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Greetings! I've decided to knock up a thread of weird foreign car chases as there's so many of them floating around on Youtube now. Let's get started with this one.

 

Con la rabbia agli occhi

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Vehicles: Some Alfa Romeo Giulias

Location: Probably Rome or something

Clichés: Fruit stand gets knocked over, driving down some steps, man with a ridiculous moustache gets angry

Review: Good little chase, lots of whiny police sirens, the cars don't look too knackered by the end. Nice job!

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You haven't got time to watch films Hirst - get back down that car lot!

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Let's have an American one now.

 

Speedtrap

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCp-STgRQ28

 

Vehicles: Stacklight Merc SEL, Corvette Stingray, BMW sharknose, a few police cars including a Dodge Polara (I think)

Location: Phoenix, Arizona

Clichés: Commandeering a fast car, ridiculous music (with vocals!), crash followed by an argument/fight, people falling into water, chase continuing onto a race track (full of dirtbikes!), utterly useless police who just crash into each other

Review: Absolutely ridiculous (and very long) car chase with all kinds of unfeasible things happening - amusingly the Stingray can barely keep up with the SEL as it wallows through the corners! Make the effort man! Worth it for the music alone. "OOOH IT'S A SPEEDTRAP!"

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I haven't got time now, but see if you can find the one involving a 2CV and a nun. It's a prequel to the car chase in View to a Kill with the Renner 11...

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2CV and a nun, eh? That sounds promising.

 

Here's one more for now. Jackie Chan films set in the modern day are generally known for including strange car chases, this one is no different.

 

My Lucky Stars

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6X_ZwtH1qM

 

Vehicles: Ford Mustang II and Mitsubishi Minica

Location: Somewhere in Japan

Clichés: Rolling over the bonnet of a car, daft off-road shortcut, obvious Mitsubishi product placement (more of a Jackie Chan cliché), using a car transporter as a ramp

Review: Daft car chase with strange 80s arcade game music, loads of slightly too old Japanese cars end up damaged and the final "ramming" shot cracks me up. NICE ONE JACKIE!

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I haven't got time now, but see if you can find the one involving a 2CV and a nun. It's a prequel to the car chase in View to a Kill with the Renner 11...

For Your Eyes Only?? :?
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Some typical euro-car(-chase) clichés came to my mind yesterday: No one in these films ever locks his car. A 2CV easily outruns a R30. Music starts inside car with tape/cd just being pushed in. Spectacular understeering is a must. Engines must rev at at least 4000rpm before clutch is being released. A film car obviously has at least 12 gears...Who continues?

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I haven't got time now, but see if you can find the one involving a 2CV and a nun. It's a prequel to the car chase in View to a Kill with the Renner 11...

For Your Eyes Only?? :?
Nope. Believe me, it is View to a Kill. Exactly the same thing happens as the Renault, but with a 2CV. And a nun.
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I reckon 80s Hong Kong car chases are the best - it's like a weird Japan/UK traffic combo in terms of the vehicle split.Typically, you'll see something along the lines of a Cortina police car smashing into an old Galant and sending it spinning into an Allegro and an XJ6, which then sit around briefly before being crushed by a Hino dump truck. Brill!

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Thats Jack Wade from Goldeneye that is. He must have traded in the Corvette for this:

 

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Probably had difficulty in getting insurance.

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Jensen Interceptor getting ragged everywhere. Can't argue with that. Some quality flares and other 70's accessories as well.

 

 

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Not a chase, but a Wartburg being thrashed. Methinks good enuf.

 

 

Not that obscure, but Bond in a 2cv and two Pug 504s. Can't argue.

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Weird - Check : Goodbye Pork PieForeign - Check : Its from New ZealandCar Chase - Check : Mini around Wellington, through most of the South Island before being blown up in Invercargill For those of you who havent seen it, its probably going to be on Channel 4 at some useful time like 2.20am. On a Tuesday. Worth a go.Otherwise Ronin has one of the best car chases in my view. Not really weird and not that foreign though

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Weird - Check : Goodbye Pork PieForeign - Check : Its from New ZealandCar Chase - Check : Mini around Wellington, through most of the South Island before being blown up in Invercargill For those of you who havent seen it, its probably going to be on Channel 4 at some useful time like 2.20am. On a Tuesday. Worth a go.Otherwise Ronin has one of the best car chases in my view. Not really weird and not that foreign though

Goodbye Pork Pie is AMAZING. I watched it at work on my mates video iPod when the system fucked up.
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Watanabe, if you liked the film, go on Youtube and look up Rhombus Clav Dub. Local Wellington band made a "homage" video for one of their songs. OK, its a Clubman rather than the original round nose, but it does feature the original Blondini!I read the actor who played Blondini (Kelly Johnson) is now a Lawyer as well as an actor. Last seen playing the part of a Lawyer in Shortland Street. Well, he's and actor AND a lawyer, probably helps out a bit.Stickmen is another classic NZ film. No car chase though. Imagine if Guy Ritchie was a Maori and you're about half way there......

