RE: C'Etait Un Rendezvous

[NGK210]

Behemoth said:

Detractors here are tedious philistines. It's a very beautifully crafted seminal piece of film-making...

No, it is not "beautifully crafted", if it were, the dubbed V12 would be in sync, and its rates of acceleration and deceleration would be logical.

A car's engine note is its 'voice', its emoter, and, therefore, its sync needs to accurate.

However, this is a "beautifully crafted seminal piece of film-making", also done 'for real', which, lest we forget, was shot 6 years before C'Etait Un Rendezvous:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQUdcTKufYY

BTS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugrhPlRcWo4

[V8 Fettler]

Fifteen quid?! I'd rather spend it on petrol.

French Connection = #1 film.

[L555BAT]

Just watched the "making of" film with the man himself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDXFvtVlYcM

From the subtitles, it seems he was using the Merc because it had smooth suspension (see 5:10) in order to prevent camera shake - the camera wasn't gyro stabilised.

He re-did the course in his Ferrari (see 6:10) to get the sound.

And he admits it was in fact him driving (see 3:50).

[Baddie]

Dave Hedgehog said:

lol i drive faster than that going to work

Edited by Dave Hedgehog on Friday 9th August 07:25

So you go to work rarely or get arrested a lot? cool either way

[soad]

V8 Fettler said:

Fifteen quid?! I'd rather spend it on petrol.

Likewise.

[zebedee]

DBRacingGod said:

This is arguably cooler - same city, classic GSX-R1100...Peripherique taken a toute vitesse, proper timing, crappy VHS print. Tres bon.

Allez le Black Prince:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=39UC1_yEhnI

did he kill himself shortly afterwards (by stupid bike riding)?

Having been on the BP on Friday and seen the way anything with 2 wheels tackles it I'm surprised there aren't more deaths - they seem to have an unofficial bike 'lane' between the outer lane and the one next to it and if you stray into 'it' you are likely to either knock someone off or get your car booted.

[Balmoral]

I was up very early on Sunday morning and spent two hours tazzing around Paris in my 2CV. Hardly any traffic and when I did a few laps of the Arc de Triomphe/Champs Elysees/Place de la Concorde I was almost the only vehicle there

[BlimeyCharlie]

bencollins said:

No black Fiat Uno then on his run.

I presume this is a 1997 topical reference?
The Uno was white, like my socks, was it not?

And never found, like my socks.