Face/Off Academy Award for Best Picture. The "Face/Off" soundtrack was released by Hollywood Records on July 1, 1997, the week following the film's release. Several pieces of music and songs were used in the film but not included in the soundtrack. These include: Face/Off Face/Off is a 1997 American science fiction action film directed by John Woo, written by Mike Werb and Michael Colleary, and starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. Travolta plays an FBI agent and Cage plays a terrorist, sworn enemies who assume each other's physical appearance. The first Hollywood film in which Woo was given major creative control,
Travolta (song) to be a tribute to John Travolta and fellow actor Patrick Swayze, although it also contains references to Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump. A biography about John Travolta, written by Bob McCabe, was titled "Quote, Unquote" after the song. The main theme from the movie "Grease", a movie John Travolta was famous for, was sampled twice in the song. This may, however, be a barbed tribute in that the lyrical content of the song strongly references the 1938 novel "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo, throughout which a mute quadruple-amputee war veteran details his personal suffering in the first