7º – The Towering Inferno (John Guillermin, 1974)
At the opening party of an imposing commercial building, a terrible tragedy occurs and the place begins to catch fire, leaving the party guests trapped in a floor above the fire. We will follow the firefight and some brave guests in their desperate attempts to preserve lives. ‘The Towering Inferno’ brings together nothing less than Paul Newman and Steve McQueen, two of the greatest icons of the seventh art at the time, working with a story that has its misconceptions but that manages to entertain and impact its viewer. Another interesting detail of this film is that, because of the extreme competition between Newman and McQueen for the star position of the film, the two actors only agreed to make the film if they had exactly the same amount of screenplay as another, something surreal and , of course, was promptly attended by producers and director. However, it is said backstage that Mcqueen would have been furious when he discovered that Newman would have had 12 more lines of dialogue.
6º – The Impossible (J.A. Bayona, 2012)
The film explores the quest for the survival of a family after the holiday they were vacationing was hit by a tsunami. Sad in all its ways, ‘The Impossible’, based on the events of 2004 in Thailand, is regular when we look at the general apparatus, worth even the productive presences of Ewan McGregor and the actress Naomi Watts.
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