So the last week or so, the autoblogosphere – not to mention the citizens of San Diego – have worked themselves into an uproar over the video from which the still above was taken. It features some bro tearing around San Diego sans permits in his jacked-up off-road buggy in an attempt to get his sponsors some attention.
Coincidentally, we had just run the famous/infamous chase scene from “The French Connection” in our Hemmings Sunday Cinema the weekend before the above-mentioned video started to gain traction. Both featured permit-less driving on public streets, property damage, and a high chance of putting unsuspecting people just walking down the road in danger. Yet one’s been hailed as a gutsy move by an up-and-coming director (and played a part in an Oscar win), while the other’s been almost universally condemned.
Add in the legendary “C’etait un Rendez Vous” while we’re at it. Or the Japanese tradition of touge driving. Or just about any other such stunt committed to film.
Does the bro buggy video not get a pass here because it’s too recent, too immediate? Is it because we can see ourselves or somebody we know on those San Diego streets, but the New York and Paris instances are relegated to the past and no longer pose any harm? Or is there some other reason to view the buggy shoot in a different light?
from Hemmings Daily – News for the collector car enthusiast http://ift.tt/1RXLjKz
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