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You won’t find the Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day picking its feet in Poughkeepsie!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes pic!
I absolutely didn’t intend to connect this picture to yesterday’s Superman pic, but as I was uploading it the Gene Hackman connection hit me. Oh well. Guess that’s just how my subconscious rolls.
What’s there to say about The French Connection that hasn’t been said a million times? This era of filmmaking is kind of mindblowing, especially when comparing it to today’s corporate filmmaking. This movie feels in the same universe as like movies of the time period. The Seven-Ups, Dog Day Afternoon and The Conversation come to mind. These were all studio pictures, smart, cutting-edge and risky tales that didn’t talk down to the audience.
The ‘70s were an amazing time for cinema. Inventive, fun low budget and independent films were seeing success in the drive-in market and studio filmmaking hit a Renaissance. Filmmaking seemed to mature all across the board.
With The French Connection, the amazing “you’re in the action” driving photography as Popeye Doyle hauled ass around New York is one of the most memorable aspects of the movie. With today’s picture we get a look at the rig William Friedkin and his DoP, Owen Roizman, set up in the car. Click to make big.
Here’s the pic:
Awesome, right? Just posting this makes me want to throw The French Connection on. Thanks go to constant reader Mike for sending this one along!
If you have a pic you think should be included email me. I’m looking for the iconic, the rare, the just plain cool behind the scenes shots to feature here.
You will want to see tomorrow’s Behind the Scenes Pic. End of line.
-Quint
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Previous Behind the Scenes pics:
- Alien
- Big Trouble In Little China
- Clash of the Titans
- Dr. Strangelove
- Sesame Street
- The Birds
- The Dark Knight
- Batman (1989)
- Batman: The TV Series
- Stephen King’s IT
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Superman
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http://www.toolian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9924&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=45
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really fast. Surely there is a better use of internet bandwidth....
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go watch The French Connection... NOW! The greatest car chase ever filmed. :)
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That may just be the coolest Pic yet
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Since he's retired - his presence is greatly missed on the screen. His voicing the Lowes Hardware commercials just doesn't cut it!
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Why do you keep clicking on it? Is someone grabbing your hand and clicking the mouse? :) Not every pic interests me, either, but hey - there are worse things than a page where someone expresses their love for cinema every day. It tends to be more positive, talkback-wise, than a lot of other pages, that's for sure.
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If you've seen one consumer electronics show, you've seen them all.
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. . . and they go away.
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. . . its Ed Harris now. Hackman does NOTHING.
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Spielberg's Oscar winning documentary "The Last Days" has been exposed as a disgusting hoax.
Read about its star, Irene Zisblatt, who lies about repeatedly eating shit covered diamonds, a la Walken in Pulp Fiction.
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I just could not get into it.
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his thing, he is a master. The gritty realism (I know that word is old these days) but the man has made me feel an environment like no other as far as realism. Hackman standing out in the cold, or Scheider hacking his way through t
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Lol! Well, I suppose I made my point, though not as elegantly as I wanted.
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....and idiotic. It's strange that a movie can have so much awesome in it, yet so much mind-bogglingly stupid as well.
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Jul 21, 2010 12:50:37 PM CDT
Plenty of worse places to pick your feet than Poughkeepsie
by nostairway
Like Newburgh, for example.I'll even throw Peekskill into that category because Mel Gibson was born there.
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No Harris does the Home Depot ads.
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Promise
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And the car chase - or car to subway chase - is equally unimpressive, I'm sorry. I take Ronin anytime, and I know it was done almost 30 years later.
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love how they have to come up with ways to make the camera shots.
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but Ed Harris does the V/Os for Home Depot, not Lowes. Though regardless I think Hackman did still stop doing work for Lowes.
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Proving once again that the 70s were the true golden age of film. This scene truly is astounding; a scene made all the more awesome because it was done without any efx -- just a car driving insanely recklessly through the city streets with camera's mounted to it. It's astounding, really. Of course, the extended car chases in Mad Max and The Road Warrior are vastly superior, but this is still totally amazing to me.
