Fan of the F1 movie, Grand Prix?...new movie coming
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Fan of the F1 movie, Grand Prix?...new movie coming
Didn't know if you guys have seen this yet or not.
Could rank up there with Grand Prix and Senna as one of the best car movies, if he does it right.
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/01/17/r...lming-at-ring/
Could rank up there with Grand Prix and Senna as one of the best car movies, if he does it right.
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/01/17/r...lming-at-ring/
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Hopefully think it will be good. Codeblack bought Senna and it arrived in Italian and for EU VCR I told him to fly to Italy and get a translator!
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Well, I am hoping they keep dialogue to a minimum.
The sport/feel/experience is visceral & truly awesome (as in LeMans) until you start screwing it up with words.
The sport/feel/experience is visceral & truly awesome (as in LeMans) until you start screwing it up with words.
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There will be some real challenges to making this a compelling movie for racing fans in general and especially for those of us who lived that era. Steve McQueen had the actual Le Man race and the actual Porsche 917s and Ferrari 512s to work with. It was all filmed with the same cameras at the same time so it blended well in the editing booth. Opie can't be crashing 1976 F1 cars (not least Ferrari 312Ts and Tyrell P34 6-wheelers!) So, how does he blend that footage in and make it look current?
Then there's the problem that racing fans are like little kids and don't want to see all that icky kissing and "cootie stuff." The very thing that real racing fans love about "Le Mans" is that all the non-racing stuff is forgettable (I saw Le Mans "first day, first showing.")
"Grand Prix" is fun to watch for all the racing footage but again, it was current stuff (insane - watch the footage of Spa's old long course with phone poles and hay bales in the rain!) so it blended into the film fairly well. We won't discuss the F3 cars "rebodied" as F1 cars issue
From all I've been reading Mr. Howard has been doing his research well. We'll see. Good racing movies are very few and very far between. If Opie's in doubt he should release the movie while insisting that it be shown as a doube feature with Stallone's "Driven" as the second feature for comparison purposes.
By the way, the (non-formula) camera car for "Grand Prix" was a Ford GT40 driven by Phil Hill.
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Then there's the problem that racing fans are like little kids and don't want to see all that icky kissing and "cootie stuff." The very thing that real racing fans love about "Le Mans" is that all the non-racing stuff is forgettable (I saw Le Mans "first day, first showing.")
"Grand Prix" is fun to watch for all the racing footage but again, it was current stuff (insane - watch the footage of Spa's old long course with phone poles and hay bales in the rain!) so it blended into the film fairly well. We won't discuss the F3 cars "rebodied" as F1 cars issue
From all I've been reading Mr. Howard has been doing his research well. We'll see. Good racing movies are very few and very far between. If Opie's in doubt he should release the movie while insisting that it be shown as a doube feature with Stallone's "Driven" as the second feature for comparison purposes.
By the way, the (non-formula) camera car for "Grand Prix" was a Ford GT40 driven by Phil Hill.
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There will be some real challenges to making this a compelling movie for racing fans in general and especially for those of us who lived that era. Steve McQueen had the actual Le Man race and the actual Porsche 917s and Ferrari 512s to work with. It was all filmed with the same cameras at the same time so it blended well in the editing booth. Opie can't be crashing 1976 F1 cars (not least Ferrari 312Ts and Tyrell P34 6-wheelers!) So, how does he blend that footage in and make it look current?
Then there's the problem that racing fans are like little kids and don't want to see all that icky kissing and "cootie stuff." The very thing that real racing fans love about "Le Mans" is that all the non-racing stuff is forgettable (I saw Le Mans "first day, first showing.")
"Grand Prix" is fun to watch for all the racing footage but again, it was current stuff (insane - watch the footage of Spa's old long course with phone poles and hay bales in the rain!) so it blended into the film fairly well. We won't discuss the F3 cars "rebodied" as F1 cars issue
From all I've been reading Mr. Howard has been doing his research well. We'll see. Good racing movies are very few and very far between. If Opie's in doubt he should release the movie while insisting that it be shown as a doube feature with Stallone's "Driven" as the second feature for comparison purposes.
By the way, the (non-formula) camera car for "Grand Prix" was a Ford GT40 driven by Phil Hill.
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Then there's the problem that racing fans are like little kids and don't want to see all that icky kissing and "cootie stuff." The very thing that real racing fans love about "Le Mans" is that all the non-racing stuff is forgettable (I saw Le Mans "first day, first showing.")
