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True Lies The Overseas Highway is a 127.5-mile (205.2 km) highway carrying U.S. Route 1 (US 1) through the Florida Keys. Large parts of it were built on the former right-of-way of the Overseas Railroad, the Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway.
True Lies (1994)True Lies is a 1994 action comedy starring as Harry Tasker, a husband who has kept his life as a covert government agent secret from his wife and daughter until a mission involving the theft of a nuclear device threatens to expose his cover. The film was directed by and co-starred, and.True Lies was at the time the most expensive film ever produced, and the first with a budget exceeding $100 million (in both cases without adjusting for inflation). It was originally planned to be the first in a Bond-style lighthearted spy franchise with a 2002 release date hinted at for True Lies 2. However, Cameron cancelled all such plans after 9/11, saying he felt terrorism was no longer something to be taken lightly.The following weapons were used in the film True Lies. A Desert Eagle is seen in Tasker's shoulder holster through the X-Ray scanner. This is strange since he is seen with a in his holster in all other scenes.
Submachine Guns MAC-10While fighting their way through the Crimson Jihad camp, Harry hands Helen a he took off a terrorist. In one of the film's more humorous scenes, Helen drops the weapon down a flight of stairs causing it to go off when it hits each step, the stray rounds scoring several kills. This scene was re-created on and thoroughly debunked. Tasker fires off two MAC-10s with his arms cross-linked. This is good for keeping the guns side-by-side, but allows the shell casing to eject above the gun next to it and not bounce off of it.
Heckler & Koch HK94A3 (chopped & converted)When Tasker and several other agents capture Helen and Simon for interrogation, they are armed with chopped down and converted to full-auto fire to resemble. They are also seen in the hands of the SWAT team members escorting the news reporters to the terrorists in the skyscraper. An officer is seen to the left of the screen aiming an Ithaca 37 shotgun. The officer fleeing the crashed helicopter is armed with a.
Machine Guns M60Near the end of the film when Tasker goes to rescue his daughter Dana from the terrorists in a Marine Corps Harrier, some terrorists flying by in a helicopter fire a door mounted modified to use a brass catcher at the aircraft, and shatter the front of the cockpit's windshield while Tasker is trying to grab his daughter as she hangs from a construction crane. The M60 machine gun had the fore-end removed and the catch bag mount installed to use the brass catcher on the M60 but retained the standard butt stock and trigger group. A terrorist fires a door mounted M60 machine gun modified to use a brass catcher from a helicopter. Other Mk II Hand GrenadeAt one point in the film, Tasker uses a to kill several terrorists. For those wondering where this grenade came from, it was originally in the script that Juno put a grenade between Helen's legs, saying all she has to do is keep her legs closed, which Helen remarks is a problem Juno seems to have. When the two escape, Harry re-pinned the grenade using Helen's diamond earring for use again later.
This was cut from the film, causing this grenade's presence to appear to be a continuity error, however the scene remains in the True Lies novelization by Dewey Gram & Duane Dell'Amico. This grenade, complete with the earring in place of the pin, is prominently visible on many of the posters for the movie and on the region 2 DVD cover. The terrorist fires the FIM-92 at the Harrier jets, and inadvertently kills another terrorist with the backblast.
Note that the Stinger's gripstock changes from a real one with a mounting latch in the image above to a flat-fronted prop one here: this prop also has a diagonal bar or piston to keep the sight in position, which is not a feature of a real Stinger. It should be noted in reality, the backblast would have killed every single person in the van, or at least severely wounded them.
