Tony Scott - 15 Kick Ass Scenes To Remember Him By

11. €œI told you, if you ever touch me again I€™ll kill you€ €“ Creative Helicopter Usage €“ The Last Boy Scout (1991)

Back to finales again and this scene is particularly ridiculous, even for Scott, but gloriously enjoyable. With a script by Shane Black (for which he was paid $1.75 million after the success of Lethal Weapon), The Last Boy Scout is an odd couple buddy movie in the guise of Midnight Run before it and Rush Hour since. Bruce Willis plays disgraced former U.S. secret serviceman Joe Hallenback with Damon Wayans playing the retired American football player Jimmy Dix. Through a number of contrivances, which we don€™t need to go through now, they end up working together to prevent the assassination of Senator Baynard whose tied up in sport betting, bribery and the mafia, though not necessarily in that order. How do they do it you ask? Well€ After learning the assassination attempt will take place at a football match, Joe and Jimmy force their way into the arena €“ stuff happens €“ then Damon Wayans is riding a horse, game ball in hand, he gallops towards the senator at whom he launches the ball in order to knock him aside to prevent him being shot. Mission accomplished. Meanwhile, high above the stadium on some kind of rigging, Bruce Willis tackles the sniper, batting him with the end of his gun before police shoot said sniper so he falls, you guessed it, into the blades of a helicopter which happened to be hovering below. Now Scott didn€™t write it, but what he does do is embrace the chaos, tongue firmly in cheek. The sequence, similar to the one from The Fan, is dimly lit with the stadium's giant screens and floodlights providing the little light there is. As the sniper is felled blood spatters on the helicopter€™s windscreen as Willis dances a victory jig on the scaffold and the crowd reacts as if that is what they came to see. As Wayans quips and the crowd cheer, everyone gets to go home satisfied, don€™t they?
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