{"id":8318,"date":"2004-12-10T03:34:18","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T01:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/10\/bmw-films-the-hire\/"},"modified":"2005-04-18T20:06:10","modified_gmt":"2005-04-18T17:06:10","slug":"bmw-films-the-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/10\/bmw-films-the-hire\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW Films: The Hire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Finally, I came across the source<\/a> of those wonderfull “Hire” short films. I’ve had all of episodes, but with a terrible translation into Russian. The translation was such bad in all of them it practically was taking out all the fun.<\/p>\n

I am currently downloading all episodes with the English audio track. Now that’s a dream come true. Additionally, there are few more clips, such as “The making of…” and the “Driving techniques”. Now, why didn’t I look for these before?<\/p>\n

If you still don’t know what I am talking about, here is a litlte introduction for you. BMW made a number of short films (about 10 minutes each) about these guy, the driver, played by Clive Owen<\/a>, who is hired to do different jobs that require driving. He does one job using one model of BMW cars in each film. Also, each film is directed by a different director and casts different actors. Excellent cars, amazing driving, and a nice story, all packed into about 10 minutes – these are the BMW’s Hire movies.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Finally, I came across the source of those wonderfull “Hire” short films. I’ve had all of episodes, but with a terrible translation into Russian. The translation was such bad in all of them it practically was taking out all the fun. I am currently downloading all episodes with the English audio track. Now that’s a … Continue reading BMW Films: The Hire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-movies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8317,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/10\/thelma-louise\/","url_meta":{"origin":8318,"position":0},"title":"Thelma & Louise","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 10, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I just watched the DVD with \"Thelma & Louise\". 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