Will Lloyd’s arrange for anger management sessions with Ollinger & Associates as a precondition before taking possession after a winning bid? Here’s your lead psychologist working with a typical NYC driver afflicted with road rage:
part of the driving test in NYC is to show proficiency on the bumper car ride at Coney Island
That can be thrilling, and terrifying. When a friend and I took the weekend Skip Barber High Performance Driving School course at Lime Rock Raceway in Connecticut, they had us drive cars with the tire tread shaved off, going around a course that they flooded and kept quite wet, to learn how to control drifting. It was like driving on sheet ice.
Training to elude "the fuzz" in a high-speed chase?
Or maybe training how to chase the bad guys.
This chase scene’s scariness was enhanced for me because I lived a short walk away from where it was shot the year before I moved into that neighborhood in Brooklyn:Or maybe training how to chase the bad guys.
P.S.: My friend didn't play Lalo Schifrin in his Toyota Tercel but it would have been awesome.
I just watched the whole thing. They don't do car chases like they used to, now it's all CGI crap.
I really don't know why I haven't watched it yet. It has all the ingredients for a great movie, including Gene Hackman.
"French Connection II" director, John Frankenheimer, had some good car chase scenes in "Ronin," which, IMO, is an underrated film.
Hackman had yet to establish himself as a lead actor when casting decisions were being made for TFC. He had fared well as Clyde Barrow’s brother Buck in support of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in Bonnie And Clyde. This may have been why Friedkin and producers offered the role around a bit before signing Hackman to play NYC detective Popeye Doyle. The rest is history with Hackman becoming a box office star with an Oscar and a fast food chicken joint named after his character.I really don't know why I haven't watched it yet. It has all the ingredients for a great movie, including Gene Hackman.
Talking of Gene Hackman, anybody who likes 1970s flicks with strong guy roles and all the nice good things that made 70s flicks awesome but are now considered politically incorrect should watch Prime Cut, a lesser known slightly B-movie flick starring Gene Hackman and Lee Marvin alongside Sissy Spacek in one of her early roles.
It doesn't have a car chase, but the harvester chase is GOAT.
Hackman and Dustin Hoffman had been roommates and buddies before making it big, and I'd read that after The Graduate hit big four years before TFC, Hoffman would spread the word that people should give Hackman more juicy roles
70s-90s are prime Hackman. One of his last great roles before retiring was in The Firm, but the guy could basically do no wrong. Having Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman on screen at the same time in Prime Cut often results in a charisma overload warning on my TV. Besides, it takes a specially badass actor to play the head of a Southern prostitution mafia named Mary Ann.
I haven't seen The Royal Tenenbaums either! From the same director as Rushmore?Two more Hackman classics:
"The Royal Tenenbaums"
& "The Conversation"
Top of his game in that underappreciated performance, subtle, never over-acting. Cruise should have taken notes.
Yeah, another Wes Anderson--I really enjoyed it.
Robert Duvall was the third roomie while they learned the trade in NYC during the 50s.
