Title:Making Of
Duration: 2:25
Video: Pennzoil_Making Of - R4.4
[Sound effect]
Ambient wind noise
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The sun shines through leafy palm branches.
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JEREMY JONES: We’re out here in Miami shooting the Dodge Viper ACR.
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Pulsating electronic music
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The Pennzoil logo: a yellow oval with the words "Pennzoil" written in black letters across a red Liberty Bell. In yellow uppercase lettering: “Pennzoil Films Presents.”
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The camera pans across a large race track.
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JONES: They’re ending its production…
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A shiny yellow Dodge Viper with a dark rear spoiler sits in an indoor space enclosed in walls of plastic sheeting.
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JONES: …and so we wanted to take the classic iconic American sports car and send it off from the classic iconic American brand, Pennzoil.
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Seated in the Viper, a helmeted driver wears black gloves and a green racing jacket with a Pennzoil patch on the upper right sleeve. A dark SUV with a large camera crane mounted on the roof pulls up to the side of road beneath an underpass and films the yellow Viper as it speeds past.
[Text displays]
The Making of The Last Viper.
Professional driver on a closed course. Do not attempt.
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A clean-shaven man with short blond hair and glasses stand in a spacious warehouse.
[Text displays]
Jeremy Jones, Executive Creative Director, J. Walter Thompson, Atlanta.
[Audio]
JONES: We work with Ozan Biron, our director, and he’s an aggressive, raw shooting director.
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In the warehouse parking lot, a man with thick beard stubble writes on paper then shows a colleague drawings on his cell phone.
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JONES: He knows cars in and out. Everybody that’s involved really loves cars and knows how to push them to the limits.
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A camera mounted on a four-wheeled remote-control vehicle films as it drives behind the Viper, which speeds across the lot. On the race track, the Viper skids sideways.
[Text displays]
Ozan Biron, Director, Lemonade Films.
[Audio]
OZAN BIRON: What I find today in a lot of car films is that they don’t really show the true dynamic. It’s real. It’s the true way of how a car is moving and we’re seeing it from a different perspective that no one else has filmed.
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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. In the parked Viper, the driver puts on his seat belt. Next, the brown-haired driver sits in a chair in the warehouse.
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Rhys Millen, Precision Driver.
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RHYS MILLEN: The word performance to me means confidence and control, and as a driver in this situation you have to be confidence in your equipment to have control.
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A gray-bearded director speak into a two-way radio.
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DIRECTOR: We’re rolling.
MILLEN: Having said that, though, the fine print reads “closed course, professional driver,” so, you know, you can only do this is a locked-down environment. We had, I think, in some cases, up to twelve police, paramedics, fire department…everything making sure that we were safe while performing these incredible stunts.
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The diver and crew sets up for a shot. The director speaks into his radio.
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DIRECTOR: Here we go. Ready and action!
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The driver shifts into gear, speeds out of the lot and along a freeway.
Elsewhere, a short-haired man wearing a billed cap sits in front of a gray backdrop.
[Text displays]
Trevor Cawood, Creative Producer, Lemonade Films.
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CAWOOD: Driving with Rhys Millen makes us almost spoiled in many ways because he’s so good about what he does.
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A camera on the end of a crane films the Viper skidding around a curve in the track.
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Professional driver on a closed course. Do not attempt.
[Audio]
CAWOOD: What he’s able to do in a controlled situation without having to do multiple takes is really unparalleled.
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The driver races through a vast industrial area filled with rows of shipping containers of various colors. Jeremy Jones stands in the warehouse.
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JONES: You’ll hear the real performance of the car. You know, everything you see in the film is a hundred percent real driving. And the sound that you hear, too, is a hundred percent real from the engine. It’s Pennzoil running through its veins.
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Sparks fly from the rear of the Viper as it speeds through a tunnel and out into bright sunlight.
In the driver’s seat, Millen turns the steering wheel with a gloved hand. In the warehouse, a man places a yellow container of Pennzoil Platinum Full Synthetic motor oil beside the right front wheel of the parked Viper.
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Smoke swirls across a black background then disappears as the yellow Pennzoil logo appears.
Pennzoil. See more at Pennzoil.com. In small white lettering near the bottom of the screen: Copyright SOPUS Products, 2017. All rights reserved.
