The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three 720p Movies
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Film critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, writing in his blog, commented that he loved the film, and thought it was one of three of Scott's great movies of the 2000s, saying: "... the coherence in his films is not between the pages of a script; it's between shots, and his greatest asset (both to himself and to cinema as a whole) is his ability to construct scenes out of shots that take place across great distances of space or time, as in his two best movies: Déjà Vu (much of whose running time consists of characters watching a past event through a sort of time machine) and his remake of The Taking of Pelham 123 (where the two main characters develop a complex relationship, despite not meeting until the end of the movie)."[29]
Handling the hostage situation: This is another one of those things where there's a very clear distinction in these movies as to living in a pre- and post-9/11 world. In 74, a lot of people seem to be really blase about the situation. You have passengers asking how much the gang is going to get in ransom, you have one train supervisor killed because he tries to force his way onto the train and doesn't take the gang's threats seriously, you have jokes being made about flying the train to Cuba, and then you have the one head dispatcher constantly throwing a fit over how backed up all the trains are and to just forget about the hostage takers and get back to work because dammit he has a job to do! Then in the 09 version, everyone is taking this situation very seriously, locking everything down and focusing in on the crisis.
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