Executive Decision (feat. Nick Wiger)
Unclear and Present Danger
Jamelle Bouie
4.7 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Unclear and Present Danger! It’s our first episode of the new year and we’re here with a pretty fun movie — “Executive Decision,” directed by Stuart Baird, produced by Joel Silver and starring Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo, Oliver Platt, Joe Morton, Steven Seagal and many others. Music by, as you might expect, Jerry Goldsmith.
In “Executive Decision,” an intelligence analyst played by Russell and a group of commandos, led by Seagal, must infiltrate a passenger jet bound for Washington DC that has been hijacked by a terrorist group. On board the jet is enough nerve toxin to kill everyone on the eastern seaboard. Most of the film is a tense standoff on the airliner, as the commandos try to defuse the nerve bomb and take down the terrorists, while the terrorists move forward with their mission.
The tagline for Executive Decision was “Five miles above the earth, an elite team of six men must make an air to air transfer, in order to save 400 lives on board a 747... and 40 million below.”
You can find Executive Decision to rent or buy on iTunes and Amazon.
Our next episode of the podcast will be on “The Substitute,” otherwise known as “Stand and Deliver if the teacher body-slammed the students.”
Connor Lynch produced this episode. Artwork by Rachel Eck.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Excuse me, sir. May I help you? |
| 0:05.0 | Sir? |
| 0:06.0 | In an age. |
| 0:08.0 | Excuse me, sir. May I help you? |
| 0:11.0 | When terrorism knows no boundaries. |
| 0:14.0 | And the level of threat. |
| 0:17.0 | I have a message for the American president. Knows no limits. |
| 0:22.6 | I am in control of Flight 343. |
| 0:24.5 | Sir, I don't think this is about hostages. |
| 0:25.4 | What are you talking about? |
| 0:28.5 | A shipment of the nerve toxin DZ5 was hijacked. |
| 0:30.2 | Are you saying nerve gas is on board? |
| 0:31.4 | Yes, sir, I am. |
| 0:38.3 | They plan to use the DZ5 and the airplane together to detonate here over Washington. When global response is routine. |
| 0:42.3 | London is demanding immediate action. |
| 0:44.3 | There's a hat on the belly of the 747 here the nose. |
| 0:47.3 | We could dock there. |
| 0:48.3 | I know you wrote the book on assaulting hijacked aircraft, but this is five miles above the earth. |
| 0:52.3 | I don't think we have any other options. And advanced technology |
| 0:56.0 | Who's this? |
| 0:57.0 | 007? |
| 0:58.0 | Can accomplish miracles. |
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