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REQUIRED VIEWING “BULLITT” THE GRANDDADDY OF CAR CHASE SCENES
selvedgeyard ^ | September 26, 2009 by JP

Posted on 01/04/2014 11:06:36 AM PST by virgil283

"McQueen was determined to have “the best car chase ever done,” recalls Carey Loftin. “I told Steve I knew a lot about camera angles and speeds to make it look fast....“The Charger ran rings around the Mustang"... In an interview with Motor Trend magazine, Steve McQueen related his desire to bring a high speed chase to the screen. “I always felt a motor racing sequence in the street, a chase in the street, could be very exciting because you have the reality objects to work with, like bouncing off a parked car. An audience digs sitting there watching somebody do something that I’m sure almost all of them would like to do.”...{hat tip FRer : amazed }

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: bullitt; cars
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To: dalereed
A few pics from a 200+ pic thread I put up earlier today...

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61 posted on 01/04/2014 2:04:43 PM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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>> “I got some special rear springs, what you call a high spring rate, a flat without any arch in it,”

That would be leaf springs.


62 posted on 01/04/2014 2:28:06 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: virgil283

Have you ever noticed that they must have been stopping and putting hubcaps back on? Now you see it. Now you don’t. Now you see it again. ha


63 posted on 01/04/2014 3:00:32 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: Impala64ssa

I had a ‘69 Fury with a 318 that would haul ass. When it comes to the long haul, MOPAR couldn’t be beat. But I was really loved Fords. Had a few of them, too.


64 posted on 01/04/2014 3:03:28 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: dalereed

Thanks D.R....you met some great people...We listened to every thing the ‘Beach Boy’ recorded......If you have any stories you would like to tell, please do....’V’


65 posted on 01/04/2014 3:36:23 PM PST by virgil283 (When the sun spins, the cross appears, and the skies burn red)
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To: JohnnyP

Is your computer plugged in?


66 posted on 01/04/2014 3:41:48 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: VerySadAmerican
"putting hubcaps back on ...The time I first saw 'Bullitt' was at a small town theater. We were so mesmerized by the car chase that we sat through the movie four times.....and the Dodge lost five hubcaps, by our count......
67 posted on 01/04/2014 3:55:01 PM PST by virgil283 (When the sun spins, the cross appears, and the skies burn red)
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To: virgil283

I don’t know why it took McQueen so long to catch them with them stopping five times to put those hubcaps back on.

It was a great movie but I must say “continuity” is a pet peeve of mine. A guy has a glass that’s full, then it’s half full, then it’s full again. Or he lights a cigarette and 10 seconds later it’s burned down to the filter. Or someone in the back ground keeps disappearing then reappearing. I watch for the screw ups

Good Continuity Directors don’t get enough credit. They used to take polaroids to try to remember everything for the next take. Now they have digital cameras. It should be easy.


68 posted on 01/04/2014 4:05:12 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: VerySadAmerican

As for continuity, anyone familiar with SF knows that they would be on one side of the city in one scene then one the other in the next, then on the other in the next and so on...


69 posted on 01/04/2014 8:08:33 PM PST by Rodney Dangerfield ("Close the Voter ID Loophole! ID & Background checks for all voters!")
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To: VerySadAmerican

Did you catch the mistake made by Jerome Cowan in the Maltese Falcon? It’s at 1:40 in this clip. You have to watch the 30 second commercial.

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/376963/Maltese-Falcon-The-Movie-Clip-Spade-And-Archer.html

He enters the office with a cig in his mouth, removes it with his right hand, then the camera cuts to Bogey. When it cuts back, you can see Cowan has palmed the cigarette, and has another one stuck in the left side of his mouth. Apparently they wanted him smoking with his left hand.

As he walks toward Bogey, he flicks the palmed cigarette to the floor but the camera catches it. Very strange they let that get through.


70 posted on 01/04/2014 9:28:57 PM PST by JohnnyP
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To: VerySadAmerican

In 1969-70 the NYPD bought had a huge fleet of Furys. I met an NYPD detective who restored a couple of them at a car show in the Bronx.


71 posted on 01/04/2014 10:01:36 PM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

All this and no mention of the original “Italian Job” ... http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9E892DAC6B307E3E

The Mustangs in Bullitt were small block cars for the driving around town scenes and big block for the chase scenes... what they said about them is totally believable ,, the Mustang just isn’t tough enough for jumps and such ,, it’s a unibody ... the Mopar was body on frame...


72 posted on 01/04/2014 10:19:19 PM PST by Neidermeyer (I used to be disgusted , now I try to be amused.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

But...it started to rain and we couldn’t get the ignition on the MoPar engine to engage.
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The “new” resistors you buy are made in China and have modern components hidden inside that ugly ceramic block... they work in the rain... but what real Mopar men did was they simply put a stripe of duct tape over the top of the resistor block to keep rain from running down the firewall and inside the (hollow) back of the block ,,, which of course shorted it out..


73 posted on 01/04/2014 10:25:29 PM PST by Neidermeyer (I used to be disgusted , now I try to be amused.)
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To: virgil283
We used to run the film backwards and play Stanley Clarke's Hot Fun, back in the 70's when we had plenty of time on our hands to mess around.
74 posted on 01/04/2014 10:30:09 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: VerySadAmerican

Reading your post made me start humming the song “Racing in the Streets.”


75 posted on 01/04/2014 10:33:41 PM PST by gusty
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To: dalereed
...a Cobra with a 429 for dennis Wilson to go drag racing in 1966.

A 429? In a Cobra? In 1966?

Perhaps you meant a 427?

76 posted on 01/04/2014 10:47:24 PM PST by BikerTrash
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To: BikerTrash

We Built it, it was one of a kind.

The heads were from blank castings that Doan Spencer got from Ford and machined for us.

We also had an in with Ford since we ran Johnie Parsons Nascar Ford for them in 1956.

It was good enough that we blew off Shelby’s Cobra every week.


77 posted on 01/04/2014 11:08:05 PM PST by dalereed
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To: dalereed

Ah so. Very cool!


78 posted on 01/04/2014 11:11:47 PM PST by BikerTrash
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To: Impala64ssa

I wish I still had mine. It was what I called “silver blue”. I bought it in 1973 for $800. I had it a few years and never put a wrench on it.

I long for the days when you could by a 4 year old car for a fraction of the original price. And back then a four year old car was considered really old. Now the looks never change so a ten year old car can look new. And you won’t get it for a fraction of the list price, either.


79 posted on 01/05/2014 12:51:07 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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