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Subject: [Leica] BULLITT and THE FRENCH CONNECTION and Cars
From: shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)
Date: Thu Aug 23 18:45:33 2007
References: <380574.87702.qm@web55904.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <C2F0D910.65E39%mark@rabinergroup.com>

as always, if it has wheels, wings or guns, wikipedia has it 
covered:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_chase

you'd be hard-pressed to find a missing car chase--and if 
you do, please add it!

-rei

On Aug21 18:01, 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.
> 
> 
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
> Harlem, NY
> 
> rabinergroup.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
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-- 
Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
Ridgewood, New Jersey


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