Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)

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So I bought the collectors edition DVD (with the lisence plate frame) and i was watching the film....what a really cool movie it is! and compared to car chases now a days...they dont make them like they used too. There's this one scene where "Elanor" and a LAPD car gover this little hill on the street...and they both bounce and hit the floor all nasty! ive never seen anything like it! anywho, here's my question.

In some scenes it looks as if they were done on open streets....I know I may be wrong on this, but is it possible??? Has anyone ever made a movie chase scene without actually closing any streets? or something like that? just curious.
 
Yep, the car chases in the original Gone in 60 seconds were done on public streets, they filmed a scene then had to pack everything up and get out of there before any real police arrived.
 
live4speed
Yep, the car chases in the original Gone in 60 seconds were done on public streets, they filmed a scene then had to pack everything up and get out of there before any real police arrived.
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dam i thought so because they way it all looked during the film was as you say...real. amazing stuff if you ask me.
 
Thats part of the reason the original has a bit of a cult following. The had no money for a budget, not a real film budget anyway so they couldn't afford to close the streets or anything like that, so they setup, I think they pretended to be news or something (don't quote me on that, that's just one of a few things I've heared, could have been for one scene only, could have been for more) until he traffic got to how they wanted it for that scene and there was no cops around, then action.
 
live4speed
Thats part of the reason the original has a bit of a cult following. The had no money for a budget, not a real film budget anyway so they couldn't afford to close the streets or anything like that, so they setup, I think they pretended to be news or something (don't quote me on that, that's just one of a few things I've heared, could have been for one scene only, could have been for more) until he traffic got to how they wanted it for that scene and there was no cops around, then action.
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it has some great driving in it too...but dam, what a way to shoot a film. but its understandable being that they didnt have the budget to actually close the streets down. But i bet it would have looked alot different if they did...so in a way it helped the movie out no??? i mean the scenes all of them...look amazing, but that scene before he takes off over the cars at that crash site they come across....all those police cars and him in the front....wow.
 
That scene where he crashes into the pole, that wasnt suppose to happen :lol:

Also apparently Bullit was filmed on open streets also..
 
Small_Fryz
That scene where he crashes into the pole, that wasnt suppose to happen :lol:

Also apparently Bullit was filmed on open streets also..
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I kinda figured it because I thought he was going to go off the FWY but it seemed as he or the guy in the grey car messed up and cliped him...but i guess they kept it and used it in the film. How did they do the stuff on the freeway because that was amazing too.
 
I've heard that original "Gone in 60 Seconds" had real cops in it.
 

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