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- Path: sparky!uunet!gator!towers!mwhhlaw!jim
- From: jim@mwhhlaw (James P. Cavanaugh III)
- Subject: Re: Thelma & Louise
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.123355.4459@mwhhlaw.uucp>
- Sender: jim@mwhhlaw.uucp
- Organization: Martin Wade Hartley & Hollingsworth
- References: <1992Dec17.112339.21412@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:33:55 GMT
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- > In article <1992Dec16.192410.15986@MorningStar.Com>
- dean@MorningStar.Com (Dean Schell) writes:
- > "I've always wondered about what they use in a movie when a really
- nice
- > "classic car gets destroyed. Tom mentions a duplicate - is this a
- > "mock-up that just looks like the real thing? Do they ever really
- > "destroy a classic just to make sure that the movie seems authentic?
-
- I have forgotten the exact number, but they ruined a whole lot
- of 57 Plymouth hardtops to make the movie Christine (about the
- possessed red 57 Belvedere hardtop). Also, remember when James Caan
- got shot up in The Godfather? They took a 41 Continental coupe and
- shot it full of holes, then filled the holes with explosive so Caan
- could get ambushed on camera. I saw that car at Auburn several years
- ago and wanted to retch.
- It just burns the hell out of me when some Hollywood nimboid
- takes an irreplaceable car and destroys it in the name of special
- effects. I never saw Thelma and Louise, so did not know until now that
- they sent a T-Bird convertible over a cliff. Bastards.
-
- Jim Cavanaugh
-