Michael Mirasol, an independent film critic and blogger, put together this fantastic edit of some of the best car chases in the last fifty years. We might take them for granted, but there is a ballet to sending thousands of pounds of metal screaming down a narrow road or weaving in and out of traffic:
Here's what inspired the video, which he wrote over at Movie Mezzanine:
This video was borne out of a single shot in George Miller’s action epic Mad Max: Fury Road, when the biker gang chases Furiosa’s war rig, bounding off desert foothills in relentless pursuit. Strangely enough, the scene triggered memories of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, when Elliot and his friends pedal away from pursuing police on foothills of the suburban kind. Could these two moments have been linked? I love to think so. But only Mr. Miller surely knows.