"The Towering Inferno" can be said to be a masterpiece of its kind in special effects movies. The action scenes directed by producer and director Irwin Allen can be said to be the gems in this movie and become the most memorable part of the movie. Usually in these extremely complex action scenes, the audience will have a vague impression of the different adventures of different actors. But "The Towering Inferno" has five main action scenes for the actors to play one by one. These five scenes are Paul Newman successfully rescued two children and an old woman from the collapsed stairs; the crowd in formal wear was trapped in the banquet hall on the 135th floor waiting for rescue; the high-altitude sling rescued and was trapped in sightseeing The twelve people on the elevator and the last two million gallons of water in the film. These clues are cleverly distributed in the film under the director's meticulous creation, always maintaining the overall tense rhythm of the film
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"The Towering Inferno" is a kind of explosive film, the most successful one in the wave of disaster films in the 1970s. The three-hour film length and the investment of more than 13 million yuan make "The Towering Inferno" a model of Hollywood's best commercial film production. The story of the film takes place in a 135-story skyscraper built in San Francisco using carefully constructed models and special effects photography techniques. Although the building looks very real, the audience knows that all of this is fictitious. The scene of the fire in the film is convincing. The gas explosion, the scene of the disaster and the rescue in the fire seemed very real
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