Bilge requested Mann about transferring it from The big apple to LA and changing the race of your cab driver from Jewish to Black. Mann responded, following some prodding that, "Properly, Talking like a Jewish cab driver, the Jewish taxi driver wasn quite effectively composed" and which the film was a lot more thrilling if it a few Center class Black male. Was shot on DV because Mann planned to capture what the town feels like during the night, and receiving that really feel (the place it…