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Almost every car will have to make the eventual journey to the junkyard.
Instead of the usual haul-it-onto-a-flatbed-and never-see-it-again type of disposal that is commonplace, I propose a method with more pizzaz.
You are first filmed in your non-moving car with a fake backdrop swerving left
and right and then you hands quickly cover your face as you shreik in horror.
Your car is hauled (or driven if it still runs) to the top of a steep hill. The company then loads up the car with remote controlled explosives. The car is then pushed (empty) over the cliff.
The car first starts slowly, as the hill inclines, then gathers speed, breaking brush and small trees as it descends. The angle increases and your old jalopy is now skipping across boulders. The pyrotechnician then presses the button, and *BOOM*, your car explodes in a giant flame ball as it crashes to the valley beneath.
The action is caught by several remote cameras, and then is edited together with your static footage and presented to you in your choice of media.
Of course, the company owns the lot at the bottom of the cliff. This is the location of the scrap yard.
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Yes. For any one of a number of reasons. |
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Cool, I'd like to have a go, over and over and over again until my dislike of cars is cured. |
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I watched the original "Italian Job" the other week, and wondered if today the film company would get permission to drop cars into Alpine rivers.
No, I'm sorry, bone for spreading recyclable or toxic materials around the landscape. |
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But [copro], they all end up in the scrap yard just like they do now. |
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It's a good idea, but it didn't need to be. You had me from 'pizzaz'. [+] |
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Yes, I like pizzas too, but if you take a car to the scrapyard on a flatbed, you've got all the toxic and recyclable materials in one place. Bounce it down a hillside packed with C4 and that stuff goes everywhere in little bits, and makes it even less economical to collect and deal with. Plus, SFX guys usually beef up explosions with extra diesel or petrol to make them look more impressive, so there's even more waste. |
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You say that like it's a bad thing. |
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Where, oh, where is .875? |
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Indeedly do, 8th of 7, po... *waves* |
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Would that not be 1.14285714? |
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Baked. Hollywood already buys cars destined for scrap heaps for use in movies and blows them up. The only different spin here is to do it for an audience of 1, which is just wasteful. I'm with coprocephalous on this one. |
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an eighth of seven - not 8 ÷ by 7. |
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//Where, oh, where is .875?
thumbwax, Oct 18 2005 //
THUMBWAX?!
Life is good again!
Oh, and props for the exploding idea, [Cedar Park]. |
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lets hope he is waving, not drowning... |
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Well, that's your interpretation, [po]. Mine is that he is THE 8th of 7, not AN 8th of 7. The eighth seventh, if you will. |
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Somehow, I KNEW Afroassault would come back for this one. Not to insult Cedar Park, but, my favorite exploding ideas are Afro's. |
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Hey AA: What happened to the exploding cell phone idea? That was one of my favorites. |
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Hey all <waves>. My ideas (and comments) have been out of town for the last year. This idea was the result of too much James Cameron films. |
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//Hey AA: What happened to the exploding cell phone idea? That was one of my favorites.//
I lost that in a bet with Regis Philbin. That asshole always brings it up at parties. |
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