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 Update Report: Friedkin's The Hunted
By A random shemp on January 15, 2002 9:08 PM
Explosions that lit up the night skies in North Portland and low-flying F-15's in the air above the city caused quite a scare for many Portland residents Tuesday evening around 7 p.m.
People were panicking and worried that our little town of Portland was under attack. But authorities are trying to reassure people that there was no cause for concern.
Portland Police Bureau spokesman Brian Schmautz said the explosions were staged for a film crew shooting for the movie "The Hunted."
I am working for "The Hunted," below are some of my experiences leading to today's events. We are currently rehearsing the "Kosovo Scene" which is preceding the "Delta Force Scene". There are approximately 30 extras and stunt men dressed as refugees which get shot at (by AK-47s and Russian made assault rifles), chased and assaulted by 20 some K.L.A (Kosovo Liberation Army) soldiers which is expected to shoot on the 30th and 31st.
The set is one of the best sets I've seen in all my years working in the film industry. The current scene involves a whole lot of pyrotechnics and you can feel the heat from the set from a hundred some feet away. There's frequent visits from members of the Portland FBI who are monitoring the situation (security was also increased dramatically today).
Turns out the F-15's were looking for a downed and missing small plane possibly a cessna.
As far as schedule goes
P.S: William Friedkin rocks!!
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 16, 2002 3:48 AM
Who's in it? Anyone famous or is it a TV movie with actors who no ones ever heard of?
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Posted by Jack (jack@dtheatre.com) on January 16, 2002 9:01 AM
You may of heard of some of these people:
Tommy Lee Jones
Benicio Del Toro
Connie Nielsen
and William Friedkin is the director of "The French Connect", "The Exorsist" and "Rules of Engagement".
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Posted by wonko (ryan@wonko.com) on January 17, 2002 12:23 AM
That would be The French Connection and The Exorcist. What have you been smoking, Jack? :P
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'bout the downed and missing plane
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Posted by Jack (jack@dtheatre.com) on January 16, 2002 9:06 AM
Apparently the F-15's were looking for a plane (not a cessna) who's pilot made a passing threat on the ground that he was going to fly his airplane into the tallest building in Portland.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 16, 2002 11:05 AM
Wow! Reminds me of issue #24 of X-Men 2000, where our hero's Luna, Metal Head, and Blood Hawk are battling with bad guys. Of course most of you will have no ideal as to what I'm talking about, since only children and complete losers waste their time reading this stuff, but you get the ideal. By the way, here in Argentina where 1/5 of the country does not work, due to laziness, we think dtheatre is the tops.
Soccer Lover
PS Men play soccer too. Its true.
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RE: Friedkin knows action
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Posted by power-trip (powertripz@hotmail.com) on January 16, 2002 11:50 AM
Jack, didn't Del Toro break his arm during the shoot several manths back and delay production for a bit?
And let us pay homage to Friedkin who knows how to do chase scenes. The car chase in 'To live and die in LA' has yet to ever be duplicated in intensity and emotion in Hollywood to date.
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Posted by Jack (jack@dtheatre.com) on January 17, 2002 10:08 AM
Yes, "Benny" did break his wrist while filming a fight scene with "Fatty" (Tommy Lee Jones) which paused production for 4 months or so.
There is a car chase scene in "The Hunted" which is through downtown (parts at least) of Portland.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 17, 2002 4:36 PM
My buddy just bought one of the Crown Victoria's used in the filming. It's a black '96. We can't wait for the film to come out so we can see if the thing got horribly trashed!
If anybody has any info on this car, contact me willya? srobinson125@attbi.com
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 14, 2003 1:51 AM
Friedkin's knows how to compose cool chases, but his best chase scene that he directed was in THE FRENCH CONNECTION. Gene Hackman drove with art and profession. That scene was filmed in live traffic and. Everything in that scene wasnt fake, it was real.EVERYTHING
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Posted by 100% AMERICAN (hellskitchen_@hotmail.com) on January 16, 2002 1:59 PM
That was a good scene, but it cannot compare to the one in "Bullit", and there was a fantastic one in "Jade", which I think was just as good.
