Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Larry T and Sarti...

[LarryT (l02turner]

Hi Dick,
   One of the producers or writers, - one of those kinds of people - said 
they never realized the worldwide emotion that erupted when Sarti was killed 
off.    They saw him as a secondary character and following the reaction it 
evoked they thought perhaps someone else should have died at Monza.

   I'm sure you know more of the details than I, but I suspect his acting 
talents created a character larger than originally expected in the script.

   IIRC GP and LeMans were released within ~5 years of each other and 
naturally they were compared.  IMHO, it seems that GP was more of a drama 
that happened to take place at various race tracks with the male characters 
driving F1 cars while LM was a documentary of the worlds most famous 
endurance race with a little (very little) character development.

   Personally, I enjoyed Lemans more because I have always been a huge fan 
of that era of big Porsches and Ferrari's - and seeing them  rocketing down 
the Mulsanne straight was something I enjoyed immensely.   We never had TV 
coverage of LeMans in the late 60s/early 70s where I lived - even F1 only 
appeared on Wide World of Sports or American Sportsman - on a very sporadic 
schedule.

   But I'm making up for it now - I have both on DVD and one is almost 
always playing somewhere in the house or garage. ;-)  And with surround 
sound I can really enjoy the 917s and 512s passing by!  ;-)

Take care -
Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 91 300D)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick Petrick" <rtpetrick [at] comcast.net>
To: "Larry Turner" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:24 AM
Subject: [Ferrari] Larry T and Sarti...


> For the record, the character played by Ives Montand in "Grand Prix"  was
> Jean PIERRE Sarti..not Jean Paul Sarti..He was the tragic hero..I wrote a
> term paper on the movie in my undergrad days for a class entitled.The Art 
> of
> the Film..
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> Regards
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