Shoot the Hostage, Jack! (Read 1152 times)

Flapp_Jackson

Shoot the Hostage, Jack!
« on: April 01, 2025, 01:24:33 AM »
It's déjà vu all over again!

It's like the same writers worked on both the movie Speed and the series 24, or at least the first season.

Main Characters:

Speed - Keanu Reeves as Jack Traven
24 - Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer

I'll see your pair of Jacks and raise you a villain:

Speed - Dennis Hopper as Howard Payne (bomber):
Payne takes Jack's partner, Harry, hostage.  Jack shoots Harry in the leg which was decided during a discussion they had earlier.

24 - Dennis Hopper as Victor Drazen (Serbian war criminal):
Jack takes the daughter of Drazen's friend hostage to try and escape from being held hostage himself.  Drazen (Hopper) shoots the daughter in the head.

The fact that Dennis Hopper was in both "shoot the hostage" scenes made me smile.   :geekdanc: :rofl: :popcorn:
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Flapp_Jackson

Re: Shoot the Hostage, Jack!
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2025, 10:53:25 AM »
Another similarity:

Jack winds up killing Dennis Hopper in both Speed and 24.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw