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White House Down is a 2013 American
film directed by
about an assault on the
and the Capitol Police Officer who tries to stop them. The film's screenplay is by , and it stars
and , with , , , , and
in supporting roles. The film was released on June 28, 2013 and grossed $205 million worldwide.
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James Sawyer () is generating controversy over a proposed peace treaty between the allied nations to remove military forces from the .
John Cale (Channing Tatum) is a divorced
assigned to
Eli Raphelson () after saving his nephew's life during a tour in . His daughter Emily (), who has a strong enthusiasm for politics, isn't on the greatest of terms with him. He hopes to impress her by getting a job with the
protecting the President, but Carol Finnerty (), a former college acquaintance of his who believes him to be unqualified due to a lack of follow-through and respect for authority, deems him unworthy. To avoid admitting the truth to Emily, Cale takes her on a tour of the .
A man disguised as a janitor detonates a bomb at the center of the . Raphelson and Finnerty are taken to an underground command center in , while
Alvin Hammond () is taken aboard . The White House is put on lockdown, separating Cale from Emily, who went to the restroom. Mercenaries led by Emil Stenz (), who had disguised themselves as video technicians to get inside the White House, start killing off most of the Secret Service and take the tour group hostage, but Cale manages to take a gun and escape to go find his daughter. Retiring Head of the Presidential Detail Martin Walker () escorts the President and his detail to the . Once Sawyer gains access, Walker kills his detail, revealing himself to be the real leader who wants vengeance against President Sawyer after a botched black ops mission resulted in the death of Walker's son. Cale, who failed to find Emily, kills a mercenary and takes his gun and radio. Overhearing the radio, Cale locates and rescues President Sawyer.
Walker and Stenz bring in Skip Tyler () to hack into their defense system, but they still require Sawyer to activate the . They locate the remaining chain of command and execute the
before putting them with the hostages. Carl Killick () catches Emily recording a video of the mercenaries and takes her hostage. Cale and Sawyer manage to contact the command structure, who tell Cale to get the President out through underground tunnels. The command structure uses Emily's video to discover the identities of the mercenaries, who used to work for various government agencies. They also discover that Walker has an inoperable tumor, suggesting his involvement is a suicide mission and that he is planning something more dangerous. Cale and Sawyer find the tunnel gate rigged with an explosive and are forced to escape with a presidential limo. After giving chase with Stenz on the White House lawn, Cale and Sawyer get flipped into the White House pool after Cale gets distracted by Killick holding Emily at gunpoint. A gunfight erupts which results in an explosion that leaves Sawyer and Cale presumed dead. Vice President Hammond is then sworn in as the 47th President of the United States.
When Cale and Sawyer reveal they are still alive, they learn that Hammond has ordered an aerial incursion to take back the White House, but the mercenaries shoot down the choppers with . Cale drops his White House passes for himself and Emily while escaping after fighting Stenz. Having already learned of Emily from the video, Stenz, now knowing she is Cale's daughter, takes her to Walker in the . Tyler finally finishes the upload into
and launches a missile to shoot down Air Force One, killing Hammond and everyone else on board. Raphelson is then sworn in as the 48th President of the United States and reluctantly orders an air strike on the White House, of which Cale is informed.
Walker tells Cale over the White House intercom to surrender Sawyer or Stenz will kill Emily. Sawyer ultimately surrenders himself to save Emily, and Walker reveals his true plan: to use the football to launch the nuclear missiles against the various cities in , which will result in retaliation by many countries and the start of . Sawyer refuses to activate the football, but when Walker threatens to kill Emily again, the alarms and sprinklers are set off by Cale setting various rooms on fire. Tyler is killed while trying to escape by the bomb on the tunnel gate having been tampered with. After killing most of the remaining mercenaries and freeing the hostages, Cale is confronted by Stenz, and blows him up with a grenade belt. Sawyer attacks a distracted Walker, who ultimately gains the upper hand and uses him to activate the football before apparently shooting him dead, infuriating Emily. Using updated launch codes received by an anonymous source, Walker begins targeting various cities in Iran, but before he initiates the launch, Cale crashes into the office and kills him with a minigun. Emily waves a presidential flag on the front lawn, which calls off the fighter strike. The news media declare Emily a hero and Sawyer is revealed to be alive as the bullet had hit a pocket watch handed down to him from . Finnerty calls Cale to reveal that Walker didn't call in the mercenaries, and that there is another mastermind behind the attack. Cale realizes who it is and asks Sawyer to help him out.
