- During filming in the USA, a few of the POVs (privately-owned vehicles) which extras used to reach the locations were used during filming of scenes meant to portray parts of Europe, but first the cars needed to be "de-Americanized". This involved more than just switching license plates. Rear-view mirror dangling trinkets (graduation tassels, novelty-shaped air fresheners, etc) were removed. Bumper stickers advertising vacation spots and political views were scraped off. In some cases, windshield decals from European municipalities were added.
- Movie Goof (revealing mistake): During the early scenes set in Manchester many cars have had their registration plates removed to avoid giving away the location as the US rather than the UK. However the shape of the gap left by the missing plates as well as the pattern of the screws indicates that the plates removed were the much squarer US plates than their standard, more rectangular, UK counterparts.
- For Manchester Scenes (filmed in a gritty and real American slum), actual English "police line" tape was used. Its distinctive blue and white coloration contrasts with US-style police tape which is yellow with black text. Comparison was easy because occasional stray bits of American police line tape from past actual crime scenes were among the real neighborhood's windblown street debris littering the edges of the filming area.
- SPOILER: During Scene 1 which included the "Terrible Neighborhood" sequence, set dressers pasted street posters for real musical bands upon walls and lampposts. While the selection of posters was generally random, there was careful attention paid to the posters seen just before the tactical squad storms the bomb-makers' flat: they are bright red with the headline SMOKE OR FIRE ABOVE THE CITY. The red sky and black cityscape purposefully foreshadows the massive explosion and fireball (indeed, "smoke or fire above the city") which is seconds away.
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