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Posted by power-trip (powertripz@hotmail.com) on January 16, 2002 2:58 PM
Granted, "Built" and "Jade" were great chasers, but TLDLA has this moment where Bukovich is ready to vomit and the sound just goes all muffley as Chance flashbacks to basejumping. It's just so existensial.
Friedkin also did a great job on his BMW film segment. Friedkin rocks simple as that.
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Friedkin didn't direct a BMW film...
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Posted by wonko (ryan@wonko.com) on January 17, 2002 12:22 AM
According to BMWFilms.com, William Friedkin did not direct any of the BMW Films episodes. You must be smoking the good stuff like Jack.
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Posted by power-trip (powertripz@hotmail.com) on January 17, 2002 2:27 PM
Mia culpa--I was thinking Frankenheimer. Ah well, pass the hooch Jack. You hoggin' it, again.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 17, 2002 11:42 PM
Hey whats up with that 15 yr old American kid who managed to fly a plane into that building and US national security wasnt able to stop it? I thought US security was on its guard these days. Why are Americans performing acts of terrorism against their own country? I would be sh*tting myself if I lived there and national security sucked like that.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 18, 2002 3:33 AM
The kid was just having flying leasons but since he was only 15 he couldn't qualify for a pilots license yet. when his instructor went to get something this kid took off and crashed into a building. They don't know whether it was on purpose or not.
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Posted by power-trip (powertripz@hotmail.com) on January 18, 2002 4:48 AM
Our national security is everyone's concern. If the USA sneezes the world catches cold. Like it or not, terrorists couldn't care less.
As for flying into an unoccupied building where no one else was hurt or killed...Hey, its another thing that makes this country great: Freedom of expression.
Some write stupid rants on websites while other less articulate f*ckheads crash planes into buildings.
This super cool f*ckhead prefers the stupid rants. (And writing "f*ck" lately with that snazzy "*")
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 18, 2002 7:58 AM
I'm a cop you idiot!
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 18, 2002 8:24 PM
What do you mean 'if America sneezes the world catches cold'? I dont think so. The rest of the world have enough problems to deal with other than all the crazy sh*t that goes on in America. Besides, America is the number 1 terrorist target in the world right now and I think the rest of the world wont be catching any colds. Its just sad to see these tragic incidents "consistently"happening in America.
Wasnt that kid acting on behalf of Bin Laden anyway? I thought they found a note that explained his actions as a sympathy act for Bin Laden. I guess thats something for us all to think about.
I hope this doesnt happen again, enough lives have already been lost.
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Posted by power-trip (powertripz@hotmail.com) on January 21, 2002 3:35 AM
Do not be upset my friends and responding shemps. Wear those blinders if you like, but the world's axis revolves around America. I would rather we were all more cosmopolitan but most every other country and culture either doesn't want it that way OR they poo-poo us while holding out their collective hands for our foreign aid and military support.
If you don't like it. Tough. Don't spend your time debating it with me. Demonstrate some solidarity and go write to whatever political body runs your second or third world country for God's sake and make changes from within. And quit waiting for Bono to give you some of that Jubille 2000 debt relief you wankers.
As for the "cop." I doubt it wannabe. No self-respecting professional peace officer EVER refers to himself as a cop. Go back to your Law & Order reruns or get some sleep. Your patrol shift at the mall begins in a few hours.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 22, 2002 11:36 AM
Oh yeah... the whole world is holding their hands out waiting for you to feed them. Get over yourself powertrip. The only reason America lends money to 3rd world countries is because they know they cant pay it back which means they will always be at US stranglehold and therefore always in debt. Nice way for America to keep them under their thumb and keep raising their taxes to these countries and furthering their 3rd world status. Pakistan is a perfect example of IMF misuse by your so called "Humanitarian" country. You supposedly lend money to countries like this but end up taking more in the end, but I guess you already knew that Mr "you better listen to me f*ckhead". Go live in Pakistan for a while and see how much your perfect country is raping from them or any other 3rd world nation. Yeah you guys know how to make money off other peoples misfortune and then you rub salt into their wounds. It might occur to you this is why these country's are attacking yours, but I think that might be too much for you too comprehend.
