Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good point, Mark. But the first chase jump may have been McQueen's epic motorcycle chase (and jump over a fence) in the Great Escape. Rob McClure On Aug 21, 2007, at 6:01 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > After THE FRENCH CONNECTION in every car chase seen there was always > one > point where the car goes over a hill and goes into the air a foot or > two. > Referred by everyone I knew then as "the Bullet scene". > > It remained an action film clich? for years. > > Well into the Burt Reynolds good old boy car chase scenes. > Then they started to figure other stuff out. > Like the car goes into the air. > Hits another car. > They both explode. > And on the way down hit a police car. > > Then just keep adding cars. > Ramps are handy. > > > > Mark William Rabiner > Harlem, NY > > rabinergroup.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Rob McClure Upper Sandusky, OH