Name that Film!

Dude!!! This aggression will not stand. Big Lebowski.

That’s just, like, your opinion man

Oh yes thats the nihilists burning his car!

The Big Short. Love Steve Carrell in that one

We’ve done audio clues, now let’s try auto clues!

It isn't Being John Malkovich 😉

I thought it was Ronin, but I just checked and it's different cars.. anyway if anyone doesn't know the car chase in Ronin, it's right up there with the best, with no comical CGI !!!, stick it on a big screen and crank it up real loud:


and shots almost certainly influenced by:

It is Ronin, but not the “main character” car, which is the BMW M5 in the chase in your vid. Absolutely fantastic movie, with an unsettling sense of post-cold war confusion and awesome chase scenes 😎

edit: (c’etait un) rendezvous is such a legendary piece of film. Still remember hearing the rumors about it in pre-internet days

😲 When I saw the French and German cars battling it out I thought of that amazing car chase in Paris in Ronin, but I don't think I remember this specific car chase from Ronin, it's been a long time, I'll have to watch it again..

Yes, C'était un rendez-vous is a fantastic piece of work, I was going to recreate it in London at one time before we had all the traffic cameras everywhere, I put a fair bit of research into it, I even started designing a rig to fit to the front of the Maserati (sadly not a 275) that I had at the time, but I can't enjoy the piece in the same way anymore.

After studying the footage and making inquiries, there are quite a few things that I found out about regarding method and editing etc, that I'm happy to share, but not sure if I should???

That sounds like a fantastic adventure/challenge and a story worth telling? What kept you from following through?

So it was really thinking about the amount of time and effort that I would put in to something that wasn't going to be original, at best it would be mildly interesting as a homage, but when it came down to it wasn't that conceptually in keeping with my practice at that time, and in the end it was going to be more of a guilty pleasure than anything else, so other more important projects took priority.

But here are a few things that I learned from studying the footage, research and making inquiries..

The car was apparently a 275 GTB short wheelbase, he was very well known for driving it around..

So SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When comparing the soundtrack to the footage they're incongruous, at those kinds of speeds the 275 GTB would not be screeching like that; the driving line particularly the apexes were hardly maximized which seemed very odd.
The camera was mounted Incredibly close to the ground which gives the illusion of a much faster speed, when you look at the trees and buildings and other Street architecture you realize that actually it's really not that fast, and there's a very good reason for this.

When you listen to the engine revs and gear changes, they don't match what the visuals are doing for the most part; the 275 GTB was race car derived, it had amazing handling for a front-engine car of that era (one of my all-time favorites) however, the suspension was relatively hard compared to regular road cars of that era, mounted to a 275 would almost certainly produce really bad quality, very jittery and very shaky footage, especially on those cobbled streets, it would likely create shutter anomalies and timing problems, so he didn't use his 275 GTB.

He used a fairly bog standard Mercedes saloon car that had really good suspension, not uber smooth like the Citron DS of that era, as this would have taken away some of the sensation of Speed.

Totally get why you chose to move on in favor of original endeavors. Probably best to let Rendezvous just be it’s own thing, over-exuberant audio and speedy gimmicks and all 😎

Going back to films with an Asian context, here's a good one 😉

good morning vietnam?

Good guess, but no😉

..she's also a Bond girl😉