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. . . in that case, Ed Harris has been replaced by John Goodman at Home Depot. Damn I listen to too much sports radio . . .
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... from a fantastically cool as fuck great movie, featuring one of the greatest actors there has ever been.
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He's always top notch even if everything around him isn't
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That's a loopy movie, but it's got some great stuff in it.
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A mix of the films of Jean-Pierre Melville with kinetic, documentary style camera-work. THey should have gotten a behind-the-scenes pic of them pushing the camera operator in a shopping cart (he was a maker of Cuban documentaries) to film some of the street-level action.
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http://www.toolian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9924&start=45
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since I saw The French Connection
I miss Gene, he's retired from acting, writes now
But on my worst day and his best day I sure as fuck don't want to see his feet
Or him pickin at his toes
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http://www.toolian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9924&start=45
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Agreed, Monolith. Gene Hackman shines up even the a turd movie, though he isn't in many of those. I didn't really like The Royal Tannenbaums, but Gene made it viewable.
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he needs to do more comedies. his part in young frankenstein was great. and he pretty much made royal tannenbaums.
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A engien lasted maybe 60K miles
BUT it was 60 nad tickling K miles
Oh yeah baby you knew when you went for a ride back then -
And tell him I'm sorry, call me.
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was his last film talk about not going out on a high note.
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sometimes 50!
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Yes, the movie is clearly a product of the 80's (Wang Chung did the score for God's sake) but it's still a pretty good flick. And the chase in that movie is awesome as well.
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does these days.
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Those who thought the French Connection was "boring" must have been in a coma when they saw it! Are you kidding me?!!!!!
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A guy who's a dick but somehow still comes off likable and sympathetic. I couldn't imagine another actor in that role.
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yeah
right
back then cars didn't have seats
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Best superhero film villain ever, until Ledger of course.
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It's on my netflix que. Though I'd first have to return the disc I've had for about 2 months(Alien).
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for Hackman in French Connection. He was also Steve McQueen's adversary in Bullitt and doubled for Roy Scheider in The Seven Ups. Those 3 films defined car chase scenes, and have rarely been bettered. Yes, I know To Live & Die In LA and Ronin come close.
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Reminds me of my dad during the same time they must have taken that photo — early 70s.
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mostly from the more adventurous pulpy movies of the day, sword and sandals, bondmania, godzilla, spaghetti westerns.
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I prefer something with Telly Savalas and George Lazenby from On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
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is another underrated clssic which i havent seen but i kepe reading it as being very underrated.
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Yeah but i still appreciate that the 70s everything went into a more realism/gritty phase with a greater fascination about urban decay and bleak streets which is like the opposite of the 60s anything-goes feel of global adventure and comic book pulpyness, which kind of came back in the 80s too. Then the 90s everything went back to character driven realism again for a bit
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the music that kicks in is the things that nightmares are made of. Man how bleak does that sound?
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..except the rocker panels..""Aw cmon Irv, what the hell is that!"
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Guy rocked the 70's HARD
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Jul 21, 2010 3:15:28 PM CDT
"All winter long I gotta listen to him gripe about his bowling s
by lao_che_air_freight
"Now I'm going bust you for those three bags, and I'm gonna nail you for picking your feet in Poughkeepsie!"
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..I ain't working that joint!"
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One of those that when you see it on cable, you just stop right there, cause you know you aren't going to find anything better on.
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way back in the times of yore
I bitched about how Gene Hackamn was in every movie that came out
Back then there'd be like 20 movies a year and Gene'd be in like at least 10 of them
The guy didn't like to sit idle
Back then it seemed like too much Gene
well I need access to a time machine
So I can go back and kick myself in the nuts
"cos the only thing worse than too much Gene is no fucking Gene at all
Miss ya dude
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set it to the "Everybody Gets to Go to the Moon" song (that you only hear part of in the bar) and it was great. Fucking Fox made me take it down. I guess I should go put it up on vimeo.