Its easy to be so full of anger and smartass remarks Powertrip, but if you step outside America you might realise that your anger doesnt mean sh*t compared to the rest of the world.
3rd world countries ask for help not for America to come and screw them up the ass. One day you may get off your powertrip and be asking for a handout yourself, then maybe some other nation will have you under their thumb. Dont forget these nations were once richer than yours, even before America existed, they only suffer now due to European and American invasions, after you have ruined so many cultures you can sit on your high horse and call them 3rd world countries?
Powertrip is a fitting alias, but I think its gone to your head.
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These pretzels are making me thirsty!
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Posted by power-trip (powertripz@hotmail.com) on January 22, 2002 11:59 AM
Temper, temper shemp. I have worked and lived outside of the greatest nation on this planet and have always prayed and counted the minutes for my return to the safety and security of this wonderful democracy.
If others aren't interested in me and my stature in these fantastic foreign locales, then why do they fawn all over me when I tell them I am American OR they will beg me to get them an H1b. (For those in America, that is a "work" visa so they can get in and "disappear" into our welfare system when they do get here.)
You need not be jealous, because as I posted previously, spend your time taking it up with your government and not me. OR is whining to me easier on the Internet that MY country so generously provided to your lazy ass. The way I see it you are so oppressed by your own country that you like to put it off on America keeping poor little you under its thumb. Please, shemp, we have better things to do and bigger fish to fry.
Power-trip is not just and alias, it is a way of life. Thanks to you and other numbskulls, you simply validate it more and more everyday.
And next time when you want to rant, have the plums to login with a username...or, I forget Jack, was Chickensh*t already taken?
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 23, 2002 1:12 AM
I am American "you know it all" and I am a cop. A criminal analyst from Seattle infact, not that I wanted to say but your ignorant ass gives me no choice. Im telling you to shut up with your uneducated bullsh*t because you are giving us Americans a bad name. And before you try to get personal and tell me I got nothing better to do, I just want to say Im on holiday and I enjoy entertainment websites.
So you want me to take it up with my Government huh? I guess going to all these countries has given you a big head but you are not the only one who get begged for handouts, it doesnt give you the right to be a self proclaiming idiot. Not all of us Americans are self righteous buffoons like you. The day you put your life on the line for your country (or should I say our politicians) then come and talk your big mouth off. But then you will probably be dead like a lot of my friends in the forces, and you will never know the full reason why.
Do you really feel safe here now? Pray for the safety and security of our country all you want but it just happens to be the worlds biggest terrorist bullseye, I would know.
What bigger fish do we have to fry by the way? You think keeping these countries under our thumb is not why we are in our economic position now? You are a moron. Do your homework.
Oh yeah, by the way, I dont need to sign in with an alias, after all its just an alias, you know Im a shemp whos talking to you, u can call me shemp, its the same as me calling you powertrip, its just an alias. If you are going to argue back, do your research and give me some educated comments.
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Posted by power-trip (powertripz@hotmail.com) on January 23, 2002 10:42 AM
Shemp, I've hit a nerve with you for some reason. Rarely have I ever spoken or written to someone as supremely defensive as yourself. Particularly with all of the boring details of your mundane little life that apparently makes no difference in anyone elses either.
The facts of this argument have now been sufficiently substantiated. In other words, the TRUTH hurts doesn't it?
