Bullitt
last night we got talking about our up coming trip to California and San Francisco, this got me thinking of that great Steve McQueen film, Bullitt.
So on returning home I downloaded the film for some Sunday entertainment, as TV is so crap. Well iv just finished watching it and having seeing it before it still feels like the fist time. Without sounding so cliche, it has to be the car chase that makes that film and unlike any other film the sound and the realism of the chase just cant be imitated in any modern day attempt.
Today's films rely so much on these CGI and special effects to make a film breathtaking and yet only few films manage this where as others just become over the top. Bullitt has none of these traits, along with most films of that time. Referring back to the car chase, you can feel the vibrations of those V8's and the heat of the tyres screaming up the San Francisco streets. There is a feel of continuous danger throughout the chase unlike the modern day car chases. In this, there were no computers to make it look more unrealistic, and one wrong move would end up in fatalities.
During the filming it is said that the cars were reaching up to 110mph during some scenes of the chase. There is no way that in today's films the actors would dare do this or film companies lets them with fears of anything going wrong. But back then to make a great film you would have to take the risks. It could not be more right when people say "they dot make films like that any more" .
Im downloading The Great Escape and Cincinnati Kid next. I think its time to reeducate myself in real living films and those actors and actresses with grit.
5 comments:
And they didn't even run down the scary San Francisco streets, but ones with enough run-off so the cars could actually get around them.
There's a great, steeply angled street going up behind the Fairmont hotel, where going uphill on a motorcycle you are poised between just enough throttle to continue forward and too much throttle to wheelie vertical and beyond... Yaaah! And when you come up to the *flat* cross street it's posted clear by a stop sign (so no traffic run-down worries) and you sail across the intersection at that wheelie angle until you hit the next slope, compressing your fork and suspension you rebound UPHILL and start the cycle again.
Yaaaahhhgh!! It's very invigorating! :-) Lots of fun on an old ratty dirtbike, damn I miss my street-legal XR...
i cant wait to see the sights when we get to San Francisco, this film just made me more excited.
As your tour guide I hope you arn't expecting me to go flying through the friggin air when you visit!
I'm sorry to miss you both but I believe I might be away in Hawaii...
dirtcrashr...we arn't that bad!...nearly house trained.
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