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38-540: Daniel Stern may refer to: Daniel Stern (actor) (born 1957), American actor The pen name of Marie d'Agoult (1805–1876) The pen name of Ina Lange (1846—1930), Finnish pianist, music historian and author Daniel Stern (psychologist) (1934–2012), psychoanalytic theorist and author Daniel Stern (writer) (1928–2007), Jewish American novelist and professor of English See also [ edit ] Daniel Stein (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

76-469: A Hughes 500 helicopter, and two radio-controlled F-16 fighter models were used in the filming of the movie. The helicopters were purchased from Aérospatiale by Columbia Pictures for $ 190,000 each and flown to Cinema Air in Carlsbad, California where they were heavily modified for the film. These alterations made the helicopters so heavy that various tricks had to be employed to make it look fast and agile in

114-544: A crazy main character with deeper psychological issues, who went on a rampage and destroyed much of Los Angeles before finally falling to F-16s. The script was rewritten by American screenwriter Dean Riesner with directions on the style of dialogue from director John Badham. Filmed on location in Los Angeles beginning in the late months of 1981, Blue Thunder was one of Warren Oates' last films before his death on April 3, 1982, which occurred during post-production, and

152-558: A flight." McDowell's grimaces and discomfort can be seen during the climactic battle between Murphy and Cochrane in the film. Steenburgen commented to filmmakers afterward, "I don't know how you got him up there, I can't even get him in a 747 !" Designer Mickey Michaels created the helicopters used in the film after reviewing and rejecting various existing designs. The helicopters used for Blue Thunder were French built Aérospatiale SA-341G Gazelles modified with bolt-on parts and Apache -style canopies . Two modified Gazelle helicopters,

190-654: A number of comedic roles, such as Phil Berquist in City Slickers and City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold , and Marv the burglar in the first two Home Alone films, Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York , with Joe Pesci . However, he declined to play the character once again in the fourth installment of the franchise , believing the script to be a disgrace to the original motion picture. He also starred as Max in Bushwhacked . He provided

228-669: A private sunrise demonstration in the Mojave Desert at "Pinkville" and is selected to pilot an advanced helicopter, informally called "The Special" but given the nickname "Blue Thunder" , during an evaluation exercise. It is a military-style combat aircraft intended for police use in surveillance and against possible large-scale civic disobedience or terrorism during the 1984 Summer Olympics . With robust bulletproof armor, powerful armament, and other accoutrements, such as thermal infrared scanners , unidirectional microphones and cameras, built-in mobile telephone, computer and modem,

266-521: A regular basis. Their original script was a more political one, attacking the concept of a police state controlling the population through high-tech surveillance and heavy armament. They sought and received extensive script help from Captain Bob Woods, then-chief of the LAPD's Air Support Division . The first draft of the screenplay for Blue Thunder was written in 1979 and featured Frank Murphy as more of

304-471: A rival competitor, which in reality is the new invention for its time period: the helicopter. In the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City , the player can infiltrate a military base and steal an attack helicopter to perform vigilante missions known as Brown Thunder , spoofing the film. In 1987, Coca-Cola Telecommunications released a Blue Thunder video tape cartridge for Worlds of Wonder's short lived Action Max game system. Using footage from

342-454: A six-barreled 20 millimeter electric cannon, a "whisper mode" that lets the aircraft fly silently and a U-matic video cassette recorder ; Blue Thunder appears to be a formidable tool in the war on crime. Murphy notes wryly that with enough of these helicopters "you could run the whole damn country." When McNeely's death is seemingly turning out to be more than just a random murder, Murphy begins his own covert investigation. He discovers that

380-604: A student who raised objections during Jill Clayburgh 's proof of the snake lemma in the film It's My Turn . He was the novice observer Richard Lymangood in the 1983 action thriller film Blue Thunder . He had another early film role in the 1984 horror film C.H.U.D. , as the soup kitchen C.H.U.D. hunter. His breakthrough role as Laurence "Shrevie" Schreiber came in Barry Levinson 's Diner . He appeared in two films with Woody Allen , Stardust Memories and Hannah and Her Sisters . Stern has played characters in

418-412: A subversive action group is intending to use Blue Thunder in a military role to quell urban disorder under the project codename T.H.O.R. ("Tactical Helicopter Offensive Response"), and are secretly eliminating political opponents to advance their agenda, which McNeely was looking into at the time. Murphy suspects the involvement of his old Vietnam nemesis, former United States Army Colonel F.E. Cochrane,

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456-694: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Daniel Stern (actor) Stern was born in Bethesda, Maryland to Cynthia and Leonard Stern. His father was a social worker while his mother managed a day care center . He is Jewish . His brother is television writer David M. Stern . During his years at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School , Stern starred in several theater productions, including playing Chuck Baxter in Promises, Promises and Tevye in Fiddler on

