How Bullitt Transformed the Hollywood Car Chase | Steve McQueen + Bill Hickman

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  @noelcostello7380 · 3 years ago

  I remember noticing that when the cars were going down the road flying in the air, that people in the cinema were rising up and down in their seats, as if they were in with Steve McQueen.

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  @andrewdrabble8939 · 5 years ago (edited)

  THE Grandaddy of car chases. The music of those V8's is just heaven

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  @johnmick9457 · 4 years ago

  Little known fact about Bill Hickman, he was a good friend of James Dean was in the car following Dean when Dean was killed and pulled him from the wreckage.

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  @gregorys6074 · 5 years ago

  No music just engines

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  @toastnjam7384 · 5 years ago (edited)

  To really appreciate the car chase you have to see it in a theater. Your ass came of the seat during the hill jumps. It's like a amusement park motion simulated ride.

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  @darringraham2613 · 5 years ago

  That's the only Ford Mustang that has a 15 speed transmission , RIP Steve McQueen Gone Too Soon🙏❤

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  @jeffrykopis5468 · 3 years ago

  The infamous green beetle. The Charger crashing into the camera. The Mustang's one-wheel peel. And its apparent 8 speed transmission! All things that amuse  me about this chase. BTW, that was also Bud Ekins, who was also a respected motorcycle RACER and Triumph dealer, laying down the bike.

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  @RobertEricJenkins · 2 years ago

  The algorithm is working.

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  @spactick · 6 years ago

  when they .filmed Bullitt in front of the SF Art Institute on Chestnut St in San Francisco (shown here) the skid marks that they made were still there on the street 3 years later

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  @mandolindleyroadshow706 · 5 years ago (edited)

  A couple things set the Bullitt chase apart from all of the chases that came before (and many after). It was the first chase to be shot extensively from a third moving vehicle (they even gave it a named - the "Bullittmobile"). It was rigged with cameras to shoot in any direction and could go as fast as the chase cars. In this behind the scenes film, you can see director of photography, Bill Fraker, sitting back of the Bullittmobile operating the camera. Until then, most chases were shot from stationary cameras with the cars whizzing by (you can see this effect in almost any Adam-12 episode). The second innovation was putting the cameras inside the car; not just to capture close ups, but over-the-shoulder shots that made the viewer an unwilling passenger feeling the impact of the ride. The French Connection would extend this effect even further by mounting a camera on the front bumper that showed the car "eating up" the road.

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  @jeffrykopis5468 · 3 years ago

  The mean lookin' old dude in the passenger seat is a dead ringer for my late father in law.

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  @Αλεξάντερ356 · 5 years ago (edited)

  &quot;Life is Racing! Everything before and after is just waiting.” - Steve McQueen.<br>Edit: Cheers 🍻 to Steve, I miss that gorgeous bastard.

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