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8sLErXiwTo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKpbtFNjpek Here is a couple for your enjoyment. The second one featuring a rare incident of a Lancia Gamma with an unsnapped cambelt.

I fucking love No Way Out. Most of Richard Conte's stuff was class. The best bit in that chase was when there's a close up on the pedals, then the output shaft of the gearbox, and then the carbs. Never seen that in any other car chase scene before or since.
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My all-time favourite Euro-chase sequence, from '

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Best bit: at 1:56, driving flat out one-handed while booting out the windscreen :lol::lol:

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Skoda Estelle being chased by a Volvo 240 cop car. In Finland.

 

Proper shite.

 

 

This is fun, VW K70, Citroen DS, Fiat 131.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmbh1lWyUj0

 

Polish Fiat 128 Coupé vs Fiat 125P.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK5cfdjNKfU&feature=related

 

More Fiats. Italian this time.. and a Corsair...

 

Pete, that last film, 'No Problem' was the one I was thinking of. Like Playtime but with dancing cars.

 

The 404 that splits in half, repairs itself and then crashes into the bodyshop is piss funny. Also the bloke driving the Argenta who gets shot in best Band a Part style, and then reverses down the street nose to nose with the perps in the K70 giving them grief :lol: Love it.

 

My all-time favourite Euro-chase sequence, from '

', and one of the most realistic, despite the occasional speeded-up film.

 

Best bit: at 1:56, driving flat out one-handed while booting out the windscreen :lol::lol:

 

I love Violent Rome, and that chase is a curious mixtire of candid realism and lazy continuity editing.

 

There's the windscreen booting that you mentioned, plus the dramatic change in weather when the BMW 2000 mounts the kerb and goes through the park. In the establishing shot it's overcast and damp, and as Merli in the Giulia Super gives chase it's the same, but as we cut into the next rush it's bone dry and sunny.

 

The rest of it though is seriously impressive. Merli looks like he does a lot of the driving himself. Either that or it's very well intercut. I suppose the first unit scenes only showed the actors driving straight, which isn't too hard to do unless you're Alain Delon. That swerve on the flyover is pretty unnerving though - well faked if it wasn't a set up.

 

That little Giulia carries some serious speed through the streets if the shots of its tortured Cinturatos are anything to go by. I think my favourite shot in the whole sequence is when the crims are hammering down the exit ramp off the autostrada, and then ten seconds later Betti drives out of the foreground over the bridge linking the roads.

 

I reckon the cock ups were because the second unit ran out of money and couldn't do a retake. The bit with the windscreen was just silly, the foley \ dubbing producer was clearly asleep :roll:

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One of my favourites (apologies if its been posted previously)http://www.dailymotion.com/video/kaskvbQeqQfxFXg6K0

What the hell was that all about? It was like a magazine group test from hell!
Fuck knows - I've only ever seen that bit on the internet and I've never been arsed to find out the story line as I suspect that will be the best bit (its this if anyones interested http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092130/ ).I think the best thing is that it was made in 1986 which makes most of those cars new or nearly new 8)
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Ah, "A Man And A Woman - 20 years later". I've not seen the film but I've seen that clip. There's some serious cane-age of contemporary executive chod there.The French don't seem to worry about budgets when wrecking late-model stuff, cf. the Taxi films or indeed Ronin - even a lot of the background stuff that gets trashed is new, or nearly-new.

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The French don't seem to worry about budgets when wrecking late-model stuff, cf. the Taxi films or indeed Ronin - even a lot of the background stuff that gets trashed is new, or nearly-new.

Apart from in "An American Werewolf in Paris" where it seems the intent was to destroy every 15-20 yr old car they could get their hands on... :(EDIT:http://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=118604
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The French don't seem to worry about budgets when wrecking late-model stuff, cf. the Taxi films or indeed Ronin - even a lot of the background stuff that gets trashed is new, or nearly-new.

There's a lot of quality shite that gets utterly destroyedin Ronin, too - I seem to remember a Renault 9 and Citroen Visa, among many others. I also read (somewhere) that they pissed Peugeot off in the extreme by deliberately wrecking a newly-released Coupe, which had been supplied by way of 'publicity'.

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