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Someone sent us a link to this cool $600,000 Toronto subway makeover done in 2001 for a movie being shot up there. It's simulacrilicious!
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That graffiti isn't even close to the reality of new york city. It's more like something you'd see drawn in the margins of some fourth grade boy in the suburbs's math homework.
It's a pity they dropped so much cash transforming the station and completely screwed up such an easy detail. They could have at least done a fake Ja or whatever writer was prolific at the time they're going for throwup or something approaching authentic.
Most graffiti in New York looks like it's drawn by fourth graders. Or at least most graffiti vandals have that level of intelligence.
Unless that photo is reversed, it looks like the signage is wrong! "Downtown Local" on an uptown track at Canal Street?! Please.
Considering this is actually a subway station in another city, they did a pretty good job.
One of the things I hate about these cheap productions that film in Toronto is how some of them don't seem to care about how things look. I saw one movie on TV that had streetcars in it and was supposed tp be set in NYC. Last time I checked there have not been streetcars in NYC for decades.
As for subway scenes, the only things that are like the NYC Subway in Toronto are that the trains run on third rail and they use the same type of signal system. The cars look northign like NYCTA equipment. If you saw the pathetic made for TV remake of The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 you would agree - see the 1974 orginal which was filmed on location, but with a bit of fudging and the error about the "72 foot" IRT cars.
Are there any screenshots from the movie? I'm impressed in the detail and appearance of "Canal Street" though I would have added some Chinese words since Canal Street is the Chinatown area.
its missing benches
It didn't help that they used an island platform for the 6-train stop at Canal Street.