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ahight ◊ 2007-07-08 01:53	images from trailer
Red Grant ◊ 2007-12-09 00:18	If you pay attention, in some of the backround scenes, you see modern cars.
Red Grant ◊ 2007-12-16 18:17	The cop in this movie has a VW Squareback
93montero ◊ 2007-12-20 11:51	Red Grant wrote If you pay attention, in some of the backround scenes, you see modern cars. In the trailer, during the "from director and producer Ridley Scott" there seem to be a couple newer vehicles. A black Jeep Wrangler and on the right a Dodge or Chevrolet van (I am not sure the make but I see them all the time). http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/americangangster/large.html
93montero ◊ 2007-12-20 11:59	Actually I just figured out that Jeep CJs have been around a lot longer than I thought. I could be wrong about the above post. -- Last edit: 2007-12-20 11:59:48
58Roadmaster ◊ 2007-12-20 12:10	You're right, 93montero, that shot is 100% present-day footage, with no period cars to be seen. There's a late nineties Lincoln Town Car on the left side of the rails.
garco ◊ 2007-12-23 10:11	I have added badlymad's pictures, but there should be some regrouping if every car is identified... I think there will be some duplicates.
badlymad ◊ 2007-12-23 16:45	Here are two of the anachronisms I caught:
carobserver ◊ 2007-12-24 03:39	during what years is supposed to be this movie? please
Red Grant ◊ 2007-12-24 03:55	carobserver wrote during what years is supposed to be this movie? please It starts off in 1968, then goes on into the 70's, then in the end, there's one short scene in the 90's
IRT_BMT_IND ◊ 2007-12-24 07:22	badlymad wrote Here are two of the anachronisms I caught: The Dodge van is a pretty serious mistake. You think the filmmakers would have noticed when they shot the scene.
RedRiot77 ◊ 2007-12-24 16:14	Even more visible mistake: towards the end of the movie there is a scene where Crowe is talking from a phone booth. In the background modern cars are parking: a gray sedan and a minivan behind it. Clearly visible, not just small dots. (I remember that scene is in 1975) I can't make screenshot about them, could someone make one to recognize the make of the cars? (sorry 'bout my terrible English)
badlymad ◊ 2007-12-25 19:14	Here it is: Three modern cars are visible: a gray Honda Civic, a Honda Accord and a Ford Econoline. C-130 cargo planes play a major role in the film as drug transports, but their paint scheme (dark grey)is another anachronism, since most planes in Southeast Asia would have had green and tan camouflage patterns.
RedRiot77 ◊ 2007-12-27 10:46	Thanks, that was what I thought of! Great movie, but so many glitches...
wickey ◊ 2008-01-10 17:21	once there is a DVD out, I will make better captures and add missing vehicles (I have a feeling, that there acn be about 100 vehicles, maybe more visible in this movie) - saw it in theatre yesterday.
taxiguy ◊ 2008-02-06 21:39	"white people carrier" I gotta remember that one...
Neptune ◊ 2008-02-07 04:44	I suppose the correct term would be: "White Cracker Carrier" or "Caucasian Carrier" ...
chris40 ◊ 2008-02-07 09:59	Or, in some quarters, 'Honky Carrier' ...
bobbypatten ◊ 2008-03-18 00:35	There is a 1961 Mercury Meteor 800 in this movie also. Gold in color. It was recently offered on eBay. Why isnt this car listed as being in the movie, even if just for a brief period. There is a shot of it further back in comments from Leoz. I own a 1961 Mercury and have been disappointed that it does not get a mention. Thanks, Bob
demetrie ◊ 2010-07-04 06:17	I see you left out the Lincoln Town Cars of the early 90s and Caddilacs from the 80s, those cars where in the early 90s scene at the last part of the film when Frank Lucas gets out of prison. It's on the Special Edition DVD where the movie have extended scenes.
