DeTomaso Mailing List: April 2000, Message #384

Listers:
  This video shows a run thru the streets of Paris in the dawn hours of the
morning at flat out speeds.  A camera is on the nose of the Ferrari, at hubcap
level, at triple digit speeds.
  Nothing stops our hero, not red lights nor garbage trucks doing their rounds (
he merely drives over the adjoining curbs), nor many near misses.
  He is moving so fast that Pigeons in the road don't have much time to get out
of the way. It ends with his meeting his wife (hence the rendezvous at a park) .
The audio sounds like an unrestricted exhaust, and adds a lot to the effect.
Rumor has it that the driver was eventulaay arrested and prosecuted.  Mike, any
more info?
 It kind of reminds me of going to the meeting at the Donut Derelicts (or Krispy
Kreeme) with MD.    :-)
  If you haven't seen it, you will like it. A great SS warmup.
Al.
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MikeLDrew@aol.com wrote:

> Al wrote:
>
> >Joe, is this the one by Pyramid films? Claud Lelouche? (sp)
>
> >>>Yup.  For those that don't know, Claude LeLouche was sort of the Steven
> Spielberg of France in the late '60's and early '70's.
>
> >Do you know what the car used was (Ferrari is the rumor)?
>
> >>>Ferrari 275 GTB.  In fact, they were in Paris shooting a conventional
> movie when he got the crazy idea to shoot this silly mad dash across the
> city.  He robbed a fully gyro-stabilized camera mount from the front of a
> camera truck and grafted it onto the front of (his own?) Ferrari.  Nobody
> knows who the driver was, but it's a safe bet that it was probably a
> professional.
>
> If you watch it carefully you'll see that the sound track is actually not in
> synch with the visual track.  It's about 1.5 seconds behind, so you still
> hear tire squeal long after the driver has complted the turn and is driving
> straight.  However I do not believe that the sound was dubbed in after the
> fact, because the old Michelin XWX tires of the day would certainly squeal
> like hell.
>
> >How do we order?
>
> >>>Didn't he list his phone number?
>
> 916 526-3033
>
> >(Listers, if you haven't seen this film, you must get it.)
>
> >>>ABSOLUTELY!  It's a total riot.  We normally show it on the big screen in
> Las Vegas every year too.  It's probably the most anti-social film ever made!
> :>)
>
> Mike