10/27/2025
Happy Belated Birthday to Stunts Unlimited member Brian Machleit
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"The choice of setting is crucial—across the desert hills, it’s hard for drivers to see the road ahead of them until they’re right at the top, about to barrel down, a fitting metaphor for a movie that moves at breakneck speed, even as its characters don’t always know what’s around the bend.
If you put your phone on the dashboard of your car, you realize just how scary that point of view becomes—you’re driving 85 miler per hour and you can’t see what’s over that hill, nor can you see what’s behind you for most of the time,” said writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson in an interview. It’s a visceral experience, similarly evoked in the glorious 10-minute-long car chase across San Francisco’s hilly streets in Peter Yates’ thriller Bullitt (1968)"
- Excerpt from, Let’s Talk About the Epic Car Chase Scene in ‘One Battle After Another’ by Gayle Sequeira, The Daily Beast Freelance Writer
