Does anyone know if there's any truth to the story of Fast Forward borrowing the bikes off of one of the vintage clubs and the actors wrecking the engines by over-reving? I vaguely recall my Dad telling me that ages ago.
Good to see the M20 as the escape bike. It'd be a bit hard on the landing though!
Re: Parody of the Shell \"Great Escape\" commercial
yes I do remember both the commercial and the parody.
No chances of the Fast Forward crew over revving the bikes, they could not ride,'
Most of the riders were the actual owners $ 200 each plus lunch.
Started a shit fight as most of the bikes were on club rego so using them for payment was strictly illegal.
The M20 did not do the leap.
If you look closely you will see it suddenly got teles, a swing arm , alloy wheels and a second inclined cylinder.
It was some stock footage and a little bit of edit studio trickery.
The longest continious shoot was about 45 seconds.
Lok closely at the shadows.
Continuity was more than the budget would allow.
Re: Parody of the Shell \\\"Great Escape\\\" commercial
Yes I remember this skit on fast forward say back in the 80`s.
It`s our Aussie humour at it`s best???!!!
Hope our overseas m20 friend get a laugh out of it.
Re: Parody of the Shell \\\\\\\"Great Escape\\\\\\\"
I believe that the WDM20 used was owned by a Shell employee who was also a member of The Victorian Vintage Motor Cycle Club by the name of Milton who passed away last year. He said it was filmed at the Cerberus Naval Training Depot at Crib Point Victoria and that the bike was substituted for the jump by a trail bike. He never mentioned anything about his bike being damaged just that he sat around for hours while the scene was repeated over and over until they got it right. After I bought my son a WDM20 it was the bike that I checked out first to see what fitted where. We also have a member with DKW'S and one of them has a side car with mock machine gun and was painted in military colors so I assume that is his in it. At least three other forum members are members of the same club.
It's interesting to know a bit of the background to the bikes in that sketch. Pity the rego & licencing issues caused a problem. It would be fun to be part of something like that, but I don't think I'd be letting any stunt riders on my M20s though..
I can see that the M20 didn't do the jump, much like in the movie the German bike Steve McQueen was escaping on suddenly became a Triumph T6. I just shudder at the idea of landing the M20 from any sort of jump, let alone one like that!
When I had the courier company our clientel was nearly all in media.
I have appeared in more TV commercials that I care to remember, principally because the art directors generally forget one slight requirement in the casting call, Must be able to ride a motorcycle.
So Trev turns up with the 200 end rolls of film ( I predate digital ) the art director would wander over and ask "can you ride this bike "?. Which was quite funny if you saw some of the feats required to get to the locations.
there was one film ( no I won't tell ) which had several scenes featuring a WM20.
Neither the actor not the stunt double could ride it so they had the bike connected to one of the winches with the actor being dragged along to the sound track of a HD idling or if it was a high shot it was on a camera dolly.
I always find this really funny when they spend thousands on continuity and go spastic if the shadows are in the wrong place yet they think no one will know the difference between a HD idling and a WM20 running.
