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| Year: | 1997 |
| Rating: | 6.3(61305) |
| Listed in: | Action, Drama, Thriller |
| Directed by: | Wolfgang Petersen |
| Actors: | Harrison Ford Gary Oldman Paul Guilfoyle Glenn Close Wendy Crewson Liesel Matthews |
| "The fate of a nation rests on the courage of one man." | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Wolfgang Petersen | |
| Actors | |
| Harrison Ford | as President James Marshall |
| Gary Oldman | as Ivan Korshunov |
| Paul Guilfoyle | as Chief of Staff Lloyd 'Shep' Shepherd |
| Xander Berkeley | as Secret Service Agent Gibbs |
| William H. Macy | as Major Caldwell |
| Dean Stockwell | as Defense Secretary Walter Dean |
| Tom Everett | as National Security Advisor Jack Doherty |
| Jürgen Prochnow | as General Ivan Radek |
| Michael Ray Miller | as Colonel Axelrod |
| Carl Weintraub | as Lt. Colonel Ingraham |
| Elester Latham | as AFO Navigator |
| Elya Baskin | as Andrei Kolchak |
| Levan Uchaneishvili | as Sergei Lenski |
| David Vadim | as Igor Nevsky |
| Andrew Divoff | as Boris Bazylev |
| Ilia Volok | as Vladimir Krasin |
| Chris Howell | as Major Perkins |
| Spencer Garrett | as White House Aide Thomas Lee |
| Bill Smitrovich | as General Northwood |
| Philip Baker Hall | as U.S. Atty. General Andrew Ward |
| Albert Owens | as 'Football' Colonel |
| Willard E. Pugh | as White House Communications Officer |
| Michael Monks | as Assistant Press Secretary |
| Alan Woolf | as Russian President Petrov |
| Thomas Crawford | as Mike, Steward |
| Fenton Lawless | as Joey, Steward |
| Dan Shor | as Notre Dame Aide |
| David Gianopoulos | as Agent Johnson |
| Glenn Morshower | as Agent Walters |
| Richard Doyle | as Colonel Bob Jackson, AFO Backup Pilot |
| Don McManus | as F-15 Leader Colonel Carlton |
| Duke Miglin | as F-15 Fighter Pilot 'Halo 2' |
| Pasha D. Lychnikoff | as Prison Guard #1 |
| Oleg Taktarov | as Prison Guard #2 |
| Mario Roberts | as Special Service Agent #1 |
| Keith Woulard | as Special Service Agent #2 |
| J. Mark Donaldson | as Special Service Agent #3 |
| Bruce Holman | as Special Service Agent #4 |
| Brian Libby | as Phillips, AFO Chief Mechanic |
| Thom Barry | as Ramstein S.O.F. Watch Officer |
| Harry Hutchinson | as Ramstein Airbase Controller |
| E.E. Bell | as Reporter #1 |
| Mark Thompson | as Reporter #2 |
| Boris Lee Krutonog | as MiG Leader |
| Alex Veadov | as MiG Pilot |
| Allan Kolman | as Kazakh Soldier |
| Daniel W. Barringer | as USAF Jumpmaster |
| Mark Knutson | as Russian Jumpmaster |
| Jim Harley | as Willis |
| Aleks Shaklin | as Government Official |
| Igor N. Lobotsky | as Russian Official |
| Koko Kiledjian | as Russian Speaker |
| Gordon Michaels | as USAF Radio Specialist #1 |
| Robert Peters | as USAF Radio Specialist #2 |
| Kristian Sorensen | as USAF Radio Specialist #3 |
| Stuart Nixon | as USAF Security Agent |
| Marty Rosen | as CIA Director |
| Lee Faranda | as Russian Villain |
| Mike Hambrick | as CNN Reporter |
| David MacIsaac | as MC-130 Pilot 'Liberty 2-4' |
| J. Scott Shonka | as Pararescue Jumper #1 |
| Paul Sklar | as Pararescue Jumper #2 |
| David Permenter | as Winch Recovery Master |
| David O'Donnell | as Young Airman |
| Paul Bishop | as Pilot |
| Tony Boldi | as Ron hersog |
| Timothy Carhart | as Secret Service Agent at Checkpoint |
| Robb Derringer | as Halo 2 |
| Robert Duncan McNeill | as Ramstein Soldier |
| George Meyers | as Secret Service Agent |
| J.A. Preston | as White House General |
| William Victor Skrabanek | as Russian Official |
| Werner Sonne | as German Journalist |
| Actresses | |
| Glenn Close | as Vice President Kathryn Bennett |
| Wendy Crewson | as Grace Marshall |
| Liesel Matthews | as Alice Marshall |
| Donna Bullock | as Deputy Press Secretary Melanie Mitchel |
| Messiri Freeman | as Future Postmaster General |
| Diana Bellamy | as White House Switchboard Operator |
| Marciarose Shestack | as Reporter #3 |
| Ren Hanami | as Reporter #4 |
| Suzanne Michaels | as CNN Anchorwoman |
| Catherine T. Yang | as Asian TV Reporter |
Movie info
| Languages: | English, Russian |
| Filming dates: | 16 September 1996 - 17 January 1997 |
| Budget: | USD 85,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 80,738,833 USD (3 August 1997) Worldwide - 97,200,000 USD (23 November 1997) (except USA) |
| Plot: | A thriller about a steadfast U.S. President who has just told the world he will not negotiate with terrorists. Now, Russian neo-nationalists have hijacked Air Force One and the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision: give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter. |
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| "L'Internationale" Written by Eugène Pottier & Pierre Degeyter |
