If you could destroy one car in a movie...

[A Horse With No Name]

Here is the question-you are producing a big bucks Hollywood movie with a script you've written. The villan/anti-hero dies at the end in a brutal car wreck that ends his (or her) life and the life of the car in a spectacular fashion.

What would be a great, sinister car to blow up?

Here are my thoughts-

1. Modern Porsche (cayman perhaps) painted black.

2. Suicide door moredoor lincoln from the 1960's, again, black. Would hate to destroy a vintage car, but we could use a Parts car as a stand in. Great anti hero car, suprised it hasen't been used more.

3. What else? 69 Charger R/T. Every other 69 Charger ever made has been destroyed in movies-TV, why not another.

4. I'm going to get flamed for this but...new Camaro. Sinister enough for the sonofabitch who wants to end the world as we know it. Again..black please.

5. Along the lines of Camaro...(new) Challenger would make a great car for a sinister charactor to drive in a movie.

What else would be a good, sinister, in charactor car for a bad guy to drive/chase/die in?

Your thoughts, please.

Chris

[A Horse With No Name]

...and please, no one reply Camry. Your really lame if the guy who wants to end the world in your movie drives a Camry.

Chris

[gm4life]

A Toyota Prius, followed by a Toyota Tundra driven by some tuff mean ass-hole, followed by a Camry Hybrid. Those would be my few.

[gm4life]

...and please, no one reply Camry. Your really lame if the guy who wants to end the world in your movie drives a Camry.

Chris

Too late did that before I knew you posted this. I said CAMRY HYBRID not Camry.

[A Horse With No Name]

Camry Hybrid would be an interesting car for an anti hero. Perhaps someone wanting to end the human race for the good of the planet and they drive a Hybrid...

Hmm...plot possibilities are interesting.

Tundra= too ugly to die.

Any more thoughts?

Chris

[gm4life]

Tundra= too ugly to die.

LMAO :rotflmao:

[Sixty8panther]

Prius

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[Satty]

My epic screenplay does not yet have a chase/wreck scene, but I have said that if I ever actually make it, I'll use the Buick for any scene that take place in a car. So if I insert a chase scene, it'll be in a big, old Buick.

[A Horse With No Name]

I could see buick...if you had, again, a parts car as a "stand in" a 1950's buick would be great...esp. if you did your screenplay in black and white like the movie Sin City or something. Next...

[Robert Hall]

It would be cool to see a lot full of Priuses and Camrys run over by a tank.

[Satty]

Of cars currently available, I could actually see a black CTS being a villain car.

[daves87rs]

The A team van, but with silver trim instead.

[Robert Hall]

Seeing a car hauler full of HUMMER H2s roll over and explode would be cool...or a train crash into a line of 20 or so HUMMERs.

[Robert Hall]

Of cars currently available, I could actually see a black CTS being a villain car.

Yeah, like Nic Cage in the black STS in 'Face Off'. Can't think of any recent Caddy villian cars besides the Escalade the twins drove in Matrix: Reloaded.

[Z-06]

Mercedes SL 300 Gulliwing, Ferrari Testarossa, Lamborghini Countach, Ford GT race car in a four way car bang.

[daves87rs]

Of cars currently available, I could actually see a black CTS being a villain car.

+1

[Robert Hall]

I'd love to see a director have the guts (and $$$) to destroy 100 new Camrys, Priuses, and H2s in one sequence..that would be cool.

Rob

[Sixty8panther]

Yeah, like Nic Cage in the black STS in 'Face Off'. Can't think of any recent Caddy villian cars besides the Escalade the twins drove in Matrix: Reloaded.

I too thought of that INSTANTLY when I read the CTS comment.

One of my fav. movie moments involving Cadillacs.

ALSO;

The original Matrix movie had a 1965(?) Suicide door Lincoln Continental

in all black prominently featured in the scene just prior to the de-javu.

[Z-06]

Why Of Course a black B-59 would be a good one to blow too.

[Justin Bimmer]

74 dodge monaco

[Robert Hall]

I too thought of that INSTANTLY when I read the CTS comment.

One of my fav. movie moments involving Cadillacs.

ALSO;

The original Matrix movie had a 1965(?) Suicide door Lincoln Continental

in all black prominently featured in the scene just prior to the de-javu.

Ya, in the rain..at night...with Trinity in PVC. Great scene, goregous car.. IIRC, the Lincoln appears in one of the later movies also. IIRC, in the first movie, it was a '63, but a '65 in one of the later movies...thought there was a change of model year for some reason..haven't seen them in a while.

[gm4life]

I'd love to see a director have the guts (and $$$) to destroy 100 new Camrys, Priuses, and H2s in one sequence..that would be cool.