General Dynamics GAU-12/UWhen Tasker takes off in a Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier II jet, he uses its 25mm rotary cannon to great effect when demolishing the 23rd floor of the skyscraper, and later uses it again in his attempt to shoot down the terrorist helicopter. US Marine pilots are previously seen also using the weapon to destroy a truck being driven by Crimson Jihad terrorists on the Key Bridge.Three real, armed USMC Harrier IIs of Marine Attack Squadron 223 (VMA-223, 'Bulldogs') participated in the filming for a fee totalling $100,736: two aircraft, WP-03 and WP-16, are identifiable in the film, with the third presumably hired in case something went wrong with one of the others. In scenes where Schwarzenegger is shown flying the plane, though, it is instead a full-size fiberglass replica with no working parts aside from the acetylene-powered guns: the canopy and landing gear of this replica are spare parts from a real USMC Harrier II.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger became a bonafide action superstar in the 1980s with films like Commando, Predator, Terminator, and the Conan films. By the early 1990s, the former Mr. Olympia had established himself as a guy who could both pump iron and tickle funny bones, with box-office hits like Twins and Kindergarten Cop. But nowhere was Arnold ever as tough and funny as when James Cameron’s hit the big screen in the summer of 1994. The film turns 20 today, so let's celebrate with some fun facts about the movie.1.
The film is based on Claude Zidi’s 1991 French film comedy The original film has plenty in common with Cameron’s feature, from overall plot to small character details—for instance, the character of Simon (played in Zidi’s film by Michel Boujenah, with Bill Paxton taking on the part in Cameron’s film) is a sleazy car dealer in both films.2. There are, of course, some differences between the two features. In Zidi’s film, the bad guys are intent on blowing up a French football stadium, while Cameron’s villains set their sights on bombing downtown Miami.3. True Lies was reportedly the very first film to have a production budget that exceeded $100 million.4. Schwarzenegger on the set of the film, when a horse he was riding during one of the film’s most memorable action sequences got spooked by a camera boom and started rearing up near the edge of a very steep drop (the actor estimates it was about 90 feet to the ground). Arnold managed to slip off the horse in time, and a stunt man pulled him to safety.5.
True Lies is actually an Oscar nominee: The film’s visual effects team (John Bruno, Thomas L. Fisher, Jacques Stroweis and Patrick McClung) were nominated for an Academy Award for their work on the film.
They lost to Forrest Gump.6. In 2010, a rumor spread that Cameron was interested in developing the film into a new television series, joining another long-standing rumor that Cameron and Schwarzenegger were planning a cinematic sequel.
Neither has come to pass, and Cameron promises that he’s not working on anything new in the True Lies universe.7. The film was the top-earning R-rated new release of 1994, making $146.2 million at the domestic box office. The film edged out Speed for the honor, which made $121.2 million in U.S. Release, despite the fact that it was in theaters for an entire month longer than True Lies.8. True Lies was at the box office for just one week.
When the film hit theaters in July 1994, it bumped Forrest Gump from the top spot that the Robert Zemeckis film had earned just the week before, when it was first released in U.S. Gump was back in the top spot the following week.9. Jamie Lee Curtis refused to let a body double film the scene in which her character (Helen) is dangling off of a helicopter over the ocean. The actress did the stunt herself—and on her birthday, no less.10. Curtis didn’t just do her own stuntwork; she also brought her own wardrobe.
The bra and underwear set she during Helen’s famous striptease scene were her own.11. James Cameron’s voice makes an appearance in the film. During the car chase scene with Simon, Helen, and the helicopters, it’s Cameron who yells, 'Yeah, she's got her head in his lap, yahoo!' When Curtis tries to hide her face.12. Schwarzenegger may have been very comfortable with the action sequences, but he needed extra help in a different area—he had to take tango lessons prior to filming, to give his Harry Tasker all those smooth moves on the dance floor.13. Although Schwarzenegger was always going to play Harry, Helen could have been someone quite different. Jodie Foster was originally cast in the role, which she had to turn down when she signed on for the lead in Nell.14.
Other Hollywood starlets who were rumored for the Helen part included Rosanna Arquette, Annette Bening, Geena Davis, Madonna, Sharon Stone, Lea Thompson, Debra Winger, Kim Basinger, Joan Cusack, Melanie Griffith, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Emma Thompson.15. Three of the jets in the film are actual military fighter jets.
Producers rented out three Marine Harriers (and their pilots) from the U.S. Government for shooting. Just over $100,000, figured from a $2410 hourly rate.
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