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Usenet Posted 17 years ago
Screenwriting
"Taken" vs. "Frantic"
"Taken" owes a hell of a lot to "Frantic" - an American in Paris searching for his abducted daughter vs. American in Paris searching for his abducted wife.
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The difference is, Harrison Ford plays a guy who is completely out of his depth in a place where everything is foreign, alien, and he depends on others to find his way out. Liam Neeson is a killing machine who needs no one to rack up a body count that is ridiculous.
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Samuel Beckett
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The difference is, Harrison Ford plays a guy who is completely out of his depth in a place where everything is foreign, alien, and he depends on others to find his way out. Liam Neeson is a killing machine who needs no one to rack up a body count that is ridiculous.
Words are all we have.
Samuel Beckett
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[nq:1]"Taken" owes a **** of a lot to "Frantic" - an American in Paris searching for his abducted daughter vs. American in Paris searching for his abducted wife. SPOILERS The difference is, Harrison Ford plays a guy who is completely out of his depth in a place where everything is foreign, alien, and he depends on others to find his way out.
- [nq:1]"Taken" owes a **** of a lot to "Frantic" - an American in Paris searching for his abducted daughter vs.
- American in Paris searching for his abducted wife.
- SPOILERS The difference is, Harrison Ford plays a guy who is completely out of his depth in a place where everything is foreign, alien, and he depends on others to find his way out.
- [/nq] I was thinking more along the lines of Commando ex special ops guy his daughter is kidnapped by some nameless, faceless bad guys and a guy with an accent goes after them and kills around eight million guys and saves his daughter.
- Just a different accent.
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[nq:1]"Taken" owes a **** of a lot to "Frantic" - an American in Paris searching for his abducted daughter vs. American in Paris searching for his abducted wife. SPOILERS The difference is, Harrison Ford plays a guy who is completely out of his depth in a place where everything is foreign, alien, and he depends on others to find his way out. Liam Neeson is a killing machine who needs no one to ra
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Are they forcing him to do anything? Cause that's SO Season 1 of 24.
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[nq:1]Are they forcing him to do anything? Cause that's SO Season 1 of 24.[/nq]
They aren't forcing him. He tells him that he doesn't have money but he does have a certain skill set and that he was coming to Paris and would kill them all. More like if Jason Bourne married and had a teenaged daughter.
The Peripatetic Samurai Robot
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They aren't forcing him. He tells him that he doesn't have money but he does have a certain skill set and that he was coming to Paris and would kill them all. More like if Jason Bourne married and had a teenaged daughter.
The Peripatetic Samurai Robot
Diplomacy: The art of telling someone to go to
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