Re: [AMC-List] AMCs in the movies

[Jock J Jocewicz <namdra@xxxxxxxx>]

Good going, Jeff. It is always nice to see AMC's in movies, TV and ads.
Just hope they don't cut the scenes with the Javelin like they did back
in the 80's in which I had the "Were Gone" SC/Rambler in the TV movie
"Hot Rod".!

On Sat, 27 May 2006 12:58:06 -0400 "Jeff Barfield"
<jrbarfield@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I have known about this for a long time, but have waited to be sure 
> of
> everything before posting here.  They are currently filming a movie 
> in
> Atlanta called "We Are Marshall".  It is the story of the 1970 plane 
> crash
> that killed most of the Marshall University football team and 
> coaching
> staff.  The movie mostly focuses on the rebuilding of the football 
> team
> after the crash.  Marshall University hired a new coach named Jack 
> Lengyel,
> who is portrayed in the movie by Matthew McConaughey.  The important 
> thing
> to know for this forum is that in the movie, Jack Lengyel drives a 
> 1969
> Javelin.  More specifically a bittersweet orange 1969 Javelin with 
> white
> vinyl roof, white side stripes and a 343 auto.  Even more 
> specifically, he
> drives my car!
> 
> Back in March, I received a call that they were looking for 4 door 
> grocery
> getters from the period and asking if I could help find some.  He 
> stated
> that they had all of the Camaros and Mustangs that they could use, 
> that they
> couldn't have a parking lot filled with nothing but muscle cars.  I 
> then
> said "Well if you have all the muscle cars that you need, then you 
> probably
> aren't interested in my Javelin" (which had been used as a 
> background car in
> a movie before).  He stated that they might be, because at least it 
> was
> different from the others.  Then a few weeks later, my cell phone 
> rings at
> 6:30 in the morning on my way to work, with the Transportation 
> Captain of
> the movie telling me that he wants to use my car and that he will be 
> using
> it as the "hero car" (meaning that the main character will be 
> driving it).
> I thought about it for a nanosecond or so and said "sure".  I had 
> little
> success, finding them any other cars coming up with only one non AMC 
> car,
> that car was thanks to Jeff Reeves.
> 
> The next day they picked up my car and took it to Huntington WV 
> where
> Marshall University is located.  They filmed there for 3 weeks and 
> then came
> back to Atlanta to finish filming.  I called when they got back 
> here,
> knowing how fickle movie people can be, and verified that my car was 
> in fact
> being used as the "hero car".  I was assured that it was, and that I 
> could
> count on it showing up in the movie.  Of course, you have to 
> understand that
> this movie has nothing to do with the car, if just happens to be 
> what the
> new head coach drives, so while it won't be like the Trans AM in 
> Smokey and
> the Bandit, it should show up a good bit.
> 
> I decided to post this now, because yesterday I was invited to the 
> set to
> watch them film.  I watched some football practice scenes and then 
> they
> broke for lunch.  Around 4:00pm they pulled my car and 5 others 
> including a
> Rambler Classic 660, around to another street and parked them along 
> the
> street waiting on them to get ready for the shoot.  After about an 
> hour of
> having the side street partially blocked they moved the cars to a 
> parking
> lot.  One of the guys asked me if I would move my car, I of course 
> jumped on
> the opportunity.  When I got in the car, the keys weren't in it, but 
> I just
> reached in my pocket and pulled out my own set and pulled the car 
> in.  The
> Transportation Captain asked how we had moved the car, since he had 
> the keys
> in his pocket.  I informed him that he didn't have the only set of 
> keys.
> Around 6:00pm, fickle movie makers   said that they weren't going to 
> use the
> cars.  Then they changed their minds and said that they would use 2 
> cars,
> but not mine.  Then they changed their minds again and about 6:30, 
> they
> pulled my car and a Plymouth into the area.  At this point they had 
> 2
> rehearsals and shot the scene 4 times.  The scene involved Matthew
> McConaughey sitting in my car as if he had just pulled up, taking 
> out the
> keys and then getting out of the car at the football stadium.  As he 
> walks
> up to the stadium, he is met by another coach and told that he had 
> found
> them a kicker and is then introduced to the new kicker.  While 
> waiting
> around Matthew McConaughey sat in my car, leaned on my car, and even 
> played
> a little drum solo on the roof.  My wife and I were about 30 feet 
> from the
> car during the filming.  We didn't get to meet Matthew, but we were 
> at times
> as close a 5 feet away.  It was pretty darn exciting and I haven't 
> gotten
> the grin off my face yet.
> 
> The movie is entitled We Are Marshall and it is due out tentatively 
> on
> October 27.  The movie is being made by Warner Brothers and also 
> stars
> Matthew Fox of Lost, David Strathairn, Anthony Mackie, Arlen 
> Escarpeda, and
> Kate Mara.  Also just for fun Matthew Fox plays the assistant coach, 
> Red
> Dawson, and he drives a Jeep in the movie.
> 
> Jeff Barfield
> jrbarfield@xxxxxxxxxxx
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