{"id":15232,"date":"2016-04-21T04:58:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T08:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=15232"},"modified":"2021-03-23T09:57:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T13:57:09","slug":"27-things-we-learned-from-roger-donaldsons-no-way-out-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=15232","title":{"rendered":"27 Things We Learned from Roger Donaldson&#8217;s &#8220;No Way Out&#8221; Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z042116bnowayout_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rob Hunter\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0Film School Rejects<\/strong>\u00a0present <a href=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/commentary-no-way-out\/\"><b>27 Things We Learned from Roger Donaldson&#8217;s <em>No Way Out<\/em> Commentary<\/b><\/a>.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>25.<\/strong> The ending of the film was apparently \u201ccontroversial\u201d at the time as audiences are on the side of Costner\u2019s character throughout only to be stung by the final revelation. He was happy that people kept the secret and wonders if that aided the word of mouth and the film\u2019s success. Can you imagine this movie opening in today\u2019s internet culture?<\/p>\n<p><strong>21.<\/strong> The shot of Susan falling to her death was filmed with her standing upright on a dolly being pushed towards a wall that had been made up like the floor complete with a glass table.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> The film is based on Kenneth Fearing\u2019s novel, <em>The Big Clock<\/em>, but Donaldson thought it was an original script all the way through production. \u201cI was at a party and ran into Mel Gibson, and he said \u2018Oh I heard you made the remake of <em>The Big Clock<\/em>.&#8217;\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Hunter\u00a0and\u00a0Film School Rejects\u00a0present 27 Things We Learned from Roger Donaldson&#8217;s No Way Out Commentary.\u00a0 Here are three of my<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,17,51,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15232"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26985,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15232\/revisions\/26985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}