Video: Before there were GoPros, there was John Frankenheimer

https://www.youtube.com/embed/JPnTm8C_OfY

We all love to argue about what the greatest car chase on film is, especially over on our sister publication, Grassroots Motorsports.

Filmmaker and film historian Patrick Willems, however, argues that the modern cinematic car chase forever had the bar raised by John Frankenheimer and his three-hour epic Grand Prix.

Drawing a direct line back to that 1966 film, Willems examines the artistic and technological approaches that make modern car chases so compelling.

Colin Wood
Colin Wood Associate Editor
7/29/24 12:53 p.m.

I'll have to watch this later when I'm not working, but I totally agree with everything I've heard so far.

Doing driving scenes and car chases done as practically as possible really helps to ground the action.

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