{"id":38501,"date":"2025-03-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38501"},"modified":"2025-03-05T16:56:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T21:56:32","slug":"wages-of-fear-aka-le-salaire-de-la-peur-2024-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38501","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wages of Fear&#8221; aka &#8220;Le salaire de la peur&#8221; (2024) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z030625zview_wagesfear24.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"630\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Wages of Fear <\/i><\/strong>aka <strong><i>Le salaire de la peur <\/i>(2024)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Julien Leclercq<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Henri-Georges Clouzot<\/strong> (based on the motion picture <em>&#8220;Le salaire de la peur&#8221;<\/em>); <strong>J\u00e9r\u00f4me G\u00e9ronimi <\/strong>(based on the motion picture <em>&#8220;Le salaire de la peur&#8221;<\/em> co-written by) (as Jean Clouzot); <strong>Georges Arnaud<\/strong> (novel); <strong>Hamid Hlioua<\/strong> (scenario); <strong>Hamid Hlioua<\/strong> (adaptation) &amp; J<strong>ulien Leclercq<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Franck Gastambide, Alban Lenoir, Sofiane Zermani, Ana Girardot<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When a remote desert oil well catches fire, the only way to extinguish the blaze is to set off a small explosion that will put it out.\u00a0 In less than 24 hours the oil well will explode.\u00a0 If it blows the explosion will be gigantic and kill the local population.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A pair of brothers and a few other mercenaries are paid handsomely to drive two truckloads of highly explosive nitroglycerin to the site.\u00a0 They&#8217;re sending two truckloads, because it is unlikely even one truck will make it.\u00a0 With two there might be a chance.\u00a0 Odds against making the journey safely include the speed needed to cover the distance, the rough terrain, bandits and more.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a suicide mission to save a village.\u00a0 Not all will survive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>Wages of Fear (2024)\u00a0<\/i>is a remake of 1953&#8217;s <em>Le Salaire de la Peur<\/em> (<em>The Wages of Fear<\/em>).\u00a0 In 1977, William Friedkin brought his version, <em>Sorcerer<\/em>, to the big screen.\u00a0 Both the original and Friedkin&#8217;s versions are vastly superior to the latest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>Wages of Fear <\/i><\/em><\/strong>aka <strong><em><i>Le salaire de la peur <\/i>(2024) <\/em><\/strong>rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z030625zview_wagesfear24a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"243\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wages of Fear aka Le salaire de la peur (2024) Director: Julien Leclercq Screenplay: Henri-Georges Clouzot (based on the motion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54,65,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-trivia","category-zombies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38501","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=38501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38502,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38501\/revisions\/38502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}