Sep 17 2010
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Arguably the best crime film of 1968, and certainly one of the most influential films of the genre….”Bullitt” established recent directions in the mood and style of crime thrillers, and firmly established McQueen as one of the key anti-hero stars of the 60’s. Based on the gritty unusual “Silent Survey” by Robert L. Pike, this was the first, and only, time McQueen portrayed a police officer (albeit a maverick one) in his movie career. In 1968 Steve was then riding high on the success of his previous heist film, “The Thomas Crown Affair”, and “Bullitt” fair propelled his star even higher into the cinematic heavens!
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The state is tight, economical and well crafted….taciturn, touchy Detective Frank Bullitt (McQueen) is charged with the protection of a key see necessary to an upcoming trial bright Mafia connections. Whilst hidden away in a supposed rep space, the gaze and his police guard are brutally gunned down by unknown assailants. The heat is turned up on Bullitt by his tough Captain (Simon Oakland) and the manipulative, opportunistic politician Walter Chalmers (Robert Vaughn) to advance up with the moral answers fleet! Between the draining investigation, Bullitt struggles to enjoy his relationship with his cultured, sensitive girlfriend, Cathy (Jacqueline Bisset)
Primarily coming from a TV series background, Englishman Peter Yates (directing his fourth movie) did a commendable job as director on “Bullitt”…producing a complex, intense crime thriller with a fresh style that would ultimately influence many other films. Yates would later to go onto squawk tough guy Robert Mitchum in the good 1973 “sleeper” crime film “The Friends of Eddie Coyle”!
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And of course “Bullitt” is reknowned for it’s now legendary car gallop between Frank Bullitt’s 390 GT Mustang and the two hitmen in their gloomy, Dodge Charger 440 Magnum barrelling through the city streets and highways of San Francisco….fair don’t pay too remarkable attention to how many times they pass that slow-moving, green VW Beetle!!
The DVD transfer is wonderful in both sound and report quality, and the Dinky Edition Collectors Place with the additional goodies (Single sheet poster, shooting draft, lobby cards etc.) is a dependable bonus for involved film fans!!
One of my favourite cop thrillers….McQueen sizzles on camouflage!!
I have read GQ and other men’s fashion magazines for the last 20 years. No single person is mentioned as a men’s style icon more often than Steve McQueen, and this movie defines his style most clearly. What I judge that is not often understood, is why his style is so beloved. It is minimalist, yes, but also, this is someone not playing the middle class America game.
1) He lives in a petite apartment. The furniture is ordinary, with a few hip 60’s touches. (Look for the relate over his bed, his paisley bathrobe, the icy paper hanging lampshade, and a couple of hippie style items on the walls) . You earn the impression he owns about six pairs of clothes at most. He eats cheap frozen dinners (except for the occasional date at the frigid San Fran Restaurant) . He is not wasting this time and life keeping up with the Jones’s.
2.) He is not climbing the career ladder. On this case, he doesn’t give a idea to politics. He is not chasing the American ideal of success.
3.) Scrutinize closely and you will view his car, the most notorious in any movie ever, is a olive drab color. Not candy apple lustrous red. It is a Mustang, a symbol of blue collar America. It is dusty, and he parks it in the street, not a garage. He does not contemplate it for door dings every time he goes out to it. It has dents in it. You fetch the impression he doesn’t expend his free time polishing and waxing it.
4.) He doesn’t exercise his time chasing money. He spends it on his job, trying to do what he thinks is apt, not what is obedient for office politics and promotion.
5.) His clothes are 60’s pre-hippie fashion perfection (scrutinize for the extremely tapered legs, the suede loafers, and of course the celebrated tweed blazer and blue turtleneck) .
In summary, I contemplate it is humorous that people idolize McQueen’s personal style in this movie and yet they don’t realize why. It is not honest the stoicism, or minimalism. It is the passe fashion American values (contemplate Weak West) . Fair something to judge about as you glance one of my accepted movies of all time.
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