I suspect your issues run deeper than your defense of your "fellow" Americans. Ask yourself this: At what point did I say all Americans feel like I do? It is my opinion based on objective observation and documented facts--not on the movies of Michael Bay which you so clearly have a burning love for.
Perhaps, shemp, you should spend some of that off time you so dearly love explaining to a therapist why mommy and daddy never loved you, instead of "investigating" the net for kiddie porn sites.
Talk about being a cop? A criminal anal-yst no less. Somebody please remind me to check the statistics. Criminals are getting away with way too much if this shemp is anywhere near representative of his fellow boys-in-blue in Seattle, or more likely, a suburb of.
Shemp, one last word to the semi-wise here, you are more cop-out than you'll ever be a cop. Try to respect the others whose rights you so handily squash everyday. And stop playing with the baton. Its uncomely for us--so to speak.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 23, 2002 8:04 PM
Aaaw shut the f*ck up Powertits. Cop shemp is right and you have been told. HAHAHAHAHA
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Posted by Skullfire (skullfire@clarinmail.com) on January 23, 2002 8:30 PM
I live in a 3rd world country, Power dude, and I concur with the cop. Sorry, but you don't realize how many sh*t the US have made all around the world. I could give you examples, if you want.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 23, 2002 10:22 PM
Way to go Skullfire. I vote you president of Dtheatre cos no Dtheatre residents know what the f*ck they are talking about.
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Posted by power-trip (powertripz@hotmail.com) on January 24, 2002 1:13 AM
I absolutely love playing you shemps! Not a single articulate one among you. I can hear the whining feedback for miles and miles.
Skully, you better re-read the thread. You actually believe the world does NOT revolve around America. If Argentina had any valuable resources that we relied upon (e.g. oil) the good ole U.S. of A. would be there in one hot minute bailing you guys out too.
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Posted by Skullfire (skullfire@clarinmail.com) on January 24, 2002 3:17 PM
Tell that to the FMI. And my spanish is better than your english.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 24, 2002 4:55 PM
Your spanish should be better knucklehead. You live in Argentina, duh.
In America, we get to break the rules of the world because we made them. The language of English is included under that pretense, silly boy!
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 24, 2002 11:35 PM
Dickhead. English is the imperial language of the british not Americans. You should be speaking latin little Yankee doodle. Not surprised you Americans think you thought up everything and you own everything, thats why the whole world hates you. Biggest rip-off artists in the world.
You even change the way you spell words, and you are the only country in the world that does it. English is english butthead
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Posted by Skullfire (skullfire@clarinmail.com) on January 25, 2002 11:47 AM
What do you expect? He didn't catch my joke, he has to explain it to me. But don't worry, someday one of their own rockets will blow the country.
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Posted by Skullfire (skullfire@clarinmail.com) on January 20, 2002 3:48 AM
Wow. It amazes me that I was not the only one who bought that comic.
But yes, there are lazy people in Argentina, and they call themselves "peronists", but no one knows dtheatre.
By the way, I challenge you to say "pussys" to all the soccer players of the US team in their faces and on national TV. You'll probably have to wear football protections.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 21, 2002 7:05 AM
Vinnie Jones wasn't a pussy.
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Posted by Skullfire (skullfire@clarinmail.com) on January 22, 2002 10:07 AM
I'm sorry, but who's that?
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 23, 2002 4:25 AM
He used to play soccer but now he's in movies. He's in all the Guy Richie films and played the big silent guy in 'Gone in 60 seconds'.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 24, 2002 5:00 AM
I heard he once ripped someones balls off.
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Posted by Skullfire (skullfire@clarinmail.com) on January 28, 2002 7:29 PM
I didn't answer quickly because of the impression.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 29, 2002 3:16 AM
You're right, that would leave quite an impression.
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Posted by Skullfire (skullfire@clarinmail.com) on January 29, 2002 12:31 PM
I wouldn't want that fate even for my worst enemy...
Maybe Osama. If he has a pair.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 30, 2002 4:22 AM
yea.
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