Lethal Weapon 2
Lethal Weapon 2 is a 1989 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Richard Donner, and starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland, Derrick O'Connor and Patsy Kensit. It is a sequel to the 1987 film Lethal Weapon and the second installment in the Lethal Weapon film series.
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| Produced by | Richard Donner
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| Running time | 114 minutes
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| Country | United States
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| Language | English
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| Box office | $147,000,000 USD
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![Mel Gibson - Actua Ciné Magazine Cover [France] (June 1989)](http://img3.bdbphotos.com/images/130x130/m/n/mnxqm15pr8mqpmmn.jpg?skj2io4l)
Roger Murtaugh: Yeah another day, another hobby. What's new?
- An alternate ending to the movie featured a Thanksgiving dinner at the Murtaugh house which is attended by both Riggs and Rika Van Dan Haas. Director Richard Donner later decided that Rika should be killed to further fuel Riggs' hatred of the South African diplomats. With Rika dead, the Thanksgiving dinner scene had to be scrapped.
- Jack McGee ad-libbed his line about the condom commercial during rehearsals. The cast and crew liked it so much it was kept in the film.
- Gary Burghoff of MASH fame turned down the part later taken by Joe Pesci
- The scene where Murtaugh does his 'Free South Africa' tirade - his statement of 'one man, one vote' did in fact, became part of then-South Africa's president F.W. de Klerk agenda to end apartheid, lift the ban on the African National Congress (in the film, protesters outside the South African Consulate had the ANC flag), and released Nelson Mandela from incarceration. Danny Glover did portray Nelson Mandela in the made-for-cable HBO film Mandela (1987), which was filmed prior to the release of the first Lethal Weapon film.
- Throughout several points in the movie, Riggs willfully mispronounces Arjen Rudd's name as "Aryan", willfully calls Pieter Vorstedt "Adolf", and refers to Rudd, Vorstedt, and their associates as the "Master Race". These are all references to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis before and during World War II. "Aryan Race" or "Master Race" was a Nazi ideological form which became a concept for white supremacism. The South African practice of Apartheid at the time was also another ideological form of white supremacy, which is likely why Riggs made these comparisons.
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