- We heard the original stunt was slowed down in editing, do you know to what degree this was done to the final product?
A: Not sure where you heard that ‘the original stunt was slowed down in editing’?
- And we never had checked...the flight is such a thing a beauty...guess we didn't notice!
soooo now in response to your question we now just did a quick comparison...
- In the movie:
- The cuts to the sheriff hollering etc showed a fake interior shot of him being tossed around
- Bond and the sheriff obviously weren't really in the stunt car...
- although in a court case once Ray was asked on the stand about what kind of exposure (accelerations, etc) did they experience being tossed around...holding back laughing...he had to tell them that they weren't in the car!!
- ...the actual driver of the stunt car was legendary stunt driver Bumps Willert!
- Bond and the sheriff obviously weren't really in the stunt car...
- They added the fake train whistle to the sound which folks don’t like.
- And possible differences in frame rate between the 16 mm handheld camera shot and the 35 mm movie shot
- and issues related to conversion of those movies to digital and frame rate related issues...
- The cuts to the sheriff hollering etc showed a fake interior shot of him being tossed around
We just now did a quick check/comparison (crude but demonstrates differences!)
so the answer to your question is: YES!
Quick comparison demonstrated a 42% reduction in speed in the James Bond movie of the actual live event
see the video comparison:
The live video from a handheld camera:
With the video from the movie
Note the original stunt was designed for an AMC Javelin and the stunt in the movie appears to be a AMC Hornet
however
- they merely put a body shell on the Javelin frame.
- Mattel was interested in adding a spiral jump as a option for their slot car race track toys.
- Ray and I worked on the prototype of the toy in our basement in Buffalo
- But when demonstrated the toy makers said 'too fast'!
- in smaller scale everything happens too fast