Taps (1981)
Scott and a young Tom Cruise. Taps is Harold Becker's 1981 military academy drama.
Robert Mark Kamen wrote The Karate Kid, which established the mentor-and-student structure that a great deal of subsequent sports and martial arts cinema has borrowed, and its sequels.
He then spent the later part of his career writing for Luc Besson’s production company, including The Fifth Element, The Transporter series and Taken, which is a substantial contribution to the shape of European-produced action cinema.
He also owns a vineyard in Sonoma, which he has said is the reason he kept taking the assignments.
Darryl PonicsanScott and a young Tom Cruise. Taps is Harold Becker's 1981 military academy drama.
Luc BessonThe original is among the strongest compressed action thrillers of its decade. Sequels decline predictably.
Luc BessonTaken is the best pure action film of the twenty-first century. Pierre Morel directed it in thirty-six days in Paris on a twenty-five million dollar budge.
Luc BessonThe Fifth Element is a perfect film. Not a perfect science fiction film, not a perfect action film, a perfect film, period.
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