Myrtle Claus
They play the leading role, play an important supporting role or are that extra that immediately catches your eye. Inextricably linked to the big screen and the small screen: the beautiful and often fast cars in films and series. Nothing underlines the power of the main character like his or her car. And often they are so connected with each other that you immediately associate one with the other. Who James Bond says, says Aston Martin!
Making beautiful and fast cars is entrusted to the Italians. So it is obvious that Italian cars have left their mark on the history of the television and the film. A selection of well-known and perhaps less well-known TV series and films in which an Italian car plays an important role. An overview that is by no means exhaustive: once you start looking, you see them everywhere!
1. Alfa Romeo Spider in The Graduate (1967)
Much has been written about Mike Nichols' masterpiece, in which the recently graduated Benjamin Braddock, played by Dustin Hoffman, falls for Anne Bancroft, a friend of his parents. After all kinds of complications, at the end of the film he drives his red Alfa Romeo Spider to the wedding of Anne's daughter Elaine to prevent her from marrying someone else.
Then they flee together to a happy and normal life. A somewhat more sedate life, because in the last scenes they are sitting in the back seat of a bus. And the Alpha is nowhere to be seen.
The film marked the breakthrough for Dustin Hoffman and that of his fast Alfa Romeo: the car became a sales success in the United States. Pininfarina designed the Spider and was inspired by the shape of cuttlefish bone, sea foam, which became the car's nickname. The car stands out for its low-lined design and the rear that is reminiscent of the stern of a boat. The last Spider was produced in 1993.
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