Goofs
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Fact errors: Members of the Soviet/Russian Army are prohibited to have a beard by military regulations. Fact errors: Members of the Russian Army only salute with a hand when wearing hats. Fact errors: The in-flight refueling hardware on the real Air Force One makes a bulge visible below the cockpit window. The Boeing 747 used in the film lacks this bulge. There are numerous other differences between the plane depicted in the movie and the real Air Force One. See also the trivia entry. Continuity: Disappearing/reappearing bullet holes in the hostage room. Continuity: When President Marshall fights with the terrorist in the room with the football game on TV, the stool is lying down, then it is standing up, then it is lying down again. Continuity: Papers in President Marshall's hand in the conference room. Fact errors: Jumping out of a plane at 200 knots and immediately opening a parachute of the kind in the movie is probably going to break the sail, yet only clean openings are shown. Revealing mistakes: When Marshall and Korshunov are fighting, Korshunov presses Marshall's face against a panel of buttons which are obviously fake. GEOG: The F-15s launched from Ramstein, Germany have "EG" tail markings, which means they are from Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Aircraft assigned to Ramstein have tail markings "RS." Also, Ramstein does not have fighter aircraft. The nearest US fighter bases in Europe are in Spangdahlem, Germany; Aviano, Italy; or Incirlik, Turkey. Continuity: In the opening sequence, the dot from a laser sight rests on the back of the sentry's head, and the descending shooter is above the sentry, yet, when the shot comes, the explosion is neither back out of the rear of the head, nor out the front of the head, but rather straight up. Continuity: Jürgen Prochnow plays General Ivan Radek, yet he is credited as "General Alexander Radek". SYNC: When Col. Carlton is telling Marshal how bad the damage is, his mouth under the mask is still moving after he has finished speaking. Revealing mistakes: The same sound effect is used twice within about 10 seconds of each other. As the plane is first landing at Ramstein, there is a quick shot of the passengers falling all over the conference room, and you can hear a mans voice saying "Ahhh... Geez!" A few seconds later, as the plane is heading at the control tower and before the wing slices the tree, the exact same voice is heard saying the exact same thing, but this time it is supposed to be coming from the control tower. Continuity: SPOILER: When Agent Gibbs shoots Major Caldwell, blood splashes on Gibbs's face and forehead. In the next shot when he struggles with the President, there is blood only on his right cheek and his forehead is clean. Continuity: The handguard of the H&K MP5A3 that the president has, changes from the old slim type to the new wide type after the scene when the terrorists are shooting through the toilet doors. Continuity: When the terrorist fires at the toilets, the bullet spray on the back wall of the second toilet (that he opens) is different from the spray on the door. SYNC: SPOILER: Lip synching doesn't match when the Air Force "PJ" (pararescue jumper in the back of the C-130) talks into his helmet microphone, saying "Liberty 24 is changing call signs, Liberty 24 is now Air Force One." Fact errors: SPOILER: By design, the external doors on modern jet aircraft cannot be opened during flight. Though the low altitude of the film's dramatic final rescue scene might permit opening the door (as the pressure differential holds it shut during flight), it still would not open outward as portrayed in the film and would instead need to be opened inward and swung out through the doorframe. PLOT: SPOILER: The President of the United States has no authority over the President of Russia on a matter involving the conditions of a Russian prisoner in a Russian jail. The Russian President was doing the American President a personal favor by releasing Radek. Even if the 25th Amendment had been enacted and the Vice President became the Acting President, she would be in no position to overrule the President and order the Russian President not to release Radek, as he has no reason to obey her. While the Russian President could of course respect the new President's wishes, this would have nothing to do with her status under the 25th Amendment, which is what the film wrongly implies. Fact errors: As the aircraft swerves about the aerodrome and goes to take-off again the terrorists do nothing about the flaps (set at 40 degrees for landing). The increased drag caused by the flaps at this setting wouldn't allow the aircraft to take off at all, let alone take off in such a short distance. Fact errors: When Air Force One is told to change the heading to take it out of Kazakhstan, they are told to turn the dial counterclockwise from 110 to 290, through 360. This would turn the aircraft left (as in the film), but the display takes it through 200, which would turn the aircraft right. Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: The Air Force One's crash into the Caspian Sea was created using CGI. The CGI splashes seem to have the horizon visible through them. Continuity: SPOILER: The film only shows and implies that three PJs are transferred to Air Force One, yet the First Lady, daughter and 'Shep' are taken by a PJ each to the C-130 and one is shot by Gibbs. Fact errors: During the refueling scene when AF1 breaks away fuel is seen spraying out of the boom of the KC-10. The fuel ignites and the flame travels up the boom and blows up the KC-10. Onboard the KC-10 there is a Boom Operator who monitors and has full control of the fuel that the tanker is receiving or giving at all times and also flies the boom. The Boom Operator would have raised the boom as soon as AF1 broke away and cut off the fuel supply long before the fuel could ignite. Revealing mistakes: When the President is hanging on the rope behind the MC-130, the aircraft's wing is visible through the President. PLOT: SPOILER: The C-130 was originally designated a "strike package". As such, it would have no need to be equipped with "parajumper" harnesses, or a winch with a long rope. Fact errors: SPOILER: During the first "parajumper" transfer, someone can be heard giving directions to AF1. But as the disabled aircraft, it would have been struggling just to maintain course, altitude, and speed. Any corrections would have been made by the C-130. Continuity: When President Marshall tries to enter the conference room with the keys he got from one of the terrorists, he gets shot and there are bullet holes on the door. But somehow these bullet holes are missing in the next conference room scene when Ivan comes to threaten and shoot the National Security Adviser. FAIR: SPOILER: The name "parajumper" suggests that there is a parachute involved. Apparently, if this is the case, then why couldn't they bring parachutes over to Air Force One? Parajumpers, or PJs, are USAF Special Ops. Their primary mission is to rescue downed air crew behind enemy lines and in dangerous situations (the swimmers in the helicopter in A Perfect Storm were ANG PJs, for example). They are also the medics of choice for Spec ops missions, which is what they were doing with the strike force going to the Kazakh Air Base. I assume they didn't wear parachutes because they would interfere with the zip line harness. Continuity: When they are in the war room talking waiting on the news that the President wasn't in the war room, the camera is panning to the left. Before the camera passed by the Defense Secretary there is a general talking to someone in the background as the camera passed to the left of the Defense Secretary the stand in that was talking to the general mysteriously disappears. They apparently stopped filming during that time and forgot to put the stand in back in place. Fact errors: When the President opens the panel to short the wires to dump fuel, the wires are all different colors. All aircraft use white wires with printed numbers and letters to identify the circuit. FAIR: None of the planes used as the real Air Force One have an escape pod. President Bill Clinton is said to have remarked on this detail half-jokingly after seeing the film at a White House screening. However, this obviously was a case of artistic license since the pod was used by the filmmakers to make a key plot twist. Fact errors: C4 cannot be detonated by shooting it, as it is a relatively stable explosive. The terrorists would have had to use detonating cords or a blasting cap in order to blow open the cockpit door. CHAR: One of the MIG pilots makes a sound of surprise just before a missile hits the plane yet they would have been warned by their instrument systems that a lock-on had occurred and that missiles were on their way. CHAR: President Marshall says in Russian: "He's dead, help," to fool one of Russian hijackers. His accent is terrible and would never fool a Russian speaker. GEOG: The base at which the pilots attempt to land after the hijacking is identified as "Ramstein Air Force Base". The actual name is "Ramstein Air Base"; "Air Force Base" is only used for installations in the United States. CHAR: The Air Force One pilot on the ground says that there is no automatic landing capability on the aircraft. All 