Speed's Bus Jump - Art of the Scene
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- It's time to suspend your disbelief and watch a bus soar over Los Angeles, as we look at not only HOW the stunt worked, but WHY you totally bought in to the bus jump from Speed.
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Speed is such a simple concept of a movie turned into an amazing film. Easily one of my favorite nostalgia flicks.
I honestly hope Art of the Scene never ends
Ismael Martinez everything in life will finish
Everything that has a beginning has an end, Neo
it probably will everything is going to be CGI
Oof
You must be psychic man. Do you realise that this was the last one right....? I wish they’d do more of these..... :’(
I think Spielberg summed suspension of disbelief perfectly when talking about the end of Jaws.
"If they have been with me for the past 2 hours, they will believe anything I tell them for the next 2 minutes."
"I think you're going to need a bigger boat."
I have literally seen this movie more than 10 times now. In fact, just last night, I thought I'd pop it in and watch the intro Lift sequence and close it. Next thing I know I finished watching the whole movie. Such a brilliantly crafted and well paced movie. Love it!
Runaway train wasn’t a forgettable movie, was actually a very solid thriller. And with great performances. An underrated movie in 1985. Not forgettable I still remember the ending scene with Jon voight dying. Awesome movie in my opinion.
Can you do “Art of the scene” for:
-Tank chase in Indiana Jones the last crusade
-Train fight or stopping the train in Spiderman 2
-Shootout in Heat
-Foot chase in Baulieue 13
-Coin toss in No country for old men
-First Russian roulette scene in The deer hunter
Very very impressed on how they did the bus jumps the big gap scene on that movie Speed. Thanks for the video guys.
love this format! glad to see new stuff added. Please keep it up!
I wonder if they talk about the Mirror in this video. ;) I actually like the idea of breaking down only one one scene. I thought about doing one for the long shot boat scene in Jaws.
SPEED! One of my all time favorite Action movies! It is no Die Hard! is the pinnacle of 80's action! the 3 act!
It’s 1994 not the 80s
Whoo! Speed is one of the coolest action movies. Good pacing all around with a premise that never let you rest.
Please, guys, do an Art Of The Scene for the final race from Speed Racer! The way it ramps up the level of excitement while staying true to the cartoon origins is just about perfect!
I think Christopher Nolan is the best because he does as much as possible for real and just uses cgi to enhance it. Like how he actually flipped a truck for the dark knight and then just used the cgi to remove visual things like the air cannon used to aid the stunt.
Huw Francis Have you seen Inception?? Interstellar?
Cam G I loved the behind the scenes images and video of the full sized rotating corridor as well as the use of models in the dark knight trilogy.
He is actually known for refusing CGI as much as possible, though.
Well, think of it this way, and the reason he used as little CGI as possible in Inception, especially for that INSANE turning hallway fight:
2001: A Space Odyssey had no CGI available to mimic the weightlessness of space. It was all done with practical effects. And yet the effects hold up amazingly well, to the point that few movies since then have managed to do space right.
CGI has its place in movies. However, it should be used as an ENHANCEMENT rather than a replacement for practical effects. It's the seamless blending of the two that makes the most magic.
Julian Birch I agree. That’s why films like Jurassic Park and Titanic have actually stood the test of time pretty well. In JP they had a combination of animatronics and digital and in Titanic they built full scale parts of the ship to use for scenes that were then continued with CGI.
You also can’t forget that great filmmaking and storytelling is what really matters. In JP we see a raptors eye in the opening scene, but when it brutally attacks the worker, we never see the actual dinosaur. Then later we hear Alan talking about the way raptors attack, we hear Muldoon, an experienced big game warden, warning about how lethal they are, when they are fed we see the horrified looks on the faces of those watching and the torn and broken feeding mechanism but never the raptors themselves. In other words, we have been made to understand how scary and threatening these creatures are so that by the end when they get out, we are genuinely terrified for our characters, even though we haven’t even seen them yet. That build up and suspense was amazing!
Please please please do art of the scene for the Pale Man in Pans Labyrinth!!!!
James Daniel Productions YES!!!!
