Fearless

Fearless (1993)

Timing: 2:2 (122 min)

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Release date

1993-10-15

Country

United States

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures, Spring Creek Pictures

Genre

Drama

Budget

$20 000 000

Revenue

$6 995 302

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Director

Peter Weir

Actors

Jeff Bridges, Isabella Rossellini, Rosie Perez, Tom Hulce, John Turturro, Benicio del Toro, Deirdre O'Connell, John de Lancie, Spencer Vrooman, Daniel Cerny
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Scenario

Producer

Paula Weinstein, Mark Rosenberg

Operator

Allen Daviau

Composer

Maurice Jarre

Artist

Audition

Howard Feuer

Editing

William M. Anderson, Lee Smith, Armen Minasian
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• To get into the role of the protagonist who had survived a catastrophe, Jeff Bridges spent a lot of time talking to his friend Gary Busey, who had been in a motorcycle accident shortly before filming and had been in a coma for several days.
• The film's director, Peter Weir, suffered from a fear of flying before filming the movie.
• The film partially recreates events that occurred in 1989 in Iowa with a United Airlines flight 232. However, unlike the film, the actual crash involved a DC-10, not a Boeing.
• The airplane crash site was recreated on a field in central California, precisely replicating the Iowa crash site from 1989. Initially, the field was planted with corn, then plowed up by a bulldozer, and a trench was created to simulate the one left by the fallen aircraft. 140 extras and 40 members of the Kern County Fire Department participated in filming the scene. One of the main roads nearby was closed for a week, and the local power company was persuaded to take down several poles and tangle the wires to create the illusion of complete devastation. Preparing the crash site took 10 days, and 600 suitcases with all their contents were scattered haphazardly around it (all of which was specially purchased from local thrift stores). Overall, recreating the crash site cost $2 million.
• The scene with the flight attendant instructing Rosie Perez’s character to take the baby because it was required by regulations, and the baby dies, describes a real event that occurred on board the crashed plane. A flight attendant instructed one passenger to put the baby on the floor next to her (which at that time was standard procedure according to safety regulations). The baby rolled somewhere under the seats and died. The passenger blamed the flight attendant for this, and she spent the rest of her days fighting to change safety regulations and draw public attention to the problem of flight safety.
• The film partially recreates events that occurred in 1989 in Iowa with United Airlines flight 232. However, unlike the film, the actual crash involved a DC-10, not a Boeing.