A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

In 1993’s suspenseful In The Line of Fire, director Wolgang Petersen pits Clint Eastwood's Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan and John Malkovich's potential Presidential assassin Mitch Leary. Working from a screenplay by Jeff Maguire ( Gridiron Gang, Timeline ), Petersen gives audiences an intelligent thriller which examines the psyches of its two antagonists as they play a deadly cat-and-mouse game in which the life of the President of the United States hangs on the balance. In the Line of Fire tells us that a now 50-something Agent Horrigan was a young and hard nosed Secret Service agent in charge of President Kennedy's security detail in Dallas on November 22,1963.   Like his real-life counterpart Clint Hill, Horrigan is haunted by the fact that he lost the President of the United States under his watch.   As a result of Frank's slide into depression and alcohol abuse, his marriage ended and his career with the Secret Service has stagnated.  Inst...

(C) 1997 Columbia Pictures Air Force One (1997) Directed by Wolfgang Petersen Written by Andrew W. Marlowe Starring: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Wendy Crewson, Paul Guilfoyle, Glenn Close, William H. Macy, Liesel Matthews, Dean Stockwell President James Marshall: Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and terror are not political weapons. And to those who would use them, your day is over. We will never negotiate. We will no longer tolerate and we will no longer be afraid. It's your turn to be afraid. In the summer of 1997, Harrison Ford starred in Air Force One, a fast-paced and riveting mash-up of action/adventure and a political-thriller plot reminiscent of Tom Clancy’s novels. In this high-flying film directed by Wolfgang Petersen ( Das Boot, In the Line of Fire ), Ford takes on the role of a U.S. President who must outwit, outlast, and outfight a band of Russian ultranation...