Catch it while you can want a discreet and fast german saloon with a touch of ronincool. Never walk into a room you dont know how to walk out of. Car chases are often captured on news broadcast due to the video footage recorded by police cars and police and media helicopters. For the final chase scene, which used 300 stunt drivers, the. Real stunt drivers and cars with nary a hint of cgi to be found anywhere in the entire film. Movies of the 1990s features some of the best car chases ever. Ronin 1998 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Some were getting tracking shots driving porsche 911s. Rating is available when the video has been rented. The cinematic carchase scene is definitely an art form, if you catch tanner fousts drift. Simply put, the car chase scene is a staple of the hollywood action movie. The french connection car chase was as dangerous as it looked. The chase in the french connection features a 1971 pontiac lemans.
There were over 300 stunt drivers used for this scene alone, most of them used in the. The greatest car chase ever filmed turns 20 years old this week. The driving of ronin behind the scenes of the worlds greatest movie car chase duration. And for fans of fury road, sorry, but amazing as that was, it did use cgi. A car chase is the vehicular hot pursuit of suspects by law enforcers. And there are so many good ones that to safely navigate a timeline of the best, we handed the wheel to an actual stunt driver darrin prescott, who orchestrated the carfu in the bourne. The star, robert deniro, looks visibly distressed in the tunnel chase. Were also here to note a curious thing about ronin. Best car chases movies stunt driver on classic car chase.
It makes every list of top cinematic car chase scenes. According to prince, frankenheimers success at working in this realist style, avoiding special effects trickery, places the car chase in ronin in the same rarefied class as the celebrated chase in bullitt 1968. The attention to detail and the level of preparation of the stunt driving in. Formula one driver actually handling the good guys car in the. The chase features 300 stunt drivers, including formula 1 driver jeanpierre jarier. Under the direction of former amateur racing driver john frankeheimer. The obvious choice of many, this cool chase between low flying muscle cars on the hills of san francisco is a classic. Movies of the 1990s features some of the best car chases. How the car is driven goes a long way to helping a good chase earn alltime status. A speed contest between a 440 dodge charger and the 390powered 68 ford mustang, it cemented mcqueens legacy as a stunt driver in the movies even though he only did part of the piloting, carey loftin handling most of the hard stuff. This is naturally because ronin is one of the best movies for long european car chase scenes. The guys over at film junk just completed a weekly poll on their site for the best car chase movies.
One of the best of car chase scenes of all time is featured in ronin, with its e34 bmw m5. Behind the scenes of the worlds greatest movie car chase. How to write a car chase when you think about chase scenes, car chases are usually the first to come to mind. Another film that must be mentioned when talking big screen car chases, ronin has become more famous for its climactic car scenes than its twisting tale of espionage and international intrigue. The best car chases, like the ones in bullit, ronin, the matrix reloaded, the dark knight and even death proof are defined by how fast the vehicles go and whats at stake in between everyone loves a good car chase. One of the stunt drivers was former formula 1 driver jeanpierre jarier. Ronin still has the best movie car chase scene since.
The rise of the automotive industry in the 20th century increased car ownership, leading to a growing number of criminals attempting to evade police in their own vehicle or a stolen car. The actors then mimicked the stunt drivers movements. A badass crimethriller featuring robert deniro, natascha mcelhone and jean reno, ronin is an awesome. Wrights love of classic car chase movies such as bullitt, ronin and the french. Ronin still has the best movie car chase scene since bullitt. Top 11 movies that killed the most cars car throttle.
They had 4 bmws and 5 peugeots on hand in case these cars were destroyed 80 cars total were wrecked during the making of ronin. Top 10 most unforgettable movie car chases of alltime. There is so much that a perfectly shot car chase sequence does for a movie. A car is only as good as its driver, and a movie car chase is only as good as the person behind the wheel. The great unknown car chase scene bloviating zeppelin. The chase culminates in a tense highway wrongway sequence which used 300 stunt drivers. Hollywoods best car chases, as rated by a top stunt driver. You can really throw an old car like a ford capri around, doing handbreak turns and all sorts of things, says steve griffin, a stunt driver who drove the iconic van in last years hit film. Classic carchase movie bullitt stunt driver bill hickman he drove the black 1968 dodge charger in the movie told a magazine many years after the movie that the 375hp 440 engines in both chargers used in the movie scenes were largely unmodified while the 325hp 390 engines in the two 1968 mustang gts were heavily modified as were the brakes and suspensions for the race scenes. Under the direction of former amateur racing driver john frankeheimer, ronin skips the common digital effects and films many sequences live to support the authenticity of the chase.
In most carchase movies, the real star is the car, author says. The chase ends with the tanker barrelrolling spectacularly in the desert, a stunt that was decided to be so dangerous that the stunt driver was told not to eat or drink in the preceding 12 hours in case he had to be rushed into emergency surgery. Ronins e34 bmw m5 scene is still one of the best car chases. It draws the audience into the story and makes them care about the characters, it shows off the skills of the director, stunt coordinators, and special effects teams, and, best of all, it seriously gets the blood pumping. The 1998 film ronin has several notable car chases, but it is the last one through the tunnels and streets of paris that is most remember. The bad guy runs out to the car, slides over the hood, starts the car and slams on the gas.
Nearly 20 years after its release, ronin s car chase has never been bettered, particularly as modern movies. The actor held a dummy steering wheel, while a stunt driver out of shot drove the car. Mcelhone were actually driving during the car chase, righthanddrive cars were used. The 10 most amazing car chases in movie history, ranked. Nearly 20 years on, ronins pulsepounding car chase in paris still. The greatest cars from the best movie car chases autocar. The idea was that the actors expression would be more authentic if he was really being driven at high speed. The director credited the russian film the cranes are flying 1957 with inspiring invisible cuts in ronin. Skipp sudduth requested to do his own stunt driving during the car chases, and.
Released in cinemas in september 1998, ronin had all of the potential of being a bit of. Carey loftin started off as a stuntman in dick tracy and green hornet serials in the 30s and 40s and worked as a stunt driver and coordinator up until 1998s patrick swayze trucker movie black dog. Theres actually a stunt driver sitting next to the actors and driving in this chase. The porsche 911 camera cars of ronin john frankenheimers 1998 brilliant action thriller ronin took more than 300 stunt drivers to shoot. A history of crash and bang, from the french connection to mad max. The top 7 movie car chases by decade ronin, bourne. Nevertheless, it was only skipp sudduth who was allowed to do his own stunts driving the audi. The other driver was a local who stumbled unbeknownst into the renegade. Ronin will thrill you like no car film can petrolicious. Oddly enough, i happened to meet bill hickman solo stunt driver for the black dodge charger in the early 80s just before he passed away in 1986. Director john frankenheimers perfect carchase film. The driving of ronin behind the scenes of the worlds greatest. The party, just exiting their own vehicle, sees the villain running and returns to their own vehicle.
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