1 | * AdaptationDisplacement: Based on Robert L. Fish's crime novel ''Mute Witness''. The movie is a pretty close adaptation, the main difference (besides the setting moving from Boston to San Francisco) is that the main character Lt. Clancy is much more of a working class schlub than the super-cool antihero Bullitt. |
2 | * SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The film's score, composed by Music/LaloSchifrin of ''Series/MissionImpossible'' fame. |
3 | * GenreTurningPoint: After this film came out and wowed audiences with its famous ChaseScene, shooting car chases by just having actors DrivingADesk or [[{{Undercrank}} speeding up footage of cars moving at normal speed]] wasn't gonna cut it anymore. |
4 | * SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: It seems when all is said and done at least [[spoiler: Bullitt's girlfriend seems to have decided to stay with him]]. |
5 | * HilariousInHindsight: Creator/RobertDuvall has a small role in this film, and half a century later, he would appear in ''Widows'', directed by the ''other'' Creator/{{Steve McQueen|Director}}. |
6 | * JustHereForGodzilla: Rightly or wrongly, the car chase scene is this movie's primary draw for a lot of audiences. |
7 | * OnceOriginalNowCommon: |
8 | ** The famous car chase scene was the first done at full speed, not relying on {{undercrank}}ing. It still holds on its own, which is impressive all by itself, but from modern perspective, it lacks the sheer "wow!" effect of being one of the first "real" car chases. |
9 | ** The film introduced and codified the concept of a CowboyCop, and one that's deeply flawed at that. Both of those concepts became bread and butter of cop movies and series. |
10 | * OneSceneWonder: The hitman's driver only appears during the car chase (and in a split-second scene following Bullitt shortly beforehand), but is a key part of the movie's SignatureScene. |
11 | * RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/RobertDuvall plays a cab driver. |
12 | * SignatureScene: The ChaseScene was the first car chase of its kind and set the precedent for practically every car chase to follow in its footsteps. |
13 | * UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The [[TechnologyMarchesOn now-hopelessly-obsolete]] fax machine[[note]]The Xerox Magnafax Telecopier, state of the art in 1968[[/note]] that Bullitt and the rest of the cops stare at for several minutes as it's printing a photograph, which is being transmitted over a dial-up Telex line. |
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