494-557: Is his son, California State Senator Henry Stern . Blue Thunder Blue Thunder is a 1983 American action thriller film directed by John Badham . The Blue Thunder helicopter itself did exist as two copies of modified French Aérospatiale Gazelles . A spin-off television series, also called Blue Thunder , ran for 11 episodes in 1984. Frank Murphy is a Los Angeles Metropolitan Police Department air support division pilot and troubled Vietnam War veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder . His newly assigned observer

532-415: Is novice Richard Lymangood. The two patrol the city at night and give assistance to police forces on the ground when needed. Upon returning from patrol, the pair are placed under a two-week suspension for allegations of voyeurism during a nearby mugging incident gone wrong that leads to the shooting death of city councilwoman Diana McNeely. Murphy is shortly reinstated for duty and is instructed to attend

570-576: Is this year's must-see action film. See it." Christopher John reviewed Blue Thunder in Ares Magazine #14 and commented that "For those who want a film that is both filled with action and thought provoking, Blue Thunder is a sure bet. Watch out, George , the Jedi have competition." The film garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Film Editing for Frank Morriss and Edward Abroms , but lost out to The Right Stuff . An acronym used in

608-583: Is unreported. The film made $ 21.9 million in video rentals in the US. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 78% of 23 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.6/10. On Metacritic it has a score of 66% based on reviews from 11 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Variety called it "a ripsnorting live-action cartoon, utterly implausible but no less enjoyable for that". Rita Kempley of The Washington Post wrote: " Blue Thunder hovers just this side of trash and

646-693: The Hulu original series, “Shrill”, as the main character’s (Aidy Bryant) father. Stern works as an artist, specializing in bronze sculpture. He has created sculptures for public art projects in San Diego, Pasadena, Palm Desert, Temple City, Monrovia, and Agoura Hills. He is an artist in residence at Studio Channel Islands Art Centre in Camarillo. He has also done many private commissions, gallery exhibitions and art fairs. He married Laure Mattos, an actress in 1980, and together they have three children, one of whom

684-1144: The Roof . Stern applied for a job as a lighting engineer for a Shakespeare Festival in Washington, D.C. , but was hired as a walk-on in their production of The Taming of the Shrew , starring Glenn Close . He dropped out of high school in his senior year and soon moved to New York. After taking acting lessons at HB Studio with Austin Pendleton and Herbert Berghof , Stern began his acting career in Off Broadway and Broadway productions, including True West with Gary Sinise and How I Got That Story at Second Stage Theatre with Bob Gunton . He acted in numerous productions at The Public Theater , Ensemble Studio Theater, Cherry Lane Theater , and Manhattan Theater Club . In 1979, Stern made his film debut as Cyril in Breaking Away . The following year he played

722-492: The film is dedicated to him. He made one movie and one TV episode before and after filming during 1981–1982 that were released after Blue Thunder. Although the film was shot in Los Angeles and real-life neighborhoods are mentioned, the LAPD did not allow any references to be made to them. Hence, the police force is known as the more-generic "Metropolitan Police" and Frank Murphy is part of the fictional "ASTRO Division", rather than

760-462: The film, " JAFO ", meaning "Just Another Fucking Observer", is police community jargon and is mentioned repeatedly in the film in reference to any police helicopter's non-pilot second officer, in this case Daniel Stern 's character of Richard Lymangood. In the related TV series , the reference is expurgated for prime-time television as "Just Another Frustrated Observer" for Clinton Wonderlove ( Dana Carvey ). A screen still from Blue Thunder of

798-538: The film, the player plays the pilot of the Blue Thunder helicopter as he tries to prevent the World Peace Coalition from being attacked by a terrorist organization. In 2015, Sony proposed a remake of Blue Thunder focusing on drone technology , with Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca as producers, and Craig Kyle as writer. In 2017, it was announced that Columbia Pictures would be overseeing

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836-481: The film. For instance, the 360° loop maneuver Murphy performs at the end of the film, which catches Cochrane so completely by surprise that he is easily shot down by Murphy's gunfire and killed, was carried out by a radio controlled model. Blue Thunder was released on May 13, 1983. It was the number 1 ranked film in the United States on its opening weekend, taking in $ 8,258,149 at 1,539 theaters, overtaking

874-412: The helicopter erupts in a huge fireball, but Murphy quietly walks away unharmed and disappears, his enemies assuming he was killed in the explosion. In the meantime, the tape is made public, and the conspirators are arrested. Co-writers Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakoby began developing the plot while living together in a Hollywood apartment in the late 1970s, where low-flying police helicopters woke them on

912-680: The helicopter flying in front of the Los Angeles skyline is used as the background image of the title screen in the Sega 1987 video game Thunder Blade . In the TaleSpin episode "Baloo Thunder," the episode title and certain plot elements are referenced and parodied from the film, when ace pilot Baloo helps out his inventor friend Buzz, who is being framed for stealing a "Top Secret Project" from his industrialist employer Shere Khan by an ambitious corporate spy within Khan Industries for

