The Ford v. Ferrari Movie Will Be Hollywood's Take on the Epic RivalryMovies
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The story is worthy of a movie but what would make it better is if there is a Ferrari perspective with their own set of non-fiction characters. The trailer has that side absent. It's all a one-sided affair and since it is known that Ford wins the Le Mans race, it just makes the film an 'America wins' trope.
Then again considering the history of Ferrari's salty affairs, they would very likely embargo their non-fictional character appearances in the film.
Then again considering the history of Ferrari's salty affairs, they would very likely embargo their non-fictional character appearances in the film.
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Not to mention how they’re making Ford seem like the underdogs. They have a considerably larger amount of resources and funds at their disposal. Ford literally threw money at the problem to win Ferrari, whereas the Italians fought more with less and defeated Ford in every other front of endurance racing. The GT40 was successful at Le Mans, but Ferrari did much better overall.
But I didn’t expect an underdog story here, but somehow they managed to make the biggest car manufacturer in the world seem like the little GT that could. Another U.S. propaganda film, it seems. Still, glad to see this story get told on the big screen, despite the obvious bias.
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It's all about ticket sales. At least it's not another "blow everything up" superhero or Transformers movie.
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Death race meets Le Mans!
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I'm sure I'll love it simply because it's a movie about an important and exciting time in racing, but as said it does look very one-sided and "U-S-A! U-S-A!" - something the book definitely wasn't. It does look over the top, too. That part at the end with Ford crying for comedic effect was played-out dumb, and the crashes were a bit much (maybe once in context they'll feel better?). To be brutally honest, if there's one thing I hope this film does really well, it would be to get American kids excited about cars and take this country's love back away from idiotic crossovers. God am I sick of seeing traffic crowded with trucks bearing only one occupant... have these people no soul?
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I don't see this as an underdog story at all. I see it for the revenge story that it is. Ferrari screwed over Ford so Ford Motor Company decided to show Ferrari what happens when you play games with a Giant by beating them badly at the only race that mattered and would embarrass them on the biggest of world stages.
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Ford may have had more money, but up until that point they never seriously invested any of it into motorsports. This was them saying "We're gonna beat you on your own turf" and actually doing it. The story is a true underdog story in that sense. Ferrari is motorsport.
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Pfft.. euro-elitism in cineamraraa permeates cinema now!!!!!!111z!
Murica!!!!!!
Murica!!!!!!
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This will either be very good, or very bad. 
The great thing about Rush is that the true story was already amazing, so they didn't have to embellish it that much. From the trailer, this movie seems to embellish the story a little, but I'll reserve judgement for later.
The great thing about Rush is that the true story was already amazing, so they didn't have to embellish it that much. From the trailer, this movie seems to embellish the story a little, but I'll reserve judgement for later.
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Le Mans Directed by Michael Bay.
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A whole bunch of sweet cars in the trailer even if some may be replicas.
Cobra 260's and 427's. Ferrari 330 P4. Ford GT40 Prototypes, MK I's, and MK II's
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Actually, I was getting really excited and hyped for the movie, that is, until I saw those crazy crashes. My excitement dropped a bit.
But it was after seeing that guy getting scared and crying at the end of the trailer (because of the g-forces of the car or whatever...) that, well, that kinda completely ruined my expectations...
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The 1955 Le Mans crash happened opposite the pits, as some cars tangled, not after the Dunlop curve.That wouldn't have been the first time cars have gone airborne at the Dunlop curve. Take the unfortunate 1955 Le Mans disaster for example.
A Ferrari 250 is nothing like a Mercedes CLR.
What did the 250 hit to get it to do that?
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By the time Ford's initial attempt to spend millions of dollars invest in Le Mans specifically (by just buying Ferrari) had failed, Ford had already been working with Lotus at Indianapolis (which was one of the big reasons the Ferrari sale fell through), had been directly supporting NASCAR and NHRA efforts for at least a half a decade, and were partners Shelby's racing efforts with the Cobra.
And then Ford threw basically unlimited money at the Le Mans program with the specific goal of destroying Enzo out of spite, while at the same time helping Shelby with the Daytona. They certainly hadn't been banging rocks together; since the drivetrains they put in the early GT40 for Lola to use had to have come from somewhere.
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Sure but even still Ferrari has been doing motor sport since the 30s. Ford was still the relative new guy in sports car racing
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*gasp* A movie about the Ford vs Ferrari at LeMans?
Oh hohoho, I'm now excited! God how I hope it's good as Rush.
Oh hohoho, I'm now excited! God how I hope it's good as Rush.
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Henry Ford literally founded Ford (well, the Henry Ford Company, which fell over and sort-of became Ford Motor Company the following year) on the winnings of a motor race...
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