{"id":553,"date":"2007-07-21T11:48:53","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T18:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=553"},"modified":"2007-07-21T11:48:53","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T18:48:53","slug":"conduire-en-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/21\/conduire-en-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Conduire en New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After watching a car careening around Paris, I thought of another unauthorized car ride around a metropolis: the famous car chase from &#8220;The French Connection&#8221; which is considered the best movie car chase of all time.<br \/>\nThe scene was filmed in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn roughly running down the B (now the D) subway line which runs on an L above 86th Street in Brooklyn.  Many of the shots in the scene were &#8220;real&#8221;, in that Hackman actually drove the car at high speeds through uncontrolled traffic and red lights with Friedkin running a camera from the backseat while wrapped in a carpet for protection.  The production team received no prior permission from the city for such a dangerous stunt and the only precaution taken was to place a &#8220;gumdrop&#8221; police siren on the car&#8217;s roof and blare the horn which has only added to this scene&#8217;s mystique.  Enjoy the ride!<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"375\" height=\"300\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WqRaLUN98aY\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"375\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WqRaLUN98aY\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After watching a car careening around Paris, I thought of another unauthorized car ride around a metropolis: the famous car chase from &#8220;The French Connection&#8221; which is considered the best movie car chase of all time. The scene was filmed in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn roughly running down the B (now the D) subway line which runs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[112,119,422],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-cars","tag-chase","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}