'Senna' Did you cry?

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Manly tears were shed.
 
Almost.
Knowing what was going to happen, and just seeing the Imola footage, then hearing all of the back information, like the passage he read, and hearing Sid's account of it choked up alot.
 
I watched it again tonight. Still cried.

Though, it's probably one of the few movies a man can get away with crying while watching. Another would probably be Brian's Song.
 
I shed a couple tears here and there, but the footage of his podium at Interlagos was the most emotive thing I've ever seen caught on film, let alone in racing.
The music as the camera followed the helicopter they put him, also deals a pretty good blow.
 
I do have to agree with DustDriver, it was a bit slow to get started with, but once it hits into the '85 era and onwards, it starts to gather more steam.

I did wonder exactly how the hell they got all that footage for the film, the grid walks and so on, it was pretty insane the quality of them considering the time they were from (pre HD days).

I'm an emotional fellow, so yeah, the aftermath of the 94 race was pretty emotional.

Although I was actually curious at how Ratzenberger actually crashed in the first place as I never actually saw that or seen clips of it. In my opinion, his accident was more shocking in terms of the impact as it was a high speed accident and the damage seemed to be just that bit worse than the Williams car of Senna's.

That film also showed Jean-Marie Balstere (the FISA president) as a power hungry freak. Jesus, how did he not get kicked out in the first place when he was throwing his weight around in the first place to the drivers?! He seemed to have a low opinion of the drivers as well, which I thought was pretty odd and strange.
 
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I do have to agree with DustDriver, it was a bit slow to get started with, but once it hits into the '85 era and onwards, it starts to gather more steam.

I did wonder exactly how the hell they got all that footage for the film, the grid walks and so on, it was pretty insane the quality of them considering the time they were from (pre HD days).

I'm an emotional fellow, so yeah, the aftermath of the 94 race was pretty emotional.

Although I was actually curious at how Ratzenberger actually crashed in the first place as I never actually saw that or seen clips of it. In my opinion, his accident was more shocking in terms of the impact as it was a high speed accident and the damage seemed to be just that bit worse than the Williams car of Senna's.

That film also showed Jean-Marie Balstere (the FISA president) as a power hungry freak. Jesus, how did he not get kicked out in the first place when he was throwing his weight around in the first place to the drivers?! He seemed to have a low opinion of the drivers as well, which I thought was pretty odd and strange.
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They had access to bernie's library of video's, of which no one has been able to do before, hence the amount of never seen before footage.


To make the film more dramatic I think Balestre was exajurated slightly, however he was far from an angel in real life.

This film didn't make me full on cry, as it came up to his death I got a lump in the back of my throat and butterflies in my stomach, what makes it so bad is that you know what is going to happen.
 
I should've watched this ages ago, I have followed F1 for about 8 years now, and until now I didnt have a feel for the connection to the past between modern day technology and 60's 70's era cars - until now. What a brilliant film that helped me bridge my important historical racing knowledge. Even if you arent old enough to have been around during those times but you like Formula One enough to be interested in its roots, I will recommend this to you. Such passion, such personality! We need our generations Senna to bring Formula One back into the fold.
 
I did, I was watching it with my dad, he's also a big racing fan and he looked very sad, he is a great senna fan, I didn't lived the day when Senna passed away, I only remember the Italy Grand Prix of 2000 (I was only 4 years old!), when Schumacher reached Senna's record, I asked him "Who is Ayrton Senna and why is Schumacher crying?" My dad started to cry :(
 
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A manly tear was shed, I don't really know much about senna, but the way the doc was put together n everything was bloody marvellous, a really great film
 
I did shed a tear or two, but of course being a manly man, my tears are pure acid...:sly:
 
Joey D
No, I didn't cry nor did I really even get emotional over it. It was a decent documentary and I have no doubt that Senna was an amazingly talented driver, but I just don't like him at all. I didn't like the way he raced and the documentary really confirmed my belief of that he was an overly aggressive and did not really seem to give other drivers regards at all, you know like punching Eddie Irvine in the face for gaining his lap back. He would do whatever he could to get the win, and wouldn't think twice about knocking other cars out of the race. Senna also seemed to lack any sort of personality. I just can't get behind a driver like that, he possessed no charm.
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See, what I find fascinating about Senna is that he isn't as one-dimensional as you suggest. Its easy to only see the aggressive and ruthless driver on the track, who tended to throw a tantrum more often than not when things didn't go his way.
But then you have this (needs subtitles switched on if you don't speak French):


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This is why he is held to a different status to Prost or Schumacher. There are things he did that are the complete opposite of what you would expect.

This film played on it a bit, but didn't really go very far with it. Senna's story is a duality of personality - ruthless on track but caring for his fellow man.

Thats not to say Prost or Schumacher weren't also ruthless and also cared for their fellow man. Its just they didn't have the displays like Senna did, they didn't quite wear their emotion on their sleeve like Senna did.
 
Gut check definitely but we had already lost another driver there that weekend - I think it was a German named Rowland Ratzenberg? It just ain't in me to get misty so I try to remember to say a prayer for those pilots who are out there doing what they love to do at race start. A terrible weekend for sure and I had read and heard a lot about the Italian law that put Sir Frank Williams in some very serious legal trouble. It seemed that weekend had lasted a month.
 
Joey D
I didn't like the way he raced and the documentary really confirmed my belief of that he was an overly aggressive and did not really seem to give other drivers regards at all, you know like punching Eddie Irvine in the face for gaining his lap back. He would do whatever he could to get the win, and wouldn't think twice about knocking other cars out of the race.
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No flame intended Joey. That was a time when fist fighting and aggressiveness was accepted by the commercial public. I read somewhere that Ayrton was so fast during a practice session (2 secs quicker than teammate Alan) that he had pitted, not to return to the track for the rest of the day realizing how dangerous it was. The FIA's response to Schumacher's intentional crash into Jacques Villeneuve to protect his points lead marked an end (for me at least) of that aggressive culture. As far as Schumacher's 7 world titles, how many of them were with exclusive Bridgestone R&D? But that's another thread.
 
I didn't cry but i was very emotional after it, made me thinking about lots of things in life for about a week, i might cry if i watch it again.. Never ever before a documentary touched me so much then "Senna"
 
I watched it recently. I thought it was a very, very good documentary. I'm not a F1 fan but I do respect the fact that those drivers are some of the best in the world. Watching on board footage of Schumacher at Monaco is mind bending to me to say the least. I've only cried once as an adult and it wasn't for this movie. It was absolutely an eerie feeling watching someone's final moments. Very well done in putting the clips together. My favorite part was when Senna was arguing about removing the barriers at Monza because it wasn't safe and sure enough they showed a driver who overshot the turn and would have hit the barriers head on if Senna hadn't pushed for them to be removed. Great film. I should watch it again.
 
I didn't, as I already knew what happened. However, I took my mum with me to see it for some reason.

She cried.

A lot.
 
I first saw it last year on ESPN, and the scene that showed his fatal crash almost brought me to tears. It was so emotional. I got the movie as a present last Christmas, and I will say that it is a must-have movie for any racing fan.
 
The movie was so awesome. It almost brought me to tears. I'll tell you what racing documentary made me cry. The Jim Clark one was sad.
 

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