#Speed movie movie
The cinematographer "Jan de Bont" excels in doing something many others failed in, which is filming some of the most exciting scenes in a movie for example the bus-jumping scene. "Mark Mancina" exceeds in creating some of cinema's best soundtrack. "Sandra Bullock" truly gives a stunning performance as "Annie" and her relationship between her and "Payne" occasionally has its issues but nothing too bad. "Keanu Reeves's" acting is good as usual he gives a calm performance as apposed to an angry and exciting performance. The movie's climax which takes place on a train is amazing, it works because the movie is so unpredictable and anything can happen. The action-sequences on the bus are terrific they are both intense and exciting. The scene is intense and shows how evil "Payne" is. The movie opens with the antagonist of the film "Howard Payne" portrayed by "Dennis Hopper" planting a bomb in a building. The bomber gets away but has a new plan, which is to put a bomb on a bus if the bus goes over 50 miles per hour the bomb is detonated if the bus then goes under 50 miles per hour it will explode. The plot to "Speed" is that a young police officer named "Jack Traven" portrayed by "Keanu Reeves" who stops a maniac bomber from killing 20 people in an elevator. A total of fourteen buses were used to make this movie."Speed" is another one of "Keanu Reeves's" classic 1990's action movies. Although Quentin Tarantino turned down the job of director, he has since said it is in his top favorite films released after 1992.ġ0. 35 actresses had already turned down the role.ĩ. Annie is played by Sandra Bullock but plenty of others had turned down this role first. Prior to his casting, the role was turned down by Johnny Depp, George Clooney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Cruise, Stephen Baldwin, William Baldwin, and Tom Hanks.Ĩ. Keanu Reeves wasn’t the first choice for the lead role in this movie. In ‘Die Hard’ there is a truck with ‘Pacific Courier’ on its side and in ‘Die Hard: With a Vengeance’ there is a van with ‘Atlantic Courier’.ħ. In ‘Speed’ there is the plane that is destroyed when the bus explodes and it has ‘Pacific Courier Freight’ written on its side. The movie’s production designer, Jackson De Govia has a trademark that he likes to use in his movies vehicles with a themed name. The audience thought it was great so they found extra funds to finish the subway carriage.Ħ. The producers ran out of money and used story boards for this section of the movie’s preview. A decked-out bus was also used for the scene where the subway crashes into Hollywood Boulevard. The director added it when he noticed a section of an interstate missing one day.ĥ. The bus jump scene wasn’t in the original script.
Originally, the character of Alan Ruck was written as an abrasive lawyer who dies unexpectedly but in the final version of the script, he was a tourist who was removed from the bus following a heart attack.Ĥ.
#Speed movie driver
Also, it was necessary to move the driver’s seat back 15 feet to avoid the driver being thrown from the vehicle if things went wrong.ģ. A ramp was built for the bus jump scene in the movie and the bus had to set off a mile before the ramp to reach a speed of 61 miles per hour in order to launch properly.
He is now a famous screenwriter, producer, director, composer and comic book writer.Ģ. At that time, Josh Whedon was a script doctor who was responsible for improving scripts without taking credit. Graham Yost is credited with writing the script but openly admits that Joss Whedon wrote 98.9% of the dialogue. While you have probably watched this film or at the very least know what it is about, there are many facts that people are unaware of and here are ten things you might not know about ‘Speed’.ġ. In fact, it was so successful that a sequel was made in 1997 called ‘Speed 2: Cruise Control’ (which wasn’t so successful). It was Jan de Bont’s feature film directorial debut and was a surprise commercial and critical success. The movie starred Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dennis Hopper, Alan Ruck, Jeff Daniels and Joe Morton.
It tells the story of a bus that is rigged with a bomb that will explode when the bus slows to a certain speed and an LAPD cop is trying to save the civilians on the bus. Speed is an action thriller movie that was released in 1994.
0 kommentar(er)
