FATBETTY Re-enacts the 'Crossing the Bridge' Scene from Sorcerer. HD

FATBETTY re-enacts the awesome bridge scene from the 1977 William Friedkin film "Sorcerer". ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Synopsis of this scene: Jackie Scanlon (Roy Scheider) and Nilo (Francisco Rabal) come to a rope bridge and need to cross it to deliver their cargo of unstable explosive nitroglycerin. Nilo walks ahead to guide the truck across the dilapidated rope bridge. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The original movie "Sorcerer" was released in 1977 and bombed, but it is a great movie that was overshadowed by a famous Sci-fi that was released the same year. The soundtrack is by Tangerine Dream, and being a long time fan I also thought it would be a neat way to pay my repects to Edgar Froese who died earlier this year. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are not familiar with this movie I fully recommend it. To see the bridge scene, check out this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlDgySQGxO4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To re-enact this scene in small scale RC first I made a rope bridge from sticks and garden twine and mounted it to a small stack of pallets in my backyard. Whether the bridge would hold the weight of the 10kg steel truck was unknown. I then modified FATBETTY to look more like one of the trucks in the movie by removing the doors, adding a canvas cover to the deck (made from an old backpack), made a wood cab roof, added extra light buckets and made a few boxes as the cargo. I constructed the recovery plates from tool packaging and lastly attached a scale shovel to the back, all of which the truck in the movie had (although it is a different model of truck). I filmed the scene shot by shot and then edited the footage using the exact same cut sequence leaving in the original audio then overlaying music from the sound track. To see a scene by scene comparison with a insert from the original movie check out this clip: http://youtu.be/ciQmk3d8tw4 ENJOY!