Finnerty arrives at the White House with Raphelson. When Raphelson asks about Sawyer, Cale lies and says that he died. Raphelson then orders troops to be sent back into the Middle East, which would go against Sawyer's peace treaty. Cale presses Raphelson about conspiring with Walker to orchestrate the attack and proves it by having Finnerty dial his pager number. Sawyer arrives and has Raphelson arrested. Sawyer names Cale as his new special agent, and takes him and Emily on a personalized aerial tour of DC.
as John Cale, a United States Capitol Police officer and now secret service agent.
as James William Sawyer, the .
as Emily Cale, the daughter of John Cale.
as Carol Finnerty, Secret Service Presidential Detail.
as Emil Stenz, an ex- and
operative. Leader of the right wing mercenaries.
as Eli Raphelson, the
and mastermind of the attack.
as Martin Walker, the Head of the Secret Service Presidential Detail.
as Donnie Donaldson, the White House Tour Guide.
as Skip Tyler, a computer hacker and the technical specialist in Stenz's group.
as General Caulfield, .
as Melanie, the ex-wife of John Cale.
as Carl Killick, a right-wing militant and one of Stenz's henchmen.
as Alvin Hammond, the .
as Kellerman, a Capitol Police officer.
as Ted Hope, a Secret Service agent.
as Wallace, the Vice President's Chief of Staff.
as Muriel Walker, Martin Walker's wife.
as Captain Hutton, an analyst in the Pentagon.
Vincent Leclerc as Ryan Todd, a Secret Service agent.
as Alison Sawyer, the .
Kyle Gatehouse as Conrad Cern, a right-wing
and one of Stenz's henchmen.
as Motts, one of Stenz's henchmen.
Jackie Geary as Jenna, assistant to the Vice President.
White House Down is directed by
and based on a screenplay by , who is also one of the film's producers. Sony Pictures purchased Vanderbilt's
in March 2012 for $3 million, in what
called "one of the biggest spec sales in quite a while". The journal said the script was similar "tonally and thematically" to the films
and . In the following April, Sony hired
as director. Emmerich began filming in July 2012 at the La Cité Du Cinéma in . Cinematographer
shot the film with
In 2012, Sony competed with , who were producing
(also about a takeover of the White House) to complete casting and to begin filming.
White House Down was originally scheduled for a November 1, 2013 release, but was moved up to a June 28, 2013 release.
White House Down was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on November 5, 2013.
White House Down received mixed reviews from critics.
gives the film a rating of 51%, based on 185 reviews, with a
of 5.4/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "White House Down benefits from the leads' chemistry, but director Roland Emmerich smothers the film with narrative clichés and choppily edited action." At , which assigns a weighted average score to reviews, the film has an average score of 52 out of 100, based on 43 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Roth Cornet of
gives it a 6.5/10, concluding: "White House Down is a pretty silly rehashing of previously tread action movie territory, but if you're willing to laugh along with (or even at) it, it can be a highly entertaining experience."
Andrew Chan of the
writes, "I am not entirely sure, whether I should be happy or sad that I laughed when someone got shot or bombed, but such is the manner of how the film is played out. Therefore, I prefer Olympus for this one."
, however, gave the film an F, stating that "Everyone in White House Down is an idiot, clinically insane, a cliché, or a vehicle for shameless exploitation." He later named it the worst film of 2013.
The film grossed $73.1 million in the United States and $132.3 million internationally for a total gross of $205.4 million, against a budget of $150 million.
On its opening weekend in the U.S., the film disappointed and came in at 4th at the box office. It earned $24.9 million, less than March's similarly themed Olympus Has Fallen ($30.4 million opening). In its second weekend, the film made $13.4 million.
In October 2013, Sony announced it lost $197 million for June, July, and August 2013, and largely blamed "the box office flop of the movie White House Down as a key reason for the weakness".
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Films directed by
: Hidden categories:很久没有看国产的连续剧了，主要是觉得大多数都是为了满足中国观众的最小公约数，拍的很弱智，实在是浪费时间。
这次看见网上有很多《蜗居》的热评，觉得也许值得一试
用pplive看了两集，虽然还没看出什么特别出彩的地方, 故事和几个主演都感觉很真实， 确实比较感人。
好像在网上看到的评论也是类似的评价
写到这里，忽然觉得有些悲哀，仅仅是真实，特别真实，就这么被大家追捧，是不是有些悲哀？
（我知道只看了两集，也许是以偏概全, 希望能证明我的错–这个剧除了真实还有什么特别的东西。不过从评论看不觉得情节有什么超人的地方。）
仔细想想， 大概和我国人民因为历史原因，如此习惯不真实以至于一个真实的象镜子一样的文学或电视作品出现在眼前的时候，已经受宠若惊，无法控制自己的感动了
想到自己小时候，连写日记，都想着是给别人，给老师看的，象雷锋叔叔那样，写出来的也和他的风格差不多。每次想到这都觉得恶心，想吐。
想到这世界上五分之一的人几乎都是这样过来的，很少有机会看到真实的人，真实的情感，尤其是在媒体上，艺术中，而其大多数还在继续这样的生活，就更加难受。难到这就是命？？