It certainly can be seen that way: Harry shares a lot of character traits with 007 like being an international spy who can speak several languages, has several false identities, is skilled in hand-to-hand combat, the use of firearms, knowledge of terrorists and their strategies and has a high-tech arsenal of computerized systems and gadgets at his disposal to do his job. What Cameron and his writers and producers probably intended was to make this movie a spoof of the Bond series: a humorous treatment of Bond's abilities and seeming invincibility as a fictional spy.
Because there hasn't been a project for them to work on together. Cameron has only directed 3 films since True Lies; Titanic, Avatar and Avatar 2. Cameron has been working on the Avatar Sequels for over 15 years. So they have been his main focus. It's not out of the realm of possibilities that Arnold could appear in them. Arnold and Cameron remain close friends to this day.
No. The footage of the jet in the film was a combination of actual Harrier footage (the flyovers of the Key Bridges) and visual FX to give the illusion that Schwarzenegger was actually in the pilot's seat. For some of the long range shots of the jet near the skyscraper, a mocked-up Harrier was hung from a construction crane on top of the tower. For most of the close-ups of Harry, Dana & Aziz, the jet was probably hung in front of blue or green screens. When everything was edited together, it made for a great illusion.
Yes. It was released on 4K and standard blu-ray on March 12, 2024.
After a mission in Switzerland, which he sneaked into a mansion during a party, to find evidence that Iranian financer Jamal Khaled (Marshall Manesh) is financing an Islamic terrorist group led known as "The Crimson Jhihad" led by Salim Abu Aziz (Art Malik) aka "The Sand Spider". Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger), an American secret agent working for a government organisation called "The Omega Sector" that deals in anti-terrorism, begins following Aziz's trail and begins to suspect beautiful Antiques dealer Juno Skinner (Tia Carrere), who was one of the party guests, may be invovled with Aziz. After pursuing Aziz, who escapes, Harry soon learns that his wife Helen (Jamie Lee Curtis), who is not aware that Harry is an American spy and believes Harry is a computer salesman, is having an affair with a man called Simon (Bill Paxton). After discovering Simon is a used-car salesman, who is pretending to be a secret agent, so he can manipulate Helen into having sex with him and interrogates Helen and scares Helen and Simon into ending the affair, after catching them together. Harry decides to give Helen an assignment, since Helen is a bored with her life and wants excitement, which he poses as a man suspected of being a arms dealer, which Helen poses as a prosistute, so she can plant a bug in the telephone in his hotel room. But, when Harry and Helen are both abducted by Aziz. Harry is forced to reveal to Helen that he is a secret agent and Harry and Helen escape from the island outside of Miami, where they are being held captive, which is nuked and Harry sets out to rescue his 14-year old daughter Dana, who has been taken hostage by Aziz in a building in Miami and stop Aziz, who plots to detonate a nuclear warhead, which will wipe out Miami.
It is Por Una Cabeza, by The Tango Project. The song was composed in 1935 by Carlos Gardel and Alfredo Le Pera. You can also hear it in two other popular 90s films, Schindler's List and Scent of a Woman.
The old British DVD is slightly censored. Ten scenes were altered, mostly fighting scenes showing double-ear-claps, headbutts and so on. All cuts were waived for the newest releases.
The flash from the initial explosion of a nuclear warhead is so intense it can blind a human. When the scientists of the Manhattan Project detonated the 1st atomic bomb in 1945, they all wore dark goggles so they could watch the explosion without being blinded. If you watch footage of that event, you'll see them all putting on goggles.
While the title may seem like a contradictory statement, as in "lies that are true", it actually refers to the lies being pure or outright lies. Kind of like saying "They're a true friend.". The film has several characters that lie to each other - Harry lies to Helen about him being a computer salesman, when he is really a secret agent. Simon the car salesman lies to Helen about him being a secret agent himself, so he can manipulate Helen into having sex with him. Helen lies to Harry about leaving the office to meet with Simon at the Chinese restaurant, etc.
Yes, it is a remake of a 1991 French film called La Totale! about a secret agent whose wife thinks he's a telecommunications employee. Arnold Schwarzenegger had seen the film and told James Cameron about it and they decided to do a remake, which became True Lies, thinking it would make a good movie.
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