I enjoy movies set in Europe in the 1960’s where they have real street scenes.\u00a0 I watched ‘How to steal a million’ with Audrey Hepburn and Peter O’Toole the other night and the street scenes were amazing.\u00a0 I was\u00a0reminded I haven’t been featuring video’s in a while and it brought to mind\u00a0this video.\u00a0 I know, you’ve seen this before but paying close attention to the details\u00a0will get you thinking.\u00a0 If you’ve never seen it watch it\u00a0before you\u00a0read the comments after it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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I’ve seen it a few times and the second or third time I paid extra attention to the details of the crash and it’s like trying to make sense of the famously inconsistent chase scene in Bullitt where the Mustang goes through magic portals that seem to teleport it from North Beach to Brisbane\u00a0 or wherever with a tire-screeching turn.\u00a0 I can excuse the\u00a0out of sequence presentation of events in the crash as artistic license because when I think of a crash I’ve been in it’s not exactly a timeline sensitive reverie.\u00a0 \u00a0A good example of this timeline jumping is\u00a0when\u00a0you see the Sprint headed off the road with a smashed tail light before you see the corner of the Sprint impact the truck.\u00a0 Some of the more\u00a0 subtle details include the car switching back and forth from round hole Borrani’s to Fergats, the headlights going back and forth from yellow (French style) to clear and last, a 5 lug hole truck tire come bouncing out of the grass after the Sprint comes to a rest.\u00a0 I have read that 8 cars were destroyed in the making of this scene, lets just say I hope that was either hyperbole or unfounded rumor.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The broken throttle video<\/a><\/p>\n The Giulietta SS in the mountains <\/a>video<\/p>\n