Wednesday 27 January 2016

Olympus Has Fallen - Film (Week 17)

Crew:
Director - Antoine Fuqua
Writer - Creighton Rothenberger
Producer - Gerard Butler & Danny Lerner
Cinematographer - Conrad W. Hall
Music - Trevor Morris

Cast:
Mike Banning - Gerard Butler
President Benjamin Asher - Aaron Eckhart
Connor - Finley Jacobsen
Forbes - Dylan McDermott
Kang - Rick Yune

Genre:
Action
Thriller

Themes:
Sacrifice
Loyalty
Terrorism

Running Time:
119 minutes

Year:
2013

Budget:
$70 million

Box Office:
$161 million

Production Company:
Millenium Films

Narrative:
An Ex Presidential guard reenters the white house in order to save the kidnapped president from terrorists.

Themes:
Sacrifice - Sacrifice is a main theme within the film as the Presidents ex guard puts his life on the line when he decides to go into the white house alone and help retrieve the President from Korean Terrorists. He decides to do this on his own accord.

Loyalty - Loyalty is another theme vital to the movie because, even though Mike Banning was dismissed from being the Presidential guard, he still decides to put his life on the line for him when he doesn't have to.

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