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Posted by RonInBayside on Tue Sep 11 21:29:03 2007, in response to Re: THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123, posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Sep 11 19:59:59 2007. Thank you.The TA was making clear that the agency did not instruct the production company on how to hijack a subway train. That's more of a legal consideration than anything else. After the movie aired, if a crime victim were to sue the TA on the grounds the agency were reckless in showing a crook "how to do" something, the TA could point to the disclaimer. With tens of thousands of employees, ex-employees and retirees who know how to run a train, "cut" a train, and have been through the tunnels, it would be impossible to keep them all from describing what they know to a crook. It's not something the TA can worry about, because there's no point to worrying about it. But the TA can and does worry about lawsuits. By the way, the TA did render some technical assistance. The agency didn't provide a hijack manual but they provided equipment, station platforms, electrically live tracks and personnel who monitored the safety of the production crew and told them what they could do, when they could do it and when they could not do it. I had a license from the TA in the mid 1980s to produce an officially sanctioned computer game in the 1980s. It was programmed in GFA Basic and later in C on the Atari ST and IBM PC (DOS 6.0) The TA, in its contract, said I could not depict violence on the subway system. I reminded the attorney at 347 Madison Av about Pelham 1-2-3. The reply was "We don't intend to make a movie like that again on TA property. Inote that Money Train was filmed in Los Angeles, not New York. |
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