950-511: The hunt-and-destroy operation. Cochrane, frustrated and bent on finally putting down his former subordinate, defies his orders to stand down and ambushes Blue Thunder in a heavily-armed Hughes 500 helicopter. After a tense battle, Murphy shoots Cochrane down, executing a 360° loop through use of Blue Thunder 's turbine boost function. His vehicle having sustained heavy damage and running low on fuel, Murphy then destroys Blue Thunder by landing it in front of an approaching freight train;

988-481: The municipal government; beginning with two LAPD Bell 206s . After Murphy incapacitates the first one, forcing it to land via autorotation , he engages in a cat-and-mouse chase with the second by slaloming down the Los Angeles River viaduct until his pursuer crashes. Following this, two Air National Guard F-16 fighters are deployed to deal with Murphy, but he manages to shoot one of them down and evade

1026-421: The news station, but is almost confronted by one of the conspirators; the reporter Kate was sent to find intercepts Kate and gets the tape back, while the conspirator is knocked unconscious by a security guard before it can be electronically erased. Deeming Murphy as a security risk, Cochrane and the other conspirators employ every asset they can manage to bring Blue Thunder down, including the initial support of

1064-515: The other side of credibility, but it propels a willing audience into adrenaline heaven." Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote: "The action sequences are what the film is all about, and these are remarkably well done, including a climactic, largely bloodless shootout among helicopters and jet fighters over Los Angeles." C. J. Henderson reviewed Blue Thunder in The Space Gamer No. 63. Henderson commented that " Blue Thunder

1102-473: The other. In the process, one heat-seeking missile destroys a barbecue stand in Little Tokyo and a second missile hits the sun-warmed windows of an ARCO Plaza high-rise building, in both cases having been fooled into missing the prototype by the heat generated by the false targets. Appalled at the heavy destruction in the city so far, and wanting to avoid further collateral damage, the mayor then suspends

1140-580: The previous number 1 film Flashdance . The film was ranked No. 2 in its second and third weekends. Overall, in the US, it took in $ 42,313,354 for its 66 days of release. Blue Thunder was released in West Germany on February 5, 1983, before its US release, being released worldwide between June and September 1983. Its UK release was August 25, 1983. It was released in East Germany and South Korea in 1984. Its total international box office income

1178-488: The primary test pilot for Blue Thunder and someone who felt Murphy was "unsuitable" for the program. During a test flight operation over the city, Murphy and Lymangood use Blue Thunder to follow and video record a meeting between Cochrane and the other government officials which would implicate them in the conspiracy, but Cochrane unexpectedly looks outside and sees Blue Thunder hovering in front of their window and realize what has happened. After landing, Lymangood secures

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1216-550: The real-life "Air Support Division". However, Air Support assignments are often known as ASTRO, or "Air Support to Regular Operations". The LAPD Hooper Heliport , which was still under construction at the time, filled in as the home base for the fictional version of the police air unit. The drive-in theater scene where Frank's girlfriend Kate recovers the tape was filmed at the Pickwick Theatre in Burbank, California ;

1254-406: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Stern&oldid=1009814984 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

1292-420: The tape and hides it, but is captured upon returning to his home, interrogated, and then killed while trying to escape from them. Murphy hijacks Blue Thunder and arranges to have his girlfriend Kate retrieve the tape and deliver it to the local news station, using the helicopter to thwart her pursuers. After a crazy high-speed journey through the city which wrecks many police and civilian vehicles, Kate arrives at

1330-409: The theater has since then been demolished and replaced by a Pavilions supermarket. Malcolm McDowell , who portrayed antagonist F. E. Cochrane; ironically has an intense fear of flying in real life and not even his then-wife Mary Steenburgen could persuade him to overcome his phobia. In an interview for Starlog in 1983, Badham recalled, "He was terrified. He used to get out and throw up after

1368-632: The voice for the main character of the Dilbert animated TV series, based on the comic strip by Scott Adams . Stern directed several episodes of The Wonder Years and the 1993 feature film Rookie of the Year , and in recent years directed two episodes of the TV series, Manhattan . Stern created, wrote, and starred in the CBS television show Danny . He wrote the off-Broadway hit Barbra's Wedding , which

1406-591: The voice of the narrator on the TV series The Wonder Years , which starred Fred Savage as Kevin Arnold. As narrator, Stern played the adult Kevin Arnold, remembering his youth. Stern and Savage were also featured together in Little Monsters , in which Stern played the father of Savage's character. In the late 1990s, Stern took on a more serious role in the black comedy Very Bad Things with Christian Slater , Cameron Diaz and Jon Favreau . Stern provided

1444-554: Was produced by The Dodgers and Manhattan Theater Club. It starred John Pankow and Julie White and ran for six months. Stern also appeared in the play at Garry Marshall's Falcon Theater. Stern was originally offered the role of Dale Gribble in King of the Hill but he was replaced by Johnny Hardwick when his salary agreement went low. He starred in Game Over, Man! (2018) as well as

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