Denzel Washington in FLIGHT
by Capucine · old hollywood: Denzel Washington
FLIGHT was released 14 years ago today. Denzel Washington and Robert Zemeckis reportedly agreed to take just 10% of their usual fees to get the film made, relying instead on backend profits.
Transcript (en)
There was no drink service on the flight, but they did find two empty vodka bottles in the galley trash. Yeah. And there's no physical evidence on the bottles, no DNA, no fingerprints to link them to anyone, but they were uncapped and empty. And the only people who would have had access to those bottles would be the flight crew. Now, Margaret, Evans, and Mila Sato, they all had clean tox reports, so that only leaves you. Trina Marquez. Right, Trina Marquez. Okay. Okay, I see where we're going here. That's funny, though, you know, they only found two bottles. Why's that? I drank three. One's missing. You know, when I first met you, I couldn't believe what a drunk, arrogant scumbag you were. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, thank you. But I did the research Captain Whitaker I heard the expert analysis and I gotta tell you I in awe of what you did The FAA and the NTSB took ten pilots placed them in simulators recreated the events that led to this plane falling out of the sky. Do you know how many of them were able to safely land the planes? Not one. Every pilot crashed the aircraft, killed everybody on board. You were the only one who could do it. Great. Go on, home. Hey, Whip, Whip, you can't... You can't you right now you're going to prison. I'm trying to save your fucking life fucking life Huh, don't kill yourself on my account you captain Whitaker this NTSB hearing is a federal agency hearing. Do you understand? Yes I understand that. Hey, well, we can't play around with these people Now we walk in there like this with this We're done Everything we've done goes right out the window. I Have no more moves. All right. It's all on you right now Okay, Charlie, just get him to the church on time. Yeah, just get him to the church on time. Yeah, Charlie, just keep him nice and strong.
