{"id":27517,"date":"2021-05-06T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=27517"},"modified":"2021-05-22T09:50:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:50:15","slug":"things-we-learned-about-speed-from-director-jan-de-bont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=27517","title":{"rendered":"Things We Learned About &#8220;Speed&#8221; from Director Jan De Bont!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2021\/z050621speed_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"732\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: 1.0625rem;\">Art by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/edgarascensao\">Edgar Ascens\u00e3o<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<p>Rob Hunter at Film School Rejects turned his sights to the <em>Speed<\/em>, then posted <a href=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/speed-commentary\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FilmSchoolRejects+%28Film+School+Rejects%29#utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=speed-commentary\">24 Things We Learned from the &#8216;<em>Speed<\/em>&#8216; Commentary<\/a> by director Jan de Bont.&nbsp; Before you click over, here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Keanu Reeves wasn\u2019t all that interested in starring in an action movie, so De Bont had to convince him that it would be fun. How? By telling Reeves he\u2019d be allowed to do as many of his own stunts as possible on <em>Speed<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/strong> <em>(Being able to do stunts safely is probably a big lure to many actors.&nbsp; Some that are known to do most of their own stunts include Robert Conrad, James Caan, and Sly Stallone. &#8211; Craig)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong> It was Dennis Hopper\u2019s idea to stick his fingers in Jeff Daniels\u2019 nose to lift him up<\/strong>,<strong> and while De Bont worried it would look silly he agreed after trying it and discovering it\u2019s actually pretty painful.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><em>(Can you imagine Hopper saying to Daniels and De Bont, &#8220;I&#8217;ve got an idea, why don&#8217;t I stick my fingers up his nose and lift him up?&#8221; &#8211; Craig)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>He says sharp-eyed viewers will spot \u201chidden\u201d cameras during some of the bus action as they often only had single takes and had cameras in cars, trucks, and elsewhere.&nbsp;<\/strong>(I love it when director&#8217;s stick in &#8220;Easter Eggs&#8221;! &#8211; Craig)<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art by Edgar Ascens\u00e3o Rob Hunter at Film School Rejects turned his sights to the Speed, then posted 24 Things<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27517","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=27517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27529,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27517\/revisions\/27529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}