I agree with this.
noooooooooo................its too scary!
This is why I love CineFix. Awesome work!
This series is awesome! I'd love to see one on the Blues Brothers Mall Chase scene
It's so funny that this gets uploaded today. I just watched Speed yesterday!
I remember seeing the previews for this. What stood out to me was the bus jump scene. I got the VHS 📼 tape and almost wore it out from watching it. Then came DVDs 📀 and I have it on DVD still trying to wear it out. Then I got speed and speed 2 cruise control on blu ray. I know critics have bashed speed 2 for whatever reasons they didn’t like it. I love both movies. And they’re making a new speed movie involving a bomb planted on a passenger airliner. I can’t wait!!!!!!! Please guys please get this one done I’m on pins and needles in anticipation for it!!!! Please I’m begging you.
Just rewatched Speed after moving to LA. It's hilarious now. There's no way the freeways are that open between 8-10am on a weekday.
I didn't know that Los Angeles had freeways during rush hour. I thought that those were parking lots.
Absolutely LOVE this movie! One of the greatest action movies ever made!
I’ve been driving buses for about 24 years and counting, and all I can say is I WISH a bus could do that. I’d love it. I didn’t CARE about the improbabilities - I just wanted to see a Fishbowl fly. What’s a “Fishbowl”? It’s what bus drivers referred to the GMC New Look transit bus when introduced in the 1950s. When I saw the trailer, I wasn’t impressed at all - until I saw the bus jump. You HAD me at the bus jump. I saw it in the cinemas at least 8 times. I wanted to be entertained and I was.
Just watched this last night with the director's commentary. Some good tidbits from Jan de bont. Love this movie.
I really like these, MOAR!
Speed is such a great action movie. Seems like such a tame, simple concept these days, but it's so well executed, with great set pieces, likable characters, cool stunts, good pacing, a memorable villain etc that I can't think of much that needs improving.Ah, the 90's. When a runaway bus was the height of action blockbusters and gritty realism combined.
Realism should be in quotes. "Realism''
I really enjoyed this, no exception to the other videos but the added humour in this is great.
Great video guys!
Can you do an art of the scene, Johnny Depp's death in A Nightmare On Elm Street?
Thats a very good one, i would like to see that too. That scene still intriuges me after all those years.
I can explain it pretty easy, the room was upside down and they poured in the blood
We have a few good episodes about practicals from around that same time. The Defibrillator scene from The Thing and the Chest Burster scene from Alien. Check those out!
CineFix Going to, didn't know
Bring back this series!
about time art of the scene came back
I really enjoyed this video. "Speed" was definitely one of the great action films of the nineties. I guess if Keanu Reeves wasn't "Jack Traven" he wouldn't be "John Wick" today. Thank you very much!!
What a great vid didn't just learn about the scene I learned about the movie and how to make scenes like this work great episode
awesome video its very interesting and awesome sauce!
Yes!!!! I was thinking about Speed yesterday.
wait... is that Michael Truly? is he back at cinefix? awesome!
Yeah is that him? When I subscribed to this channel it was Truly, Ti, Christina, Clint, Cruz and Casey. Those were the times... I'm glad if Truly is back he was one of my favourites. They used to say their names in the beginning. They could at least list them in below the video.
loved this film's soundtrack
Please make more of these
Loved the movie then.. Love it now !!
David Fincher is probably the best when it comes to CGI it isn't a Halo Effect but it is amazing how impossible it is to notice. Like did you know all the blood was CG in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo? Yes even the scene with Daniel Craig in the bathtub bleeding out of his forehead .
I'd say look up KaptainKristian if you want to know more he did a fantastic video essay on the subject
i saw that. couldnt believe it
I still believe that Army Hammer has a twin brother somewhere, so... I've got to say that I also see Fincher as a strong contender too, despite that clearly being a mix of various techniques. The point is that it's a masterfully seamless mix that I never questioned for a moment.
JKPancake All the blood in Zodiac and Gone Girl was CG too, and it looked so real!
KaptainKristian's video essays are possibly one of the best on UA-cam.
