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puddin:
Some clearer vidcaps thanks the Dreamer @ Jokers
gingerman28:
I do believe that that is Brian driving. In the earlier shot (although it has been edited in the preview to look like one continuous sequence) he is wearing a dark blue shirt with sleves coming to his mid-arm. He is wearing a bead bracelet around the left wrist. In the actual crash scene he is wearing a white sleveless shirt but he still has the bead bracelet around his left wrist. It looks like they spend at least two days on safari in Botswana and drive their Land Rovers from place to place. They could spend the night at a safari camp as they have done before without it being a pit stop.
The biplane sequence at the beginning of the sequence which ends with the plane flying over two teams running in the road is seen flying over a large stone Aardvark statue which has been identified as being in Gweta, Botswana. This town is the gateway to several nature preserves including Maksadikgadi Pans Nature Park, and Central Kalahari Game Reserve. Both places have ostrichs on the loose.
Question: Does the yellow biplane have any signifance? Is it part of some task? Or is it just recreating one of Alfred Hitchcoks most famous scenes? It sure looks like it is coming in low over the teams on purpose.
Another thing that has not been commented on. In one scene Brian is shown throwing a spear and he is wearing the same shirt as seen in the first Land Rover driving squence. So this looks like the first day in Botswana and probably is a Roadblock or Detour task using native weapons such as the spear in which he has to hit the moving sandbag. Similar to the event in Norway using Viking weapons.
tanbuns:
My first thought was that the bi-plane was being used by a film crew to get some overhead shots, and some good animal shots.
goodyingbadyang:
There are holes in those sleeves. Merideth and Gretchen I know are supposed to wear as much clothes that are colored powder blue so that the Camera men can spot them easily but Ron and Kelly also have similar long sleeved shirts that matches this color more than Gretchen's and Merideth's.
Is it me or is someone else crawling there with her (assuming its Gretchen). I always thought it was the Roadblock in South Africa but it can also be the Detour..
Call me crazy but I see three people and a dead ostrich {l{ Maybe its because I'm really tired and sleepy
How exactly do they get in the cave? Lowered by ropes or through that entrance (?) ? Excuse me if I don't make any sense.
And by the way, the Aardvark is in Gweta (we all know that) and Gweta is the main stop for tourists before they head into MAKGADIKGADI PANS NAT PARK filled with all kinds of animals that attracts the lions to it. I've read somewhere that some tourists are allowed to feed lions there but I'm not sure if this is the park/game reserve the Race visits.
http://www.wildlifeafrica.co.za/ttmakgadikgadi.html <---- not that helpful but MAKGADIKGADI PANS NAT PARK is explained briefly in the middle of the whole thing.
puddin:
--- Quote ---Question: Does the yellow biplane have any signifance? Is it part of some task? Or is it just recreating one of Alfred Hitchcoks most famous scenes? It sure looks like it is coming in low over the teams on purpose.
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^/^ LOL GMan !! Thats hysterical ((^ .
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