Summary

Tony Scott is a director who regularly appalls critics and equally regularly delights audiences. To the high-brow culture-vultures he's a vulgar purveyor of not much more than exploding buildings and headache inducing editing. But in fact Scott's movies are more diverse than they ever give him credit for. He has always been a director unafraid of a challenge or of taking a new direction. His latest is another departure, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 is a remake (his first) of the classic 1974 heist movie. In the original the late, great Walter Matthau played a New York Metro controller trying to negotiate with a violent hijacker. Scott's regular collaborator Denzel Washington takes the role this time around, while John Travolta chews the scenery as the bad guy. RT sat down with the master of mayhem to talk turkey. Back to Article