When Eagles Fly (1968) is one of my favorite war movies. Incidentally, it’s also Steven Spielberg’s favorite war movie. However, this classic struggled to see the light of day and the main stakeholders did not believe at all in its potential. When Clint Eastwood read the script, he found it “appalling.” He only accepted the project …
The life of spies Impossible mission Let’s start with secret agents who work together to fight against the most affected madmen. In Mission Impossible (let’s just take one part, for example the 3rd part, forget the others, yes I know I’m cheating a little 😄), they use their physical and mental abilities, as well as all kinds …
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There is indeed the case of the excellent Tom Hardy [ 1 ], who has played with a mask on his face several times (I would like to say “often” but that is far from true, although it has happened in several of his best-known films). All this may have started with Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises (2012), where he played …
The most dangerous stunt in Mad Max 2 , although full of sequences each more perilous than the last, is the final clash between the tanker truck driven by “Mad” Max and the vehicle of Lord Humungus. George Miller made the entire film with the means at hand, relying complacently on the temerity and unconsciousness of his …
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