Backdraft (7/11) Movie CLIP - Who Doesn't Love Fire? (1991) HD

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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
During a heated conversation, Ronald (Donald Sutherland) helps Brian (William Baldwin) figure out who may be causing the fires.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
The sons of a Chicago fireman who gave his life in the performance of his duties, firefighting brothers Kurt Russell and William Baldwin carry their lifelong sibling rivalry into their work. Russell is convinced that Baldwin hasn't got what it takes to remain in the fire department. Baldwin is transferred to a "safe" assignment, assisting arson investigator Robert DeNiro, who is trying to make sense of a series of fires involving an oxygen-induced ball of fire called a backdraft. The investigation reveals a link between corrupt alderman J. T. Walsh and imprisoned pyromaniac Donald Sutherland. The trail of evidence leads Baldwin to suspect that his brother Russell, a much-decorated hero, may be the "inside" man setting up the arsons.
CREDITS:
TM & © Universal (1991)
Cast: William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland
Director: Ron Howard
Producers: Raffaella De Laurentiis, Pen Densham, Larry DeWaay, Brian Grazer, Todd Hallowell, Richard Barton Lewis, John Watson
Screenwriter: Gregory Widen
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[@verbo108]

Came to see this scene after learning of Donald Sutherland's passing. A trully gifted actor. RIP

[@Shawn-1971]

One of his best

[@Makeitso2023]

His face when he realised brian had the fire look at him is just brilliant acting,then he leads Brian right to the answer he wanted.. such a sad day to lose such a great actor and person but we will always remember his work like backdraft jfk mash etc

[@samzaiger5902]

Here I am Man! 😭

[@carlogambino1979]

Yes absolute. His best role is Ronald the creepy arsonist.

[@hpa2005]

Agreed, he never went half way in any role he took.

[@rogerkincaid931]

For a fella obsessed with fire, he was quite chilling here. RIP Donald Sutherland.

[@ronaldshank7589]

Yes... Like ice! May he Rest In Peace and Love.

[@daisysadventures5476]

His best role imo. He was only on screen maybe 15 minutes tops but he was by far the standout. Came to watch after hearing he passed. RIP Mr Sutherland

[@jcfitch3194]

RIP Mr. Sutherland. What a performance with this one.

[@davidtate683]

He will be missed.

[@DarthCipient]

This is an awesome movie. Donald Sutherland's character is the Hannibal Lecter of fire.

[@gregdavidl647]

Agreed. I think it was Lector inspired

[@mikekling5880]

@@gregdavidl647 Hannibal Lighter

[@alexgataric]

Flagrant ripoff. Emotional blackmail for case insights. Quo pid quo.

[@dirdib69]

@@alexgataric Both movies came out in 1991, I think.

[@jdhrap]

@@alexgataric agreed.

[@MovieManOfPetersham]

*Rest In Peace, legend… 💔🥺*

[@user-cr8dq7sc6h]

He was a true screen icon.

[@blakechapman6047]

This scene gives me chills "did the fire look at you?? Ohhh... It did"

[@jgfunk]

The scenes with Ronald creeped me out for a while after I saw this in theaters.

[@stevelucas2398]

Absolutely. Donald Sutherland gives a masterclass in this scene.

[@seanspartan2023]

When I was younger I knew a real pyromaniac who thought this way too. He was obsessed with fire being alive. The only reason he wasn't in jail for arson was because he was in a psychiatric hospital. The only difference between him and the character in the movie was that my friend didn't burn people, he set fires on abandoned properties. Ronald didn't care what he burned and at his parole hearing admitted to burning old ladies and young girls. Despite the medication, my friend didn't get much better and was hospitalized for years. We eventually lost contact with each other. Idk what happened to him.

[@williamhaggard451]

Rest in Peace Donald Sutherland deeply be missed 💔💔💔💔😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@1f5sda]

Agreed!

