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Two Hits That Will Not Be "Gone in 60 Seconds"

© Candice Livingston

Gone in 60 Seconds stole the number one spot at the box office last weekend from Mission: Impossible 2. With this accomplishment, the film's opening also brought Nicolas Cage's biggest opening weekend ever. It is also one of the biggest openings for producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who also produced The Rock and Con Air which also starred Nicolas Cage.

Cage is Dr. Stanley Goodspeed, a FBI expert in chemical warfare, in The Rock. With the help of a former Alcatraz escapee, he has been assigned to penetrate Alcatraz where terrorists have taken over. In Con Air, Cage is Cameron Poe, a US ranger who was convicted of murder after killing a man while protecting his wife. After eight years, Poe is going home on a plane that is transporting a group of dangerous criminals to a Louisiana penitentiary. These masterful criminals plan an escape and take control of the plane. Luckily, Poe is there to put a few glitches in their plan.


The Rock

General Hummel: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson.
John Mason: "Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious," according to Oscar Wilde.

John Mason: I'm fed up with saving your [butt]. I'm amazed you made it past puberty.

Stanley Goodspeed: How do you...do it(kill)?
John Mason: I was trained by the best. British Intelligence. But in retrospect, I would rather have been a poet...or a farmer.

Mason: When this is all over, you'll go back home driving Carla and your baby insane in your beige Volvo, and I'll be dead or in jail which is the same thing.

Stanley Goodspeed: Well, I'm one of those fortunate people who likes my job, sir. Got my first chemistry set when I was seven, blew my eyebrows off, we never saw that cat again. Been into it ever since.

Stanley Goodspeed: I love pressure. I eat it for breakfast.

John Mason: I'm sure all this will make a great bed time story for your kids.
Stanley Goodspeed: Are you kidding? They'll have nightmares. I'll end up spending all my money on shrinks.

John Mason: I have a unique knowledge of this prison facility. I was formerly a guest here.


Con Air

Cyrus: I despise rapists. For me, they're somewhere between a cockroach and that white stuff that accumulates at the corner of your mouth when you're really thirsty.

Local Cop: I got a problem with a corpse.
Larkin: Yeah?
Local Cop: Yeah. Fell from the sky. I don't think he's an astronaut.