<VV> car chases

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I've discovered if you drink enough Canuck beer you can almost understand French!
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Rick Norris
#36 Sunoco Corvair
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---- Alan and Clare Wesson <alan.wesson at atlas.co.uk> wrote: 
> Here's an interview with the guy who made the film, done a couple of years 
> back. Sorry it's in French, but the Canucks will be O.K... (;-)))
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHn5Q15kaIA
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alan and Clare Wesson" <alan.wesson at atlas.co.uk>
> To: <rgubser at zoomtown.com>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 2:30 PM
> Subject: Re: <VV> car chases
> 
> 
> >I reckon this beats them all. It's not a chase, exactly (it's only one 
> >car),
> > but it was done for real, on open public roads, through the middle of 
> > Paris
> > at 5 a.m. Sorry if I have told you about it before (I think I have), but I
> > reckon it is worth a re-watch even if I have:
> >
> > http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/entertainment/watch/v596454yX8nSphf
> >
> > The catch is that it was apparently done in a Mercedes 450SEL, not a 
> > Ferrari
> > as implied by the sound track, and the camera is very low-mounted, which
> > gives a heightened impression of speed. But it is definitely for real, and
> > the streets weren't closed.
> >
> > Apparently if you plot the trip and work it out against the run time of 
> > the
> > film, the average speed is 'only' 60 mph. Still pretty good.
> >
> > He was arrested after it but released without charge. It gets good after 
> > the
> > Place de la Concorde (2.35)...
> >
> > Finally, the bit I like best is where he says (I saw a video of an 
> > interview
> > with him), that the only totally blind spot in the whole movie is at 3.40
> > where he goes through the Louvre. He had a friend with a walkie-talkie 
> > lined
> > up, and the guy was going to call him if there is any cross traffic coming
> > out of the arches at the side. The guy didn't call him so he kept his foot
> > down, and it was only afterwards that he found the walkie-talkie was 
> > faulty.
> >
> > Here's wiki on it:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%27%C3%A9tait_un_rendez-vous
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: <rgubser at zoomtown.com>
> > To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> > Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 1:25 PM
> > Subject: <VV> car chases
> >
> >
> >> P.S.  In the case of Vanishing Point and The Italian Job, the originals
> >> are by far the best. No computer-generated special effects -- real cars,
> >> real drivers. The drivers in all of these movies must have had cojones 
> >> the
> >> size of basketballs!
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> rgubser
> >> e-mail: rgubser at zoomtown.com
> >>
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