[@Themostimportantpersononyoutub]

He was in this movie for such a short time but was fantastic.

[@user-ve5ln5le9y]

He reprised the role for the sequel but it’s almost cartoonish, the film is pretty poor nothing like the original

[@merclb56]

That 360 Ronald pulls once he hears what he wants to hear and gets down to business...perfection

[@RobertWF42]

There's a spooky firefighting scene earlier in the movie where the fire does indeed seem to "look" at Brian - it's almost supernatural. So when Ronald asks him "...has the fire looked at you?" the look on Brian's face, and Ronald's subsequent reaction, is priceless.

[@dirdib69]

Yes, the way that they "animated" the fire, made it like a living thing, was key to the movie. I love Ronald's sheer delight and even awe when he sees from Brian's face that Brian saw it, too. It's like they are suddenly friends, or at least peers. They both know the "secret", that the fire is a living animal. Ronald's pyromania is rooted in his love for that animal, for seeing it "have fun", like it's a pet that Ronald can only experience by turning it loose. Backdraft and Silence of the Lambs both came out in 1991, interestingly enough.

[@knightwind6628]

@@dirdib69 absolutely. Ronald is taking delight in Brian's fear of fire and uses it against him to toy around with him. Ronald and Hannibal should get together for a drink sometimes, exchange cooking ideas.

[@MAnuscript421]

Which fire was it again? The garment factory, the brick house fire, or when Shadow was explaining about the animalistic nature of fire?

[@JSRbowling595]

@@MAnuscript421 I think the one where the fire killed his dad.

[@gravydude1957]

is that idea that the fire is an animal or can even look at something. Is that an idea that came from mostly from this story or did it originate in other works? it seems vaguely familiar like I have heard pieces of it in other media but I cannot figure where it originates from.

[@Kjleed13]

Maybe my favorite Donald Sutherland moment. Rest in greatness. ❤

[@PackCorey]

Donald should've been nominated for an academy award for his performance as well as De Niro for this movie. It's a shame they weren't. Also, Bruce Hornsby should've received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song which was "The Show Goes On." This film was alot more Oscar Worthy than most people think.

[@waveshock]

Not an original song. Published three years before the movie in the album "Scenes from the southside"

[@sidhenry6422]

its ronald not donald 🤨🤨

[@kevinsanders3630]

@Sid Henry The actors name is Donald Sutherland. Ronald is the character he plays. Actors win awards not the characters they play.

[@sidhenry6422]

@@kevinsanders3630 huh

[@svenberkard5874]

Oscar awards don't mean everything.

[@THEvagabond29]

Donald Sutherland should have won an award for this. He was so entrancing and diabolical yet kind to the man who also looked into the eyes of destruction and lived beyond its gaze... J.Christ... Ive seen mental patients who are so far long gone and they sound just like Sutherlands character that its hard to forget.

[@j4ward95]

I love even though in prison Ronald still Holds all the power in this scene!! Especially when he says “did it look at you? The Fire look at you?” What a phenomenal scene.

[@rocnoir4233]

Best performance in the film. Donald is seriously convincing here.

[@33themajor]

You can tell Ronald asking Brian if the fire “looked at him”, that’s a whole another level of fire not many, even firemen get exposed to. But it’s also genius of Ronald that he was able to figure it out so easily and was trying to get Brian to figure it out using epistemology, which is the art of asking questions to root out who could be behind this.

[@r.j.cronkhite2889]

I think you mean the Socratic method.

[@bligamerplayer3299]

In Memory Of Donald Sutherland (1935-2024) Past away at age 88 on June 20th, 2024…

[@Unknown-bq9id]

I never knew Donald Sutherland could be THIS creepy...

[@davidmartinez3272]

Man, Donald Sutherland is creepiness himself

[@bartmann81]

Obviously you haven't seen 1900

You must not watch Sutherland movies then

[@mikehenrybell2398]

Ya should’ve seen the invasion of the body snatchers

[@toddsmitts]

Hey, Kiefer had to get it from someone.

