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Jul 2, 2010 · The 2000 box office hit Traffic was filmed in Cincinnati and portrayed Cincinnati’s inner city Over-the-Rhine neighborhood as one of urban decay that filled a necessary role in the drug trade. Ten years later many of the sites in the film are revisited, and boy have things changed. By Randy A. Simes.
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- The Movie Was Inspired by A British TV Series
- Wakefield' Multiple Castings
- There Were Attempts of On-Set Thievery
- Catherine Zeta-Jones' Pregnancy's Changed How Her Character Was Written
- Everyday Food Products Were Used For The Drug Scenes
- Wakefield's Border Crossing Was Shot in Secret
- Each Major Story Had A Different Film Stock
- The White House Scenes Were Shot in The West Wing Set
- A School Demanded Its Name Be Removed from The Film
- Traffic Led to HBO's Liberace Biopic
Adapted by Oscar-winning scribe Stephen Gaghan, Traffic is based on a 1989 British miniseries entitled Traffik. The 6-part miniseries was directed by Alastair Reid and starred Bill Patterson, Lindsay Duncan, Jamal Shah, Tilo Pruckner, and more. The plot of the miniseries concerned Jack Lithgow (Patterson), a British government official who attempts...
Prior to being cast as Robert Wakefield, Michael Douglas declined the role. The part was subsequently offered to Harrison Ford, who agreed to star in the film. Ford and Soderbergh worked together to flesh out the character, but then Ford suddenly pulled out of the project. While Kevin Costner was considered for Wakefield, Douglas ultimately agreed ...
Two instances of attempted on-set robbery took place while making Traffic. The first took place when actor James Brolin returned to his vehicle following a day of filming. As he approached the car, he found two youngsters attempting to break into the vehicle. However, still dressed in military fatigues as a U.S. general, his appearance frightened t...
While filming Traffic, Catherine Zeta-Jones was pregnant with co-star and soon-to-be husband Michael Douglas's baby. As such, the script was reworked to accommodate her pregnancy. RELATED: Steven Soderbergh's 10 Best Movies, According To Rotten Tomatoes Originally, Zeta-Jones' character Helena Ayala was already written as a mother of two. Rather th...
A couple of different methods were used to simulate the onscreen drug use in Traffic. For the scenes in which the teenagers were high, the actors had peppermint dust rubbed in their faces to make their eyes and noses appear red from drug abuse. For scenes in which characters snort cocaine during the party scene, dried milk was used as a substitute....
For the scene in which Wakefield ventures to the California border to discuss drug policy, the sequence was actually shot at the Tijuana crossing point. But the shot was never meant to make it into the film in the first place. RELATED: 10 Drug Themed Movies To Watch If You Loved Blow The reason the sound and video quality is so low in the scene is ...
Soderbergh deliberately used a different film stock for each of the three major storylines in Traffic. He also employed disparate post-production and editing techniques for each distinctive subplot. For the Wakefield storyline in Ohio, a cold blue color palette was used to signify sadness and depression. In the Alaya subplot, a much brighter and su...
All of the scenes taking place in the U.S. White House in the film were shot in the same set used for the hit TV show The West Wing. The move was a cost-saving measure, as The West Wingset featured a nearly identical duplication of the entire White House interior and exterior. Rather than build an entire set from scratch, Soderbergh and his product...
In the original theatrical cut of the film, Caroline (Christensen) mentions attending a small prep school named Cincinnati Country Day. When the school took offense about being associated with a movie about drug abuse, it protested to have their name removed from the film. In the home video release of Traffic, the name is indeed removed. In the ori...
During a 2018 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival event, Michael Douglas confessed that the idea of playing famed Las Vegas entertainer Liberace was implanted by Soderbergh while filming Traffic. In 2013, the suggestion not only came to fruition, but Soderbergh also directed Michael Douglas as Liberace in the highly-praised HBO movie Behind The Can...
Traffic location: interior of the Chief of Staff's office: Craven Estate, Madeline Drive, Pasadena, Los Angeles. And anyway, the scene was filmed in Los Angeles, at the familiar Craven Estate, 430 Madeline Avenue, Pasadena (seen in Being There and Enemy of the State ).
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Home video versions released in 2001 omit direct reference to Cincinnati Country Day school, after school officials complained about the images depicted of the student body.
After filming one day, actor James Brolin returned to his car to find two youths attempting to break in. Still in his general's uniform, he frightened away the would-be thieves, who mistook him for a real military officer. Helpful • 279 2.
Traffic is a 2000 American crime drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Stephen Gaghan. It explores the illegal drug trade from several perspectives: users, enforcers, politicians, and traffickers .
Dec 27, 2000 · But the ultimate culprit, the movie implies, is human nature. Waging a war against drugs isn't just a matter of combating corruption but of eradicating the basic human desire to ''take the edge ...
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