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The 12 Most Convenient Ventilation Shafts in Movies
Air shafts, or ventilation shafts, turn up pretty often in movies to help our heroes get out of trouble. Let's vent about this fun movie trope.
Screenwriters David Koepp and Robert Towne and director Brian DePalma throw in all sorts of cool variations on the familiar ventilation shaft routine, including Cruise’s nail-biting descent, a rat, and the fact that the slightest shift in temperature — or even a drop of sweat falling to the floor — will be the end of the mission. In fact, the film symbolically represented the full range of human experience, and both sides of the moral spectrum, by having the women — Jessica Alba and Katie Wright — do their air duct crawling while dressed in angel and devil costumes, respectively. Paramount – Credit: C/OHeld underground by Howard Stambler (John Goodman), who insists the world upstairs isn’t safe, Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead, above) makes an upsetting discovery while moving through, you guessed it, the ventilation duct.
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