The Last Viper

Title: Pennzoil Viper Film

Duration: 2 minutes 42 seconds

Video: Pennzoil_Viper Film

 

[Sound Effect]

A dramatic crescendo.

 

[Graphic]

Inside a yellow oval, "Pennzoil" is written in black letters across a red Liberty Bell. 

 

[Video Footage]

As the Pennzoil logo zooms rapidly toward the viewer, water appears inside the letters. Zooming in further, the screen fills with ocean waves from the view of someone passing closely above them.

 

[Sound Effect]

Fast-paced electronic music.

 

[Text Displays]

 "Pennzoil Films Presents..." 

"The Last Viper."

 

 

[Video Footage]

The view pans up from the water toward a city skyline silhouetted by a low sun. In close-up, bills pass rapidly through a money counter while a person loads wrapped stacks of cash into a box. A photo of a yellow sports car appears on the front page of a newspaper lying amid the money stacks. The headline: "Last Viper Stolen: Owner Offering Reward."  Wearing gloves, a person tapes up the box then carries it through plastic curtain dividers into an area where the Viper is parked. Next, a view of a person climbing a ladder attached to an exterior wall. Their jacket hood pulled up, the person peeks through a skylight into the warehouse, spotting the Viper and the person carrying the box. Wearing gloves, the hooded person sends a text: "Found her."  Opening a hatch, the person, appearing to be a man, leaps quietly down into the dark warehouse and walks up to the viper. Sitting at the money table, a man in a ball cap and short-sleeved shirt looks up in panic as headlights sudden shine through the plastic curtain.

 

[Sound Effect]

A car engine roars. 

 

[Video Footage]

The money counter stops.

 

 

 

[Sound Effect]

Silence, followed by the sudden roar of a speeding car.

 

[Video Footage]

 Rocketing backwards out of the warehouse, the yellow Viper spins forward then speeds off into the daylight, leaving a cloud of dust in its wake. Pieces of strip curtain trail from its high spoiler.

 

[Text Displays]

In small lettering at the bottom of the screen: "Professional driver on a closed course. Do not attempt."

 

[Video Footage]

The driver shifts gears and races through a vast industrial area filled with rows of shipping containers of various colors. The driver shifts again, causing the tachometer to enter the red zone as the needle tilts toward 7. Kicking up white smoke, the car drifts in a semicircle around an industrial building. Leaving tire marks, it disappears in a cloud of smoke as it continues through the dock. As the Viper skids around another curve, a large ship becomes visible in the background. The Viper travels across a bridge then races down another road. The gloved driver shifts gears.

 

 

[Sound Effect]

Low, pulsating thump.

 

[Video Footage]

In slow motion, puffs of flames shoot from the Viper's side exhaust as the car skids diagonally down a curved road. 

 

[Sound Effect]

Loud, racing engine.

 

[Video Footage]

 At normal film speed, the car continues racing down the road. A speed camera snaps a close-up of the license plate: "V8 EATR." In close-up, the Viper's tachometer glows red as it passes 6. The Dodge Viper Logo -- an outline of a fang-bearing snake -- appears in the middle. Flames shoot from the side exhaust. Viewed from overhead, the car crosses a bridge spanning an urban river surrounded by high-rises. Later, the car careens around a corner.

 

[Sound Effect]

Abrupt silence.

 

 

 

[Video Footage]

 A black billboard positioned near an overpass features a yellow-and-silver container of motor oil and the message, "Look For The Yellow Bottle" in bold white lettering. 

 

[Sound Effect]

The sudden roar of a rapidly passing vehicle, followed by the sustained loud hum of a speeding car.

 

[Video Footage]

The Viper streaks past the billboard then reappears on the road below, kicking up dried leaves as it whizzes past. As the car performs a controlled skid around a corner, its upward-slanting daytime running headlights suddenly glow brighter. The car heads into a tunnel. In slow motion, flames explode from the side exhaust. As the car emerges from the tunnel, the driver shifts gears, causing the car to go briefly airborne at the top of an incline.  The sun glints off of the windshield as it touches down.

 

[Sound effect]

Pulsating electronic music.

 

 

 

[Video Footage]

Next, a sweeping view of a waterfront city skyline silhouetted by the setting sun. 

 

[Sound effect]

Roar of a speeding car.

 

[Video Footage]

Viewed from high above, the Viper's headlights are visible as it drives full speed across a long, straight road connecting a row of elongated islands. Suddenly, an extreme close-up of a person’s eye opening. 

 

[Sound effect]

Low, indistinct sounds of TV programming.

 

 [Video Footage]

While watching a sporting event on TV, a dark-haired man gets up from his couch and heads down a hallway, passing a framed photo of the Viper. He flicks on his garage light and finds the yellow Viper parked alongside a red and a gray sports car. An exterior view of the man's ultra-modern house reveals the sports cars lined up facing glass-paneled walls.  Standing on a shoreline overlooking a bridge and skyscrapers, the hooded man sends a text, "The Viper is back in the nest." The response: "Perfect. How are you in exorcising Demons?"  The hooded man pockets his phone and walks off into the night.

 

[Sound Effect]

Loud engine roar.

 

[Graphic]

The Pennzoil Logo.

 

[Text Displays]

"To Be Continued."

"Pennzoil.com."