(Breathing sigh of relief) A preview that I saw was really focused on Driver/Cruz. I'm always concerned that someone high up is going to give us a romance movie in car clothing.
Filming racing is kinda like filming fighting. They pretty well have to take liberties because the medium demands it: The 99-speed transmission, the extra gear that's effectively a nitrous shot, and my personal favorite: The 200 MPH staredown.
J.A. Ackley said:mr2s2000elise said:seeing it this week... are there too many sex scenes with mistress?
debating if appropriate for kids
thank you
There are two. One was pretty hot and heavy. None with the mistress oddly enough.
ok will leave the kids at home
appreciate the quick reply
Datsun240ZGuy said:In reply to J.A. Ackley :
There's a remodeled 90+ year giant screen movie theater in Downers Grove, IL - I'm hoping they show it as I hate those little multi theaters. (The Tivoli Theater)
Wow. That's amazing.
I haven't seen it yet but I want to.
I'm having a hard time with Adam Driver as Enzo but that's a me thing. All I ever think of is him, chewing the scenery as Emo Vader.
I hope there's some bits when he was driving for Alfa back in the day. I love the early Alfa Romeos.
In reply to J.A. Ackley :
I've always said to never sit under a chandelier as they must weigh a 1000 pounds and if one drops.....
mr2s2000elise said:seeing it this week... are there too many sex scenes with mistress?
debating if appropriate for kids
thank you
Yeah, there is one I can think of. What might be worse is one of the crash scenes, though.
Excellent behind-the-scenes article about the making of the film. Of particular interest is some of the work that went into re-creating the cars:
The process started with laser scans of actual classic Ferraris. “Then when we have the exact—down to the millimeter—shape of the car, we put that into a computer program,” Mann says. “And then reverse engineer what the chassis has to be.” The goal was to make race cars that looked like they were from the ’50s but ran like modern vehicles. The custom Ferraris had contemporary engines, brakes, transmission, and suspension. “The cars had to be fast,” Mann says. But, he adds, “They had to be reliable. They had to be totally safe.”
Layton, Nagle, and Co. did much of the design and construction work in England. It wasn’t easy. When it came time to make the Ferrari 801, they had to improvise. After all, there was no real-life example of the single-seater left on earth to use as reference. “I went online, I found a one-eighteenth-scale model car, I purchased it from America,” Layton says. “It turned up and we scanned the car, and we times-ed everything by 18. Then from that model—and I’m actually looking at the model now, in front of me, on my desk—we created the car.”
The team built the 801 in a single week, a remarkable turnaround. According to Layton, they needed only 212 days to complete the entire fleet. “We were doing split shifts,” he says. “We were working seven days a week for 22 weeks, revolving the crew.”
GameboyRMH said:stuart in mn said:Snowdoggie (Forum Supporter) said:Are those real vintage Ferraris?
I'm guessing no, unless they had a zillion dollar budget for the film.
I read an article on the making of the movie and they are reproduction/replica Ferraris.
So, did Ferrari sue them when they were done building them?
I was standing next to and talking to the owner of one of the Porches they created for Ford vs Ferrari. The car is currently street legal (through some registration creative moves...) and was created in a shop in Burbank(?). It's powered by a Subaru motor and still has the damage from the film where another car rubbed against it. The primary point of course was to make it look like the actual car when driving, so close up, some things are a bit less than convincing.
I suspect they used a similar process. The weird thing is that apparently the builder destroyed the molds. Maybe that is a sort of requirement to avoid getting sued?
It was pretty clear it has a custom windshield also. I did see a car show where they had a custom 911 windshield made, and it was not all that involved. A cut piece of glass then a rather sparse mold that they put it on and put in an oven for a hour or so.
Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong car but I believe you can still buy Porsche 917 bodywork.
Tom_Spangler (Forum Supporter) said:mr2s2000elise said:seeing it this week... are there too many sex scenes with mistress?
debating if appropriate for kids
thank you
Yeah, there is one I can think of. What might be worse is one of the crash scenes, though.
Agreed. One crash scene was particularly gruesome. However, the CGI used rivaled the quality of SFX in some B movies. Not sure why they didn't spend the money there.
Saw the movie today with my wife, son and dad. We all loved it!
I am not sure if anyone mentioned the sound, but it is very well done. The cars sound great.
They also got some good scenes (test track) of the 801 racing around and handling like the cars did back then (rather slippery). Makes you wish they would make a race series with cars with super skinny bias ply tires, you can really see them being driven. Maybe not include the zero safety features though! (Also well shown in the movie!)
Its honestly a fairly long, sometimes slow moving movie, so don't expect a non-stop action movie!
Just saw the movie earlier today- for those in SE MI, it's at the State Theater in Ann Arbor. Liked it. Loved the car scenes- they sounded glorious. Some of the moving was distracting, but most of it was good. For sure not a romance.
One thing- if you know the history of Ferrari- both the company and the person, you will certainly know the story. My wife asked me if I knew what happens in the Mille Miglia that year, she also told me not to tell her.
The one thing that wasn't clear was 1) what happened to Ferrari (the company) right after the race, since they were not bought by Fiat for another decade and 2) the whole Piero saga after his mother died. For those who don't know, it's really not clear. And I remember that there were some courts involved in the 80's when Enzo passed to really establish who he was.
aircooled said:
They also got some good scenes (test track) of the 801 racing around and handling like the cars did back then (rather slippery). Makes you wish they would make a race series with cars with super skinny bias ply tires, you can really see them being driven. Maybe not include the zero safety features though! (Also well shown in the movie!)
To go on this- everyone is familiar with the views from the front and behind for racing movies- and there were some of those. But the addition of the in car view as well as the distant view showing the drifting was really well done.
I saw it tonight. It'd been better if dad could've been there. He's in the hospital having a rough time.
The movie was good, but not as good as the Shell commercial someone linked. There was too much detail about the mistress, wife, banks, and not enough about the cars IMO. I understand why. You can't separate the man from the people around him, but I'd like to have seen more about the cars.
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