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

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In a recent interview Garner said he got the part after McQueen, the  
original choice, had a disagreement with the film-makers and went on  
to make Le Mans...

The making was a race itself, as John Sturges and Steve McQueen  
planned to make a similar movie titled Day of the Champion[2]. Due to  
their contract with the German NÃrburgring, Frankenheimer had to turn  
over 27 reels shot there to Sturges. Frankenheimer was ahead in  
schedule anyway, and the McQueen/Sturges project was called off,  
while the German race track was only mentioned briefly in Grand Prix.
The F1 cars in the movie are mostly mocked-up Formula 3 cars made to  
look like contemporary F1 models, although the film also used footage  
from actual F1 races. Some of this was captured by Phil Hill, the  
1961 World Champion, who drove modified camera cars in some sessions  
during the 1966 Monaco and Belgian Grands Prix. This was some of the  
earliest experimentation with in-car cameras for Formula 1.
The level of driving ability of the stars varied wildly - Bedford  
couldn't drive at all, Sabato was very slow and nervous, Montand  
himself scared very easily early in filming and was often towed  
rather than driving the car, but Garner was highly competent and took  
up racing and entering cars as a result of his involvement in the film.
On Jun 25, 2008, at 11:01 AM, LarryT wrote:

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..

Regards

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Re: Larry T and Sarti...	<– Date –> <– Thread –>
From: ken rentiers (rentiersmac.com)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:02:57 -0700 (PDT)