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In the movie, The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009 version), Denzel Washington's character, Garber, calls his wife, Therese. She says the news said a dispatcher was talking to the terrorists.Garber finds it important to correct her by saying they are not terrorists.
His wife, played by Aunjanue Ellis, says, “They are if they're down there waving guns at people, right?”
Garber then tells his wife he has to take the money down to the tunnel.
His wife says, “What! Are they crazy?”
In another display of his brainwashing he says, “It's real simple. There's nothing to it. What it is, is he knows I'm not a cop, so he wants me to come down. They need me to take the money down because they know I'm not a cop...and, you know, they're saying that he might kill somebody, honey.
His wife says, “Well, then somebody has to die, because you can't.”
You gotta love the different way we do when not confused.
Two kinds of Black characters worked in this movie, but if more of the characters were true blue black and the script was the same, it wouldn't work, because real black people wouldn't act the same way.Even the black guy who took a bullet for the white woman and her boy child was a stretch of sensibility. The writers and director are white males raised by snow wolves and polar bears. The black guy is Wallace who is played by Olugbenga Enitan Temitope Akinnagbe.
Hidden Symbolism
Lee Wallace is the real name of the Mayor in the 1974 version of Pelham 123. In the 2009 version, the Mayor was asked to substitute himself for the 17 hostages. He declined. John Travolta's character, Ryder said he wouldn't take that deal anyway.As a proxy, the black hostage named Wallace was sacrificed, whose character is an ex-member of supposedly elite Army Rangers who are supposedly protectors of so-called America's supposed best in the world freedom. [all this from one of the top ten brainwashing centers where you can earn continuing credits for miseducation to go along with your good education diplomas, degrees and licenses].
Despite Garber shooting the movie's bad guy Ryder, the police still treated Garber as a threat, something which was allowed to happen by NYPD hostage negotiator Camonetti. He was in the helicopter and knew who Garber was and could have easily radioed or used the loudspeaker to tell the police to stand down in regards to Garber, but he didn't and instead, after allowing 10 police to point guns at Garber and order him to drop his weapon, Camonetti chose to grin and salute Garber from the helicopter and then fly off.
This is because Garber in the 1974 version was a white male transit police lieutenant who did not have an overbearing boss or group of people surrounding and hounding him, nor was he shown to be criminal. Why was Garber in the 2009 version played by a black man demoted to dispatcher and given multiple white male overseerers and shown to be criminal and forced to admit it by a white terrorist. All this is still necessary 35 years after the first version. White Garber was disrespectful to the terrorists while Black Garber was respectful until the last minute when he shot Ryder. Contrary to how crime is portrayed in societies, crime does pay in the short-term.
As an aside, one website that explains some of the differences in two of the three versions of Pelham 123: https://spectrumculture.com/2012/04/29/re-makere-model-the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three-1974-vs-the-taking-of-pelham-1-2-3-2009/
All three versions are discussed at : https://www.filmstories.co.uk/features/examining-the-three-takings-of-pelham-one-two-three/#:~:text=Adapted%20for%20the%20screen%20in,for%20hijack%20thrillers%2C%20Mark%20argues
All movies or characters, written from any level of black perspective should show significant cultural differences. However, in societies such as the Usa, movies and television shows tend to water down these differences unless those differences show basic human vices often portrayed as unique to the black experience such as guns, drugs, sex, single parents, singers, athletes, hair stylists and other intended limitings, denaturings, denegritudes, denigrifications and denigrations.
In a civilized country, most movies and shows would show the uniqueness of cultures while showing the sameness of cultures.
It would be interesting to see Pelham 123 written and directed by black people and all the characters switched racially.
The remake writers should get first inspiration from Garber's wife who keeps it simple and unstupid by basically telling Garber, you better bring your under investigation we don't need you black ass home and invest in a gallon of white milk and walk through this gate. She was letting him know to focus on what's important (your family responsibility), thus let somebody else save the damn world that keeps slamming you for little to no crime while applauding themselves for much worse.
His wife knew they didn't need a gallon of milk, because obviously this was outside the norm as shown by Garber's insistence on changing it to a half gallon. She was basically using the milk and the amount to try to break him out of his brainwashing and let him know that she and their child need him a lot more than that job or the city and that the only thing white you need to care about is milk, which is also a metaphor for what is normal, priorities, staples, basic needs and liquid essence from the milk cow of heaven, Hathor-Nut, aka Aquaria, mother of the Milky Way.
