In the period from 1963 to 1966. in America, the television movie “The Fugitive” (the main cast: D. Janssen, W. Conrad, B. Morse), who told the story of the unfortunate surgeon Richard Kimble, innocent but sentenced to death, occupied the top lines of the tabloid of popularity.
Exciting subject
The hero escapes from law enforcement officers on the way to the place of execution of the sentence, an experienced police investigator rushes after him. The duel between these heroes was the center of the story, although there were a dozen other plot branches. But the amazing fact that the creators managed to keep the audience in suspense for 4 seasons (3 years), served as proof that this burning topic causes undeniable audience interest. Therefore, it is not surprising that the theme of an innocent man in the street, trying by all means to prove his innocence, the hunt for him, has become archetypal for criminal dramas and detective stories with elements of a thriller.
Dramatic thriller
In “The Fugitive” (1993 film), Hollywood actors sought to get at any cost, since he appeared during a special stir and fashion for a kind of film adaptation of TV shows, which as a result must have become popular. Indeed, his success exceeded all expectations. The director of exchange, who exchanged the top ten, was Andrew Davis, who had previously shot action films with Chuck Norris and Steven Seagal in the super-action style, unexpectedly for many qualitatively reworked the series plot for the big screen. The director focused on the rivalry, turning into a duel of two central characters. The film received a high IMDb rating of 7.80, and collected more than $ 180 million at the box office, entering the top 20 of the best tapes of the 90s. For the use of special effects and exciting action, the use of cinematic means and virtuoso editing the picture for that period was not equal. Therefore, she was honored to be nominated for an Oscar in seven categories. The prizes were worthy of all the components of the film “The Fugitive”: actors, direction, scenario plan, special effects and more. However, only Tommy Lee Jones, who played the role of Lieutenant Gerard, received the Academy Award. This faithful “hound dog” of an imperfect state system in reading the actor turned out to be a much more complex personality. His rival, vainly accused of Richard Kimble, was played by Harrison Ford. By the way, Ford was approved by the producers after Alec Baldwin refused to participate in the tape. And Jones during the casting had to compete with John Voight and Gene Hackman. The ups and downs of the casting were tense, since the actors regarded the film The Fugitive as a significant milestone in their filmography.
Original dramatic conflict
The comedy “The Fugitives” (film 1986), actors - performers of the leading roles, Pierre Richard and Gerard Depardieu dragged to the highest level. The picture has an IMDb rating of 7.10 and takes ninth position on the chart of the popular French comedies of the 80s. According to the plot, a successful lawyer (Pierre Richard) becomes an involuntary accomplice of a real bank robber bandit (Gerard Depardieu). Due to a misunderstanding, they are forced to hide from the guardians of law and order. It is not a special revelation that Depardieu and Richard perfectly feel the genre, therefore they are able to play in such films with a burlesque plot to infinity. “The Runaways” (1986 film), actors who played the roles of central characters, positioned themselves as the final part of the comedy trilogy of Francis Robert. The first two are “Daddies” and “Unlucky”. After this film, Francis Weber and Gerard Depardieu ceased cooperation, it resumed only after 15 years in the comedy "Chameleon".
Two years later, Weber tried to transfer this plot to American soil, inviting the main roles of the acting duo of Martin Short and Nick Nolte. The Hollywood remake of “Three Runaways” could not surpass the charm of the original tape.
Political Drama
In 2015, the American movie “The Fugitive” was released for rent (front-end actors: N. Cage, S. Paulson, K. Nielsen). The film receives an unimpressive rating of IMDb: 4.60, according to film critics being a trivial low-budget project, telling about the torment of an American politician, torn between helping his voters and lobbying for corporations. Director and scriptwriter Austin Stark tells a sad and realistic story, the culmination of the tape is far from the usual Hollywood happy ending. In the movie "The Fugitive" the actors are involved in all the famous. The image of the protagonist was revealed by the famous Nicolas Cage, whose game is realistic, convincing, but somewhat muffled, so it looks banal. Judd Lormand played one of the secondary roles in the film. Together with Cage, they had previously worked on the production of three paintings, Anger, Indianapolis, and The Abandoned.