747s have the capability to land on auto pilot. Later model 747s and every 757, 767 and 777 also has semi-auto takeoff. CHAR: Both the Russian and the American presidents speak Polish instead of Russian as do some of the Russian kidnappers. PLOT: SPOILER: After retaking the plane, the President asks the Major ('William H. Macy' (qv)) if he knows how to fly and the Major indicates no, despite wearing command pilot wings on his uniform blouse. He would have to be a highly experienced aviator to qualify to wear those. CHAR: Asking a person with no parachute experience to jump in these conditions might be more dangerous than staying on the plane. If the canopy does not rip apart (as someone already noted), they are jumping at night with only moonlight into unfamiliar terrain that might have wires, rocks, trees, water, fences, as well as the ground itself that they do not know how to land on even in bright sunshine. FAIR: Bullets fired by the President rip through the Kevlar vests with ease, because they are firing armor-piercing rounds. Continuity: During the attempted landing at Ramstein, the wing flaps are either deployed or retracted between scenes. PLOT: After the President ('Harrison Ford (I)' (qv)) cuts the fuel lines, the terrorists phone the White House from the cockpit and get the Vice President to send a refuelling plane. When the President goes into the hostage room, he tells them a refuelling plane is on the way, even though he could not have know that the terrorists and Vice President had agreed to this. Continuity: The President's daughter's hair changes color between the opening and subsequent scenes. Revealing mistakes: When one of the terrorists is using the portable keyboard aboard AF1, he just hits random keys and accidentally hits two keys at the same time, the actions of which on any computer produce conflicting commands and thus either no action or an error message, followed by an error tone. Fact errors: On International flights, the pilots of Air Force One wear civilian clothing, NOT military or pilot uniforms. Continuity: In the scene where Ivan and Horace are in the cockpit yelling at the pilots to take the plane back up, Ivan shoots one of them in the back of the neck. Then he puts the gun to the other pilots head and says that if he doesn't get the plane back in the air, he will die. In the next shot, when Ivan shoots him, the gun is pointed at his middle back. Continuity: When Korshunov kills the National Security Adviser and takes the first lady and the daughter from the conference room, the daughter is wearing a dark gray long sleeved shirt. In the next scene when he is tying her up, she is wearing a white button up collared shirt. |
Quotes
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Alice Marshall: I'm 12 years old, dad. In caveman days I'd be having children of my own. President James Marshall: That's what we call progress, young lady. Grace: She couldn't stay your little girl forever Jim. President James Marshall: I know. But I was hoping she could wait until she was 14 or 15... or 50. President James Marshall: If this works, you get to be Postmaster General. President James Marshall: Peace isn't merely the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice. Egor Korshunov: You who murdered a hundred thousand Iraqis to save a nickel on a gallon of gas are going to lecture me on the rules of war? Well DON'T. Alice Marshall: You are a monster, and my father is a great man. You're nothing like my father! General Northwood: Nobody does this to the United States. The President will get his baseball glove back and play catch with this guy's balls! President James Marshall: Did you hear my speech? Grace: Yeah. President James Marshall: Yeah? Grace: You're gonna get yourself re-elected. President James Marshall: That's what I keep telling them. President James Marshall: GET OFF MY PLANE! F-15 Fighter Pilot 'Halo 2': Sir, pull up! You've got one on your tail. President James Marshall: Get him off my tail! F-15 Fighter Pilot 'Halo 2': Missile away. Air Force One. Break left and climb! Major Caldwell: Sir, we've lost countermeasures. F-15 Fighter Pilot 'Halo 2': This is Halo-2. They've lost countermeasures. I'm going in. [takes the missile for Air Force One] White House General: [after hearing the president] My God! Is he saying what I think he's saying? Vice President Kathryn Bennett: If we're going to act, we have to act now. Defense Secretary Walter Dean: It's too risky. Vice President Kathryn Bennett: The president is up there with a gun to his head. General Northwood: He asking us to do that to Air Force One? Vice President Kathryn Bennett: He's not asking. Your Commander-in-Chief has issued a direct