Folks Of Interest "BULLITT" Steve McQueen

The problem with modern filmed car chases is they all have extreme close-ups of giggling fenders, bumpers, wheels, and actors faces, and they are all filmed at night, with loud sound effects. When you remove all that BS your left with nothing. Filmed car chases from Hollywood are a lost art.

 

Jack Reacher with Tom Cruise is another modern film with a car chase that rivals Bullitt.

 

Cool read. Didn't know that about the hotel.

 

McQueen was, and always will be, the epitome of "cool" for me. A legit graduate from the "school of hard knocks", a rebel, a motor head thru and thru, ladies man extraordinaire, and a master of his craft. A guy that wasn't scared to stick his middle finger into th eye of someone he thought needed it.
Badass. Yep, thats the term, a badass.....................

 

Gotta go with Muttley on that. Without the chase that movie would be long flushed down the toilet. Not even McQueen could have saved it.

 

McQueen made the movie Bullitt for me, he was just a cool guy.

 

F.C. I watched "The Thomas Crown Affair" last night and I saw the cool roadster. Funny, I never noticed it before. A few days ago, I was watching "With six, you get eggrolls" and there's a cool looking "T" Bucket in that movie.

 

You really have to be watching to catch it, it was just a coincedence it was parked there when they were filming. Its the accidental appearances that are the coolest ones.
You know the PBS special on Henry Ford? Close to the end, theres some early sixties stock footage of a street scene, if you watch close, in the background, theres a yellow five window with bobbed rear fenders driving away from the camera. He turns left out of a street in the back of the shot, and drives away from the camera. It's a great metaphor for the role hot rods have played in the Ford story. Always in the background, just out of the public eye, but always there.