Jones ends up in prison, and Bridges escapes to the U.S., where he changes his name, becomes a cop, and eventually falls in love with the violinist ( Suzy Amis).
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In an attempt to offend not even the IRA, the movie explains that Jones was "too crazy" for them, and indeed when Jones hatches a plan to bomb civilians, Bridges blows the whistle on him.
Its central enigma is supposed to be: How can bomb squad member Jeff Bridges stop mad bomber Tommy Lee Jones before he blows up everyone Bridges loves, and half of Boston along with them? In actual fact, the puzzle is: How does Jones have enough time to rig such intricate and labyrinthine schemes? What does he really want to do? Get revenge, or win the Westinghouse Science Search? The movie is essentially a thriller about brave cops against a mad bomber, but there's a back story about how the characters played by Bridges and Jones met 20 years ago in Ireland, where Jones was a bomber and Bridges was his student. "Blown Up" is the kind of movie that people should be sentenced to see if they complain that " Speed" is implausible. Jones has rigged an abandoned ship with a Rube Goldberg device in which bottles topple over, and balls roll down chutes, and switches and levers are triggered, and eventually a bomb will be set off. The mad bomber ( Tommy Lee Jones) holds a remote control device which will blow up Jeff Bridges' girlfriend while she plays violin for the Boston Pops. A retired cop ( Lloyd Bridges) is chained to a piece of playground equipment and wired to a bomb. " No points for figuring out that at the speed of electricity, if one of them is the smallest fraction of a second behind the other one. The tension mounts as they do the countdown: "Three. The only recourse is for the threatened cop (Forrest Whitaker) and his partner ( Jeff Bridges) to separately and simultaneously cut two wires. A member of the bomb squad is listening to a Walkman which, alas, has been rigged with a bomb, so that if he removes the earphones his head will be blown off. A mad bomber is loose in Boston, and there are more diabolical schemes afoot. No points for guessing which will come first, since at typing speed she would have to pound the keyboard for many long months to exhaust the memory of most hard disks.īut wait. Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture (Rehearsal #1) (0:31)ģ4.At one point, early in "Blown Away," a tearful student at MIT is about to be blown up because her computer has been rigged with a bomb that will explode, the dialogue explains, "when the hard drive runs out of available bytes" or when she stops typing. Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture (Desperate Run) (2:01)ģ3. Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture (Bomb Struggle) (1:23)ģ0. Intrada Special Collection release available while quantities and interest remains!Ģ7. Fun to hear Silvestri and crackerjack Hollywood musicians doing Tchaikovsky! Muscular, intense, brooding, exciting score! Alan Silvestri conducts. As Bridges' wife is concert violinist, and 4th of July concert plays big role in climax of picture, Silvestri adapts, conducts brief segments of Tchaikovsky chestnut, "1812 Overture" for use in film. This is intense, involved scoring! Intrada CD presented from two-track digital scoring session masters courtesy MGM, including "Prince's Day (Main Title)", the solitary cue available earlier. Cohesion is established largely through harmonic devices. Customary for composer with big action pictures, Silvestri anchors with small motifs that he can build larger ideas upon. Interestingly, while Silvestri fills climactic chase scenes with his signature propulsive action music, he actually builds intensity through slow-burn approach, with complex string writing, aggressive percussion segments, bursts of energetic brass all moving inexorably towards powerhouse chase sequences. Their numerous explosive confrontations give Silvestri ample room for lengthy, dynamic 73-minute large-scale score. Tommy Lee Jones seethes over misfortunes during Irish terrorism activities, is incarcerated, breaks out and targets Bridges who now works in Boston bomb squad. Now Intrada addresses that situation at last. Only one cue was previously available in 1994 on Sony label release with mostly songs unrelated to Silvestri score. World premiere of Alan Silvestri soundtrack for Stephen Hopkins action-thriller starring Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Lloyd Bridges, Forest Whitaker.
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