I'm thinking about making a short movie.

[roadrunnerh]

I'm reaching for my lower back when I see those jumps. Holy crap, that's hard core!

 

[1 Wild R/T]

Greg, has anyone told you you might be crazy.... Then again that's why we love ya...

 

[Kern Dog]

I've never jumped from an airplane or rode a Zip Line.
Jumping cars though....what a rush it is to increase speed, approach a ramp and feel weightless while flying through the air.
WE wrecked several cars in the course of the movie but many were totaled already.
I was given a 78 Celica that had a dead engine. A Mitsibishi Precis already had front end damage. A Geo Prizm was rear ended. The orange Dart Sport doubled as a 73 Duster...it was hit hard in the RH quarter and left for dead. The "rollover car" was a $20 car from a scrapyard...

The process of movie-making is far more complicated that you might think and my humble production merely scratched the surface on how it is done.
We like to tease Toby Halicki for the quality of Gone in 60 Seconds but he really achieved something with that movie. (I'm referring to the 1974 flick, not the POS from 2000)
Halicki shot film on streets, sometimes without permits. He bought a lot of wrecked cars and patched them up to use for stunts. Example....If the car had damage at the right front, you position it where damage is not visible for the scene.

I'm reaching for my lower back when I see those jumps. Holy crap, that's hard core!

Years of construction, my ego and these jumps all combined to give me some trouble.
I used to stubbornly lift things alone when I should have called for help. 36 years of that AND 8-10 jumps with cars that had nothing but stock seats and seat belts will leave you a bit sore.
Great memories though.

 

[SteveSS]

It seems to me a guy could make a decent western for little money. Some wardrobe, guns and horses. I'm watching the 80's version of The Quick and the Dead. Sam Elliot, Kate Capshaw. The settings/scenery is all free. Think up a good revenge plot, that always works. I watched The Last of the Mohicans last night. Great movie but not cheap.

Something more creative than the wealthy landowner drives settlers out. Give me 15 minutes I'll think up 5 stories. It's the way my brain works.

 

[Kern Dog]

I still think about this project. It is rarely far from my mind.
I often look at the difficulties in making a movie based in a tone where the background looks too modern.
There is a show on TV now…”Duster”. It takes place in the early 70s. I love looking at the cars as much as the show itself. Imagine though that every scene outdoors has to be pored over to make sure nothing modern is in the background. Cars, buildings, clothes, dudes with cell phones or modern watches.

 

[kiwigtx]

The process of movie-making is far more complicated that you might think and my humble production merely scratched the surface on how it is done.
We like to tease Toby Halicki for the quality of Gone in 60 Seconds but he really achieved something with that movie. (I'm referring to the 1974 flick, not the POS from 2000)
Halicki shot film on streets, sometimes without permits. He bought a lot of wrecked cars and patched them up to use for stunts. Example....If the car had damage at the right front, you position it where damage is not visible for the scene.

I think this explains the proliferation of **** movies in this day & age.....very little background scenery required, only need a couple (or more if desired) of actors, a bare crew, cameras and a few lights if indoors and maybe a few towels or wet wipes.....no fancy stunt diving required.... the list goes on.

And if you go into production, a catchy Production Company name would help spread the product.... Horn Dog Productions?

 

[SteveSS]

Here's my first idea. Vikings vs. Indians. We all know the Norsemen were here long before the English. I don't thinl I've ever seen a movie about clashes that most cetainly happened between the two.

 

[SteveSS]

Here's another one. I get tired of all the movies showing Indians as peace loving, spiritual tribes. BS! They were brutal. Focus on any of their massacres as a focal point. Show the reality. How they burned captives limbs until there were no nerve endings left so the cut off the next joint and started in again. You can't get in trouble for the truth.

 

[maxwedgechar]

In the late Sixties I think, the Prince Valiant series in the Sunday papers had a run where they went to North America with the Vikings and did battle with the Indians.

 

[MarPar]

I think this explains the proliferation of **** movies in this day & age.....very little background scenery required, only need a couple (or more if desired) of actors, a bare crew, cameras and a few lights if indoors and maybe a few towels or wet wipes.....no fancy stunt diving required.... the list goes on.

And if you go into production, a catchy Production Company name would help spread the product.... Horn Dog Productions?

Yea, and?

 

[Photon440]

In the late Sixties I think, the Prince Valiant series in the Sunday papers had a run where they went to North America with the Vikings and did battle with the Indians.

That would have been interesting, since the Prince Valiant series takes place in the 5th century.

 

[SteveSS]

This one is more of a documentary but while I'n thinking about Indians. Give a spotlight on the whole horse culture of Native Americans. How the Spaniards brought the horse to the New World and how it completely took over the American Indian's culture.

 

[kiwigtx]

That would have been interesting, since the Prince Valiant series takes place in the 5th century.

There ya go again....spoiling a good story with facts....

 

[kiwigtx]

Storyboard starts here...... c'mon all you script-writers......