'Senna' Did you cry?
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No I didn't cry.
No, I didn't cry, to answer the original question.
It was however, a very strong film. I wasn't around for these years in Formula One, as I was born in the early Ninties. It was great to watch, you find yourself getting more attached to the sport than you may have felt before. Since I didn't have any emotional attachment to Senna, as a driver, I had never witnessed it before, it was very overwhelming. I hadn't expected such quality going in to watch this.
I knew Imola was the race where he lost his life, and the film does so well building up the anticipation and tension, in a good way, I mean that in no disrespect. As it happened I felt empty, very full of sorrow, like there was a void and I didn't know how to act upon this. It was a great piece of history and I very much enjoyed learning it. Backed by a powerful soundtrack, this is one of the best films I have ever watched. I've now seen it about six times, two of which were the extended version.
I would recommend this to anyone, even if they don't have an interest in racing.
To Ayrton Senna & Roland Ratzenberger.
It was however, a very strong film. I wasn't around for these years in Formula One, as I was born in the early Ninties. It was great to watch, you find yourself getting more attached to the sport than you may have felt before. Since I didn't have any emotional attachment to Senna, as a driver, I had never witnessed it before, it was very overwhelming. I hadn't expected such quality going in to watch this.
I knew Imola was the race where he lost his life, and the film does so well building up the anticipation and tension, in a good way, I mean that in no disrespect. As it happened I felt empty, very full of sorrow, like there was a void and I didn't know how to act upon this. It was a great piece of history and I very much enjoyed learning it. Backed by a powerful soundtrack, this is one of the best films I have ever watched. I've now seen it about six times, two of which were the extended version.
I would recommend this to anyone, even if they don't have an interest in racing.
To Ayrton Senna & Roland Ratzenberger.
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I didn't cry but it was quite rough to watch, particularly in the aftermath of the Imola race. Other than that, it was a great film.
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No but came bloody close!! a very touching flim..👍
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Yes, and now every time I see Senna or Imola
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Just finished watching the movie. I felt really emotional, didn't cry, but really brought it all back. Extremely good movie!!
And wow nearly 20 years have passed.
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Secondly I was reading about the movie on the net after watching it and am stumped as to what this is in the lower right corner of the alt movie poster.
As much as I look at it, all I can see it being is someone jogging on a crosstraining treadmill that has 'ski-pole' arms attached. And that the person is wearing an oversized aero-bicycle racing helmet.
That's all I can see it as and that makes no sense on the lower right of the Senna movie poster.
And wow nearly 20 years have passed.
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Secondly I was reading about the movie on the net after watching it and am stumped as to what this is in the lower right corner of the alt movie poster.
As much as I look at it, all I can see it being is someone jogging on a crosstraining treadmill that has 'ski-pole' arms attached. And that the person is wearing an oversized aero-bicycle racing helmet.
That's all I can see it as and that makes no sense on the lower right of the Senna movie poster.
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^^^
Thanks, I guess that answers the image. I never considered it to be a photo of something large. The image artifact / blurring made it all look like the one image.
It's just that that is the only version of that poster you will see on the net. The main poster image is the one where there's a close up of his helmet and you see his eyes. But that image (above) is still all over the net.
It's even the image that Wikipedia has for the movie, with a girl on a scooter in the lower right corner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senna_(film)
That's where I saw it and was confused by it.
Thanks, I guess that answers the image. I never considered it to be a photo of something large. The image artifact / blurring made it all look like the one image.
It's just that that is the only version of that poster you will see on the net. The main poster image is the one where there's a close up of his helmet and you see his eyes. But that image (above) is still all over the net.
It's even the image that Wikipedia has for the movie, with a girl on a scooter in the lower right corner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senna_(film)
That's where I saw it and was confused by it.
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PR1VATEJ0KER
A bit.
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The last 20 minutes were emotional for obvious reasons, but it didn't make me cry.
When they showed Senna's post race interview at Adelaide in 1993 at the very end, where he mentioned how he got more satisfaction from racing Terry Fullerton in karts than anyone else during his career. I thought that was a nice and moving way to end it.
When they showed Senna's post race interview at Adelaide in 1993 at the very end, where he mentioned how he got more satisfaction from racing Terry Fullerton in karts than anyone else during his career. I thought that was a nice and moving way to end it.