[@amydamjanovic9183]

“Are the lambs still screaming, Clarice?”

[@hoibsh21]

"Did the fire see you, Brian?"

[@HippeusOmega]

Rip to you Donald Sutherland. This was the first movie i saw you in as a kid.

[@chrissybeechner5912]

Should have gotten a nomination for best supporting actor. Donald sutherland was perfect

[@obiwan21]

Donald Sutherland=Creepy. One of my favorite of his supporting roles along with JFK. "Wasn't such a long walk after all", brilliant.

[@verve92]

+obiwan21 He is in a class by himself along with Ed Harris, Billy Bob Thornton, and the late great Philip Seymour Hoffman where he morphs into the roles in a metaphysical and/or sublime way.

[@Fanik10]

Just call me X. The man is superb!

[@nicksixer]

GREAT LINE

[@ForceMaximus84]

And both movies were released in 1991!

[@michaelcastro7196]

His best role RIP

[@nicolamcguinness8689]

Rest in peace Donald Sutherland

[@1f5sda]

He will be missed.

[@MrHartApart]

While his eyes don't go wide Sutherland still shows that wide-eyed crazed look. Less is more.

[@sha11235]

This is sort of like the scene in Silence of the Lambs, where Clarice went to Lecter to see if Lecter could help find another serial killer. And Scott Glenn appears in both films!!!!!

[@shanerose7204]

Ironically, Silence of the Lambs came out the same year as Backdraft

[@stevenjennings4617]

I was just thinking the same thing

[@thermonuclearcollider4418]

@@shanerose7204 I always suspected Ronald was added to the script because they knew "Silence of the Lambs" was coming out: both movies were released in '91, but the "Silence" novel by Thomas Harris came out in '88. It's not hard to imagine some Hollywood executive reading in the trades that they were turning the book into a movie and ordering a rewrite on "Backdraft" to make it more like "Silence of the Lambs". And this is not a complaint, because Sutherland is one of the best things in the movie: I actually find him way creepier than Anthony Hopkins. Lecter is like supervillain. Ronald really looks insane. He reminds me of some people I met that where borderline psychotic: he's the same kind of person, he simply took the extra step into full madness.

[@neiljohnson5351]

I've never seen a pyromaniac better portrayed in Hollywood than this character!

[@LordMalice6d9]

Donald always reminded me alittle of Hannibal Lecter in this movie from Silence of the Lambs.

[@gutz1981]

One thing this movie done so well that made it more deep is make "Fire" a type of living thing. Which as the movie explains a few times it is, it does breath and it does consume and leave waste and can eventually die out or be killed. Even water cannot be seen in a similar fashion as it never really goes away, it simply changes form via evaporation or retreat to the earth. But fire, it really made itself be felt like a wild animal in this movie.

[@hoibsh21]

Ya, it's a deep movie. ROn Howard definitely put his thinking cap on for this one.

[@sumedhvaidya3019]

agree i was intrigued by that scene. almost thought this was a supernatural horror movie.

[@johnyoutuber9781]

Excerpt from TV Tropes - "Real firefighters roll their eyes during Robert De Niro's "It's a Living Thing" monologue, because fire is definitely not. Firefighting is straight-up gallons/minute vs. BTUs and fire obeys quite predictable laws of physics. The monologue does make some cool drama, though (and considering that we see that his character has been badly burned at one point, he can be excused for becoming a little superstitious about fire)."

[@thermonuclearcollider4418]

@@johnyoutuber9781 "The monologue does make some cool drama, though" ...that's the whole point: it's not a documentary nor a movie based on real events. It's a police procedural about a serial killer with firefighters instead of cops and fire instead of a maniac (yeah, there's also a mysterious arsonist, but the focus is on fire itself). I always thought "Backdraft" was brilliant in this regard, a "high concept" before everybody and their brothers started filling their mouths with that word. The rest of the film is so naive in its melodrama it almost feels like a parody, but the whole "the fire is a living animal" part was great. Had they concentrated on it and left out some of the other stuff, it would've entered the annals of the thriller genre.

