Exit78 Photo of the Day #76
If you’ve seen Tom Cruise in The Firm, you’ve seen this 1,700-foot-long (520m) pedestrian bridge between Memphis city center and the entertainment park on Mud Island. The monorail cars where Mitch McDeere (Cruise) is spotted by a Firm henchman – the Nordic Man (Tobin Bell) – run on rails below the bridge. When the henchman gets off and runs across the bridge chasing the car Mitch is in, he’s running across this bridge (see video below).
Pedestrian Bridge, Mud Island, Memphis, Tennessee, April 21, 2010 (Pentax K10D)
There’s one major continuity error here. The monorail car, like mountain trams, are cable driven and both cars are connected to the same cable. When a car reaches the station on Mud Island, the other car reaches the station on the other side. When the henchman reaches Mud Island, Mitch’s car, realistically, would have reached the Memphis side station; thus, the henchman couldn’t have chased the car that Mitch was riding.
Series notes:
- The photos in this series are (usually) randomly selected from a batch of photos specifically “curated” for Exit78 Photo of the Day.
- Each photo in this series is an “original work” – a copyright term – of Michael Goad.
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Wow! I enjoyed the movie and this brought back those memories. Thank you.
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It’s one of those movies that we had on tape and Karen played multiple times. I didn’t watch it closely every time, but it’s one of the few movies that I’m really, really familiar with.
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