"C'était un Rendezvous" by Claude Lelouch

votingfloater · #1 04-09-2006, 05:07 AM

Or,[COLOR=Black] [/COLOR][COLOR=#FFFFCC][COLOR=Black]Porte Dauphine to Sacre-Coeur in 8 and a half minutes. In a Ferrari.

http://www.shamozzle.com/onemorninginparis.html

What a stupid thing to do. But let's all watch anyway.
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m.g. · #2 04-09-2006, 08:11 AM

OMFG!!!

What a stupid thing to do indeed, but unbelievable to watch anyway... and, living in Paris, it's really amazing... 3 or 4 places where it was truly suicidal... you couldn't do that now, impossible (even at 5am on a sunday morning in august) Thanks for the link...

dubman · #3 04-09-2006, 10:01 AM

that movie was banned and the director arrested when it was shown at the (cannes?) festival.

i showed it at my local theatre, it was funny as hell.

BeautifulBurnout · #4 04-09-2006, 12:03 PM

Seen this too, and it is absolutely amazingly stupidly wonderful!!

Nice. Thanks for posting this

Eikman · #5 04-09-2006, 12:19 PM

there is lots of talk/gossip about this movie (e.g. here)

one thing is for sure - he doesn't do 200 km/h

m.g. · #6 04-09-2006, 01:22 PM

well... i had some insider infos today, it was actually made from a motorbike with a very low camera mount & the sound was, of course, redone... it was definitely not 200 km/h but it's still (stupidly) amazing...

stimpee · #7 04-09-2006, 01:51 PM

Who cares? If it was done in a Citroen 2CV its still a crazy thing to do and still impressive.

votingfloater · #8 04-09-2006, 03:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by m.g.

well... i had some insider infos today, it was actually made from a motorbike with a very low camera mount...

... but it doesn't lean into corners.

Could be anything, but who cares? We'll never know... though with the camera that close to the ground it probably feels far faster than it actually is - it could even be Ernie...

//\/\/ · #9 04-10-2006, 03:59 AM

i've heard it was a porsche, driven by an f1 driver who, for legal reasons, was never named! the bike thing is, as votingfloater points out, clearly bullshit...

apparently there were people with walkie-talkies at certain junctions, just in case - but when he turns blind near the louvre, the guy's mike had packed up so the driver couldn't hear the warning about the bus that pops out just before he turns into the arch!

King of Snake · #10 04-10-2006, 04:58 AM

Pretty cool, even for 1976. It doesn't go that fast but the sound adds a lot to the experience and makes it seem really really exciting.
It's almost like playing a really good looking racing game too