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Bullitt
Local theater had a showing of Bullitt last night, as a new part of the annual car show and to raise money for the upgrade to digital projectors at the theater. Some d-bag parked his Charger in two spots...
  
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Wasn't the Charger in the movie as well as the Mustang? So maybe Charger is not a D'bag after all?
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That's a great movie. I bet it still looks good on the big screen.
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Those two cars were built by a collector to duplicate the movie cars as closely as possible. The collector's father play a bit role as a cop in the movie.
I did look really good on the big screen- I wanted to experience that. It was fun, as the audience was car buffs from the car show and we hissed at Robert Vaughn and cheered for Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bissett, the Mustang and the 356. Some funny comments like "what's that???" when the telecopier was running and "Kaiser" in the hospital. And at the end, when McQueen came back to his apartment with Jacqueline Bissett asleep in his bed a big "Ahhhhhh."
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From memory Steve was battling cancer when he made this movie.
Can anyone confirm this?
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Cars were staged like that deliberately so that they are in converging angles in front of the theater.
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The Challenger parked that way so a black Audi wagon wouldn't park there.
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They forgot the Speedster that McQueen drove in the movie!
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The fact that McQueen drove the Mustang himself greatly enhances the cool factor. Who needs a stunt driver?
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I remember seeing the movie on a big screen when it first came out. The only way that movie could be really appreciated. I spilt popcorn on the hill sceen.
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That was one cool Mustang. Classic film.
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Bill Hickman (the driver of the Charger in Bullitt) was driving James Dean's station wagon and following several miles behind him on the way up to Salinas on the day of Dean's fatal accident. Hickman was towing the trailer that would take the Spyder home after the race.
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I love Bullit but it always really bugs me in the big chase scene that the charger lost 3-4 hubcaps along the sequence. And still had them all in the final crash. LOL.
Plus they passed the green VW bug four times...at 1:30, 1:41 and 2:00 and 2:11. Bad azz bug!
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Gosh that was a Great movie! One thing for sure is that as a kid, we took some great car flicks for granted. It was a great time to be a budding gear head.
I think that theater doing that promotion is WAY KOOOOOOOLLLLLL!! Did the place get filled up?
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I think that he started out thinking that he would do all of his own driving and quickly changed his mind. SM was a decent driver but BE could absolutely drive circles around him and he freely admitted it. McQueen was producing it and wanted the best for the film, so Bud Ekins it was. The over-the-shoulder shots where McQueen's face is visible in the rear view mirror are obviously him driving but most of it, with the RV mirror tilted away, are BE driving. This is well known trivia and documented. Bud Ekins is the one who made that car dance, not McQueen. 
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