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The Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day is going to nail you for picking your feet in Poughkeepsie.
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
Still trying to work out the time difference while enjoying a few weeks in New Zealand… while the sun is still out for me it looks like I’m a tad late with today’s BTS pic. Oh well. When in a pinch for time you can’t go wrong with William Friedkin, Roy Scheider and Gene Hackman.
The French Connection kicks arse and these three men are the reason why. I wish we’d see crazy hard-edged flicks like this out of the modern studio system, but alas that time seems to have passed.
Thanks to Steve Mitchell for sending this one along. Click to embiggen!
If you have a behind the scenes shot you’d like to submit to this column, you can email me at quint@aintitcool.com.
Tomorrow’s behind the scenes pic told me it was pronounced Froderick!
-Quint
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Doesn't look like Friedkin...
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Finally a behind the scenes picture I can get with, THE FRENCG CONNECTION is classic, and I even liked Friedkin's BUG!
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is awesome. what a great movie
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July 29, 2011, 1:42 a.m. CST
It always looks so cold on film sets.....
by harryknowlesnothingaboutfilm
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Keep 'em coming. Hard to believe this movie's nearly 40 years old.
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Hey, remember when movies were good? I miss those days..
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July 29, 2011, 3:28 a.m. CST
Friedkin became the new Lucas with the Blu-Ray of French Connection...
by Prydie
...that fucker DESTROYED the film re-timing the colour of that masterpiece. Can't we get a new print by the DP so it doesn't look like a pastel nightmare?
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I hear you.
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What a great fucking film. I always wonder what Peter Boyle, (the original choice), would have done with Popeye Doyle. Hackman and Scheider, though, are amazing together in this - hard-bitten, hard-ass and totally believable. Maybe they should re-make it today with Mark Wahlberg and Leonardo DiCaprio both frowning really hard.
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In fact, his best film. Love the fact that they broke every city law to film the car chase at full throttle. So much better than the over-hyped, POS twaddle he followed this with.
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You still picking your feet in Poughkeepsie?
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Anything Hobbit related?
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July 29, 2011, 7:12 a.m. CST
If they remake the French Connection I'll fucking kill someone. Seriously.
by goatboy500
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I'll load the gun for you.
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And Kayne West as some asshole who happens to be in the movie. Hey it will sell movie tickets and CD's! A win win!
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July 29, 2011, 9:19 a.m. CST
Popeye Doyle is such a badass. And Hackman is utterly amazing, especially in FC2.
by Mr Nicholas
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pretty sure that French Connection Part 2 was my first exposure to the term 'Cold Turkey'.
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one that ain't pan and scan.
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Hackmans expression is saying : "Yeah,i can do that!" while Schieder is saying: "...hmm, I dont know Gene.."
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July 29, 2011, 12:31 p.m. CST
Another one of those movies that doesn't hold up to the hype
by Rex Carsalot
Not just being negative here - there are a lot of movies that I had for one reason or another never seen that now that I am catching up on them - they just don't hold up to their legends. This is one of them - it's good, I guess, but it's also really boring in spots. That car chase tho - can't take anything away from that.
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July 29, 2011, 12:47 p.m. CST
is tomorrow's BTSPOTD going for a "voll en ze hey?"
by Squinty CGI Flynn
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love Cloris Leachmans delivery of that line
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July 29, 2011, 1:04 p.m. CST
When did people stop wearing hats like that and how can we bring it back?
by sweeneydave
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And what the fuck was up with that "pick your feet" line? As a kid it was the biggest puzzle in life. What the fuck did it mean? Junkies pick their feet? Not a great line to hear when you are eating a TV dinner in front of the toob for that matter.
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Hats are coming back Sweeney Dave, I see more guys on the streets every sporting better lids than your avg baeball cap wearing doofus. If you want a good porkpie, I highly reccomend JJ Hats on 5th Ave in NYC, awesome selection, and quality hats, not the cheap ass stuff you find in malls or department stores. I have a nice boater, a derby, and a sweet Italian fedora from them. None them hold a candle to my refurbished Steve Delk-bashed Herbert Johnson fedora - now that's a hat!
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One of my better ones... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoqQN94ibDc
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One of the most underrated films of the past decade IMHO. Awesome hand to hand knife fights. No CGI car chases or shaky cam bullshit. Tommy Lee Jones and Benecio del Toro go mano a mano. Love the scene where the men escape the city and are constructing their knives for the final fight. The movie is almost like a modern interpretation of First Blood the novel where Rambo is actually a cold-blooded killer rather than a misunderstood Vietnam vet who accidentally kills like he is in the movie. Shame it didn't do that well in the theaters.
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I've seen FC1 and 2 recently, having never seen em before expecting greatness. And I thought they were both pretty boring. I would welcome a remake on these with some added action & suspense. Seems like a perfect idea for Paul Greengrass to get his hands on!
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