One evening in 1993, James Cameron was sitting in front of the fire thinking about life.
He plans to make a movie called Spider-Man, but there are many difficulties in completing it.
In hesitation, the doorbell rang.
Arnold Schwarzenegger walked in excitedly, with a stack of scripts in his hand.
The two of them are very familiar, and Terminator 2 is their masterpiece.
"This script is amazing! Look. ”
Arnold Schwarzenegger pointed to the name of the script cover— "True Lies."
It was the first time Cameron had seen Arnold so excited.
He opened the script, and after reading it for an hour, Cameron was shocked too.
Then he smoked a cigar by the window, abandoned the idea of shooting "Spider-Man", and decided to shoot "True Lies".
It's a landmark action movie.
The story is simple, Arnold is an American agent. He carried out one incredible task after another.
He also has two other identities, husband and father.
He concealed the identities of his wife and daughter's own "agents."
For mother and daughter, Arnold was nothing more than a sales officer for the company.
The wife feels that life is boring and craves excitement.
Once, she was tricked by a man who lied about being a spy and tricked her into going on a mission to a hotel.
This happened to be known to Arnold.
Arnold will make up his mind and let his wife dance in the guest room.
In this classic dance scene, the wife accidentally falls down clutching a pillar.
This scene is really an "accidental" fall.
If you watch the movie carefully, you will find that Arnold had a "want to go forward to save" action at that time.
The director thought this scene was interesting, so he saved it in the movie.
The bad guy later caught his wife in a car, the driver died accidentally, the dead foot stepped on the accelerator, and the car sped away on a bridge.
Not far away, the bridge was blown open by a bomb and there was a fault gap.
This was taken in a dangerous situation.
The scene of the blow-up bridge is on the famous "7-mile bridge" in the United States.
The bridge is 6.79 miles long and is an old bridge.
Overwhelmed by hurricanes in his early years, he was long out of use.
There was originally a gap in the center of the bridge, which was to allow ships that exceeded the height of the bridge to pass directly, saving the need to rebuild the suspension bridge.
After filming, the crew rebuilt the bridge.
It is worth mentioning that Arno grabbed his wife from the helicopter.
The shot of the wife flying above the water is not done by a stand-in, and it is indeed the wife (curtis) who hangs under the helicopter.
After learning the identity of Agent Arnold, the wife shouted from the bottom of her heart, "I am married to Rambo."
Rambo is a character from Stallone's First Blood.
Director James Cameron was involved in the screenplay for First Blood II.
The government provided the crew with 3 Sea Harrier fighters.
The pilot's pay is paid by the crew for $2410 per hour.
In the end, the crew paid a total remuneration of more than $100,000.
The highlight is Arnold driving a fighter jet to rescue his daughter.
Arnold was filmed on a one-to-one replica fighter jet model, hoisted in mid-air by a crane.
The daughter's character grabbed a fighter jet, and she accidentally broke multiple ribs during filming the scene.
In fact, there is a bug in this scene, the bad guys use laser guns to smash the glass cabin of combat power.
This is not possible, the fighter's glass cabin is made of ultra-bulletproof glass.
However, in order not to let the camera reflect the glass reflection, and for the plot operation of the daughter holding the bracket in the back, this bug was allowed.
The villain in the play is a Middle Eastern terrorist.
After its release, the film was protested against portraying Middle Easterners as religious and murderous, and the film was banned in 54 Arab and Muslim countries.
In addition, the film has some interesting tidbits.
a. The scene in the official residence at the beginning of the film was filmed at a very low temperature.
The interior is unheated, and the actresses are wearing thin evening dresses.
The changing rooms are set up outdoors, in open-air tents, heated with kerosene lamps.
An incident in which clothes were ignited during filming.
In the end, the crew paid the extras an extra $50 more for each "freezing fee."
Arnold whistles in the bathroom is edelweiss from The Sound of Music in 1965.
c. Arnold rides a horse at the hotel. This was filmed at the famous Westin Hotel in Los Angeles.
The crew had hoped that the horse chase would pass the Lincoln Monument, but was refused.
At the same time, there is a bug in this scene, he rides through the fountain, his clothes are still dry.
d. The classic soundtrack of the couple dancing tango at the end of the movie is the Spanish dance song "One Step Away".
It is best known for its use in the movie Smell the Woman.
At the time of making this film, director James Cameron was 39 years old, Arnold Schwarzenegger was 46 years old, his wife was 35 years old, and the villain beauty was 26 years old.
The investment in the movie "True Lies" was terrifying, costing $115 million that year.
The shooting period was from August 1993 to March 1994.
On July 15, 1994, the film was released in the United States.
In total, it grossed about 120 million in the United States and about 250 million overseas.
In total, it grossed 378 million, ranking third that year. Second only to The Lion King and Forrest Gump.
In 1995, "True Lies" was released in China.
It is a real "blockbuster", the director shoots imaginative action scenes, horseback riding, airplanes, musket fire, ice lake diving...
These action scenes are still shocking and ahead of their time.
At the same time the core of the story is "true lies", the husband's love for his wife, the love lies.
The male protagonist went to the risk alone to save his wife, and flew a plane to save his daughter, what is cooler than such a husband and father?
It's a work of intense personal heroism, and the director gave the character the characteristics of "Modern Spider-Man."<
The film True Lies is positioned as an action comedy.
Each paragraph ends in comedy, the wife dances and falls, Arno drives the plane and breaks the car...
At the end, the bad guy makes a shot of the missile flying out, which makes the audience laugh and deflate.
It's a classic within a classic, even if 26 years have passed.
There are surprises every time you rewatch, and maybe that's the charm of "Governor", the charm of director James Cameron's films.
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