Man on Fire

Burning male figure

Man on Fire is a 2004 action thriller film starring Denzel Washington as a bodyguard who goes on a revenge spree after the kidnapping of the child he was protecting.

The phrase itself describes someone consumed by intense purpose or rage, acting with unstoppable determination: After they fired him, he was a man on fire, exposing every secret the company had.

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Tony Scott · flames · burning · Mexico · Mexico City · rescue · vengeance · vigilante justice · protection · sacrifice · thriller · torch · inferno · immolation · blaze of glory · desperation · fury · rampage

Opposites
combustion state

Man on Firefireman

Emergency blaze responder

corpse

emotional/motivational intensity

Man on Fireburnt out

Exhausted from prolonged stress

hollow man · sleepwalker · quitter

survival outcome

Man on Firesurvivor

One still alive after

Family

man, fire, man's, manly, manliness, manhood, mankind, manful, fireman

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Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated R