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A chase scene better than Bullitt!
« on: January 03 2006, 05:45:39 PM »
On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. The film was limited for technical reasons to 10 minutes; the course was from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur. No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit. The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly 140 MPH (225 Km/h) in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red lights, nearly hitting real pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up real one-way streets. Upon showing the film in public for the first time, Lelouch was arrested. He has never revealed the identity of the driver, and the film went underground until a DVD release a few years ago.

Now, thanks to the miracle of the Internet, you can watch it in your browser

http://www.bsdunix.ch/public/rendezvous20_04.mov

Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%27%C3%A9tait_un_rendez-vous
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A chase scene better than Bullitt!
« Reply #1 on: January 03 2006, 07:50:30 PM »
hey link doesn't work... at least for me....
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A chase scene better than Bullitt!
« Reply #2 on: January 03 2006, 08:17:19 PM »
Hmm... I'll get back to this. I stole the movie, so I'll upload it.
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A chase scene better than Bullitt!
« Reply #3 on: January 03 2006, 08:50:02 PM »
I got the link from wikipedia so it works now.....
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Re: A chase scene better than Bullitt!
« Reply #4 on: January 03 2006, 08:57:00 PM »
Ack.. Quicktime.   :vom:  :vom:
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Re: A chase scene better than Bullitt!
« Reply #5 on: January 03 2006, 09:05:03 PM »
Quote from: "SuperSix @ Tue Jan 03, 2006 8:57 pm"
Ack.. Quicktime.
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Re: A chase scene better than Bullitt!
« Reply #6 on: January 03 2006, 10:57:38 PM »
Did "save link as" and downloaded from Brian's link.  Head spinning video, looks like your on a cycle.  I've heard of this clip, but first I've seen it, Thanks.
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Re: A chase scene better than Bullitt!
« Reply #7 on: January 03 2006, 11:11:44 PM »
A chase scene better than Bullitt!

HEY HEY HEY!!! These are near blasphemous statements! Then once a I read your description I breathed a sigh of relief. The film you are talking about is not a chase scene but one guy that has balls bigger than any ten Frenchies combined ripping through France, no chase, whew!  :D

I will have to watch the vid tomorrow when I get to the high speed wire at work.
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A chase scene better than Bullitt!
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Re: A chase scene better than Bullitt!
« Reply #9 on: January 04 2006, 01:18:41 AM »
I've heard of that video, but 34=mb is way too long for
dial up. I tried to get DSL, and they say it isn't available to my phone number
yet.
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