Sathya Narayanan DSN Really? All of them were CGI? I guess that makes sense since Fincher likes to have total control over his sets
Art of the Scene is a great series, GREAT WORK!
I'd like to hear your take on the "the Death Star trench run" from Star Wars. I've heard it described as an example of the perfect scene.
Anyway, great work, I'm a fan!
Since it was named the best scene of all time on this channel a few years ago, I'd love to see an episode on the informal processing from The Master.
This reminds me: I need to watch Speed again.
Amphetamines optional. (sarcasm)
Dope vid ..
Appreciate yah , Truly ..!
Awesome work.
Guys, please make Art of the Scene: Chase Scene Long Shot in Children of Men.
It's actually on our list already. Great scene!
wait there's a list? can we see the list?
CineFix maybe something from the room?
Happy to hear that, can't wait!
Do that one scene from that movie with the ending and those actors who breath and do stuff at that place with things like all over?
I don't know if Speed holds up in the long run, but it was awesome when it came out in the '90s.
TWO ART OF THE SCENE'S THIS CLOSE TOGETHER????!!!!!!??? THANK YOU CINEFIX!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE DO MORE!!!!!!!
omg i was gonna watch this movie tonight! it's running on german TV!
This was awesome.
The sinking of the Orca and/or the exploding Shark from Jaws might be an interesting one to try
Best action movie of the 90's.
I need to go get my Speed DVD now....
A bus that has to keep driving over 50 or it will exploded is what we use to call realistic
Or someone converted a 1973 Ford Pinto into a metrobus.
For The Thing's 35th anniversary, you guys better do Who Goes There/The Thing (What's the difference), or a homemade shot for shot of a Thing scene(preferably the Blood Test scene). You'd better!
YES! THEY STILL MAKE THESE
My 6th Favorite Movie Of All Time.
Can you do an art of the scene for the restaurant robbery scene in pulp fiction?
Great movie!
Fucking LOVE this movie. Watched it so many times!
i'm sure you are not the only one
Great video. One note, the subtitle had it as Denise Hopper... lol
i feel like david fincher is the king of sneaking in CGI in and blending it with practical effects seamlessly.
Harper Ellenburg you should watch mad max fury road.
it's fine great in that movie!
But it's so, so, bad otherwise... I just don't get Fury Road.
Cool...Thank you.
9:45 the bus talked
David Fincher - best use of subtle CGI recently i think
David Fincher is probably the best director to use CGI in a proper way. So much that two months ago I didn't he used that much CGI.
David Fincher has the best CGI ever.
For some reason I remember this movie by a different name. I think it was called: The Bus that Couldn't Slow Down...
Simpsons reference?XD
I enjoyed this episode of Art of the Scene because I never really understood what the big deal was about the scene. Even as a kid watching the movie, I thought the jump was laughably ridiculous. And more so now that I've had a few physics courses. For me, the impossiblity was just too much to swallow. But I can see now how the other elements make it fit into the rest if the movie.
Robert Zemekis has always been great at integrating sfx into movies...
Peter Jackson's original Lord of the Rings trilogy had very tasteful and conservative CGI use.
Actually, Graham Yost had watched an entirely different film, which was a Japanese 70s film titled "The Bullet Train", which was about a Bullet train rigged with a bomb that would be triggered to explode if the train's speed dropped, which Yost later reworked it as "Speed", just changing it to a bus instead.
Seriously??? Runaway Train was forgettable??? Come on, Many! It was a brilliant movie!!!
I was shocked. Clearly the person/people making these videos are not actual cinephiles. I mean, I love Speed for what it is but Runaway Train is a much better movie, a brilliant one, as you said. I mean it's no accident that both Voight and Roberts got an Oscar nomination for their parts.
Totally agree! Runaway Train is one of my all-time favorite 80s films!
Yep, this comments about Runaway Train being forgettable might be true for a small percentage of those who have actually seen it, but I am sure that most viewers of that excellent film have not forgotten it.
