It's happened to everyone. You're in the middle of doing something at work or at home and a friend sends you a link to a YouTube video demanding you watch it. You agree. Then you hit play and notice that the video is eight effing minutes long. Eight minutes-that's way too much time to pay attention to any one thing. It's almost 2011, and the internet has embedded us all with attention spans lasting no longer than a Geico commercial. It's really a miracle that you're still reading this paragraph.
Either way, when I tell you to spend eight minutes of your day watching this short film, you give me eight minutes and thank me after...
C'etait un Rendez-Vous (It Was a Date) by Claude Lelouch
Claude Lelouch created C'etait un Rendez-Vous in 1976 by mounting a camera on the front of his car (there are debates on whether it was a Mercedes or a Ferrari) and driving fast as shit through the streets of Paris at 5:30 AM (the hour when there are the least amount of people to run over). Red lights? Mere suggestions for Monsieur Lelouch. The finished product is a lesson in awesome. Naturally, after eight minutes of driving through the city, the driver arrives at his destination: his gal. What could be more urgent than a woman? Well, to be honest, lots of things, but if he drove like that for eight minutes through Paris because he was late for his job as an accountant, I doubt I'd be blogging about it today...
Hopefully, you all watch the entire film and hopefully you learn something about what it takes to be a badass. Side note: while we don't condone driving recklessly, I may or may not have done the same thing Lelouch did, except in my red 1996 Honda Civic EX (respect the EX):
The Red Dragon
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