I wasn't sure what was meant by this week's theme so I've got a little off book. Like most cities with underground trains, such as in London, we call the tube, 'the underground'. Following on from this, I've picked 3 great scenes that take place on the underground.
Passport to Pimlico
Classic Ealing Comedy about the residents of an area in Pimlico that discover they are in fact residents of the ancient Duchy of Burgundy so use this as a way to avoid the post war rationing. The scene on the underground is where the residents flag down those entering their area and ask to stamp their passports. The funniest bit is when a magician is asked if he is carrying any livestock and he lets loose pigeons from his suitcase.
Sliding Doors
The com-rom where the term 'sliding doors storyline' was coined. The moment Helen (Gwyneth Paltrow) misses the tube and also catches the tube, changes everything in her lives. It was all that child on the stair's fault.
Skyfall
This whole sequence mesmerizes me, mostly beacuse I don't know how they did this. These stations are busy all the time. Shooting the scene at a few stations, including Bond (Daniel Craig) jumping on a District line train to Wimbledon (used to work there) but just before sliding down that long ass escalator at Angel which is only on the Northern line. As a Londoner, watching big blockbuster films where characters use the tube but get it all wrong (looking at you Thor in Dark World, that is NOT how you get to Greenwich from where you were) can be slightly annoying.
