Broken Arrow (1996 film)
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| Directed by | John Woo |
| Written by | Graham Yost |
| Starring | Christian Slater John Travolta Samantha Mathis |
| Music by | Hans Zimmer |
| Release date(s) | 9th February 1996 |
| Running time | 108 mins |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $55 million (Estimated) |
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Broken Arrow is a 1996 American action motion picture starring Christian Slater as Captain Riley Hale and John Travolta as Major Vic Deakins.
The screenplay was written by Graham Yost and was directed by John Woo. Broken Arrow was released on Friday, February 9, 1996 and although it was disappointing to die-hard fans of the director John Woo's other films, it was modestly successful.
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[edit] Plot
In it Deakins and a terrorist group try to steal two nuclear bombs. The nuclear weapons are loaded on an experimental stealth bomber, called the B-3 (which appears to be an evolved development of the B-2 bomber, but with a revised planform and engine inlets). During the test flight, Deakins attempts to kill Hale, jettison the bombs, and crash-land the plane in order to effect the hijacking of the weapons. The rest of the film focuses on Hale's attempts to stop Deakins and the terrorists, assisted by a female park ranger (played by Samantha Mathis).
[edit] Trivia
- Second of a trilogy of films produced by Mark Gordon and written by Graham Yost. The others are Speed and Hard Rain.
- According to an interview with Premiere magazine, the original screenplay took place largely at night. Graham Yost was urged to change this as the film would have cost $150 million and if a member of the crew had fallen into a valley, he wouldn't have been found until morning.
- Terminator 2 writer William Wisher did an uncredited rewrite of the script.
- Halle Berry auditioned for the role of Terry Carmichael, but was turned down by the producers who told her that there are no black park rangers. In an interview with Michael Parkinson for the BBC, Berry recalled her anger and asked how the producers knew there were no black park rangers.
- The name of Harry Knowles' website "Ain't it Cool News" is derived from a line in this film.
- Gene Siskel, after his televised "Thumbs Up" review of Broken Arrow for Siskel and Ebert, decided that he agreed with the negative "Thumbs Down" assessment presented by his co-host, Roger Ebert, and declared that he was changing his evaluation to a "Thumbs Down." This is the only time Siskel did such an about-face on the program, changing his assessment of a film immediately after reviewing it.
- During the scene in which the Helicopter destroys the Park Ranger Truck there is an error in the movie, the gunshots from the helicopter come from the side of the truck, however during the explosion shot of the truck the bullet holes go up the front of the truck towards the back.
- A factual error is found in the film's name itself. In official United States military nuclear incident terminology, a PINNACLE - BROKEN ARROW is "an accidental event involving nuclear weapons or nuclear components but does not create the risk of nuclear war". The actual term for "the seizure, theft, or loss of a nuclear weapon or nuclear component" is PINNACLE - EMPTY QUIVER. However, when the term is used within the film it has not yet been established that the weapons are stolen, and it is assumed that the crash was due to pilot error.
[edit] Box office
Broken Arrow had a domestic gross of US$ 70,770,147 and an international gross of $79,500,000, for a total worldwide gross of $150,270,147[1]. Therefore, it made a significant profit.
[edit] Memorable lines
- Riley Hale: You're out of your mind!
Vic Deakins: Yeah. Ain't it cool?! - Riley Hale: No I'm serious Deakins, your mind has taken a walk off the map.
Vic Deakins: Maybe, but I'm still gonna kick your ass. - Vic Deakins:(Through clenched teeth) Would you mind not shooting at the Thermo-Nuclear weapon?!
- Vic Deakins:(Later) How many times do I have to tell you? Please don't shoot the nuclear weapons!
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