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"A woman without curves is like a road without bends, you might get to your destination quicker but the ride is boring as hell'
Sorry to jump in at a rather late stage here, but I feel I must defend The Italian Job, as I quite like it, and think that it may have been underestimated, a bit.
Firstly, I remember reading somewhere that the Aston that was rolled down the hill was actually a dressed-up Lancia Flaminia (which had a similar bonnet scoop). The giveaway was that when the car was rolled down the cliff, the bonnet flies open, hinged at the rear, not the front, as it should have been, and as previously seen in the scene when Charlie is collecting his money from inside the engine bay, in the storage depot. The Miura that was rolled down the cliff had visibly no engine, and was actually a car that was involved in a serious accident which killed its driver (an Arab prince) before being used in the film. Thus, as noted, the most expensive and lovely cars in the film were not actually destroyed.
The acting and characters were better than they seemed. The american film of the same name also missed the point, in this respect. Charlie Croker was not intended to be a criminal mastermind, or a hero. He and his crew were buffoons, who succeed, as far as they do, by luck more than skill. There are many situations throughout the film that are quietly funny, and it ridicules both the organised criminals and the British authorities, but not the Italians. For example, Mr Bridger is criminal royalty, and highly respected by his fellow prisoners. Yet he is in prison, so he can't have been that good a mastermind. The prison authorities look incompetent when Charlie succeeds in contacting Bridger by breaking in to his toilet. When released, Charlie is picked up outside his prison, rather conspicuously, in a car stolen from an embassy. His explosives expert demonstrated a lack of understanding of the job in hand ("You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"), and his professional driver shows a lack of understanding of the brake tests. The socially inept computer expert had to be lured into the job with the promise of well endowed girls. When the cars are being prepared, one of the mechanics is said to be having trouble with the diff, and is shown with his head under the back of a Mini. Everything about the film was intended to be absurd, and while the recent american production was a quite good film, it did not tell the same story, was not set in Italy, and developed totally different characters. I personally don't consider it a remake, as it is too different a film.
I missed those points the first few times that I saw it, and I think many people do. However, I think it a rather cleverer film than it first looks, and at risk of seeming pedantic, I feel obliged to defend its honour.
Last edited by MilesR; 08-02-2011 at 10:56 PM.
Yeah, that all make sense the way you've laid it out. Maybe I was expecting the film to be take the cliché "supercool playboy criminal mastermind" angle and thus interpreted it as such. Your explanation definitely gives the movie a bit more relevance. And I did read that the cars were not actually destroyed but but I read it after having watched the entire movie. I read it on the film's Wikipedia page.
TO be fair they only accelerated it's destruction by a few months .... rust woudl have had it by the time the movie hit the theatres
WHen Fiat found out about the movie they offered LOTS of incentives for them to switch to Fiat 500s including the use of ( and destruction if they wished ) of many Italian "supercars" But clearly the movie had to use Mini's being Britain V Italy undertones !!
"A woman without curves is like a road without bends, you might get to your destination quicker but the ride is boring as hell'
"Restless Natives"
Watch from 2 mins in
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All those mk 2 Escort police cars that your grannie could out run
and Edinburgh and the highlands of course !!!
"A woman without curves is like a road without bends, you might get to your destination quicker but the ride is boring as hell'
It looked to me as though the masses of pedestrians had the edge over the police cars, for a while there.All those mk 2 Escort police cars that your grannie could out run
Fast and the Furious..............................Just kidding
I would go with Bullitt. You can never go wrong with a '68 Mustang GT 390, '68 Charger and Steve McQueen. If you want to go even more nostalgic, I would watch American Graffiti with a 32 Ford five-window, '55 Chevy and a '58 Chevy. In addition to featuring classic cars, both movies are great and definitely worth watching either way.
Classic movies are a great way to research classic cars of the past too…One screen shot from Vertigo featuring a mid-fifties Rolls Royce Silver Cloud.people will love these personal decorating ideas for classic car shows, you may still have to deal with a few of theme trying to convince you that everything has a price.
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Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you."
— Jeremy Clarkson
Well for me it's "Vanishing Point" with Barry Newman, I especially love the nude woman riding on a Honda. And "Bullitt" without mention. Another good one is "Return To Macon County Line" with Don Johnson and Nick Nolte, a great car movie based in the 50's.
Well, my recommendations (Bullitt, American Graffiti, the original Gone in 60) have all been mentioned. There's one nice little scene in "Rebel Without a Cause" involving a cliff and a race - you'll know when you see it - that's worth seeing, and of course Mr. Dean's '49 Mercury is iconic even if it was a bit player in the movie. "Faster, Pussycat, Kill, Kill!" is a campy little flick with some racing in it as well. "An Education" features a Bristol 405 almost as a sort of silent character in the film.
Last edited by jcp123; 01-17-2012 at 05:30 PM.
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Has anyone mentioned The Big Wheel with Mickey Rooney? I think it was made in 1949.
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