One day, screenwriter Graham Jost and his father, Elvie, who was once a well-known Canadian show host, were among the titans. While Jost was chatting, he suddenly talked about the movie. Old Man Elvie. Jost told his son about a movie about trains. This movie is "Violent Train", which was released in 1985.
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The film was written by Akira Kurosawa, who originally wanted to make this script the next project after "Red Beard", who knew that "Red Beard" was finished and foreign investment withdrew. No way, "Raging Train" was shelved. Until it was favored by the Americans, a director of Russian descent was hired to shoot, and it was released in the United States in 1985.
The story is about a prison where the warden deliberately targeted two inmates. The two prisoners escaped successfully under impatience. After escaping from prison, the two escaped to the train station in a desolate town and secretly boarded the train. There was an old driver and a female attendant on the train. Shortly after the train departed, the old driver suddenly had a heart attack and died. Neither the flight attendant nor the two inmates could get into the cab. The three of them tried everything they could to avoid the train crashing. At this time, the warden took a helicopter to the top of the train and entered the cab through the window to capture the two fugitives. One of the fugitives resolutely untied the front of the train and the carriage, relieving the crisis of the carriage, while he himself and the warden stayed in the locomotive and ran to the road of no return together.
Perhaps because he was older, when the elder Jost told his son about the film, he mischaracterized it as a bomb hidden in the front of the car. This piqued the interest of Graham Jost. After finding the movie "Violent Train" to watch, he was confused, there is no bomb here...
But a good idea popped up: if you put a bomb on a bus and start it when it reaches a certain speed, after starting, the speed drop will explode!
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Graham Jost was so excited that he completed the script in a short time. What he didn't know was that in 1975, there was a movie in Japan called "Shinkansen Explosion". The story is similar, it is about a bomb dropped by robbers on the Shinkansen, and if the speed is less than 80 kilometers per hour, it will explode... Crashed... But the United States crashed in Japan, who is the father, everyone understands...
Graham Jost's original script consisted of only one scene of the bus, and ended up crashing into the Hollywood sign. He brought the script to Paramount to seek investment. Paramount initially thought it was interesting and handed the script to the producer, John. McTiernan. John McTiernan is also a veteran producer. He has produced a series of classic films such as Predator and Die Hard. After seeing Graham Jost's script, he lost interest. Because Graham Jost's screenplay was entirely modeled after Die Hard. And the scene is single. John McTeachernan simply denied. Because no one wants to look inside the bus for two hours. But he still recommended Yang. morality. Bonter came to direct. Because Bonter has a lot of experience in action movies.
However, After some evaluation, Paramount decided to abandon the project. Graham Jost and director Bonter came to Fox with the script. Fox also felt that the scene was too monotonous after research. So I told the two people to add some scenes, and we invested.
Bonter suggested adding a set of elevator bomb incidents at the beginning. Because when Bonter was the director of photography in the crew of "Die Hard", he was trapped in the elevator for a long time. The elevator bomb incident can show the personality of each character. Not only does it enrich the scene, but it also reduces the amount of shooting content on the bus.
And Graham Jost also added the end of the subway showdown. After the script was given to Fox, it passed the project smoothly. After the project was established, the script was changed by a screenwriter who Graham Jost did not want to be named. Changed the script beyond recognition. Graham Jost spent another three days restoring the script and convincing Fox why he couldn't change it.
After Joss. Whedon was also called in to help revise the conversation. Because the male protagonist Keanu Reeves did not like the dialogue in the original script. Because the dialogue in the original script is full of the flavor of "Die Hard", a mouthful of witty words. Graham Jost said Joswhedon modified 98.9 percent of the conversation. After modification, the male protagonist Traven changed from a maverick, stinky fart boy with a playful mouth to a calm, witty and polite policeman. Nor is it any wonder that Keanu Reeves doesn't like that kind of conversation. Previous scripts had been shown to Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Woody Harrison and others, who had all refused. If it is not modified, Keanu Reeves will also refuse.
