Happy Birthday: John McTiernan

John McTiernan

Born: January 8, 1951 in Albany, New York, USA

[on learning what a film was] I went about it like it was reverse engineering. I knew that I had to go and learn what a movie was, not just my experience of going and watching a movie. So I went and sat in Truffaut’s Day for Night (1973), watched it for three days straight, eight hours at a time and memorized it shot-for-shot. I got past the story, all the original and secondary experience, so I could study what it was that I was really watching. Film is really sort of a chain that’s really linear. Yet when it’s all strung together, it just sort of feels like an experience. It takes quite a while to be able to deconstruct that experience to figure out what you really saw.

Predator 1987 dir. McTiernan Cast Arnold Schwarzenegger Carl Weathers Die Hard 1988 dir. McTiernan starring Bruce Willis Reginald VelJohnson Die Hard 3 1995 dir. McTeirnan starring Bruce Willis Samuel L Jackson THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER 1990 dir. John McTiernan Stars: Sean Connery Alec Baldwin

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