FU CK a abunch of red lights....

warlock · Backside 180 Joined: 20 Jan 2005 Posts: 1503 City: AC

Ferrari en Paris

http://aoctavio.castpost.com/136163.html
Cool

jonnyUTAH · Backside 180 Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 1951

I love Europe

BillyOLDS · Posted: Nov 19, 2005 2:43 pm Post subject:

yo thats an actual movie i bought it a while ago and have it on vhs lol
its called rendevous(spl?)

warlock · Backside 180 Joined: 20 Jan 2005 Posts: 1503 City: AC

Filmed in 1976, the revered short film by seminal French director Claude Lelouch is regarded as the ultimate in chase scenes - the connoisseurs’ trump card in response to "Bullitt" or "The French Connection" Rendezvous is absolutely compulsive viewing: an astonishing, exhilarating and now legendary drive through 70s Paris with a surprise ending that has become shrouded in myths: Was Lelouch really arrested when it was first shown? Was it a Formula 1 driver and Ferrari 275/GTB? How was it filmed without blocking off streets? What we do know is that there were no special effects, no speeding-up of the film or blocking-off the streets. Lelouch simply mounted the camera on the front of the car and captured a death-defying drive through the beautiful streets of 70s Paris with a striking twist at the journey’s end. The ‘soundtrack’ is just as pure: the brutal wail of the engine, squealing tires and the roar of the exhaust.

SleuCrew · Posted: Nov 22, 2005 1:01 am Post subject:

C'etait un Rendezvous is the creation of the French filmmaker Claude Lelouch in 1976. Using a Ferrari 275 GTB early one August morning, Lelouch attached a camera to the bumper of the car and sped through the streets of Paris. He gave the driver a set route from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur, which is straight through the heart of Paris. The driver is still unknown to this day, because Lelouch was never able to obtain a permit to close the streets. The driver, who Lelouch told officials was an F1 racer, went over the speed limit and blew off many red lights. When this film was first shown, Lelouch was arrested, and because of this, the footage has spent many years underground before it began to resurface on DVD a few years ago. Lelouch used a new technology of the time, a gyro stabilized camera mount, in order to mount the camera on the car. The problem with this is that the technology of the time only allowed for a ten minute film with this mount. Lelouch told his driver to rush because of this time limit, and the video itself is only about nine minutes.

My father had shown this to me a while back... really badass!