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Nearly every exploitation film in the 70s is 20x better than this turd. I like Gene, but this film was just not entertaining. One of the weakest 70s films ever. There, said it.
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mmmmmmmm 70's cinema..yum
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How 'bout some SORCERER?
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fact
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And Midnight Cowboy. I said it yesterday, I'll say it again.
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An awesome reason to visit AICN each day.
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I didn't realize Hackman hadn't done anything since 2004. He'd do voice work, right? Pixar, Dreamworks, here's you're next wizened old character with awesome acting chops. Just sayin'.
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Jul 21, 2010 3:39:36 PM CDT
The badguys in a comfy restaurant ordering dessert
by takingscorpioscalls
while the goodguys are outside eating pizza slices in the cold=one of hte greatest parts ever.
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In one of the audio tapes they listen to, Angie asks Sal to pick up a pizza on the way home, and Sal says "where am I gonna get a pizza at 3 o'clock in the morning"...um dude, you live in Queens!! I'm sure even in 1973 you could find a pizza joint open 24/7 in NYC. I always thought that line was funny.
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Tossing the hat in the back window to alert other cops..Popeye's thing for go-go boot wearing chippies, the eating scene Scorpio mentioned a couple posts up..the chemist guy (220..lunar trajectory). I just love this movie.
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Dude could class up even the stinkiest movie just via his presence. I know it seems churlish to complain about actors in their 70s retiring from the business to enjoy their twilight years with all that amassed wealth, but the fact that giants like Hackman and Sean Connery went out on SHITTY movies like Welcome To Mooseport and The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen makes me wanna cry. At least Clint Eastwood seems to have gone out with one last GREAT role in Gran Torino (if his claims of retiring from acting after that movie remains true). The same thing with John Williams and John Barry...I want new scores from these geniuses while we still have them, instead of Barry not writing anything since 2002 and Williams only writing the fourth Indiana Jones score in the last five years.
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If you have a good pool of pics, you could have each day's segue into the next. Keep em' guessing and make it fun.
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That's what I do..
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Yeah I'll take that...I mean, I like Ed Asner and all, I watched MTM and Lou Grant back in the day, but somebody's agent call somebody's agent, stat.
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Nicholson, Pacino, and Deniro go out on? None of them have made anything really great in a while, I guess since THE DEPARTED. And is Hoffman even acting anymore? - all of them in the same graduating class of the 70s
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In a theater full of screaming drug dealers. When Popeye gets shot up with Heroin, everyone cheered and shouted "YO POPEYE, HOWS THAT FEEL?" Their sympathies were squarely on the side of their own.
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Better chase scene, too.
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Kief_Ledger, TakingScorpiosCalls
Tomorrow won't be To Live & Die in LA or Bond/Star Trek
JAGUART, I'll try and provide a segue:
tomorrow's pic will take us from today's classic chase scene to a chase scene that broke ground by introducing computer animation to mainstream cinema.
not a great segue, but I'm not a writer.
"End of Line." -
Wow, excellent timing!
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He was a stunt double for the biker I think on one of the pedestrians. One of the first times, I thought I could into films and sadly sitting on my ass bitching online. Fuck what happened to me. Minus that, its one of the best cop movies ever made. The real life story on the dvd is awesome as well.
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One of the top five best movie endings in film history.
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You are hereby disqualified from ever commenting on any film ever again, because you obviously don't have a clue! Poor guy!
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"This movie feels in the same universe as like movies of the time period."
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Tron! C'mon, "End of line."! Some of you guys need your geek cards pulled.
Gene Hackman has retired from acting so he can spend more time banging his hot, young, Asian wife and I say good for him, the lucky bastard. -
Anyone get the feeling at the end that Roy had died and was in hell and would keep waking up and having to drive that same damn truck over and over. Seemed twilight zone at the end. Remember the watch talked about forever or eternity. Man, it's Nolan's totem! Again! Either way you don't realize how much you're gonna get hooked into this movie, but damn you do.
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Can't help but love his performance in Hoosiers, which is consider an authentic slice of Americana. Also, his Lex Luthor is light, but also lethal and diabolical. His Luthor is not traditional, but none the less great.