[@stevelucas2398]

​@johnyoutuber9781 go fight a mulri-level structural fire with rescues and cone back and talk about predictability

[@johnfish9109]

I'm just hoping all the pages in that Life Magazine weren't stuck together.

[@omarc9977]

So the character is Ronald Sutherland. Edit: I just found out Donald's passing. Legend. One the greatest actors, extremely underrated (or I must say unrecognized?), but always with such a presence on the screen. Farewell Donald!

[@danc3488]

RIP to one of the greatest actors of our generation. Donald Sutherland will be sorely missed by all. He was absolutely brilliant in this scene. As a firefighter myself, this made me cringe.

[@THEJIG-IS-UP]

My dad was a fireman for 25yrs. One of the oddest things for me when I was a teenager was I was at a party and some idiot caught the house on fire and my dad showed up. I skidddaddled quickly!! I didn't hang around for the fire to look at me or dad lol

[@spearsy7614]

Listen to the chairs creek after Ronald asks if the fire looked at you lol. Creepy!

[@nicksixer]

"That wasn't such a long walk after all was it?"

[@dagger1580]

The thing that really makes Ronalds character so terrifying is there are actual people like him out there

[@thermonuclearcollider4418]

Indeed there are. I've always found this character creepier than Hannibal Lecter.

[@MovieManOfPetersham]

Scott Glenn was amazing in this film just like Donald Sutherland.

[@JavierGonzalez-zg3ep]

Sutherland , Deniro , Russell are superb. I just dont get why William Baldwin with no a ting skills was the lead. I guess Ron Howard lost a bet to Alec Baldwin.

[@donaldoconner]

because he he was famous and looked like he could be related to Kurt Russel. Also he's supposed to be the audience surrogate, so minimalist stoic acting actually works. Kind of like Keanu Reeves in most movies.

[@davidmartinez3272]

@@JavierGonzalez-zg3ep Well, I think William Baldwin did a pretty good job, but he's a Baldwin, that's the problem

[@WizardOfHumor1989]

"It's the things we love most, that destroy us!" - President Snow

[@erickellogg8532]

who's president snow

[@JSRbowling595]

@@erickellogg8532 The main antagonist in the "Hunger Games" franchise. Donald Sutherland plays the role of President Snow.

[@joeloveland6283]

His "hope" talk is so cool.

[@mitchfromtwitter81]

Donald Sutherland was an incredible actor. I will miss him.

[@mikemontemurro8088]

RIP Donald, you were truly awesome.

[@krisscanlon4051]

RIP to him...I always thought this part brought him back in a big way after being almost forgotten in the 80s. After this one he worked for years...I'll miss him so much

[@asiaeuropexpress]

1:47 Thank you, Donald. Thank you. And RIP.

[@narcanninja]

That wasn’t such a long walk after all.

[@nicksixer]

great line, very underrated

[@theaterdreamer]

Donald Sutherland finally received a lifetime award from the Academy Awards in 2018. And thank God for that. It’s incomprehensible, to me, that he has never received so much as a competitive Oscar nomination. Watch Don’t Look Back, MASH, Ordinary People, JFK, Animal House, Klute, Eye of the Needle, etc….and then find me another actor from that era with such a range of great performances, both in a leading and supporting role. It doesn’t matter the genre, he always delivers. Always.

[@mluterancik]

I can't believe Kurt didn't get the recognition he deserved for his role in this movie.

[@KiloByte69]

+mluterancik ikr

[@wjrasmussen666]

You had a cast full of greats.

[@DanTDrac]

What a performance by Mr. Sutherland.

[@carlogambino1979]

William Baldwin was such an intense actor. He did some great movies in the 90s, Fair Game was a brilliant show as well.

[@godzillawashere]

I have two reasons why I love this movie number 1: it's a great firefighting movie unrealistic but just fun to watch and 2: it was my first rated R movie

[@aaronmichael7116]

Very unrealistic, but yes, the best ff movie up until Ladder 49, then that took the cake !

[@user-ve5ln5le9y]

I guess I’m in the minority I hated ladder 49. Very predictable. Cast not as good. This film had more plot

[@gutz1981]

Interesting to note this movie came out the same year as Silence of the Lambs (although Manhunter already came out before this and the books existed too) but we got basically two very similar scenes in two different movies where a locked up psychopath is helping someone catch a killer.

[@Illustraful]

Sutherland was amazing. He could play gentle, evil, loving, mysterious, dangerous. An actor of incredible range and depth.

[@AmericanDegenerate]

RIP Mr. Sutherland

[@1f5sda]

Agreed!

[@whoami9966]

God I love Donald as an actor. this scene is so creepy.

[@theebigda]

This is like Clarice and Hannibal chatting in the prison. "Quid Pro Quo."

[@funniedoug03]

I came here for backdraft scenes but now I strangely want simply orange orange juice...

[@Erik-nq2ii]

1:52 best part

[@michaelschiotis2426]

There is only one Donald Southerland. True greatness in acting.

[@shanerose7204]

Did anyone else find it ironic that there was a Minute Maid orange juice ad on the back of the magazine Ronald was reading since Donald Sutherland went on to be the voice of Simply Orange? 😂😂😂😂😂

[@CrazyBunny123]

I thought he was gonna say at 0:31 , “No, the outlets are incidental”

[@sicwititdimeful]

great scene, sutherlands greatest character hes ever played

[@WizardOfHumor1989]

President snow is his darkest since Ronald.

[@Reid-dy6ps]

Donald in a Ron Howard movie yea

[@davidmoro9523]

I like odd ball but this to.hes a great actor.

[@Rumpole1000]

Wow Donald!! How did he not get nominated for an Academy Award?

[@TM-ux8qh]

Donald Sutherland is such a great actor he made Baldwin a good actor. Griping....

[@gabethedinosaur95]

Donald did a fantastic job on backdraft . When he says did it look at you . Did the fire look at you . That gives me the chills and hearing the fire in the background makes me realize fire is a living creature. It’s been around since the dinosaurs and insects.

[@wayned5872]

One of Donald Sutherland's best movies to me Rip sir

[@robertsquared2916]

RIP Donald!

[@bcdside]

Mesmerizing scene.

[@offspringfan1288]

Erie this film came out in 1991 the same year as Silence of the Lambs and in both films a “rookie” probed the mind of a psycho who was imprisoned for help catching a killer.

[@user-dk5ig5kq6w]

He was a mesmerizing actor in anything! But i remember this succinctly. Just visually and campily a course in acting. :)

[@gmen3066]

Old Ronald most definitely gets rock hard talking about fire. There are some certified lunatics in the world.

[@pantarei8382]

Used to love burning things as a kid!

[@shanemurphy1631]

Rip Donald 😢

[@JacobUriel2]

they won't let him loose

[@anxioussamurai9017]

When I watch Donald Sutherland in this scene, I can't help but imagine him as the Joker. Seriously, look at him at 2:57 and just imagine him with the white skin, green hair, and the red-lipped rictus grin.

[@emichels]

When I watch this scene, I think of the scene of Malcovitch in "The Line of Fire" when he shoots the bird and I think that both actors could have done an equally good job here. Such a great scene. Just the pace and tone of their voices are awesome.

[@wa7019]

Superb acting... RIP Mr. Sutherland. Imho, if he was in the cast the movie just got better 10 fold.

