more movie stuff, i think car chases are an artform in of itself. i can think of 4 great ones off the dome. jade. ronin. to live and die in la. french connection. ill attach them all below. one of the main thiings i notice in them is the distinct lack of music, reminds me of top gear's section on bullit, their description that the music is the engines. all 4 scenes have long sections with no music, where all you hear is tires squealing, people grunting, etc. these are scenes that take up about 7-9 minutes each. theyre electric. completely alone in the movie, where the emotions are most raw, bare. each car becomes more and more destroyed as the scenes progress. its insane. of these 4, they all do something i dont notice much in other movies with car chases (bonds, bournes, mission impossibles, etc): the lack of actors behind the wheel. what makes these scenes great is seeing the camera shake because of the impact the vehicle makes with the ground. friedkin's works have this shot from the outside of the windshield looking into hte actors face (in jade theres a shot of david caruso from outside his ford sedan, where the camera then pans right to oncoming traffic at an intersection, then pans right again to become a point of view shot of caruso, the black sedan that just killed a witness in a hit and run). these scenes are somewhat expressionistic (the most being in to live and die in la seeing petersen remember the feeling of bungee jumping while being chased and shot at, while pankow has a panic attack in the backseat of their chevrolet sedan. you see how petersen is addicted to the rush, while pankow is a fish out of water, the camera jostling with each bump in the la roads.)
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