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of 25 will never experience a true age of cinema, like the 70's and 80's. Why do you think they're re-making everything from those two decades. I was only a kid, but even then I realized something was special. The crappola they try to come up with these days has to be covered with the shit that is 3-D. And that's just sad.
Just go back, take a look at these classic films and you'll see why some are in high regard. -
because these were the heavy hitters of that era: Connery, Kubrick, Leone, Toho, Sellers, Newman, Fellini, Godard, etc.
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I have to say that with the exception of the performances, the car chase, and ending this film is seriously boring. French Connection II is by far better in every single way. And the chase scene from To Live and Die in LA is better then French Connection. I feel people don't like to say a well respected movie is bad so they watch it and go it's a classic but didn't really enjoy it.
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I know this has nothing to do with the stupid pic of the day. Nevertheless, gotta get it off my chest. Why are so many morons on here saying that wanting the "Lost" finale to have answers is akin to wanting to know that "Midichlorians" were behind The Force? First of all, Star Wars was not a mystery movie, it was an science fiction/action movie. The whole movie did not have characters saying "What is the mystery of the Force? Why can only Jedis use it? Where did it come from?" nor did plot points hinge on inconsistencies with the Force. In other words, no one asked for Midichlorians. However, "Lost" DID raise such mysteries. What is the island, what is the smoke monster, what are "the rules," why can't women get pregnant, etc. So it stands to reason that one would expect those questions be answered. If you're going to compare the "Lost" finale to Star Wars then the analogy should be that, after Darth Vader tells Luke that he is his father, it is never again mentioned by anyone, and the series concludes with never knowing how or why the father of the story's hero became the story's villain. That's all I have to say. Oh wait, one more thing... all you asshole talkbackers bragging about being on unemployment (which, at 30 months, is not unemployment but WELFARE), it's time that you show some goddamned respect to us taxpayers and stop bragging about being on it. Any man who is on unemployment HAS NO PENIS and EVERYONE KNOWS THAT. You're just like the Harley Drivers in that South Park episode where everyone is calling them "fags" but they think they're cool because their motorcycles are loud. You might think you are cool, but every woman in your life knows that you have no dick, and it's just important to me that you know that.
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... with the film is the boring tripod camera angles and compositions throughout the film. The talking scenes with the bad guys are completely uninteresting in all aspects. When I heard about the film I was prepared for a seriously sick documentary type film and every though it looks gritty, the camera work isn't anything special.
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Your name is quint. Bring the Robert Shaw behind the scenes pics, please.
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...but what was his last great live-action role? It sure as shit wasn't Meet The Fockers.
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You have excellent taste
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Jul 21, 2010 11:27:33 PM CDT
Compare this to SALT and you see why today's studios stink
by jonchambers
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Jul 21, 2010 11:28:25 PM CDT
Can't believe FOX made this-No Way would they do it today
by jonchambers
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Strap, God wants you on the floor!
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Masterful. Brilliant films. Boring? You may have an attention deficit disorder..
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And before that Rain Man, and before that Tootsie. Which is sad, cos the man used to do so many great movies
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gbtw you effing hippy
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Nasty, Hoffman was great in Perfume, a radically underrated movie in my opinion.Gwyn, stay tuned. Got one that's never been seen in public before. It'll post after Comic-Con.
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I never realized that it was Hackman who played the blind guy!! Amazing, since it is my favourite scene from that movie....
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Sorry, Frankenheimer, but that's the truth. The exteriors of the night chase in the Audi look ok, but the cockpit shots give no impression of speed. The chase with DeNiro driving the weren't much better. He still does have Grand Prix on his resume, though.Bullit is still king; real cars, real speed, no FX bullshit, and McQueen behind the wheel. And on the track, Le Mans rules, a thinly-plotted excuse to film racing cars.
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Can't wait.
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don't know if tenenbaum is considered a comedy but it did have a quirky darkly funny vibe which shows hackman would have been great in a comedy.
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