.
What went wrong where?
There's a room around a man
His eyes are gleaming, his arms around me.
One hand in my hari, the other on a gun, and you look scared.
"Back off or someone'll die, Back off or someone'll die"
"Back off or someone'll die, Back off or someone'll die"
He has me by the hair
He drags me down the hall
I'm falling up a flight of stairs
You never run away
Oh to be you
"Back off or someone'll die, Back off or someone'll die"
He's a pretty little girl
he's my father
And talking him down is like making it rain
and oh I'm dry
When all I've got is hurt or hurtful
I don't feel like sharing
It doesn't mean that I don't care
You never run away
Oh i can run away,
I run away real good.
Maybe I should have when i had the strength
A winner never stuck with anything he couldn't do
What is my way to heaven?
"Back off or someone'll die"
You never run away
"Back off or someone'll die"
I must have looked the other way
Never saw you come in today
haunting.
And I’m wanting
Something is screaming from your skin
it’s looking for companion.
You talk to me as if you want to free me.
But I want to hold you hostage.
I want to keep you for ransom tonight.
No matter what the cost is,
I’m never letting you get away
Her name is singing from the quire
Watching your breath,
I’m getting highly drawn to you
As we play this prelude.
And I’ll never make it out alive
unless I find a place to hide inside you, love.
Looking for a cover.
But I want to hold you hostage.
I want to keep you for ransom tonight.
No matter what the cost is,
I’m never letting you get away.
But I want to hold you hostage.
I want to keep you for ransom tonight.
No matter what the cost is,
I’m never letting you get away.
Away.
Never letting you get away.
Away.
I want to hold you hostage.
I want to keep you for ransom tonight.
No matter what the cost is,
Surrendering my heart
I'm surrendering my heart
One step at a time
Help me be the desperate
Help me be the loving
Destroy this feeling of being alone
Of being alone
My flesh is weak and my spirit is strong
My spirit is strong with you
I'll fix my eyes
"By the grace of God"
I won't get caught in this chaos
Where waves are like giants
"That can sink this ship"
Without you there holding me firm
Break
Break my heart
Take all of me
Break, break my heart
Take all of me
My mind is everywhere and I'm praying for your guidance
Adrenaline is the only thing
Keeping me focused
I've been turned around
So many times
You've calmed this storm
Now I can reach the shore
It is well with my soul
My heart it surrenders
It's been a long time since the two of us were joined up as one
We had some good times for a few years we forgot to have fun
Though splitting up was never what either of us intended
Now that's all past we're big and brave enough to try and be friends
Dinner at your house
We sit around and have a drink, catch up on people we know
Although it's awkward I appreciate you having a go
After a while your partner ducks out for a smoke and then he says
I'm tired excuse me if I stretch out on the sofa to rest
Dinner at your house
You have a weary look on you face
As if you're not in the right place
Happy? You say so
I would guess not though
It gives no pleasure to see
You look just like a hostage to me
He's fast asleep the TV's droning on about something boring
You flinch when he shouts to be quiet and then returns to his snoring
You look embarrassed, whisper sorry as we clear away the dishes
A glimpse I wish I hadn't seen how your relationship is
Dinner at your house
You have a weary look on you face
As if you've ended up in the wrong place
Happy? You say so
I would guess not though
It gives no pleasure to see
You look just like a hostage to me
Happy? You say so
I would guess not though
It gives no pleasure to see
You look just like a hostage to me
If he loses his temper
That easily
There's two good reasons
This hostage that I used to keep
Still loiters by the side of me
She's looking up into my eyes
Forgive what I'm about to do
It's the only way to get me through
I only want to sleep at night
How long do I
Have to hold you
Under water
Before you breathe in?
Call me all names under the sun
Wind blows away your every verb
Please don't make this harder for me
Your struggling only makes it worse
This can't be good for me
It's a sign to let her leave
This doesn't feel right at all
Too long have I realised
How far I've taken my disguise
I only want to know the truth
How long do I
Have to hold you
Under water
Before you breathe in?
Call me all names under the sun
Wind blows away your every verb
Please don't make this harder for me
Your struggling only makes it worse
Goodness
It flows through my veins
I'm pushing down on your face
Fingertips
They feel the rain again
And wash away the cherry stains
When it's on you walk away (Face down)
Until your body leaves me (Go now)
So hard to say goodbye (Leave)
This is goodnight
Call me all names under the sun
Wind blows away your every verb
Please don't make this harder for me
Your struggling only makes it worse
Goodness
It flows through my veins
I'm pushing down on your face
Fingertips
They feel the rain again
The people here are crazy
They're trying to bring me down
But I can't let them faze me
I will not leave this town
They're trying to get in here
But they don't have a key
The windows and the walls here
Are big enough and thick enough
To keep them from me
Come inside and set you free
Taking you hostage
Was easy in my dreams
But now that you've lost it
It's harder than it seems
Take me away
The night before the morning after
Is always darker than it seems
You recognize the patterns
But you don't know what they mean
And if I had a handle on you
I'd carry you from here
And if I had a handle I would
Turn back the gears
Give myself another year
Taking you hostage
Was easy in my dreams
But now that you've lost it
It's harder than it seems
Take me away
I'm going to make you pay
For what you took away
You kicked away the chair
You broke me on a dare
And it's not fair, but no one cares
Tell me I'm the only one
Tell me you're still having fun
And tell me that the world is going to end