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Cook up your “real-life Bourne” comparisons here. The AP is reporting that movie director Doug Liman and producer Avram Ludwig were sailing in New York on Wednesday when they saw a large cargo ship slam into a small speedboat on the Hudson River and “jumped into action”. The Hollywood pair found four people screaming for help when they arrived on the scene. Liman and Ludwig said they picked up three passengers from the water, while the speedboat owner wouldn’t leave his vessel until rescue crews arrived. Liman and Ludwig were in New York filming Fair Game. Liman, who has directed action pics like Mr. and Mrs. Smith and The Bourne Identity, was quoted as saying no Hollywood action sequence could compare to the rush of adrenaline he felt during Wednesday’s rescue. Ludwig told the AP: “Simulating life-threatening situations prepares you for real life. We can keep a level head under a lot of pressure.”
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Is hollywood finally finding some long-lost morals? First Bing sends his jet to get those journalists in N. Korea… now this??
Turning over a new leaf?
And while we’re at it, “Jumper” kinda rocked. Sorry, but it did.
How does a cargo ship “slam” into a speedboat? Isn’t it the other way around? Big boat move slow. Little boat move fast. Hello.
Jumper “kinda rocked”?? what else did it KINDA do??
This would be an awesome guest appearance for NBC’s Trauma… just saying.
“Jumper” was an overall success. Sod Fox for not recognising yet another possible franchise.
And great job by both of them. More people acting like this and I’ll stop wishing for the asteroid to hit.
Dear Nikki Finke,
You should post more good news about this insular, venomous Hollywood/NYC entertainment community. They can’t all be venal, power-hungry, endlessly petty, ungrateful, unsacrificing people (who at the same time control so much of the entertainment that we hold dear in this country, and some of the arts too).
More genuine good news (framed generously without your usual snarky spin and alarmist rhetoric) would add much needed balance and texture to your site.
Moreover, it would be good if you created a magazine style format on the site, with features and sections that organize the content better. This gives your readers specific content areas that they may expect to see on certain days at certain times. Some of those new content areas could pertain to purely good news about new the under-recognized longtime members of entertainment who rarely get recognized in public: the designers, builders, editors, low-level accountants, gaffers, ADs, cleaners, caterers, etc…the people who TRULY have made this complex business work since the early twentieth century.
After all, it is one thing to be mildly feared as yet another voice who exposes Hollywood’s behind-the-scenes business dealings. It is entirely another thing to be *respected* as a *broad-based, generous* observer who is not merely sensationalizing the already sensationalized.
Perhaps you will actually take my comment seriously.
But I doubt it because, while you sensationalistically cry about small injustices on occasion, you are mostly just like the narrow swath of people you cover: you like schadenfreude–you delight in the suffering of others. Schadenfreude is the very engine that moves Hollywood for its aristocrats.
Sincerely,
Veg
That’s nothing. I saved the world from giant alien robots who were headed toward earth on a giant alien asteroid. In my spare time I rescue swimmers from drowning on Santa Monica beach. Oops gotta go someone’s in trouble!
Kudos to Liman and Ludwig.
No, it didn’t. That’s a verifiable fact.
Considering this was Doug Liman, don’t you think he would have attempted the rescue three times, bought six different boats with which to attempt it, and then just used the first one. Then he would have complained about how much interference he had from corporate executives.
Is this some sort of publicity stunt? Sorry, but I put nothing past Hollywood.
And the best thing is that Limon and Ludwig followed their courage and their instincts. They didn’t put the rescue into development or take it to focus groups first.
Unfortunately Liman didn’t feel he got the rescue “quite right” and forced everyone on the scene to redo it, again…and again…and again. Frank Marshall was eventually called in to curb Liman’s erratic, fuzzy, meglomaniacal behavior, to little effect.
Ludwig’s quote is classic. “Simulating life-threatening situations prepares you for real life. We can keep a level head under a lot of pressure.”
Hey dumbass…you’re a movie producer and NOT subject to the same simulations as say, an NYPD frogman or Navy Seal. What a putz.
I’m not gonna snark on this. Liman’s yet to make a movie I’ve liked (and I suspect he never will), but guy stepped up and did good here.(Of course, I’d be laughing my ass off if the people he rescued were Billy Bob Thornton and Jennifer Aniston, as that would have been one awkward boatride home…)
This doesn’t surprise me. That’s the Doug I know. Liman is a first class human being who is as compassionate and charitable as any person I’ve ever met. Good job, buddy. Now, if he just train his dog not to bite people…
Wow! What courage! Are you telling me that he sailed over and let drowning people climb into his boat?? He could’ve gotten so wet! There’s no way I would’ve “kept a level head” in that situation. I mean, what life-threatening situation have I ever simulated? I probably would’ve sailed off in the opposite direction. Or maybe just jumped ship and drowned myself. “Sully” Liman is a true American Hero.
Actually, under the rules of the sea, if your boat *can* render assistance to one in distress, you are *obliged* to do what you are able to do.
So said a friend of mine with more time on the water than I’ll ever get.
I hear Simon Crane really did the rescue. Liman just took the credit.
God, such haters. Liman’s a gifted director of succesful movies, and now he’s a lifesaver. How many of you haters on this site can say the same of themselves?
Actually, Frank Marshall made the rescue and Doug Liman got the credit…as usual!!
A “large cargo ship” slamming into anything, let alone a small speedboat, seems a bit, well, hyperbolic to me, especially if there were survivors and enough of the boat left for the owner to refuse to leave it.
But good job on the rescue, even if this account sounds a bit exaggerated.
have you ever worked with him?
Seriously, how did the cargo ship slam into anything? My guess is that it’s the speed boat, like an idiot, who hit the cargo ship. I grew up in SF with plenty of time on the bay. When you see one of those big mothers in the shipping lane, you respect it or it, or it’s wake will kill you. Glad the production folks were able to save the morons in the speed boat.
Nice to know they can take some time to sail while “were in New York filming”… oh, and good to hear “make believe” prepares you for picking up swimmers. Who needs the Coast Guard?