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William Friedkin on the Car Chase Scene In THE FRENCH CONNECTION

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Uploaded on Mar 5, 2010

William Friedkin talks about shooting the gripping car chase scene from THE FRENCH CONNECTION.

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  • swordpunisher

    Enjoyed listening to Friedken. A great director.

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  • werewolfyman

    Sounds like he tried to take a Cracked at his manhood.

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  • Fribble57

    I was going to school at John Dewey High which is by the Bay 50th Street station of the then B train, now D. And it just so happened that they were filming the beginning of the great chase scene there. So I cut class, which I never really did, but I watched them film it. It was worth getting into a little trouble..not much...to see that.

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  • elvis presley

    the queens l is kind of curved, isn't it? i thought the l in the movie was in brooklyn or the bronx.

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  • SixDayWar67

    NO matter what it was a lot of money back then...not a million but still it was an interesting factoid about the making of a great film. Its also a great film to see what NYC was like in that time period which was more grimey and dirty before Times Square was cleaned up.

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  • liduck52

    Thats true but this guy was not a blue collar worker. Freidkin said the guy was the head of the transit authority.

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  • SixDayWar67

    The average blue collar worker at that time made about 50-70 bucks per week = about 2500-3500 per year.

    He got more like 10-15 years and also money in Jamaica will last you far longer than NYC. then and now.

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  • GWhiz99

    If Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama invited rapper/actor Common (b. Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr) to the White House, why not his “Just Wright” co-star, Dana Owens, bka Queen Latifah. In the film, he plays NBA player Scott McKnight to Owens’ Leslie Wright, his love interest. Unrelated: ray beam attack; stone cults; watch?v=NhNoZcU0N20 or Common as Turner Lucas in Ridley Scott’s heroin crime drama “American Gangster”, which had Denzel Washington as protagonist Frank Lucas, the NC crime family kingpin

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  • liduck52

    But the bright side is that transit guy got a nice severance package. Forty thousand in 1970 might have been 4 years pay for that guy.

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