Episode 635: Face/Off (1997)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

In John Woo's Face/Off, Sean Archer (John Travolta), a FBI Agent whose son was killed by his enemy, Castor Troy (Nicholas Cage). Six years later Troy has planted a bomb somewhere in L.A. and, after he’s accidentally put into a coma, Archer must put on Troy’s face in order to find where the bomb is at.

Samm Deighan and A.J. Black join Mike to discuss this landmark action film while screenwriters Mike Werb and Michael Colleary talk about the long, strange history of the movie.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.0	Shut it off.
0:25.5	Turn it off.
0:27.6	What are you asking me to do?
0:43.3	You're asking me to do?
0:48.3	You're asking me to break the law.
1:00.0	Risk my neck.
1:08.0	And you're asking me to put in the dark all the people that love me and trust me.
1:13.6	The face.
1:15.6	I'll do it. The
1:30.3	The Die. Die... Dye! Dye!
1:45.0	D!
1:46.0	D! What do you want?
2:09.2	Take one goddamn guess.
2:11.6	I'm going.
2:11.6	Yeah. I'm gonna The Plan B.
3:01.5	Let's just kill each other.
3:02.8	Let's just kill each other. Welcome to the projection booth. I'm your host, Mike White. Join me once again is Ms. Sam Deegan.
3:22.6	Hello. Also back in the booth is Mr. A.J. Black.
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