The quintessential car chase -- the car chase that is widely considered to have created the template for every movie car chase to follow -- is in the 1968 Steve McQueen classic "Bullitt". The chase and the rest of the film is largely shot on location around San Fransisco, creating a time capsule of the city at that era. Good cop McQueen tries to untangle a murder mystery while a high-ranking politician played by Robert Vaughn seems to be entangled in some perhaps sinister way. An absolute classic, with a great Lalo Schifrin score. Watch as minutes of screen time are dedicated to showing the wonder of an acoustic modem-based rotating drum fax machine! Currently free on #YouTube Movies and TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okhrP5K6Lj8
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@lauren Some years later (1993) some folks perhaps jealous of SF’s spot for chases realized “hey, we have hills, too!” and produced Striking Distance featuring Bruce Willis as a river cop in Pittsburgh. Up and down hill chases AND high speed river ones as well. Not in the same class, but a cheap thrill for folks in the region.
say, @lauren, how many gears you reckon that Mustang's got in its transmission? 😜
@lauren And if you know San Francisco, spot the location jumps that don't make sense, except from a cinematic experience point-of-view.
@PeterLudemann Yes. Also, sometime back I went through various parts of the film and compared with present day Street View footage. That's always fascinating to do with location shots. How much changes, how much hasn't changed at all.
Some years ago, I saw a Warner Bros camera truck slowly drive by when I was looking out a window. It was absolutely bristling with cameras. I sometimes wonder if that footage got into anything.
Of course this is L.A. One of my oldest memories is being taken to UCLA by my parents (where I learned to ride a two wheel bike, on weekends on the Art Quad), seeing a car commercial being filmed, and having crew yell at me, "Hey kid, get out of the frame!"
@lauren @PeterLudemann My uncle filmed TV commercials in LA, and somewhere on the cutting room floor is my ten-years-old hand and wrist seizing a box of Kellogg's forgotten Oat-Nuts toaster pastries.
Back when the LA Basin had a permanent petroleum haze. Not so much any more.
@jmeowmeow @PeterLudemann It's easy to forget how BAD the smog was in L.A. back then. People still joke about it now of course, but it's NOTHING like it was then, when AQMD "eye irritation" numbers were routinely included in the weather reports. Catalytic converters have been the big difference. When's the last time you thought of the AQMD?
@lauren @PeterLudemann cough cough cough (childhood asthma when visiting my aunt and uncle; probably ground-level ozone)
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