Talk:Runaway Train (film)

message: This article does not explain the concept of a runaway train, just the movie. 213.51.209.230 20:22, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that Rebeca DeMornay's character is a railroad worker. Buck only remarks "are you collecting tickets or something?" after she askes what he and Manny are doing on the train. Gnorn 19:53, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Runaway trainposter.jpg

message: I have removed this Theme section as it looks like complete original research and also looks to be lifted from IMBD. If I am wrong and it has come from a source connected to the film's production team, then it can go back in, properly cited.
  —Preceding unsigned comment added by MickMacNee (talk • contribs) 22:58, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Theme

message: Konchalosvki fled from USSR in 1980, before filming this movie. He is also coming from a rather elite family (Sergey Mikhalkov was the author of USSR anthem, no less). In the same 1985 year in USSR released is another movie "Train that is not in the Schedule" which does not contain "ideologically incorrect" things like sympathetic anti-hero prisoner, but shares the main plot device of "deceased driver turning train on" and "sudden people in the tale of the train prohibit crashing it and try to get into the loco". https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4_%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B5_%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F  Looks like the same idea was brewing at the same time both in USA/Japan and USSR cinema circles, perhaps exchanging ideas and tunes via Konchalovsky/Mikhalkov family. 85.90.120.180 (talk) 12:53, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soviet movie - coincidences? 

message: the 1962 new york central runaway train - Search (bing.com) 110.174.50.85 (talk) 08:18, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Real life counterpart of this film 

message: The Richard 111 quote (Shakespeare) is cited in full before the closing credits. However, it's also the title of Eddie Bunker's book about his life of crime in LA and numerous incarcerations. Wonder if it's worth a mention. Bunker hinself appears in the film. Might be a nod to him. 86.171.28.239 (talk) 16:00, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Beast So Fierce 

message: The short f stop prevented motion blur in exterior action scenes of the people on the train. That gave those scenes a stop motion animation look commonly seen in stop motion monster movies. The dressing, photography, and music of the train itself has a feel of the train being monstrous in the shots of the train alone. The train, and the people are depicted as beasts. For me to include those points in the article would be OR. But someone must have mentioned those points in a published source. It would give a reader of the article some of the flavor of the movie if it was included.
2600:8807:5400:600:5C1C:B467:6558:9E8B (talk) 13:26, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Short f stop in exterior action scenes.