On paper some movies sound better than the final product. Getaway is a great example of that. When brainstorming about the movie the team behind it had some great ideas. They must have thought about how much audiences love car chases and that a whole movie almost completely consisting of them is a lot better than only having a couple. Then they remembered how cool the car was that Nicolas Cage used in Gone in Sixty Seconds, so they decided that would be the ride to star in this movie.

Since you can’t have a movie about a car being chased some people and an actual story is also needed, so they looked in the big book of Hollywood cliches and found some amazing ideas there. Just like in Taken someone is being kidnapped (in this case a wife) and a former racedriver (because they know how to drive cars really fast) should be the husband doing everything to save her. Of course this can not be all because only worrying about his wife is not enough. There also needs to be some drama in the car, so adding a teenager in the car is a great idea since teenagers can be dramatic about anything. String it all together and that’s the concept of your movie done. Continue reading →