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The Tower
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Tower (or Tae-wo) is a 2012 Korean Spiritual Successor to The Towering Inferno.The setting is the fictional Tower Sky, the tallest buildings in the world, modeled after the Petronas Towers in Malaysia, home to some of the wealthiest people in Seoul and cutting-edge in both technology and luxury. To celebrate Christmas, a VIP party is held in the "Sky garden" of the tower overlooking the river. Dae-ho, the manager of the building and single father, is forced to cancel plans with his daughter Ha-na to coordinate the event. However, Yoon-hee, the food mall manager (with a secret crush on Dae-ho), offers to babysit Ha-na during the party. Meanwhile, Kang Young-ki, the legendary fire captain of Yoido Station, has at the urging of Sergeant Oh Byung-Man and the rest of the crew, finally promised his first Christmas date night to his long suffering wife, while the station's new probationary fightfighter gets the sort of hazing that shows some things are universal the world over. During the party, it is discovered that the exterior pipes in the building have frozen over, rendering the sprinklers above the 60th floor inoperable. The party is in full swing when a fleet of helicopters fly overhead with snow-making machines, giving the building's VIPs a white Christmas, indoors!Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })What Could Possibly Go Wrong?Not to be confused with The Tower trope. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: To The Towering Inferno, which already was a really dark movie to begin with. The arc of the disaster is very similar to 9/11, though the crash that starts the fire in the movie is purely accidental. | |
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Rule of Cool | |
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Still, the actual fire suppression in the movie is grounded much more in Rule of Cool than anything like reality. | |
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Developing Doomed Characters | |
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Developing Doomed Characters: Typical for a disaster movie, though most of the main protagonists do survive. | |
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Convection, Schmonvection | |
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Convection Schmonvection: Averted thoroughly and horribly in the case of the elevator full of panicking people... | |
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Corrupt Bureaucrat | |
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Corrupt Bureaucrat: The Fire Commissioner. He has a VIP list and they get rescue priority over all other residents, seriously hampering firefighting efforts. Captain Kang finally tells him what to do with his priority rescue list. | |
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Artistic License – Physics | |
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Artistic License – Physics: Quite a bit less then The Towering Inferno. The fire spreads the way you'd expect a fire to spread in such a building, and the inevitable Water Tower Down gambit only buys minutes. Plus, during such an intense fire, the structural integrity of the tower quickly becomes compromised - leading to the decision to bring the burning tower down with a controlled detonation, to prevent it from taking the other tower with it and wiping out half of downtown Seoul... Still, the actual fire suppression in the movie is grounded much more in Rule of Cool than anything like reality. | |
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Films of 2010–2014 / int_9eb89692 | |
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Water Tower Down / int_9eb89692 |
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