MoparFan88 ◊ 2010-08-13 04:34	Yeah, I kinda get frustrated when I see this movie. Why would Ridley Scott, a director who tends to be good at details, be pretty sloppy at trying to keep modern cars out of the camera frame? The one scene that is most obvious, besides the Dodge cargo van mentioned above, is towards the end when Lucas walks out of the church and looks down both ends of the street. You can clearly see present-day cars driving through the intersections in the background. Incidentally, I think Leoz was referring to the color of the van when he said, "white people carrier".
Leoz ◊ 2010-08-20 17:24	MoparFan88 wrote Yeah, I kinda get frustrated when I see this movie. Why would Ridley Scott, a director who tends to be good at details, be pretty sloppy at trying to keep modern cars out of the camera frame? The one scene that is most obvious, besides the Dodge cargo van mentioned above, is towards the end when Lucas walks out of the church and looks down both ends of the street. You can clearly see present-day cars driving through the intersections in the background. Incidentally, I think Leoz was referring to the color of the van when he said, "white people carrier". Sure was!
marshale ◊ 2012-07-23 23:07	what is the name of this car (the one in the center) http://www10.0zz0.com/2012/07/23/21/535905455.jpg
Chiran94101 ◊ 2013-08-17 22:58	what is the name of this car (the one in the center) http://www10.0zz0.com/2012/07/23/21/535905455.jpg 1967 Pontiac Parisienne Or the 1971 Olds 442? -- Last edit: 2015-10-30 18:15:50
unclehotrod13 ◊ 2014-05-03 23:24	some of these cars were owned by the film studio and sold later... if you go on you tube under unclehotrod13 you will see " on the movie set" and see the cars that were being sold, alot were really rough!! just props..all the nice cars were privatly owned by real car lovers!!
jpts ◊ 2015-06-01 10:27	Red Grant wrote It starts off in 1968, then goes on into the 70's, then in the end, there's one short scene in the 90's This film was about the career of drug kingpin, Frank Lucas who took over as crime lord in the New York Harlem Area after his associate and aging crime lord, Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson died on the 7th July 1968 until his arrest in a raid on his home at Teaneck, New Jersey on the 28th January 1975 and his release from prison in 1991. The film also mentioned the high-level of corruption within the different branches of New York Police Department before, during, and after the Knapp's Commission into Corruption within the NYPD as well as their association with the crime families of the New York Mafia and their associates within the French Connection Drug Importation Ring and the dangers that the honest detectives and uniformed officers had faced from the corrupt officers. The tricks that corrupt detectives used in attempts to intimidate or get the honest cops killed included: . Ignoring radio calls from the honest officers if they're in a emergency situation and required backup. . Delays in responding to the honest cops' radio calls. . Police precinct transfer request forms being sent to the honest cops with bullets from police-issued firearms taped to form. The scene where the Richie Roberts' team were arresting all the corrupt NYPD uniformed officers and detectives, the NYPD Commissioner at the time would've been under fire from both the media and the then New York City Mayor with questions like "how the Commissioner could be unaware of what the corrupt officers under his command were doing while on duty?" and the relationship between the NYPD and the members of the public would've been lost as well possible calls for the Commissioner's resignation. The film also ties in with the Vietnam War where a vast majority of the American soldiers who served in Vietnam had become addicted to heroin while on leave from visiting the various nightspots in Saigon and Bangkok and how the heroin was used to supply the Vietcong with weapons to keep their involvement in the Vietnam War going. According to the Series Two episode of the Australian documentary, "Australia in Colour" entitled "Crime and Punishment", it was believed that the American soldiers who had become addicted to heroin were also responsible for bringing in heroin into Australia as some of the Australian soldiers were believed to introduced to heroin through the American soldiers they met while visiting Saigon when they were on leave. -- Last edit: 2023-08-26 08:28:24
Kowalski5599 ◊ 2021-03-05 15:07	Here are some images I saw in a facebook group of the cars being put up for sale in 2007 after production wrapped

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