Swordfish (film)

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Swordfish

Movie poster for Swordfish
Directed by Dominic Sena
Written by Skip Woods
Starring Hugh Jackman,
John Travolta,
Halle Berry,
Don Cheadle
Release date(s) 2001
Running time 99 min
Language English
IMDb profile

Swordfish (sometimes referred to as Password: Swordfish or Operation: Swordfish) is a cyberpunk-action/thriller film released in 2001. It was directed by Dominic Sena and stars Hugh Jackman, John Travolta, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, and Vinnie Jones.

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[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Stanley Jobson is a former computer hacker whose conviction for electronic crimes has left him forbidden from touching a computer or seeing his 10-year-old daughter, Holly .Thus, when Ginger a beautiful and alluring woman, suddenly shows up and offers him a job hacking into government computers for her boss, Gabriel Shear Stanley is torn. While he needs the money to fight his ex-wife in the courts over custody of Holly, he knows that if he's caught in his old ways, he may be put away for good. Despite that possible ramification, the amount of money offered to him is to enticing and so he joins Gabriel's team that includes Ginger, Marco a tough henchman, and others including U.S. Senator Reisman who's somehow involved with them. As Stanley sets out to hack into a government computer system to help the terrorism-based spy steal billions of dollars to fund his own brand of patriotism, the computer hacker must not only deal with Gabriel's lethal behavior and suspicious nature, but also Agent Roberts the government field agent who previously arrested him and would love to capture both him and Gabriel.


[edit] Trivia

  • A lingering topless scene featuring Berry was highly controversial because rumors persist that, in the midst of filming, Warner Brothers executives offered Berry $2m to do the scene, thinking it would boost the movie's revenue. Both Warner Brothers and Berry deny this; however, the nudity is not relevant to anything in the plot. Berry has said that they paid her $250,000 to expose each breast. She did the topless scene as practice in order to get emotionally ready for the much more explicit sex scene in Monster's Ball.
  • Hacker lingo is used throughout the film. At one point, Jackman claims to have "dropped a logic bomb through the trap door."
  • Jackman's character works at a bank of computers that in one scene features a variation of the Matrix source code used in the 1999 film The Matrix. Film producer Joel Silver was also involved in the Matrix series.
  • A copy of Neuromancer is on his daughter's bedroom floor.
  • Whilst originally believed that a Finn named Axl Torvalds (Rudolf Martin) appears early in the film, a pun on the Linux godfather Linus Torvalds. It has now transpired that the name is actually a reference to Guns and Roses frontman Axl Rose.[citation needed]
  • The Finn Axl Torvalds speaks in the hearing scene not Finnish but German. Additionally, he shows at the passport control not a Finnish passport, but a German one. (But in the German version of the film he really speaks Finnish)
  • The title comes from the 1932 Marx Brothers movie, Horse Feathers, in which Groucho and Chico Marx perform an elaborate routine involving the word to get into a speakeasy.
  • Jackman and Berry originally worked together in 2000's X-Men. Vinnie Jones joined them in X-Men 3: The Last Stand in 2006.
  • Travolta drove a TVR Tuscan in the movie. The car has British number plates and is in a typical British configuration (right hand drive). The 'W' at the beginning of the license plate/ number plate indicates that the car was first purchased between March and July 2000. These details confused many North American viewers and also Jackman's character who stated 'I can't drive this' when told to by Travolta's character.
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[edit] Tagline

  • "Log on. Hack in. Go anywhere. Steal everything."
  • "Password Accepted."

[edit] Soundtrack

The OST of the movie was created by Paul Oakenfold under Village Roadshow and Warner Bros The tracks are the following:

  • 01.Paul Oakenfold - Swordfish (Intro)
  • 02.Dope Smugglaz - The Word (PMT Remix)
  • 03.Jan Johnston - Unafraid (Paul Oakenfold Mix)
  • 04.Paul Oakenfold & Christopher Young - Dark Machine
  • 05.Muse - New Born (Paul Oakenfold Mix)
  • 06.Paul Oakenfold & Christopher Young - Chase
  • 07.Paul Oakenfold - Harry Houdini
  • 08.Lemon Jelly - Kneel Before Your God
  • 09.NERD Feat. Lee Harvey & Vita - Lapdance (Paul Oakenfold Swordfish Mix)
  • 10.Paul Oakenfold - Speed
  • 11.Paul Oakenfold Vs Africa Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock (Swordfish Mix)
  • 12.Paul Oakenfold - Stanley's Theme
  • 13.Paul Oakenfold - Password
  • 14.Patient Saints - On Your Mind (Omaha Mix)
  • 15.Paul Oakenfold & Amoebassassin - Get Out Of My Life Now

[edit] External links

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