Rob

That would be great... Tough vs. Green

[Daryl Z71]

Shelby Mustang GT500

[daves87rs]

Shelby Mustang GT500

Why not? I could work in the right color...

[Satty]

Shelby Mustang GT500

Isn't that what they used in that god-awful Knightrider remake?

[mustang84]

Here's how it would go down: the Villain would be driving a big old Peterbuilt tanker truck full of fuel, speed maxed out, with 15 or so cruisers and slick tops on his tail. The Pete maneuvers through the port and a sniper takes a shot from a crane, striking the driver in the abdomen. The perp is losing consciousness as he's heading full-speed down a pier, where at the end sits a cargo boat full of Camry Hybrids fresh from Japan. Guy passes out, Pete drives head on into the ship, massive explosion ensues, Camry Hybrid parts flying everywhere, ship creaks and groans as a massive fireball separates the hulk into two, and the Hybrids begin their slow descent down to Davy's Jones' Locker.

Edited May 20, 2009 by mustang84

[Robert Hall]

How about Joy Ride 3---have Rusty Nail driving an old Pete like in Duel and running over smug Prius drivers...

[84Cressida]

I'd like to see the all-new, totally AWESOME Pontiac G3 get it's GM Daewoo ass get blown up and have a me in my 1984 Toyota Cressida drive by and take the drivers to safety. What a happy ending!

[84Cressida]

Isn't that what they used in that god-awful Knightrider remake?

My dad's Camry hybrid is an early build and was built in Japan but now all the USDM ones are built in KY. Great cars, I get 41 mpg driving it and I'm not kidding either. And I'm not exactly light on the throttle.

[BuddyP]

Take your pick, 1987 Monte Carlo SS or Caprice Classic painted in a satin primer black with polished billet wheels and a 383 stroker.

[Teh Ricer Civic!]

An evil black Honda Insight with flames coming out the exhaust and NOS stickers and a bunch of VTEC stickers. oh and a wing.

[cletus8269]

74 dodge monaco

i hated this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5tEmKbZP7k

and the ending of vanishing point.

[§carlet §wordfish]

Any rally or touring car, with big flared, vented fenders, ground effects, spoiler, etc. Preferably a sedan. It would have to be black, of course.

Edited May 22, 2009 by §carlet §wordfish

[Sixty8panther]

Why Of Course a black B-59 would be a good one to blow too.

I have no problem duct tapping an I.E.D. to the

front of my beater turbo-diesel sedan, aiming it

at your ride & dropping a brick on the gas pedal

to get you back for that horrific comment.

That is what CGI is for.... in that case I'd agree,

a B-59 would be a great villain car!

[Sixty8panther]

An evil black Honda Insight with flames coming out the exhaust and NOS stickers and a bunch of VTEC stickers. oh and a wing.

no, no, no, NO.... not a CLOWN car a car suited for a villain.

[Robert Hall]

That is what CGI is for.... in that case I'd agree,

a B-59 would be a great villain car!

They just look evil, with those canted lights and eyebrows.. a flat black one w/ tinted windows, black steel wheels...be like Christines' evil partner in crime, like the 'Werecar' on a Futurama episode.

[Teh Ricer Civic!]

no, no, no, NO.... not a CLOWN car a car suited for a villain.

FINE

an old black GTO with flames coming out the exhaust and NOS stickers and a bunch of VTEC stickers and a giant wing.

Edited May 22, 2009 by Teh Ricer Civic!

[ocnblu]

Who is this "84Cressida" character?

[capriceman]

VW Microbus

[ocnblu]

A 1947 Crosley.

[A Horse With No Name]

I'd like to see the all-new, totally AWESOME Pontiac G3 get it's GM Daewoo ass get blown up and have a me in my 1984 Toyota Cressida drive by and take the drivers to safety. What a happy ending!

Nahhh...even if you ran both cars at top speed viewers would think the film was running in slow motion and loose interest.

Chris

[A Horse With No Name]

A 1947 Crosley.

Stuart Kaminsky has a great series of detective novels set IIRC in the glory days of hollywood (back in the 40's). Main charactor is funny as hell and drives a Crosley.

Chris

[A Horse With No Name]

Any rally or touring car, with big flared, vented fenders, ground effects, spoiler, etc. Preferably a sedan. It would have to be black, of course.

For some reason a BMW, done up like a car for the British Touring Car series, comes to mind.

Chris

[A Horse With No Name]

Who is this "84Cressida" character?

Oldsmoboi's sock puppet?

Chris

[§carlet §wordfish]

For some reason a BMW, done up like a car for the British Touring Car series, comes to mind.

Chris

That's what I had in mind, like a '70s M3. A Lancia 037 or Audi Quattro would work as well.