Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > All things Italian - A rather mad/fast Ferrari...

[antonye]

"On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a
gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend,
a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart
of Paris. The film was limited for technical reasons to 10 minutes; the
course was from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre
Coeur.


No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit.


The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly 140 MPH
in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red lights, nearly
hitting real pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up real one-way streets.


Upon showing the film in public for the first time, Lelouch was arrested. He
has never revealed the identity of the driver, and the film went underground
until a DVD release a few years ago."

http://aoctavio.castpost.com/ (34Mb)

[antonye]

Direct link to download is here:
http://aoctavio.castpost.com/rendezvous20_04.mov

[Chaz]

Less traffic than I remember in paris.

[chicken]

both mad and fast. Not as many brown trouser moments as I was expecting though.

[Rally]

Call me a kill-joy but... Very pirdy but largly fake.

Nice sound design - very Ronin-esk - but the soundtrack is a complete fabrication. Shot reeeal close to the deck so looks fast - but look at the relative speeds of the cars that are being overtaken. Plus there's no oversteer, no understeer, nada. 140mph? Don't think so.

Still faster than is sensible even at 5am

[antonye]

It's not fake, read about it here:
http://www.classicdriver.com/uk/maga...0.asp?id=11528

[Chris Wood]

I bought the DVD this IS a genuine classic and NOT fake.

Available from Spirit level films, check online in London.

Also, 'Cobra Ferrari wars' is very good also.

[Rally]

Hey, I didn't say it was a fake... I said it was largly a fake

I have no doubt about the sound track... it's kinda my business so, trust me, you can't record that audio. Not now and certainly not in the 70s.

Try watching it with the sound turned down and imagine the camera at a height of 2 foot rather than 2 inches and tell me that the speed reaches 140mph at any point. I'm sure some of us have done 140+ (not on public roads of course!) and know what it's like. At those speeds you would be overtaking at a relative speed of at least 100 mph. The film doesn't show that.

I'm not knocking the film - it's a lovely view of Paris - I'm just saying that it's not quite what it seems.

[Harv748]

I'm with rally on this one...fun to watch but very fake looking. Within 10 seconds it was obvious to me that it was not the real sound track.

No understeer/over steer...at one point he takes a tight cobbled street corner flat in top (150mph+)...not even a hint of any loss of control at all! Any modern day sports car would struggle with that one!

No wind noise...

He passes cars on long straights falt in top, and the relative speed between the cars is not that great...i.e. the other cars must having all been shifting as well!

....and then he barrels into the arch d'triumphe again flat out in top...mmmh

Obviously the footage is real, but the sound track is like something from my Gran-tourismo racing game!

[Edited on 15-11-2005 by Harv748]

[yeti]

Can't get it to play. Downloaded ok and wants to run in Movieplayer but the screen is blank. Is it me?