The Getaway is a 1994 crime film directed by Roger Donaldson. This scenario was written by Walter Hill and Amy Holden Jones, based on Jim Thompson's novel of the same name. Movie stars Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, with Michael Madsen, James Woods, and Jennifer Tilly in supporting roles.
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Plot
Carter "Doc" McCoy and his wife, Carol, took the practice target with the gun when Rudy arrived to suggest that they violate the nephew's nephew of the prison for a $ 300,000 payment. The work was successful, but it turned out that the drug king wanted his nephew to be free to kill him.
Rudy is waiting on a leisure plane, but he sees a police car and leaves Doc behind. After a year in a Mexican prison, Doc sends Carol to Jack Benyon's mob boss, who is looking to assemble a team of experts to rob a dog track in Arizona. Benyon agreed to release Doc from prison, in exchange for sexual help from Carol first.
Doc came out and met Benji's man. One is Rudy, along with Hansen, who seems to be inexperienced. Rudy held out his hand and said "No hard feelings" but was beaten by Doc and warned not to betray him again.
On the track, while Doc goes into the vault, a guard pulls a gun and is shot by Hansen in panic. The thieves escape by creating a diversion with a bomb under a gas truck and going with cash. The plan is for Doc and Carol to meet Rudy and Hansen later to split the money. On the road, Rudy kills Hansen and pushes him out of the car.
Doc arrives at the meeting point, where Rudy again pulls a gun. Doc expects this and is ready with his own weapon, shoots Rudy and leaves him dead. Doc and Carol went with all the money, unaware that Rudy was wearing a bulletproof vest.
A wounded Rudy goes to a local clinic, where he holds a veterinarian Harold and his wife, Fran, forcing them to heal his wounds and escort him to El Paso. A fascination flourished between Rudy and Fran and they taunted her gentle husband. At a motel, Rudy had sex with Fran after tying Harold to a chair. Hearing his wife's moans and laughter, the heartbroken Harold committed suicide by hanging himself. Fran barely looked back as she accompanied Rudy to El Paso.
Dock and Carol went to Benyon's house with money. Benyon gave a broad gesture of what Carol did to get Doc from prison. Carol came closer with the gun, invisible to Doc when she counted the money. Benyon clearly expected him to shoot Doc, but he killed him instead.
Doc is annoyed, but Carol says he did what he had to do to help Doc and assumed he would do the same if the situation was reversed. There is continued tension between couples, especially when Carol loses money to a swindler at a train station in Flagstaff. Dock had to catch the train, find the man and put him off to take the money.
They proceed to the Border Hotel in El Paso, owned by Doc Gollie's friend, to get a passport and a new identity so they can escape to Mexico. Rudy was already there waiting with Fran. Benyon's men, led by Jim Deer want money and arrive in El Paso.
Rudy put a trap and Doc was surprised to see him alive. He drops Rudy but refuses to kill him with cold blood. A long and bloody battle ensues with Doc and Carol shooting with the Benyon man in the hall and stairs of the hotel.
Rudy came to his senses like the last of the dead Benyon people. He made another effort to earn money and after a hand-to-hand fight was killed by Doc in the elevator when Doc fired the cable, sending the elevator to the ground. Doc and Carol hijack a pickup truck driven by Slim, an old cowboy, and go to the Mexican border. They buy cowboy trucks and make their holidays.
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Cast
Production
Development
The scenario for the 1972 version of The Getaway was written by Walter Hill. In 1990, Hill's wife, Hildy Gottlieb, had left her job as an agent to head up Alec Baldwin's production company Meadowbrook Productions. Hill and Baldwin are friendly - at one stage they will make The Fugitive together before being replaced by Andrew Davis and Harrison Ford. According to Baldwin, Hill always wanted to film the original script about The Getaway before being changed by Sam Peckinpah. Hill will direct with Baldwin starring, then, according to Baldwin, "they get into the hassle of budget and Walter split up to go do Geronimo , and he gives everyone his blessing to go do it without him."
Producer David Foster approached Roger Donaldson to lead on the spot Hill. Donaldson initially said no because he did not want to do a remake. Then he read the script "and I really like it," Donaldson said. "And then I rented the original movie, which I never saw, and I also liked it.I see how I can put my own stamp on it.There are many things about it that interest me: I love Southwest, I love the genre street movies, I love thriller and I like the kind of conflict that underlies the relationship in the movie. "
Baldwin says that he "always wants to do a movie that needs what I consider to be a movie acting, which is not what you do, but what you do not do, everything is small, and less and less. There's always a steady stream of action films - this is the most mined material - but what distinguishes action movies is acting. "
Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger had fallen in love while making The Marrying Man together and he asked her to play the female role. Basinger says he loves his original movie "a lot." It has this cult status, but my first reaction to Alec's advice is no. " He returned to Jim Thompson's original novel to see if there was a more substantial theme in his story.
I see that this theme can be summarized in one word - believe.... And I say to Alec, "Look what we have here.This is all about trust.These two people can not trust anyone or anything. "Believe their colleagues. They do not seem to trust each other. And when unbelief takes place, it breeds violence and calamity. "
Basinger said his views were incorporated into the rewrite of the manuscript by Amy Jones. He liked them and accepted the role. Basinger:
There's something going on between us here that was never developed between Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw. The film asks all sorts of questions about our relationship. I told Alec that if we do this together, I want it to be a partnership film more than the first. I want to see where that aspect goes, with more movies about the relationship and violence going second - although there are many who are in the movie... Let's not cheat yourself. The film is made for a commercial audience. This is a very difficult question for me because I do not like violence. But at the same time, how else are we going to make a film that faithfully reflects the truth out there in our society? This is a story about strange people in a strange world. This is a story of trust and unbelief and how distrust breeds violence.
Filming
The film was taken in Yuma, Phoenix, and The Apache Lodge in Prescott, Arizona. The location described as the Border Hotel in El Paso is Hotel Del Sol (formerly Hotel Del Ming) in Yuma. It was filmed in the spring of 1993 and was originally planned to be released in December of that year.
The film includes a blistering sex scene between Baldwin and Basinger. Director Donaldson said:
These scenes are always the hardest of any scene to be done.... People are acting not to be exhibitions, of course. They get into it because they like acting. And then you basically try to convince them that part of this story is very important.... Basically my philosophy of how to do these scenes is to give as many freedom and privacy actors as you can give them, and let them feel that in the end you will not compromise with them. That you will not make them look stupid or expose themselves more than they might want to see. It should be relevant to movies and tasteful.
"Even though we're fellow stars, we know we have to forget that we're married in real life," Basinger said. "We each have a separate relationship with the director.Nothing of these let's go home and talk about it under the covers and gang up on it the next day... I can not begin to tell you how well the work experience turned out."
Reception
The film received negative reviews from critics and has a 33% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It earned Razzie Award and Stinkers Bad Movie Awards nomination for Kim Basinger as Worst Actress, but she lost both trophies to Sharon Stone for Intersection and The Specialist.
Baldwin later called the film "bomb".
References
External links
- The Getaway on IMDb
- The Getaway in Box Office Mojo
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