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White House Down is a 2013 American political action thriller film directed by Roland Emmerich and written by James Vanderbilt. In the film, a divorced US Capitol Police officer attempts to rescue both his daughter and the President of the United States when a destructive terrorist assault occurs in the White House. The film stars Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke, Richard Jenkins, Joey King, and James Woods.
Released on June 28, 2013, by Sony Pictures Releasing, White House Down received mixed reviews from critics with criticism going towards the screenwriting and the clichd storyline, although the performances and action sequences were praised. The film grossed over $205 million worldwide at the box office, against a budget of $150 million. White House Down was one of two films released in 2013 that dealt with a terrorist attack on the White House; the other, Olympus Has Fallen, was released three months earlier.
U.S. President James Sawyer makes a controversial proposal to sign a peace agreement with other nations to remove military forces from the Middle East. Divorced John Cale works as a Capitol Police officer assigned to Speaker of the House Eli Raphelson, whose nephew he saved while serving in Afghanistan. Cale hopes to impress his daughter Emily by interviewing for the Secret Service, getting tickets for them to tour the White House. His interviewer, Deputy Special Agent-in-Charge Carol Finnerty, a college acquaintance, deems him unqualified for the job.
A bomb is detonated in the United States Capitol, sending Washington, D.C. into lockdown. Finnerty escorts Raphelson to an underground command center in the Pentagon, while Vice President Alvin Hammond is taken aboard Air Force One. A paramilitary team led by ex-Delta Force operative Emil Stenz infiltrates the White House, kills the Secret Service, and seizes the building. The tour group is taken hostage in the Blue Room by white nationalist Carl Killick, but Cale escapes to search for Emily, who was separated during the tour. Retiring Head of Presidential Detail Martin Walker brings Sawyer to the PEOC beneath the White House Library. Inside, Walker kills Sawyer's detail, revealing himself as the leader of the attack, apparently seeking vengeance against Sawyer for a botched mission in Iran that killed his Marine son the year prior. Cale kills a mercenary, taking his weapon and radio, and rescues Sawyer after overhearing Walker.
Walker brings in ex-NSA analyst Skip Tyler to hack the PEOC's defense system but requires Sawyer to activate the nuclear football. Killick catches Emily filming the intruders on her phone and takes her hostage. Cale and Sawyer contact the command structure via a scrambled satellite phone in the residence and try to escape via a secret tunnel but find the exit rigged with explosives. They escape in the presidential limo but are chased by Stenz and crash into the White House pool. With Sawyer and Cale presumed dead in an explosion in the cabana, the 25th Amendment is invoked; Hammond is sworn in as president. Cale and Sawyer, still alive, learn Hammond has ordered an aerial incursion to retake the White House, but the mercenaries shoot down the helicopters with Javelin missiles. Learning Emily's identity from the video, Stenz takes her to Walker in the Oval Office. Hacking into NORAD, Tyler launches a laser-guided missile at Air Force One from Piketon, Ohio, killing Hammond and everyone on board. Raphelson is thus sworn in as president and orders an airstrike on the White House.
Sawyer surrenders himself to save Emily. Walker, blaming Iran for his son's death, demands Sawyer use the football to launch nuclear missiles against various Iranian cities. Cale sets fire to several rooms as a diversion. Tyler inadvertently triggers the tunnel explosives and is vaporized. Cale kills most of the mercenaries and frees the hostages, one of whom bludgeons Killick. He fights Stenz and blows him up with a grenade belt. Sawyer attacks Walker, but in the fight, Walker uses Sawyer's handprint to activate the football and shoots Sawyer. Before Walker can finally launch the missiles, Cale crashes a reinforced Chevrolet Suburban into the Oval Office and kills him with the car's mini-gun. Emily runs outside and waves off the incoming fighter planes with a presidential flag, calling off the air strike. Sawyer survives thanks to a pocket watch once belonging to Abraham Lincoln that stopped Walker's bullet.
