Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]OK, Rob. Now I've got to rent the Vanishing Point. Ric started it, but I had to rent Bullitt to see the Mustang chase since I just got a new GT stick. Just what a 69 year old needs, right? Funny thing. I was in the camera shop on Friday and one of the regular customers, a 70 year old, bought a GT 2 weeks before me. Neat car. Beckons old timers. I did have a '65 some 35 years ago though. Len On Aug 20, 2007, at 5:10 PM, Rob McClure wrote: > Marc, > > The Bullitt chase scene is one of the greatest ever filmed IMHO. > It was perhaps more real than the computer enhanced stuff they do > today. That said, they went through a couple Dodge Chargers and a > Mustang or two during the filming. I read somewhere that the first > time they went airborne over the bumps they broke all the shocks in > both cars. They did some major reinforcement. For you car buffs, > the bad guys Charger was a Hemi ( what would one of those be worth > today?) and McQueens Mustang had a really hot 289. McQueen > supposedly did all the driving for the close shots. At about the > same time, the French Connection chase scene often competed with > Bullitt for best. No comparison, in my book. Hackman was driving > some POS Pontiac. To have a great chase scene you need really hot > cars. Like in Vanishing Point, my second favorite chase movie -- > that Dodge Challenger could fly (as it did into the bulldozers at > the end). I need to go rent these movies again -- been too long. > > Rob McClure > > > On Aug 19, 2007, at 11:05 PM, Marc James Small wrote: > >> At 10:17 PM 8/19/2007, Leonard Taupier wrote: >> >Ric, >> > >> >Wonderful photography in that movie. McQueen actually did some of >> the >> >driving himself. Funny it's on now. I just watched the DVD on my >> >system Friday. And the Friday before I watched Bullitt. Love the >> >chase scene. >> >> I saw BULLITT last week. McQueen drove most of that iconic chase >> scene himself. I lived in the Bay Area at the time and saw a part >> of the filming though I am not certain that McQueen was driving at >> that time. Hell, we were High School kids who just wandered onto >> the stretch where the two cars were zooming uphill at the edge of >> the downtown section. Quite a rush at age 17. >> >> Marc >> >> >> msmall@aya.yale.edu >> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information