This film, "BULLITT" has so much depth, this is 1968, over 50 years ago. The film has a modern feel to it .The film never really feels dated. Everybody is great in this film. Great work SYEVE MCQUEEN, AND DIRECTOR, PETER YATES, MISS BOTH OF YOU.
I just watched Bullitt for the first time. Late 60s and 70s movies are as cool as it can get. Slow telling the story in pictures and never explaining the plot. like movies today do. I love the style and to see a time I never lived. And seeing behind the scenes is great... Thanks for uploading 🙂
Bullitt still holds up really well as film today 2019 and was released in cinema's in 1968.The most underrated aspect of this film is the music,along with Dirty Harry,Bullitt is a standout for its era.
I almost guarantee if this movie were shown in theatres today as a throwback movie it would still sell and garner a new following. You cant help but be drawn into the plot.
It's too bad this movie is famous just for the chase scene, it's a GREAT movie! Not like to over-acted crap they churn out today. Thank you for posting this. :-)
And the big thing is that the airport scene doesn't get the props it deserves! Sure there's a lot of running and its not cars chasing after each other, but yeah, just try lying flat on a tarmac and praying...ohh. I forgot. I was at a Convention last summer while I was on a suspension and my employer wasn't supposed to know, including one higher up who had a hand in suspending me. So there I am, by a pillar and a garbage can, trying to figure out what session to go to, and I look up for two seconds and guesswho is walking by the other way.... Makes that part where McQueen has to look the other way at the cash register or the scanner to hide so much more real!
So cool to see this documentary. This film was shot almost entirely in my neighborhood in SF, as I drive many of the streets daily. Yet all these years later, almost nothing has changed. It would have been amazing to be here when they were shooting, but this was 15 years before I moved here, and I was only 9 years old. Just saw one of McQueens cars at the Peterson Auto museum in LA, and one of the original stunt Mustangs is owned by a local art school and has been on display before. Great movie, great actor! Died way too soon…🙁
R.I.P. Bill Hickman (1921-1986). Hickman was a driver and friend to James Dean, driving Dean's Ford station wagon towing Dean's famed 550 Spyder nicknamed "Little Bastard", and often helping and advising him with his driving technique. He was driving the Ford station wagon and trailer following Dean on the day of Dean's fatal accident and was the first person on the scene. He also once used his stunt driving skills to help the police catch a bank robber.
8:37 - The Dodge goes out of control a bit and hits not only the parked 1956 Ford but also - more importantly - the camera on the tripod on the sidewalk, and sends it bouncing on the ground. In the finished film, this required a noticeable and slightly odd split-second cut. You see the Ford get hit, but then to cover up the destruction of the camera, there's a tiny bit of film of the same view before the Charger flew into the scene. You brain barely registers this anomaly but you do sense something is weird.
Tom Cruise is the modern equivalent of Steve McQueen when it comes to commitment to realism. Top Gun maverick put actors in a flying jet with cameras mounted inside the cockpit and film actual flying jets instead of CGI. Looks like history repeats by itself.
Interesting analogy. But Top Gun Maverick lacks the spareness of Bullitt. All the computer-generated special effects are both a blessing and a curse. I love the slow panning shots in Bullitt and the closeups of feeling faces.
@@I_Shit_on_your_shit_point nah McQueen simply didn't want to play a cop again so he declined making any more of those films. Bullitt holds up better than dirty Harry anyway.
@@MoneyMakingMitchNY id say prove it, but that would be facetious as you cant prove nonsense pulled out of your ass. The only quantifiable metric is box office. Dirty harry grossed more at the box office. Period. Fuck your feelings as they simply do not matter.
I had that car a 67 fastback but wasnt able to get it started i had it before i saw the movie....just liked the fast back looks of the 67 an 68 cars..mine had a butchered mustang 2 front end hacked together...it needed a proper front clip back in 289 car though
Holy shit he said he used real doctors and nurses in his movie,s 👋😳😳👍😳👋 that's why he's the King of allllll Men . He wants his movies to look real and feel real and that's why Steve McQueen is a tough guy in real life 👍😎👍😎👍😎👍😎 the man now Hollywood sucks 😞😔😴😔😔😔😔😔😔 really bad 😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔
Thanks for brining this mini doc here. Is that the Bullittmobile? The stripped and modified corvette used for a camera car? Also there is the part we dont' fully see in the movie, when the Charger clips the old Ford (Merc?).
I’m not sure. They couldn’t have predicted future technology, so I’m guessing that it was purely for documentary purposes for movie execs. I’m sure there are many more instances of these films languishing away in vaults. Many times they were more interesting than the films they covered.
They showed these in the movie theatres and on tv to promote the upcoming movie. Many of the big ticket movies of that era had one of these made. Too expensive now.
Doing his own stunt diving under that jet i kinda wondered when he put his hands on his ears that it was a little crazy...he said the shock wave of the jet engines running pick him up an down slamming him back to the ground pretty wild...when his hands went on his ears that looked unscripted...an a grey area...part of doing a stunt
He would have been 93. It's a shame that he died at just the age of 50. I have a feeling he would've made some great films in the 80's and 90's, similar to Paul Newman
@@danieljuffs9144I know, I really missed out on his work and think what more he could have done "Lo hice" was his last word and it makes me sad his youth was horrendous for such a young age to be totally alone but he gave back to that boys home 'Boys Republic' to show his appreciation and help others like him
@JLR Thank you for the kind words. I've been watching his films ever since I was little and since they mean so much to me, I always want to show my appreciation for his life and work on both his birthday and the day he passed. I'm glad to see others like yourself commenting and interacting with fellow fans, it reinforces the fact that Steve McQueen will never be forgotten and will always be the King of Cool 👑
TRIVIA : The Guy who wrote this Story ! Wrote the Book The Amytiville Horror ! Which came under fire as he wrote it as a True story when most of it was Fiction ! R.I.P Jay Anson ❤🙏
I understand the scene going through the evidence from the airport was based almost word for word on watching real cops going through evidence because the script didn't sound real to McQueen
