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Speed is a 1994 American action film directed by Jan de Bont set in Los Angeles. It focuses on police officer Jack Traven who tries to arrest an insane bomber/extortionist. After the bomber escapes, he sets up a bomb on a city bus which Traven boards and must keep moving above 50 mph or the bomb will explode. Movie poster for Speed This is a copyrighted poster. ...
Jan de Bont (born October 22, 1943) is a Dutch cameraman and film director. ...
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Keanu Charles Reeves (pronounced in IPA: ) is an actor, born September 2, 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon, and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...
Sandra Annette Bullock (born July 26, 1964) is a German-American film actress. ...
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Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area City 1,290. ...
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Plot
Jack Traven (Keanu Reeves) and his partner Harry Temple (Jeff Daniels) are SWAT team explosives experts in Los Angeles. A retired cop, Howard Payne (Dennis Hopper), is holding a group of office workers trapped in an elevator to ransom. Traven and Temple manage to rescue the hostages before Payne sends the elevator plummeting to the basement. They find Payne in the basement , but he sets off a small explosion that knocks Traven unconscious and appears to kill Payne. Keanu Charles Reeves (pronounced in IPA: ) is an actor, born September 2, 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon, and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...
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SWAT officers SWAT (an acronym for Special Weapons and Tactics; originally Special Weapons Attack Team) is a specialized paramilitary police unit in major United States city police departments, which is trained to perform dangerous operations. ...
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Later, as Traven heads to work a city bus explodes in front of him, killing the driver with whom he had just conversed. Payne calls Traven on a nearby pay phone, revealing he is alive and that he has rigged another bus to explode. The bomb will arm itself when the bus reaches 50 mph and will detonate if the bus goes back below that speed. If anyone tries to get off the bus, it will also blow up. Traven locates the bus and jumps aboard, but the bomb has already been armed. Miles per hour is a unit of speed, expressing the number of international miles covered per hour. ...
A man on the bus freaks out, believing Traven has come to arrest him, and shoots the driver. Another passenger, Annie (Sandra Bullock), takes the wheel. Annie is left to drive the bus throughout the city while keeping it at the necessary speed and avoiding hitting other cars. Traven is in contact with his SWAT team captain (Joe Morton) who directs them around the city to try and get them away from traffic. Sandra Annette Bullock (born July 26, 1964) is a German-American film actress. ...
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Jack Traven and Annie aboard the moving bus The bus comes to an unfinished road and must make a 50 ft jump at an intersection, after which they are able to go to the Los Angeles Airport so they can drive in circles on a runway. Traven goes under the bus to try and defuse the bomb, but ends up rupturing the fuel tank instead. Meanwhile, the police go after Payne but they end up at a decoy house which explodes and kills Temple. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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They realize that Payne has a video link on the bus that lets him see everything happening. Using a news van, they are able to find the feed and record it. They loop the footage being transmitted to Payne while the passengers are safely evacuated. Traven rigs the bus to keep going in circles so it doesn't explode, then he and Annie get off by riding on the bus' floor panel. Payne notices the feed is being looped and detonates the bomb, but he quickly realizes it was too late and no one was killed.
Payne, disguised as a police officer, kidnaps Annie as he comes to collect the ransom, then escapes into the subway. Traven pursues him and they end up fighting on top of a subway car, which is damaged during their fight. Traven manages to kill Payne, but Traven and Annie can't get off the subway. It derails and crashes through the ground to land on Hollywood Boulevard. Traven and Annie survive and share a kiss. Look up Subway in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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Cast Keanu Charles Reeves (pronounced in IPA: ) is an actor, born September 2, 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon, and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...
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Production details Many of the freeway scenes in the movie were filmed on California's Interstate 105 and Interstate 110, which was not officially open at the time of filming. The jump was filmed on the fifth-level HOV lane ramp of the massive stack interchange. Filming of the final scenes occurred at Mojave Spaceport, which doubled for Los Angeles International Airport. The shots of the LACMTA Metro Red Line through the construction zone were shot using an HO scale model of the Metro Red Line, except for the jump when it derailed.[2] Interstate 105 (abbreviated I-105) is an interstate highway that runs east-west in southern Los Angeles County, California. ...
The Harbor Freeway goes under many bridges as it passes through downtown Los Angeles The Harbor Freeway is one of the principal north-south freeways in Los Angeles County, California. ...
A stack interchange is a free-flowing junction between two or more roads that allows turning in all directions. ...
The Mojave Spaceport (IATA: MHV, ICAO: KMHV) , also known as the Mojave Airport and Civilian Aerospace Test Center, is located in Mojave, California, at an elevation of 2,791 feet. ...
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Twelve buses were used in the filming of the movie. Two of them were blown up, one was used for the high-speed scenes, one had the front cut off for inside shots, and one was used solely for the "under bus" shots. Another bus was used for the bus jump scene, which was done in one take.[2]
The bus jump In the scene where the bus must jump across a gap in an uncompleted elevated freeway-to-freeway ramp while still under construction, both sides of the gap are at identical heights which would make it impossible for a bus to make the jump in real life.[citation needed] To complete the stunt, a ramp was used to give the bus the necessary lift off so that it could jump the full fifty feet. The bus used in the jump was empty and the driver wore a a shock-absorbing harness so he could handle the jolt on landing. The highway section the bus jumped over was a regular highway, with the gap added in the editing process using CGI.[2] Computer-generated imagery (commonly abbreviated as CGI) is the application of the field of computer graphics (or more specifically, 3D computer graphics) to special effects in films, television programs, commercials, simulators and simulation generally, and printed media. ...
Reception Speed grossed $121,248,145 in the U.S. and $350,448,145 worldwide.[1] In 1995, it won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and Best Sound Effects. The film was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.[3] Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...
The Academy Award for Sound Mixing is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most aesthetic sound mixing or recording, and is generally awarded to the production sound mixers and re-recording mixers of the winning film. ...
The Academy Award of Merit for Best Sound Editing is an Academy Award granted yearly to a film exhibiting the finest or most aesthetic sound editing or sound design. ...
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In 1997, a sequel Speed 2: Cruise Control, was released. Set on a cruise ship, it features Sandra Bullock returning to reprise her role, Willem Dafoe as the new villain, and Jason Patric as the new protagonist and love interest. It was a critical and commercial flop.[citation needed] Speed 2: Cruise Control is an 1997 action movie produced by Twentieth Century Fox, directed by Jan de Bont. ...
Sandra Annette Bullock (born July 26, 1964) is a German-American film actress. ...
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References Dennis Lee Hopper (born May 17, 1936) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and film-maker. ...
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