Duel, Smokey and the Bandit (the first one) and Driver
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That TransAm weaving through traffic....Yanks don't handle, eh? ;-)
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Certainly up there with best car chases ever is The French Connection - chasing the overhead train - the woman in the pram - all shot ad-libbed and without permission apparently.
Ad to that, the legendary Gene Hackman, who has the most menacing screen presence since Robert Mitchum.
What a film.
Edited by Big Bad Dave on 19/01/2009 at 20:47
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Brilliant choices!
The Trans Am was definitely the star of Smokey and the Bandit. Just listen to it!
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nZZPalUHlxc
:-)
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Spot on DP
You just can't top the sound of a yank V8....don't need to listen to the stereo, the music comes out the exhaust pipes.
Sex on wheels
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Sex on wheels
As was Sally Field back then.
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Oh no - just thought of another "Girl on a motorcycle" now that was sex on wheels
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Having just watched an ad for butter where they skitted the Great Escape motorcycle scene. Even the engine note (so often wrong in films) is spot on.
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Come on listen to THIS!
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-TlxADdA4
And check out those 'burns.
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned The Dukes of Hazzard.
Then again, maybe I'm not.
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Genevieve again, not just for the Darracq and the Spyker but for the fragrent, tragic, Kay Kendall and the plethora of early 50s and pre-war cars and trucks.
The Blue Lamp has a chase filmed around North London between a Nash and several police Humbers with bells...all speeded up. Scrubs Lane hasn't got a car visible on it !
And for us bikers, of course, Easy Rider.
Ted
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And for us bikers of course Easy Rider. Ted
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Noooooooooooooooo!!!!
I saw that when it came out and thought it was the coolest thing ever. Watching a TV re-run some thirty years later I saw it for what it was - deeply embarrassing tosh. Apparantly, "Captain America" could only run at a max speed of 25mph before it became dangerously unstable and Jack Nicholson had to resort to "Medication" every time he had to sit on it.
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Oh dear. They're nearly all total carp when you get right down to it. 2 Lane Blacktop, Bullitt, Genevieve and the Blues Brothers are all good though, in their different ways.
Anything with speeded-up footage is just pukeworthy. Herbie films and other fantasy carp too, especially carpy carpy pop pop and other baby stuff.
Films about motor racing never come off for some reason. Even car enthusiasts can't make them work. So far anyway.
My Cousin Vinnie has a car in the middle of it and a very winsome young woman who is a car expert and understands LSDs.
I will be back in England at the weekend, insh'allah. Hope my jalopy is still working and hasn't been lifted.
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I wouldn't rush back if I were you Lud. It's all getting a bit unfortunate here. No chance of going walkabout for a year or two?
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There have been some nice cameo roles for cars. Ones that spring to mind:
Orson Well's late arrival in the Third Man, in an enormous limousine seen only in silhouette, which apparently really was his own car.
The car driven through a circular saw by Laurel and Hardy
Car resprayed in a lay-by in about 10 minutes in Day of the Jackal.
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We need him back Humph - and quickly !
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Blush (under the tan and all the fading Aussie insect bites)...
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Nothing I'd like more HB, except that here in Dunedin, NZ, it's more like climbabout... My sister, a doctor, tried to kill me yesterday by making me rush up a vertical path to see a Giant's Causeway formation known as the Organ Pipes... said it would have been good for me.
It's colder and rainier here too. But the food is just as good if not better. What with half-price petrol (going up though), wombats, pies, kangaroos etc. I could happily spend a year or three here and in Oz. But 'duty', smirk, calls, dammit.
Just off to try to photograph some spoonbills. Yesterday I was just zooming in on them from the road when a 4wd came hooning past and they flew away. Honestly, these fast drivers...
Seals have incredibly bad breath. Sperm whales are chocolate brown and very dignified.
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