Mr. Donner attributed the surprise success of “Lethal Weapon” to his clean depiction of violence. “I like to turn my head away in suspense, not in disgust,” he said in a 1987 interview with The Times. They were shot with bullets; they weren’t dismembered.”He even admitted to having stolen some fight moves from a western: “Red River” (1948), which starred John Wayne. “The annoying thing was the lack of discipline,” Mr. Donner told Yahoo Entertainment in 2015. “And that was also what was great, because it meant that they weren’t professionals.

Source: New York Times July 05, 2021 22:28 UTC