Ferrari Mailing List: Movie: Ferrari (unofficial critic)

[Michel Savard (mysavard]

> 
> I went to the cinema for the first time in over 10 years today to see the 
> movie FERRARI.
> 
> Well, it started terribly. I checked the price list and saw $16.75. OYE! All 
> right, no choice, I’m there anyway. Then the very young girl asked $8.00 
> only. Mmmm! I looked up the price list again and saw ÂGE-D’OR (that’s senior 
> for you guys) $8.00. Without asking me for anything she figured I was over 65 
> right away. Never happened before. THAT HURT ! Stop laughing.
> 
> Then, the lights went out at 12h40 p.m. (12 people) and we got 30 minutes of 
> commercials and previews. Absolutely painful, unacceptable, agonizing. I kept 
> looking at my watch. That reminded me why I stopped going to the movies 10 
> years ago. Scoop: The next big movies are all about the end of the world as 
> we know it. Hollywood couldn’t find anything else to talk about. There is 
> even one where Texas and California are at war against the rest of the u.s.a.
> 
> As for the movie itself, I was disappointed as to how Michael Mann (director) 
> thought that making the movie about Enzo, his wife, his mistress and 
> illegitimate son (Piero) for 2/3 of the 2 hours would make it exciting. That 
> should have been a 5-minute scene and then let’s talk about racing cars, 
> drivers, mechanics, engineers, etc. Isn’t it what Ferrari was all about ? Not 
> the soap opera of his personal life.
> 
> The movie finishes with a big tragic bang: 1957 Mille Miglia. Great to 
> finally see big red racing testarossas on the big screen. Reading the 
> credits, I learned the movie was based on Brock Yates’ 1991 book. I still 
> have this book and I remember that Yates was not too kind on Ferrari. He 
> didn’t give much credit to his winning and sort of said Ferrari had not much 
> competition back then since the other manufacturers were slowly falling apart.
> 
> I reread chapter 14 of Yates’ book. Mann pretty much stuck with what Yates 
> wrote in that chapter about the 1957 Mille Miglia.
> 
> Happy New Year to all!
> 
> Michael Savard (1981 308 GTSi)