The Fugitive (film): Difference between revisions
m
→top: clean up, replaced: Pieta Plagiarism → Pietà Plagiarism
No edit summary |
m (→top: clean up, replaced: Pieta Plagiarism → Pietà Plagiarism) |
||
Line 19:
* [[Artificial Limbs]]: Sykes has a prosthetic arm.
* [[Beardless Protection Program]]: Kimble shaves off his beard immediately after escaping to disguise himself.
** An early draft of the script inverts this
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]:
** At one point Gerard says "andiamo, bambini." Which is Italian for "Let's go, kids."
Line 44:
* [[Hey, Wait!]]: Kimble, disguised in hospital clothing, walks past an Illinois State Police trooper sent to the local hospital to be on the lookout for him, holding his wanted poster. Just when he thinks he's safe, the cop calls to him... only to gesture to him that his fly is down.
* [[Hidden in Plain Sight]]: When the Illinois State Police trooper thinks Kimble's a doctor and asks him if he's seen someone with Kimble's description, he says "[[Sarcastic Confession|Every time I look in the mirror, pal--except the beard, of course.]]" Sounds risky, but it might have been more suspicious if he didn't acknowledge it. Then there's the [[Hey, Wait!]] moment above.
* [[Inconvenient Hippocratic Oath]]: Kimble sneaks into a hospital [[Janitor Impersonation Infiltration|disguised as a janitor]], but takes the time to correct the diagnosis for a child admitted from a bus accident, saving his life. Inconvenient, considering that it almost gets him
* [[Inspector Javert]]: Samuel Gerard. It's his job to bring back Kimble; the truth of Kimble's conviction is not his business. The chase through the storm drains is also a pretty blatant reference to ''[[Les Misérables]]'', which has a similar scene towards the end of the book.
{{quote|'''Kimble:''' ''I didn't kill my wife!''
Line 56:
* [[The Lost Lenore]]: His wife's murder sets the events of the film in motion, and Kimble is clearly haunted by it right until the very end.
* [[Mad Doctor]]: The pharmacists behind a damaging anti-cholesterol pill.
* [[Manly Tears]]: Kimble sheds plenty of these, most notably as he [[
* [[Marquee Alter Ego]]: At the beginning of the movie Kimble has a beard. As part of Kimble's attempt to disguise himself, he shaves off the beard and looks more like the Harrison Ford that audiences are accustomed to.
* [[Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot]]: Murder of Kimble's wife -> {{spoiler|drug company conspiracy to market a deadly medical drug to an unknowing public.}}
* [[Miscarriage of Justice]]: Kimble's conviction.
* [[The Mountains of Illinois]]: When Kimble steals the ambulance and gets chased to the dam, we see a pretty literal depiction of this trope (most of the film's location shooting was done in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina; the train wreck set is still there on the scenic railroad; a sign for Murphy, North Carolina can be seen during the car chase leading up to the dam).
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble. Not just in looks, but in
* [[No One Could Survive That]]: Gerard's colleagues initially insist that the waterfall jump killed Kimble, but Gerard is [[Genre Savvy]] enough to assume otherwise.
* [[One-Dimensional Thinking]]: When Kimble sees the train that's come off the tracks heading for him. Also an [[Oh Crap]] moment.
Line 90:
** There's also the moment where Kimble, a ''convicted and wanted felon'' (even if he is innocent), manages to temporarily gain a headway by sticking some cops on Gerard, a ''U.S. Marshal'', by warning them about "a man in a blue topcoat waving a gun and screaming".
* [[Rewind, Replay, Repeat]]: While Gerard and his subordinates are listening to Kimble's phone call to his lawyer, Gerard asks for part of it to be enhanced and repeated so they can hear it clearly. They eventually use it to find a hidden "Next stop, Merchandise Mart" train announcement in the message and determine that Kimble is actually in Chicago.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: During the final minutes of the film, after Kimble has discovered {{spoiler|Dr. Nichols' duplicity}} and sets out to find him, so angry that he doesn't give a second thought to the fact that he's out in public where someone
* [[Rooftop Confrontation]]: Gerard hounds his quarry (along with Dr. Nichols) onto the convention center
* [[Sarcastic Confession]]. Both Kimble and Sykes have their moment. See "[[Hidden in Plain Sight]]" for Kimble's. Sykes gets one while being interviewed by Gerard who asks him if Kimble would have any reason to be after him. Sykes says, "Hell yeah! I have a prosthetic arm! That means I murdered his wife!"
* [[Scary Black Man]]: Copeland, the only other convict who survives the train wreck with Kimble. That scene where he holds Newman hostage with a gun while screaming is proof of this. Originally, the script actually had Copeland holding a knife to Newman's throat instead of Newman's own weapon, but still ended with Gerard shooting Copeland at point-blank range.
Line 109:
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: Kimble's leap from the dam. Director Andrew Davis described this as "his baptism. That's the moment he becomes 'The Fugitive'".
* [[The Windy City]] provides most of the action of the second half of the story.
* [[Wrongful Accusation Insurance]]: Dr. Kimble commits multiple crimes in the course of proving that he didn't murder his wife, beginning with his original escape from custody, which is illegal whether or not you are innocent of the crime you are accused or convicted of. Notably, however, the film ends with him in the custody of the [[US Marshal
** It's almost guaranteed he would not be charged with anything. The Chicago District Attorney and the local police would be already hard-pressed to explain why an innocent man was convicted of murder and was essentially forced to find the real killer himself. On top of it, as the real killer is a former Chicago cop, the CPD would already be looking like they framed Kimble to cover for one of their own. The only way they could make themselves look worse would be to charge Kimble with anything else.
*** And clearly, even if Kimble were convicted of some of these things, it still beats the lethal injection he was otherwise facing.
| |||