Notes
Re-Taking Pelham 1 2 3
Linda Holmes and Andrew O’Hehir see some things in John Travolta’s The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 villain: “the lamentably noisy bad guy” replacing a more chilling, bureaucratic evil and a far more awesome possible movie: “Freddie Mercury …. starring in some cracked Tony Scott movie where
he gets awesome wireless reception in a subway tunnel and shoots a
bunch of people in between verses of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody[.]'”
Categories: Notes
Tagged as: 1970s, 2000s, adaptation, crime, Denzel Washington, detectives, Freddie Mercury, Hector Elizondo, heist, James Gandolfini, Jerry Stiller, John Travolta, John Turturro, Martin Balsam, movies, New York City, police procedural, remakes, Robert Shaw, supervillainy, Tony Scott, villains, Walter Matthau
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Carol Borden was editor of and a writer for the Toronto International Film Festival’s official Midnight Madness and Vanguard program blogs. She is currently an editor at and evil overlord for The Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. She has written for Mezzanotte, Teleport City, Die Danger Die Die Kill, Popshifter and she has a bunch of short stories published by Fox Spirit Books including: Godzilla detective fiction, femme fatale mermaids, an adventurous translator/poet, and an x-ray tech having a bad day. Read and listen to her other shenanigans at Monstrous Industry. For her particular take on gutter culture, check out, “In the Sewer with the Alligators.”
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