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March 18th, 2020, 07:26 AM
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While you are stuck at home
Received this from Hagerty in my email this morning. Just may take in a couple of these while I wait for the next shipment of toilet paper to arrive at the store... 
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March 18th, 2020, 11:39 AM
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March 20th, 2020, 03:42 PM
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We all know Vanishing Point but I have a 2nd dvd with the directors commentary -
1st dvd is the movie
the 2nd dvd is the directors commentary BEING the making of the movie - they literally narrate through every scene / how it came about / stories about the road & town and settings ... so much detail
I like it more than the movie itself
<snip>Shot in just 38 days, it’s obvious that everyone pushed themselves to the limit to make the film as good as it is; as Sarafian rhetorically noted on the DVD commentary, for a commercial Hollywood director, “how often do you get to make a film that really means something?”
On the DVD commentary for the film, Sarafian noted that he always referred to the film in jest as “Vanishing Points,” because he was forced by Darryl F. Zanuck and 20th Century Fox to give back some of his back end participation points when he went over budget by $80,000 – think of it, just $80,000 – on a total budget of $1.3 million. But with the Charlotte Rampling sequence, it becomes a whole new movie, and you can really see what the entire project was aiming at from the beginning.
1st dvd is the movie
the 2nd dvd is the directors commentary BEING the making of the movie - they literally narrate through every scene / how it came about / stories about the road & town and settings ... so much detail
I like it more than the movie itself
<snip>Shot in just 38 days, it’s obvious that everyone pushed themselves to the limit to make the film as good as it is; as Sarafian rhetorically noted on the DVD commentary, for a commercial Hollywood director, “how often do you get to make a film that really means something?”
On the DVD commentary for the film, Sarafian noted that he always referred to the film in jest as “Vanishing Points,” because he was forced by Darryl F. Zanuck and 20th Century Fox to give back some of his back end participation points when he went over budget by $80,000 – think of it, just $80,000 – on a total budget of $1.3 million. But with the Charlotte Rampling sequence, it becomes a whole new movie, and you can really see what the entire project was aiming at from the beginning.
March 21st, 2020, 01:44 AM
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Very interesting Charlie, I am a huge Vanishing Point (1971) fan.
Chip - powell, The Car (1977) was disturbing for me when I was a kid to say the least. Thrilling and freighting at the same time. The horn honking stayed with me for years...
Chip - powell, The Car (1977) was disturbing for me when I was a kid to say the least. Thrilling and freighting at the same time. The horn honking stayed with me for years...
March 21st, 2020, 06:33 AM
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I was 8 when I saw it at the drive in with my folks. For years whenever the wind blew hard at night, all I could think of was that the car is out there. It was as scary as Jaws was to a little kid like me.
March 22nd, 2020, 07:40 PM
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That's not the part that intrigues me. I'm all about the way the car is presented in every single scene, absolutely spectacular from the time he rolls out of the garage and starts to open it up. I cant think of a better ad for a car ever. 90 + minutes of the camera making love to that Challenger saying look how bad-*** this thing is.
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