The mistakes absolutely make these old car chases. Like when the Charger hits the parked car or when McQueen overcooks the corner and has to slam it into reverse. These guys we're driving right on the edge and sometimes past it and you see it on screen.
On the one hand I'm glad that we have unionised crews and far far more stringent safety requirements. Directors like William Freidkin were legitimate sociopaths to shoot shit like this often without permits and on open public roads. But I also can't deny that rawness of it all lights up my stupid lizard brain in a way very little stylised, CGI and very stage managed modern stuff does.
And the drivers like Bill Hickman who did Bullitt as well as these classic chase scenes from The Seven-Ups and The French Connection and kept these things from being tragedies even as directors pushed them to do more and more extreme stuff are admirable.
The mistakes absolutely make these old car chases. Like when the Charger hits the parked car or when McQueen overcooks the corner and has to slam it into reverse. These guys we're driving right on the edge and sometimes past it and you see it on screen.
On the one hand I'm glad that we have unionised crews and far far more stringent safety requirements. Directors like William Freidkin were legitimate sociopaths to shoot shit like this often without permits and on open public roads. But I also can't deny that rawness of it all lights up my stupid lizard brain in a way very little stylised, CGI and very stage managed modern stuff does.
And the drivers like Bill Hickman who did Bullitt as well as these classic chase scenes from The Seven-Ups and The French Connection and kept these things from being tragedies even as directors pushed them to do more and more extreme stuff are admirable.