I love the brassy-gutsy David Shire music that accompanies the opening credits of The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974) — here’s the clip. And now Entertainment Weekly says there’s a Tony Scott remake coming with Denzel Washington as Walter Matthau…”gesundheit.” Do you think Scott will use that bit with the Japanese businessmen being given a tour of New York’s MTA central control and have Denzel, presuming (as Matthau presumed) they don’t speak English, refer to them as “monkeys”?

September 23, 2007by Jeffrey Wells41 Comments