Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >