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Sense Of Guilt | Road Trip
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Best Original Score Motion Picture | 1972 | Michel
Budget 7,500,000 USD
Film driver David Piper lost his leg because of a deep cut caused during a crash. Brake fluid and other debris got into the cut, which caused an infection and the need to amputate the leg. He received a special thanks "for his sacrifice" at the end credits.
Hal Hamilton exclaimed, "We had the star, we had the drivers. We had an incredible array of technical support, we had everything. Except a script", while Haig Alltounian, Steve McQueen's chief mechanic, recalled "We were winging it".
There is no audible dialogue from any of the characters for the first 37 minutes of the movie.
Steve McQueen had asked John Sturges to direct, but the two men couldn't agree on how to construct the movie. Sturges wanted to make a film with a more conventional script that focused on the relationships of the racers and concluded in typical Hollywood fashion with an upbeat ending. McQueen was more interested in making a racing documentary and he insisted on using very little dialogue in the film, making the cars the stars of the picture. He also expressed a desire to emulate some of the art house dramas being released in Europe at the time and told Motor Trend magazine that he had been inspired by French director Claude Lelouch's award-winning film A Man and a Woman (1966). Sturges' traditional approach to the material would lead to a giant rift in the production as well as signal the end of his working relationship with McQueen and he left the movie before filming began. As he left, Sturges cited, "I am too old and rich to put up with this shit".
Cinema Center Films (which had not previously been involved in the filming process) took over the production after a few months and suspended production for two weeks (even giving Robert Redford a call to see if he would replace Steve McQueen). Cinema Center Films considered shutting down the film completely, but eventually struck a deal with McQueen, in which he gave up his salary, his percentage of any profits and his control of the film, in order to get it finished.
"Lisa Belgetti: When people risk their lives, shouldn't it be for something very important? Michael Delaney: Well, it better be. Lisa Belgetti: But what is so important about driving faster than anyone else? Michael Delaney: Lotta people go through life doing things badly. Racing's important to men who do it well. When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting."
"Michael Delaney: This isn't just a thousand to one shot. This is a professional bloodsport. And it can happen to you. And then it can happen to you again."