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I was always a Prost fan during that F1 time but he had retired and Senna was driving the car the following year so I was watching the race live when Senna crashed. It was a terrible moment in racing history. I didn't cry then but I prayed he would be OK. As you can see my avatar is Senna driving the Williams car that he died in. He was and will always be one of the greatest F1 drivers of all time.
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Great movie.
Really enjoyed everything about it except for Prost. I absolutely can't stand Prost and getting an in-depth look at the rivalry with everything that happened makes me dislike Prost on a whole new level.
That said, my distaste for Prost isn't enough to kill the movie and so I'd definitely recommend this movie to anyone that asked and certainly consider it one of the best movies related to racing, driving, or even sports in general. 👍
Really enjoyed everything about it except for Prost. I absolutely can't stand Prost and getting an in-depth look at the rivalry with everything that happened makes me dislike Prost on a whole new level.
That said, my distaste for Prost isn't enough to kill the movie and so I'd definitely recommend this movie to anyone that asked and certainly consider it one of the best movies related to racing, driving, or even sports in general. 👍
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Yup. I stopped fighting it around the funeral scene and it flashes back to Senna and his Dad after he won the Brazilian GP. That one scene really got to me.
Nerdy side note, in Iron Man 3, after the attack on Stark's house and Pepper holds the helmet up to her face... that scene was inspired by Senna's sister doing the same with his helmet at the funeral.
Nerdy side note, in Iron Man 3, after the attack on Stark's house and Pepper holds the helmet up to her face... that scene was inspired by Senna's sister doing the same with his helmet at the funeral.
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Certainly an emotional film and one of the best documentaries of a race car driver ever, it was done in very good taste using Ayrton's own words to fuel the story, I was hooked from the very start.
It was interesting how the Donnelly crash started to actually give Senna pause, show's his human side compared to the rather dry pilots of F1 of today.
It was interesting how the Donnelly crash started to actually give Senna pause, show's his human side compared to the rather dry pilots of F1 of today.
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Very strong iron-like manly tears were gathering in the corners of my eyes also, for the scene where he finally won Interlagos 91'.
What strikes me tough is how emotional Senna can (still) make people.
I was 11 years old when it happened, and i literally cried for more than a week afterwards (with intervals ofcourse).
A friend of mine (who became a friend many years later), also told me he cried on that may 1st 1994.
All over the world people broke down in tears whilst nobody knew the man personally, just like mentioned here you had the feeling a close family member died. Strange really.
What strikes me tough is how emotional Senna can (still) make people.
I was 11 years old when it happened, and i literally cried for more than a week afterwards (with intervals ofcourse).
A friend of mine (who became a friend many years later), also told me he cried on that may 1st 1994.
All over the world people broke down in tears whilst nobody knew the man personally, just like mentioned here you had the feeling a close family member died. Strange really.
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No. But almost.
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I've read lots of things about Senna's death, so I saw it coming as soon as it said "SAN MARINO GRAND PRIX, 1994".
To answer your question, no. The whole ending happened so suddenly it took a while to process. I mean first you see onboard, then the car in the dirt, and then right into the tire wall. Followed by cuts to the airlift and the funeral and whatnot.
Regardless of that, I like the effect of how that scene was done. Same with Nikki Lauda's Nurburgring accident in Rush, it's so sudden. One second everything's good, flying along at 200 mph as any f1 driver would, then BOOM fiberglass/rubber/electronics/human beings everywhere. Although with Rush it was more "one loose bolt gets half your face burnt off" but same affect.
Tl;dr: The ending wasn't tear jerking, but the affect of it was nicely done.
To answer your question, no. The whole ending happened so suddenly it took a while to process. I mean first you see onboard, then the car in the dirt, and then right into the tire wall. Followed by cuts to the airlift and the funeral and whatnot.
Regardless of that, I like the effect of how that scene was done. Same with Nikki Lauda's Nurburgring accident in Rush, it's so sudden. One second everything's good, flying along at 200 mph as any f1 driver would, then BOOM fiberglass/rubber/electronics/human beings everywhere. Although with Rush it was more "one loose bolt gets half your face burnt off" but same affect.
Tl;dr: The ending wasn't tear jerking, but the affect of it was nicely done.
