[Leica] BULLITT and THE FRENCH CONNECTION and Cars

[rmcclure2 at woh.rr.com (Rob McClure)]

Good point, Mark.  But the first chase jump may have been McQueen's 
epic motorcycle chase (and jump over a fence) in the Great Escape.

Rob McClure
On Aug 21, 2007, at 6:01 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> After THE FRENCH CONNECTION in every car chase seen there was always 
> one
> point where the car goes over a hill and goes into the air a foot or 
> two.
> Referred by everyone I knew then as "the Bullet scene".
>
> It remained an action film clich? for years.
>
> Well into the Burt Reynolds good old boy car chase scenes.
> Then they started to figure other stuff out.
> Like the car goes into the air.
> Hits another car.
> They both explode.
> And on the way down hit a police car.
>
> Then just keep adding cars.
> Ramps are handy.
>
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> Mark William Rabiner
> Harlem, NY
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> rabinergroup.com
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Rob McClure
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