Visible crew/equipment: When Bryan is talking to Lenore at the party, the boom mic can be seen reflected in Lenore's sunglasses. (00:02:45)
Taken (2008)
1 visible crew/equipment mistake
Directed by: Pierre Morel
Starring: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser
Visible crew/equipment: When Bryan is talking to Lenore at the party, the boom mic can be seen reflected in Lenore's sunglasses. (00:02:45)
Jean Claude: I told you, I sit behind a desk now. I take my orders from someone who sits behind a bigger desk.
Question: Technology-wise, in the scene where he is on the phone and the French police are tracking him down, how does he make that possible? A two-way radio "wired" to the cell phone? Only in Hollywood, or could it be possible?
Answer: Yea but how did he answer the call? A very long stick?
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Answer: Actually, what Bryan Mills did was perfectly possible. He strapped a mobile phone to the two way radio, and used the other two way radio to talk. By speaking into his radio, it transmitted it to the other radio, where the mobile speaker could hear and transmit his voice. The French police would have been able to triangulate the source of the mobile phone signal from the particular 'cell' (i.e. area) that the mobile was using - while that would lead them to the phone position, he'd be elsewhere talking on the other half of the radio.
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