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■ ■The Italian Job, 1969 The Fast and the Furious, 2001
This classic caper sees Sir Michael Caine A fi lm almost without plot in order to
tearing around Turin in an iconic Mini… cram in as much wild driving as possible.
Except he very nearly didn’t. BMC (which Vin Diesel’s black muscle car is a 1970
made the Mini at the time) refused to Dodge Charger. After fi lming the crash
donate any cars for fi lming so a move to at the end of the movie the same 1970
Fiat 500s was considered, until it was Charger wound up in the opening scenes
decided that Minis were essential for the of the 2005 fi lm Herbie Fully Loaded as
British feel, and cars were bought privately. a car in the junkyard.
of Moscow. ‘In The Bourne Supremacy we used an Mind you, as easy as that sounds, it’s worth
old Russian taxi – a Volga,’ says Kelly. ‘We basically sparing a thought for the poor soul who has to
imported six of those cars, ripped them apart, put actually strap himself in and drive through the kind of
BMW 635 engines in and reassembled them all.’ carnage most of us try very hard to avoid.
The shoot also led to an innovation for stunt Stuntman Rob Inch is just that kind of soul. ‘I did
drivers. ‘We developed an exterior driving rig so the all the driving for Nicolas Cage in National Treasure:
KOBAL actor could sit behind the wheel and look like he Book of Secrets, including a scene where I had to
was involved in the car chase,’ explains Kelly. ‘In power-slide a Mercedes round a corner and into theMEDIA,
fact, the car was being safely driven by a stunt driver side of a bus at 30mph,’ he says. ‘I was in a fi ve-point
sitting ono the roof. harness but going from 30mph to a standstill by
BARCROFT ‘It’s a weird sensation but when you get used driving into a moving vehicle is always going to hurt.’
to it, it lets you put the car exactly where you want Herefordshire-born Rob, who originally got into
to becausebec you have good vision all round.’ the business after recreating mediaeval joustingAQUARIUS,
tournaments, says that planning is the key to safety.
‘You try and eliminate the risk as much as you can,
but accidents happen,’ he adds. ‘I wouldn’t say that■Bullitt,Bu 1968
makes me nervous but I definitely have a healthyThe ultimate cool car chase… But the
fi lm’l s famous tyre-squealing pursuit amount of adrenaline fl owing. You have to try and
wasn’was t originally in the script. In the control your nerves. But adrenaline is good for us as
soursou ce novel, Steve McQueen’s character stunt performers because, if you don’t feel that little
was a Boston cop who ate ice cream and buzz before you go, it’s probably time to give up.’
nevernev solved a case. In the end, fi lming of With Graham, Alan and Rob at the top of their
the chase took three weeks, resulting in game, keep them in mind the next time you’re
ninenin minutes and 42 seconds of footage. grinning in the cinema.

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