White House Down is directed by Roland Emmerich and written by James Vanderbilt, who is also one of the film's producers. Sony Pictures purchased Vanderbilt's spec script in March 2012 for $3 million, in what The Hollywood Reporter called "one of the biggest spec sales in quite a while". The journal said the script was similar "tonally and thematically" to the films Die Hard (1988) and Air Force One (1997).[14] In the following April, Sony hired Roland Emmerich as director.[15] Emmerich began filming in July 2012 at the La Cit Du Cinma in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[16] Cinematographer Anna Foerster shot the film with Arri Alexa Plus digital cameras.[17]
I was no great fan of Olympus Has Fallen, a movie that I lamented "turns Americans in uniform into unwilling human fireworks." So why was it that I sat through the almost identically-plotted White House Down with a goofy grin on my face?
The difference between the two is like the wide gap between the deliberately junky Armageddon and the straight-faced Deep Impact, the campy Volcano and the dour Dante's Peak. White House Down is a movie that knows it's ridiculous, and embraces it. It makes fun of itself at every turn, and offers giddy, effervescent action movie thrills instead of feigned, grim faux-serious gravitas. Most movies during summer check their brains as a matter of obligation, but White House Down is one of the only recent entertainments that seems to be fessing up to it.
Admission of guilt is not the same as absolution, and only a few moments actually suggest a deliberate effort to shuffle the movie's ridiculous scenario into the realm of Paul Verhoeven-esque satire. But the movie still wins on points.
Making no attempt at all to appear stentorian, Jamie Foxx stars as U.S. President James Sawyer, who's fond of sneakers and bringing, for once and for all, peace to the Middle East. Channing Tatum is John Cale, a slumming police officer trying to parlay his only connection with the Secret Service -- supervising agent Carol Finnery (Maggie Gyllenhaal) -- into a job that will impress his estranged daughter Emily, a pint-sized patriot who comes on like Little Orphan Annie running a political vlog.
Everything in White House Down happens just as bluntly from then on out, as terrorists of the domestic division (which is another crucial way in which this movie differentiates from the North Korea-baiting Olympus) invade the title locale and attempt to take the president into custody. The motely band of nationalists, arms dealers, superstar hackers, disgruntled ex-soldiers and garden-variety racists are all acting on behalf of a nefarious double-crossing federal servant, the identity of whom will hardly come as a surprise to anyone familiar with the concept of typecasting. Let me break it down for you. Taut, clean-cut young man wearing A-shirt while toting large firearms? Noble. Old man who fondles the American flag pin on his suit lapel? Suspicious.
Director Roland Emmerich, who notably tore apart 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue before in Independence Day and 2012, has always had an insalubrious appetite for destroying Time-Life's America. But the ridiculousness of his obsessions seems to have finally caught up with him. The film's gliding images all feel dual-edged, both hagiographic and corrupt, no more so than when young Emily's talent show act of "flag-waving" is revisited at the movie's cheerfully ludicrous high point. Well, that moment and the turf-tearing chase between presidential limousines around the South Lawn water fountain that ends when the Chief Executive lighting up a rocket launcher.
With its release falling right at the nexus of Twin Cities Pride and the Fourth of July, the best way I can think of to sum up White House Down's bizarrely charming meta-mayhem is to call it the drag version of that speech Bill Pullman gives at the climax of Independence Day. It takes the same basic message, but blows it so far over the top that it leaves the sentiment tattered in the wind.
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Seventeen years later, I've done a remarkably poor job of maturing, and am still looking for a movie to amaze and enthrall in the same way. Enter: White House Down, Roland Emmerich's latest attempt at blowing up these United States.
Cons: Olympus Has Fallen, a bad, bad movie, hits almost all of the same story beats, right down to the climactic race against a death clock of the MAD variety (hopefully that wasn't too specific to spoil an experience that, like the entirety of the Hostess product line, should be unspoilable). Also, no Bill Pullman. Also, it's almost two-and-a-half hours long
During the early moments of White House Down, shortly after Channing Tatum's character wraps up a conversation with a squirrel, danger appears in the form of a svelte and scruffy ginger in a letterman's jacket. We see he's up to no good because of his shifty eyes and the number written on his forearm in ink. Not tattoo ink, but I-didn't-study-for-this-what's-the-Pythagorean-theorem-again? ink. It leads him to a room and inside this room are all the tools to break into the White House.
As the left-wing retort to Olympus Has Fallen, White House Down mobs the seat of American political power with white supremacists and conservative crazies. They feel betrayed by their country, seduced and abandoned by the green light of American greed and want. Or something.
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