Jose. Another of Whedon's contributions was to whitewash the protagonist Traven's cop partner, Temple. In the original setting, he was the last villain. But if he is set as the villain, then more plot design is needed to string together the entire conspiracy, including the elevator bomb incident. This can make the movie bloated. In the end, it was decided to introduce a third person as the villain, a retired police officer.
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The setting of the heroine has also been modified. In the original setting, the heroine was set to be black or Latino. Because the initial scene was all focused on the bus, and a character who could handle the wounded was needed. So initially the heroine was set up as a nurse or nurse. Why not a doctor? Will American doctors squeeze buses?
Harry Berry
The original heroine found Harry Berry. Harry Berry refused. Because she received the live-action script of "Modern Primitive Man". I had no choice but to audition. But did not find the right one. In the end, I had to revise the script and set the heroine as a happy, happy, optimistic silly big sister. Alan was initially found. DeGeneres. But after the audition, it was found that she and Keanu Reeves did not have much chemistry and did not have a romantic feeling. (They're so weird when they can call...) Allen came out in 1997... ）
Allan
Finally found Sandra, known as the silly big sister of Hollywood. bullock.
At that time, Keanu Reeves was still a prodigal son, drinking with Johnny Depp, Revan Phoenix and others every day, clubbing, and sucking powder. The director advised him not to grow his hair long and change his image. After all, to play a neat policeman. Keanu Reeves was obedient and almost shaved his head... The image in the movie is an inch that has grown for many days.
Keanu Reeves
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The film was released on September 7, 1993. Not long after the start-up, Keanu Reeves's good brother Ravan Phoenix died of a drug overdose. This incident was a great shock to Keanu Reeves. Director Bonter said: At that time, when the work stopped, Keanu sat on the set and was very quiet. Everyone wanted to comfort him, but he seemed to wrap himself up.
In the beginning, Keanu Reeves was a little timid about the action scenes. After Revan's death, Keanu Reeves became desperate and devoted like a different person. In the scene where the bus jumps from the bus, the action double was originally arranged to complete. But in private, Keanu Reeves has been practicing on his own. When the film was actually shot, he personally played. This scared the director. Thankfully, there were no accidents.
But since Revan's death, Keanu Reeves has been out of addiction.
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Since the title of the film is "Life and Death Speed", it is certainly indispensable to the footage of the flying car. In order to shoot the shot of the car flying over the crack, the film crew prepared a number of cars and dismantled the east that could be dismantled in the car to reduce the weight. And there are no passengers, only one driver, who is hoisted up by a suspended seat belt to alleviate the bumps on the ground.
The first time I shot it, the speed was not enough, and the car was directly destroyed. During the second shooting, due to calculation errors, it was thought that the car would not fly so far, resulting in the car directly smashing a video camera. Fortunately, another camera recorded the footage of the flying car, so that the effort was not in vain. However, the shot still underwent some post-special effects processing.
The famous "Terminator of Lies" in 2009 verified that a bus with so many people could fly through such a large rift, and finally proved that if there were passengers, the car was the original counterweight, and the result was a failure.
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There is a scene where buses enter a one-way street and are surrounded by parked vehicles. The heroine Anne controlled the bus and crashed into the butts of many cars. Anne's face was full of panic at the time. In fact, when the director was shooting this set of shots, he didn't tell Sandra Bullock what she needed to shoot, but just told her to drive forward and try to avoid impact. The result was fooled. Sandra Bullock's panicked look in the film is real. Because she thought she had messed up...
At the beginning of the film, When Traven, played by Keanu Reeves, knows that there is a bomb on the bus, he runs to remind him, and slaps the door, but he does not expect to slap it down, and he smashes the glass of the door...
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After the film was released, it set off a movie-watching frenzy. The film grossed more than $350 million worldwide at a cost of $30 million. The film is so successful, the sequel is naturally on the agenda. However, Keanu Reeves directly refused after reading the script of the sequel. Because it sucks. Fox didn't believe in evil and filmed the sequel. The sequel moves the scene to the cruise ship, and the plot is similar to the first one, resulting in both box office word-of-mouth. Killed the series directly.
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