The Taking of Pelham 123

Yeah, I don't think it came in with a specifically artistic eye, but it definitely captures the essence I think that it's really going for.

It really does a good job of, once we get the subway car, the Pelham 123 secluded, it gives that air, it gives this idea that they are just sitting down here in the dark, secluded from everybody else.

Yeah, no, it's totally competent, and I would argue it even does dive into good sometimes, but it just doesn't feel like it's someone who has a really strong eye and someone who has a vision for this.

I think he accomplished the job that he was asked to do, and very dependably.

Finally, I want to know this.

When I see a movie like The Taking of Pelham 123, both the early version and the later version, one of the cool things about it is that a subway rider somehow realizes that somewhere elsewhere in the city, there's a kind of skunkworks.

There's a central command.

They know where all the subways are and where they're going and how fast.

I'm about to explain...

I'm about to explain... all the ways that railway safety systems stop you from taking a Pelham 123, right? Okay.

This is railway safety systems that prevent trains from doing things that they shouldn't do, right? Now...

You're driving your car 75 miles an hour in a 35, right? Yes.

And ATC can and will override throttle inputs and apply brakes.

If a train is in overspeed or, you know, for the layman speeding, right.

Um, And this is why in taking of Pelham 123, the train stops before South Ferry.

ATS is overridden, but ATC steps in, stops the train when it enters the lower speed limit zones around South Ferry, right?

He had recurring roles in Homeland, Betrayal, Scandal, The Blacklist, Alcatraz, and Ray Donovan.

He was also in Black Hat, The Family Fang, The Changeling, the remake of The Taking of Pelham 123, and the Nick Cage star vehicle, Next.

Yeah, I just looked up his age, and he was 36 at the time they filmed this episode.

Yeah, that's kind of an age gap, but what are you going to do?

Way back in season two, um, in honor of Henry, God bless Henry.

Um, And he wrote the updated version of The Taking of Pelham 123, which I never saw, but the original is fucking great.

And Curtis Hanson, who also directed the movie, he wrote some other things.

None of them I had heard of.

I love all three of those movies.

Denzel got Out of Time, Man on Fire, and Taking a Pelham 123.

Yeah.

It's Denzel.

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but yeah, Crimson Tide, Man on Fire, Deja Vu, Pelham One Two Three, and Unstoppable, all Denzel films.

Ooh, Deja Vu.

I for- I like that one.

I, I like taking Pelham One Two Three as well.

I really enjoy that one.

That's w- I, I like that a lot more than the original actually.