18 Man on Fire Trivia Questions & Answers

Answer: John Creasy

John Creasy has become disillusioned from all the violence and horror of being a CIA agent and has turned to alcohol. He gets hired as a bodyguard on Paul Rayburn's recommendation, but is at first unhappy with guarding a kid.

Answer: Mexico City

Mexico City was chosen as the setting due to its high rate of ransom related kidnappings. The situation had become so serious that many wealthy families purchase kidnap insurance; which in turn gives kidnappers more incentive.

Answer: Lupita Ramos

The girl's name was changed for the movie. In the book, her name is Pinta and she lives in Italy. The director, Tony Scott, changed the location to Mexico and changed the name to Pita, short for Lupita.

Answer: Bodyguard

At the suggestion of his friend, Rayburn, John Creasy took a position as a bodyguard for a wealthy family living in Mexico City. His protectee was a precocious young girl named Pita Ramos who made it her mission to break through Creasy's standoffish exterior to reach the caring individual inside.

Answer: Swimming and Piano

Pita Ramos was a competitive swimmer who was fast in the water, but slow off of the blocks. Creasy worked with her to help ease her fear of the starter's gun. On the other hand, she studied piano only because her father had made arrangements for her to have private lessons with a prestigious teacher.

Answer: her piano lesson

Leaving Pita's lesson, Creasy realizes the police had blocked off the road. A car comes through the roadblock and Creasy tells Pita to run. After the ensuing gunfight, Pita is kidnapped and Creasy is near death.

Answer: Piano Lessons

At her father's request, Pita took piano lessons from a very famous teacher in Mexico City. Creasy taught Pita a no-fail technique for getting her elitist instructor to ask her never to return; belch loudly every few minutes.

Answer: La Hermandad

The name of the organization is mentioned several times during the movie. Victor Fuentes, the man arranging the ransom drop, mentions the name, as does the driver of the car the kidnappers use to abduct Pita.

Answer: A Journalist

The female journalist worked for a Mexico City newspaper called "La Reforma". She had been covering the kidnappings for ransom for some time and suspected that corrupt police officers were at the center of it.

Answer: Blue Bayou

"Blue Bayou" was a song by Roy Orbison in which he sings about leaving his girlfriend in a place called Blue Bayou, and longs to return, but can't. The song has also been interpreted as wishing he could visit a deceased loved one.

He doesn't want Pita to know he is going to die, so he masks the truth by referencing "Blue Bayou".

Answer: La Hermandad

Officer Fuentes allegedly led the effort to help recover Pita Ramos, when in actuality he and his men sabotaged the ransom efforts by hijacking the drop off of the money. Creasy learned about La Hermandad when he was asked to look through a book of mugshots that the anti-corruptions squad showed him after Pita's kidnapping.

Answer: Written in Lupita's diary.

A car was following very close to Creasy's vehicle, and Pita realizes Creasy is suspicious of the following car. She writes down the license plate number in her diary, which is then found after her kidnapping.

Answer: He had already been executed by someone else.

When Creasy found out that Kalfus was involved, he went to his estate to pay him a personal visit. When he arrived he found Kalfus, decapitated, floating in his swimming pool. Information he found in Kalfus' office led him to yet another conspirator.

Answer: "What does she call her bear?"

When The Voice answers "Creasy Bear", Creasy knows The Voice has talked to Pita, and that she is still alive.

Answer: Her Father

Hoping to save his failing business, Pita's father, Samuel Ramos, arranged to have Pita kidnapped and then returned unharmed. When the corrupt police officers hijacked the drop off of the money, everything went wrong.

Answer: He planned Pita's kidnapping for insurance money.

Samuel Ramos' father had died, leaving the family with heavy debt. Ramos decides having his daughter kidnapped for insurance money is a good idea. It, of course, goes horribly wrong.

Answer: The Voice and La Voz

He was called the Voice because no one ever saw his face. He communicated with the members of his organization through a combination of beepers and cell phones. His location was kept a closely guarded secret, until it was traced by the anti-corruption squad, during his cell phone conversation with Creasy.

Answer: He kills Jordan Kalfus.

In an attempt to make himself feel better about having his daughter kidnapped for insurance money (and because the plan had failed), Samuel Ramos kills his co-conspirator, Jordan Kalfus.