[@FalconsFanForever]

Man RIP to Donald Sutherland a brilliant actor he stole the show in this movie. Only got 2 scenes in this movie and nailed it as Ronald.

[@swastikausa]

he looks so much like kiefer here. i half expected him to say dammit

[@lsloan1960]

A quiet villain that can keep their cool will always be scarier than some loud mouth that is constantly blowing their top.

[@RealityTrailers]

that wasn't such a long walk after all.

[@justin.j.boucher]

RIP Donald

[@HangImHigh]

One the best insane actors of all times!! Take to the dragon 🐉!!

[@funniedoug03]

I wonder if this is why he did the simply orange commercials because he was haunted by his time in the mental institution with the time magazine with the Minute Maid ad on the back cover? 🤔

[@wendylinton453]

Just love Donald Sutherland..seen all his films and adored Kelly's Hero's.. ❤🇬🇧

[@jasonlinton9902]

Did it look at you? Did the fire look at you? Creepy as hell

[@colloquialsoliloquy6391]

Now we'll never see Donald Sutherland playing Revolver Ocelot

[@ashleysmith2509]

Sutherland is one of my all time favorite actors. Classic Creepy ;)

[@Adamguy2003]

@ 0:12- 0:16, was Ronald saying that whoever did it wasn't a pyro like him because the fire wasn't destructive enough for such a person to enjoy? Sutherland's voice was a bit too soft at that part for me to really tell what he was saying. He'd make for a good spinoff movie, about what drove him to do what he did and how he got caught.

[@ncommerce]

Adamguy2003 yes

[@stevelucas2398]

They touch on it a little earlier in the film. Ronald was hired to set a fire for an insurance fraud and the fire got out of control and trapped him, setting him on fire. DeNiros character saved him, but was also burned in an explosion while pulling him out of the fire

[@justicejim39]

Donald Sutherland giving us some ASMR

[@wijr77]

Fantastic performance! Most under-rated actor of our generation.

[@user-ve5ln5le9y]

These 2 were the only ones from this film to appear in the crappy sequel in 2019. It’s too bad that it ruined the legacy of this character, he’s almost cartoonish in it.

[@antr7493]

What a amazing cast.W hen movies were just movies

[@allnate77]

There is a very special and unique brand of actor that can be the most hilariously FUNNY character or the absolute SCARIEST EVIL BAD GUY IMAGINABLE! There are only a select few who I have seen accomplish this. Those that come to mind are obviously Donald Sutherland here and as President Snow and Striker in Salem's Lot and then Animal House and The Dirty Dozen for comedy. The others are Christopher Walken in True Romance, Last Man Standing and Prophecy to name a few and Pulp Fiction, Mousehunt and the SNL Cow Bell skit. John Lithgow in Cliffhanger and Dexter and then 3rd Rock from the Sun. Lastly, Steve Buscemi in Con Air, The Sopranos and Boardwalk and Big Daddy, Armageddon and Mr. Deeds. Certainly there are other examples for each of these and other actors who may also qualify but these four definitely belong to this royalty among actors!

[@spodergibbs5088]

Talent actors all

[@cyberherbalist]

"That wasn't such a long walk after all, was it?" Donald was absolutely the best actor in that film. He stole it. And as for Mr. De Niro, he can go suck it.

[@jonmcclane7433]

He absolutely knocked this role out of the park!

[@samus1421]

excellent performance. up there with Hopkins Lecter.

[@kas8131]

Ronald for President

[@user-mb1sy9uz6z]

Rest in Peace, Great Cinema King, Donald Sutherland ( Ronald the Pyromaniac)!!

[@jasonbourne9418]

wrong question,who isn't.

[@hoibsh21]

Ronald is the Hannibal Lector of arson.

[@rgefd0210]

Jason Alexander is a slept on actor. Seinfeld, Pretty Woman, Criminal Minds. He's an easily hateable character yet easy to love.

[@kupper123]

RIP Donald Sutherland Will there ever be such another.