John Badham
John Badham
John MacDonald Badhamis an American film director, best known for the films Saturday Night Fever, Blue Thunder, WarGames, Short Circuitand Stakeout...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth25 August 1939
eric five germans liked took
When the movie was done, Number Five was crated up. Eric took him over to Germany; displayed him over there because Germans really liked this movie. It was very popular with them.
motivational people personality
The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.
appealed charming funny mechanics
I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.
advances arms eric huge moved suit sync
I also know that in the second movie, the sequel, Eric made some huge advances with the robot suit. That just made it even better. You put the suit on and moved your arms then the robot's arms would move in sync with yours.
both feeling interested literally somebody
Sometimes it's literally just a feeling that you get that somebody is more interested than someone else; and they may both say they're interested, but you get a feeling.
kids length longer scenes span
There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes.
bed head legs move nerves power saying turn
In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.
against drove floating gravity painted properly took zero
In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy!
different want computer
Nobody wants another computer hacker movie, unless it's something amazingly different.
sound brilliant motion-pictures
John Ottman's music has emerged...as a brilliant new sound in the spectrum of Motion Pictures.
running thinking ideas
One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.
thinking years blue
Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he's uncredited. He's done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over the years.