[watersb]

I'm surprised there's no mention yet of the incredible scene from the 1980 film "The Blues Brothers".

https://youtu.be/QfN1GRqKXpM?si=-4Mwmipl5sCFtCWN

This practical effect took weeks to set up.

I can't find documentation specifying any special techniques used to create this version of the car. I recall reading an interview naming the builder who set it up, and how no one on set was allowed to touch it except the actors, John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd. Only one take. Can't find that interview now.

[blululu]

I remember watching that movie recently and seeing that the cast was almost half stuntmen. The fact that the Chicago police basically gave them free range and unlimited extras also made a lot of things possible. The final chase scene is about 15 minutes of car crashes including the one where the neonazis fly off the bridge and the camera jump cuts to the car dropped from an airplane into Lake Michigan. https://youtu.be/FD9N7v5qGig?si=p-QYJSkkYJIlN3b4&t=110

[gregoriol]

It's a very nice scene, but not as good as the 2CV from Le Corniaud.

Also looking at it closely, you can see at the camera angle change that the car is not the same (roof shape cut, rear door a bit open, ...), and that it is not standing on its wheels with supports appearing below

[Cumpiler69]

>This practical effect took weeks to set up.

Today that's replaced by crappy CGI done on a crunch by a sweatshop.

[lenerdenator]

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