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 host @ 11:25 Friday 06 ,June ,2008  Category :: Film
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Maximum Overdrive |
| A black VW Bus with an AC/DC logo on the side is seen the movie Maximum Overdrive, in the scene where a drawbridge opens itself while traffic is still on the bridge.
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host @ 10:49 Saturday 09 ,June ,2007 Category :: Film
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Little Miss Sunshine |
| The movie Little Miss Sunshine stars a yellow second-generation Bus that a family drives from New Mexico to California. Alan Arkin also appears in this movie, as do Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear, and Toni Collette.
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host @ 10:48 Saturday 09 ,June ,2007 Category :: Film
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Field of Dreams |
| Kevin Costner drives cross country in a VW Bus to kidnap James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams
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host @ 10:47 Saturday 09 ,June ,2007 Category :: Film
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Jackie Brown |
| A Bay Window Bus is seen in the Quentin Tarantino film Jackie Brown.
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host @ 10:46 Saturday 09 ,June ,2007 Category :: Film
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Ronin |
| In the movie Ronin there is a military green Type 2 transporting the characters around.
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host @ 10:45 Saturday 09 ,June ,2007 Category :: Film
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What's Up Doc? |
| The 1972 comedy film What's Up, Doc? featured a first generation Bus which is rammed several times.
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host @ 10:44 Saturday 09 ,June ,2007 Category :: Film
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Dirty Harry |
| In the movie Dirty Harry starring Clint Eastwood, a Microbus deluxe can be seen clearly on the street before a bank robbery takes place. The second film, Magnum Force, a Bus was t-boned in the film (Eastwood is seen driving a 1972 Ford Galaxie 500 - the car is later blown up by the film's end).
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host @ 10:43 Saturday 09 ,June ,2007 Category :: Film
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Dazed and Confused |
| In the 1993 Richard Linklater film Dazed and Confused, in the scene where the character Mitch Kramer gets paddled for the first time, a VW Type 2 can be briefly seen in the baseball field parking lot. Other Type 2 VW's are also visible in other parts of the film.
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host @ 10:42 Saturday 09 ,June ,2007 Category :: Film
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San Francisco Rush |
| A Type 2-like van is also driveable in the video game San Francisco Rush.
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host @ 10:41 Saturday 09 ,June ,2007 Category :: Film
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Grand Theft Auto |
| Vehicles known as Campers in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas are based on the Type 2. The character Truth, a hippie, has a Camper painted in a hippy-style called "The Mothership".
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host @ 10:40 Saturday 09 ,June ,2007 Category :: Film
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Cars |
| In the 2006 Pixar movie Cars (voiced by George Carlin), the hippy van Fillmore is a VW Type 2. Also, Steve Jobs, the CEO and founder of Pixar, sold his VW Type 2 to finance what would become Apple Computer.
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host @ 10:39 Saturday 09 ,June ,2007 Category :: Film
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Forrest Gump |
| In Forrest Gump, Jenny is seen exiting a VW Bus while living the hippie lifestyle during Forrest's deployment to Vietnam.
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host @ 10:38 Saturday 09 ,June ,2007 Category :: Film
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Alice's Restaurant |
| Arlo Guthrie's 1969 film Alice's Restaurant has numerous long sequences involving his red 1964 VW camper bus.
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host @ 10:37 Saturday 09 ,June ,2007 Category :: Film
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Wait Until Dark |
| A first-generation VW bus plays a supporting role in the 1967 film Wait Until Dark starring Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin.
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host @ 10:36 Saturday 09 ,June ,2007 Category :: Film
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1960's and 1970's films |
| The VW Bus was a regular player in many 1960s and 1970s movies, and afterwards as an icon for the counterculture era:
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host @ 10:34 Saturday 09 ,June ,2007 Category :: Film
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