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Crossroads of N Spring Street & Wilhardt Street
“Have I ever gotten you into something impossible? Now you have the opportunity to do something for your family.“
Danny Sharp (Jake Gyllenhaal)
The scene orchestrated at the intersection of N Spring Street & Wilhardt Street, during the last quarter of the film, is one of the most spectacular. It is here that a decoy ambulance explodes in the middle of several police cars before a low rider comes to machine gun the survivors in a deluge of fire. Not really a fan of green backgrounds and other digital images, Michael Bay insists on playing the realism card from the start. This scene, crucial, is thus produced since a true crossing.
To make things possible and to secure the plateau as much as possible, the team seals off the entire area. The operation is made easier because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The streets are almost all deserted and anyway, Michael Bay is not known to linger. With the whole sequence in mind, he gives the green light for the explosions and for the shootout and manages to make all the elements fit together with remarkable fluidity. Filmed in an area known for its tags, far from downtown and its buildings, where the action ofAmbulance begins, the neighborhood will long remember this day when the most lit of American directors multiplied the detonations in the middle of the street.
The project for the remake of the Danish film Ambulance, by Laurits Munch-Petersen, was set in motion in 2015. It is then question that Philip Noyce directs it. It is only in 2020 that Ambulance is revived, with the arrival of Michael Bay as director. The latter being driven by the desire to organize the meeting of Speed and Bad Boys. He is also keen to shoot in Los Angeles.
The shooting ofAmbulance lasted only two months.
North Spring Street & Wilhardt Street
This intersection is located north of downtown Los Angeles, not far from Dodger Stadium.
Spring Street is one of the oldest streets in Los Angeles. Lined with Beaux-Arts style buildings, it is also popular for housing many financial structures and some hotels. It was also the site of City Hall, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Union Station. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it extends north where it intersects with Wilhardt Street in a popular area marked by several pieces of street art.
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By Gilles Rolland
Passionné de cinéma, de rock and roll, de séries TV et de littérature. Rédacteur de presse et auteur des livres Le Heavy Metal au cinéma, Paroles de fans Guns N' Roses, Paroles de fans Rammstein et Welcome to my Jungle : 100 albums rock et autres anecdotes dépareillées. Adore également voyager à la recherche des lieux les plus emblématiques de la pop culture.