Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even back then, Clark Gable wouldn't have touched this script with a ten- foot swizzle stick. Nor can Cruise find much to dine on here; the film is a 100-minute canape. Maybe it was meant to be a Bright Lights, Big City with a happy ending, and with booze instead of dope as the recreational drug of choice. Bryan Brown, who plays Cruise's misanthropic mentor, does eventually go the way of all flash: he can cope with everything but success. But if there is a moral here, it is lost in the film's desperate dash...
...first few scenes are klutzy; Romero has never been the subtlest director of actors. But once he gets past the early exposition, he takes energized control of the subject (his script is based on Michael Stewart's novel) and gets a tough-minded turn from Beghe, his soap opera-handsome young star. Beghe must show all Allan's suicidal anxieties, homicidal anger and heroic resourcefulness while strapped in a wheelchair. His finger can hardly move, but his performance does, splendidly...
...regular there for a while," said Richard Broadman, who will be writing the script and editing the film. "And I was always impressed. Their primary concern has never been money. And you can't say that about many clubs in the Boston area...
...planned to produce it in 1983 but backed away, fearing pressure from Fundamentalists. When Universal undertook the project, it hired born-again Marketers Tim Penland and the Rev. Larry Poland to help allay concern about the film among their fellow conservative Christians. The pair marked 80 out of 120 script pages where they thought dialogue or action would be unacceptable, then resigned, they say, after concluding that Universal would not respond to their objections and had used them only to head off protests...
That is basically what John McClane (Willis) becomes in Die Hard, though he too is introduced as a cop out of water. The script, by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza, has McClane, a New York City detective, going to the Los Angeles office Christmas party of his estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia) in hopes of a reconciliation. Because the bash is taking place on a high floor of a high- rise, the revelers are easily sealed off from outside aid by an invading terrorist gang. The thugs miss McClane, who is in the john when they strike...