I think he's being sarcastic but it's not super clear. It's a fucking classic. Amazing that it was made by Cannon.
you guys should do the neo and agent subway fight
8:12 The shadows are being cast from left to right, so that shadow you're talking about is not from the missing piece of the road, but from the piece to the left.
As far as directors using CGI well for worldbuilding, it's a bit of an odd choice, but what about Neill Blomkamp? The way he adds CGI bits and pieces to very run-down real-world locations is highly interesting. I mean, say what one will about the quality of Chappie (I liked it...) but somehow the totally incongruous mix of a high-tech CGI robot in a blown-out warehouse like something out of Fallout was totally believable. And the same, of course, for the aliens and their machinery in District 9.
I think it'd make a good video mostly because his "old + new mashup" look is pretty damn unique\distinctive, and nothing like the Lucas-style "shoot everything on a greenscreen" approach.
another good video 👍! when's the next episode of "what's the difference?"
Coming up next month. Got a big one planned that's gonna be a little different.
It's brilliant
Cmon this making of was like one of the earliest to be shown on tv back in the mid-late 90's. we all know how they did it
They forgot to paint the shaddow out? This scene is dead for me forever xD
I actually purposefully always leave the shadow in when I photoshop someone out of a photo, to leave a record.
ikr. childhood destroyed!
Yep your Right 👍
DAS k1ishEé what shadow?
Interesting stuff. But I didn't buy into the bus jump for a moment back when this came out.
3:12 Stephen Baldwins duckface pose was ahead of its time!
I knew the stuntman who made that jump. His spine was never the same but he survived. One of my friends was the first victim on that bus... poor girl.
Samuel Oldham Really? I know it's the internet, but it could be true. How bad was his spine? Imagine what would've happened had he not been wearing that brace/harness - would've been terrible
He actually snapped it in half. I was doing videos with a group of stuntmen and he was introduced to me. I was floored that he could still get around. Very cool gentleman.
When you did not know how it was made but like it then you know that it was a good movie
I'd like to see you guys do the "50 Eggs" scene from Cool hand Luke 😃
DO MORE OF THESE
I would love you forever if you did the scene where the frogs fall out of the sky from Magnolia
Stunt man Jimmy Koufos did his bus jump more than 10 years before Speed.
If you want to see him jump over 20 motorcycles with a school bus search for "1980 Nascar Busch Volunteer 500 pre race".
Art of the Scene for the cliff jump in First Blood and the shoot out at the end of Taxi Driver
Go check out the podcast "I was there too" to hear an interview with the bus riders & what the movie was about before creating the Jack role.
Aaaand "Runaway Train" was basically based on the japanese "Shinkansen daibakuha", which was about one of the first Bullet Trains in the world, with a bomb on board.
Madeas lmfao hahaha that was good, *Next summer: MADEA GOES HIJACKING/MADEAS FAST & FURIOUS?*
4:46 There’s another group lead that would be interesting: Wesley Snipes and Halle Barry (interestingly the character of Annie was also originally written as an Afro-American paramedic who justified her ability to drive the bus)
I watched a How It Was Done video years ago that talked about and showed video of the multiple cranes that "carried" the bus over the gap, and then they erased the cranes. Now I am confused. lol.
Not sure if you're still doing those best shots videos but I noticed you didn't include any animated shots. Maybe do a video on the best animated shots of all time. I can already think of a couple from Miyazaki.
Cinemafix, check on Gaspar Noe - he amazingly blends CGI into the real world making his movis amazingly realistic... even too realistic...
IT'S ONLY CANS
That homeless lady was livid...
You mean "CHANS" Hahahahaa
ARE YOU SURE?
Can you do the Speed 2 Scene of the cruise ship moving in the city?
Do an Art of The Scene for the Henley Royal Regatta race from The Social Network!!
10:20 It's amazing to see how the jump was done.
Keanu Reeves is great, Sandra Bullock is great, you guys are right. No matter what was going on in the film I was entertained because of the casting. The dialogue cheese was also an indicator for fun.
That's a big one. Where to start?
OMG,Just 2 hours ago i watched this movie !
That voice is like melted chocolate being dropped on my bare chest. I love it