Face in the fire?
Ok I looked really hard over and over and the only thing i could see was in the last fire frame at the top was a mouth maybe with fangs spitting out more fire? Am I close or way off?
shareyou're correct, that's pretty much what I see too. There's also what looks like some sort of claw/hand that comes down just before that too.
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I saw this movie about two or three times in the early 80's on TV and I remembered the face in the fire being much more apparent than it is on the DVD. Does anyone else feel the same way if they first saw it before the VHS/DVD versions? I'm not sure if my memory of the scene warped over the years or if the film was altered?
Also I remember the scene when the hitchhiker is run over being a bit more graphic. On the DVD the scene is definetly seems altered in some way. Any ideas?
Time has a funny way of making you remember things differently, especially old movies.
Nope, I'm pretty sure the hitchhiker part is just as it was in the original. The film was rated PG so it's not like they filmed or even intended on showing the blood and guts of someone in the process of getting crushed by a 5000 pound car.
There's been several people over the years recalling or thinking they remembered different things from seeing The Car on TV or HBO back in the early '80s. Some of them included the part of the Car driving through LA streets during ending credit roll being in the very beginning instead and the Car's grill coming out from under a pile of rocks at the very end before the credits. (this is one my dad also insists he saw once)
The ending mentioned with the face anf the claw slowing comming down from the fire is one I remember as well, now this is a memory from childhood, but is it possible that Universal tinkered around with the DvD a little? because its not very apparent what I am seeing on my copy.
shareI don't think the film was altered in any way. Check out this clip that someone posted on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4qTXo2KCn0
The user recorded it from TV in the 1980s, and the face in the fire is exactly the same as on the DVD. I think it's cool though that many of us seem to remember it as being more explicit than it really is. That was the power of movies in those days, audiences weren't used to movies being very literal, our imaginations filled in a lot of the blanks. It's why so many old thrillers seem "cheesy" by today's standards. We've changed as moviegoers.
Oh, and here's a link to an article I wrote about "The Car" for my blog:
http://groovydoom.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-car-1977.html
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You know, seriously? This movie is such a suckfest (I love it though) that I bet it took all of Universals energy just to convert it to DVD. I don't think they would put one iota of effort into tweaking the movie in any way.
shareI was thinking the "Claw" was actually a bat-like wing back in the day
sharethe ending of movie Christine shows the grill after shes been crushed to a square lump of metal and dropped in the junk yard.
just before the ending credits they show her grill move like shes still alive and is trying to undo the damage done. right after that bad to the bone plays the screen fades and goes to the credits this might be what you and your dad are remembering.
In Steven kings book Christine the way its written its kinda told by Dennis like a memoirs Arnie's best friend at the end of the book he tells of a car making its way back east doing the same thing as Christine did before she was destroyed like she was reincarnated and coming back for him for revenge
(Christine in the book happens back east not in California like john carpenters movie version) the book also explains a lot left out in the movie I.E arnie buys it from the actual owner Roland LeBay not his brother as in the movie version and begins his transformation in to Roland the owner
YES!!!!, I too remember the end credits with the "CAR" driving through the streets of LA. maybe it was a TV edit? Also the Face in the fire was clear on TV.
"I'm telling you when my boss sees these figures he's gonna have a stroke."
- Rudy Russo
Also the Face in the fire was clear on TV.
Then explain why this recording made back then of the movie does NOT show a face in the fire. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4qTXo2KCn0. It's just a fanged mouth, no face.
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It's just a fanged mouth, no face.
Well, no, it's not a fully featured face, but I always took the slanting lines just above the top part of the mouth to look like angry eyebrows, and thus imagined a pair of tiny eyes right inbetween the slanting lines and the top of the mouth. It's hard to describe, but that's what I see.
It's really hard to make out, but leaves room for our minds to fill in the blanks, in a manner of speaking.
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That video is cropped to shit, not to mention blurry as hell. The face is there, but it's chopped off at the top. Here's a clear shot:
https://i.imgur.com/9QGSWsc.png
It looks like a snake face.
Time has a funny way of making you remember things differently, especially old movies.
If IMDB stated that on every page, it might save a lot of confusion. share
actor John Rubenstein mentions during his "making of" segment on the new Bluray release of The Car that they dug a hole in the ground for him to stand in and lean over at the waist while a fake pair of rubber legs was behind him while he threw his hands up and made faces like he was getting run over. Apparently that got cut from the final scene and left on the editing room floor.
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