Most of us remember the 1968 movie Bullitt for two reasons; Steve McQueen and the epic ten minute car chase that caps everything off. The chase scene, which took weeks of shooting and involved hundreds of talented people, remains one of the cornerstones of the American cinema experience. Car magazines and websites have been trying to recreate that classic scene for decades, only to be limited to a handful of streets and stunts.
So leave it to a Korean movie theater chain to recreate the whole scene in a couple of hours. Autoblog reports via the San Francisco Appeal that over the weekend the chase scene was recreated to promote the new “4D” movie experience in Korea.
The original chase scene was actually spread out across a large area of San Francisco, and there were actually nine separate area, often distant areas shot over a perod of two weeks to compile the chase scene. It took months of editing to bring the separate scenes together into one coherent chase scene. But that didn’t stop the producers from recreating the scene, complete with blank bullets and squealing tires, from trying to get as much of the chase as possible squeezed into just two hours of shooting.
We’re assuming they probably stuck with the most iconic scenes, including the jumps down San Franciscos stereotypical steep streets. No doubt this “new” scene will be in the editing room for a while too, though we wouldn’t mind seeing a “4D” recreation of this famous chase. Too bad we’d have to go to Korea just to check it out.