This is really a scene from such a pursuit in 1924. It was from the film “Sherlock Jr.,” in which Buster Keaton appears to be on the verge of being hit by a train. The filmmakers would have to come up with an innovative approach to action movie create an illusion with such limited visual effects. So they flipped the movie after shooting the segment backwards.
Ever since, Hollywood has devised a plethora of techniques for making automobile chases feel more genuine as well as visceral to moviegoers, ranging from car modifications to positioning cameras smack in the centre of something like the action. We would have not arrived to the ultimate spectacle that would be the “Fast & Furious” franchise without all of these advancements.
Let’s take a closer look into how the vehicle chase has changed in Hollywood over the last 100 years.
This really is the sequence that established the benchmark for all subsequent vehicle chases. It’s from Steve McQueen’s 1968 film “Bullitt,” and that it’s famous partially for the characters —
But that’s because of their automobiles. This intimidating Dodge Charger is indeed a muscle car, a kind of vehicle that gained prominence in the United States in the late 1960s.
With huge V-8 engines as well as rear-wheel drive, this new, sleeker version was primarily designed for casual drag racing.
The Ford Mustang, the first significant pony car — a much more compact, athletic variation on the muscle vehicle — was indeed the hero automobile in “Bullitt.”
“Bullitt” also had the benefit of having smaller and much more robust cameras, allowing for street filming. Because they were dealing with cameras that looked like this, most filmmakers shot chase sequences on studio sets before this film.
Filmmakers would employ rear projection to fill in background, which involves projecting a moving picture onto a screen behind the performer. As in this chase sequence from the first Bond film, “Dr. No,” when Sean Connery’s driving doesn’t seem to match his convertible’s movement.
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