order. Do it! President James Marshall: The dead remember our indifference. The dead remember our silence. President James Marshall: The truth is, we acted too late. Only when our own national security was threatened, did we act. President James Marshall: Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and terror are not political weapons. And to those who would use them, your day is over. We will never negotiate. We will no longer tolerate and we will no longer be afraid. It's your turn to be afraid. Egor Korshunov: The President is safe - but then you must know that. He ran from here like a whipped dog! I'm sure you can't wait for him to get back to making the decisions so you can stop... sweating... through that silk blouse of yours! Vice President Kathryn Bennett: What are your intentions? Egor Korshunov: What arrogance... to think you could ever understand my intentions! Egor Korshunov: When you talk to the President, you might remind him that I am holding his wife, his daughter, his chief of staff, his national security advisor, his classified papers - and his baseball glove! [Crossing three wires blindly] President James Marshall: I'm counting on you, red, white and blue. Egor Korshunov: Your national security advisor has just been executed. He's a very good negotiator. He bought you another half hour. President James Marshall: I trusted you with my life! Agent Gibbs: So will the next president! Melanie Mitchel: Mr. President, the Russian news crew is with us. I told them you'd give them a sound bite about life in the White House. President James Marshall: There *is* no life in the White House! Colonel Carlton: Okay guys give me some room. I've just been ordered to fire on Air Force One. Sergei Lenski: We have the President. Egor Korshunov: I understand that Air Force One can refuel in mid-air. Well we need fuel, and we need it now. Vice President Kathryn Bennett: I'm sure we can come to some kind of arrangement. If you land the plane we'll trade fuel for hostages. Egor Korshunov: This is bullshit! It's simple physics. Without fuel the plan crashes, [scoffs] Egor Korshunov: everybody dies! Vice President Kathryn Bennett: We're trying to do everything we can. Egor Korshunov: Tell me what I want to hear or I will execute a member of the senior staff and continue killing one hostage every minute until the plane crashes, or refueling plane arrive. Well what do you say? Vice President Kathryn Bennett: Fuel's on its way. Egor Korshunov: Thank you. Liberty 24 Pilot: [as the President reaches Liberty Two Four] Liberty Two Four is changing call signs - Liberty Two Four is now Air Force One! President James Marshall: Kathryn, if you give a mouse a cookie... Vice President Kathryn Bennett: It's gonna want a glass of milk. Egor Korshunov: You can end this all with one phone call Mr. President! Agent Gibbs: I'M GETTING OFF THIS PLANE! President James Marshall: [after seeing an enemy plane being blown up] HAHAHA. The good guys are here. [last lines] Liberty 24 Pilot: Mr. President, welcome aboard, sir! National Security Advisor Jack Doherty: [to Ivan] The Vice President in this case is like the Queen of England. You can't even buy airline tickets without talking to someone like me. Therfore, let me speak to The White House because I can assure you, I'm the one person who can make this all work out. Egor Korshunov: I want General Radek released from prison. President James Marshall: How can I do that? I can't do that! DON'T ASK ME FOR SOMETHING I CAN'T GIVE YOU! [first lines] Major Perkins: [after landing in Kazakstan] Quick head count! One, two, three, four, five. Move out! [Ivan has just killed Melanie Mitchell] Egor Korshunov: I know what you're thinking First Lady,you want me dead. Well we may come to that. You see people do die in wars. Grace: This isn't war! YOU JUST MURDERED AN UNARMED WOMAN! [Ivan has just killed Jack Doherty] Alice Marshall: Why did you kill him? Egor Korshunov: Because I believe. [Phillips is talking Marshall through dumping fuel with the avionics panel] Phillips, AFO Chief Mechanic: Hold on, just let me double-check, sir... President James Marshall: Oh, for Christ's sakes, man, hurry up! Phillips, AFO Chief Mechanic: Sir, if you get the wrong wire, you'll cut the engine feeds, and the plane will crash. President James Marshall: Then we don't want to get the wrong wire, do we? Vice President Kathryn Bennett: How the hell did they get Air Force One? Egor Korshunov: I would turn my back on God Himself for Mother Russia Boris Bazylev: Go on, blyad! Alice Marshall: [watching a football game] Pass interference. That's cheating! President James Marshall: Only if they get caught. |
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