"Grand Prix" is fun to watch for all the racing footage but again, it was current stuff (insane - watch the footage of Spa's old long course with phone poles and hay bales in the rain!) so it blended into the film fairly well. We won't discuss the F3 cars "rebodied" as F1 cars issue
From all I've been reading Mr. Howard has been doing his research well. We'll see. Good racing movies are very few and very far between. If Opie's in doubt he should release the movie while insisting that it be shown as a doube feature with Stallone's "Driven" as the second feature for comparison purposes.
By the way, the (non-formula) camera car for "Grand Prix" was a Ford GT40 driven by Phil Hill.
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There was a lot of things going on for Grand Prix, while not every car was 100% an F1 car, it is probably some of the best footage and access into that life during the 1960's especially with Enzo giving him full access to Ferrari during the time.
Grand Prix and LeMans are going to be very hard to beat.....Senna, well that is in a league all of it's own. Even my wife who doesn't really like racing was in tears during that one.
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it is probably some of the best footage and access into that life during the 1960's especially with Enzo giving him full access to Ferrari during the time.
Grand Prix and LeMans are going to be very hard to beat.....Senna, well that is in a league all of it's own. Even my wife who doesn't really like racing was in tears during that one.
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ps. I actually saw Grand Prix in first run release in the theater - at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. Took my girlfriend on a date
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I had heard that they showed that movie in a 'wider' screen that was almost a panoramic screen....would love to see it re-shown on the big screen.
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This is wider than your standard HD format of 1.78:1 but most films these days are shot in 2.35:1 and some are even wider.
Ben Hur was shot using 70mm film giving it an aspect ratio of 2.76:1 which, I believe, is at the upper extreme for Hollywood movies.
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"2001 A Space Oddysey" was also originally a Cinerama film. (I also so that in theatrical release - several times, in fact -ahem ). That was shown at the original Hollywood Cinerama theater on Hollywood Blvd.
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Yes. The film format was "Cinerama." It was a wide screen system that required a special size screen (kind of like our 16:9 TVs of today) and used three projectors - each to cover 1/3 of the screen. Very high-tech for the time (1966.) Remember, this was before the digital age so all the projectors had to be *mechanically* synchronized. The theater I mentioned was one specially designed and built to display that format movie.
"2001 A Space Oddysey" was also originally a Cinerama film. (I also so that in theatrical release - several times, in fact -ahem ). That was shown at the original Hollywood Cinerama theater on Hollywood Blvd.
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"2001 A Space Oddysey" was also originally a Cinerama film. (I also so that in theatrical release - several times, in fact -ahem ). That was shown at the original Hollywood Cinerama theater on Hollywood Blvd.
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Cinemascope screens (your "other" option when purchasing a screen for your home theater) have a ratio of 2.35:1 which is what the majority of Hollywood movies today are filmed in.
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The original Cinerama film format never caught on (for what seem to be obvious reasons - cost, cost, and cost.) So "Grand Prix" (and "2001") were shot in one of the three forms of 70mm available at the time and then displayed in the true Cinerama theaters (wrap-around screens) using a "rectified" print. Single projector display, though, not the original Cinerama thing (1952.)
My grandmother was a real movie freak and whenever she'd visit us in So Cal (she was from Illinois) she'd always take me with her to see movies. One of those movies was the original "This Is Cinerama" with the famous roller coaster scene. I still remember it vividly.
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Correct. I was mixing my eras there.
The original Cinerama film format never caught on (for what seem to be obvious reasons - cost, cost, and cost.) So "Grand Prix" (and "2001") were shot in one of the three forms of 70mm available at the time and then displayed in the true Cinerama theaters (wrap-around screens) using a "rectified" print. Single projector display, though, not the original Cinerama thing (1952.)
My grandmother was a real movie freak and whenever she'd visit us in So Cal (she was from Illinois) she'd always take me with her to see movies. One of those movies was the original "This Is Cinerama" with the famous roller coaster scene. I still remember it vividly.
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The original Cinerama film format never caught on (for what seem to be obvious reasons - cost, cost, and cost.) So "Grand Prix" (and "2001") were shot in one of the three forms of 70mm available at the time and then displayed in the true Cinerama theaters (wrap-around screens) using a "rectified" print. Single projector display, though, not the original Cinerama thing (1952.)
My grandmother was a real movie freak and whenever she'd visit us in So Cal (she was from Illinois) she'd always take me with her to see movies. One of those movies was the original "This Is Cinerama" with the famous roller coaster scene. I still remember it vividly.
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But the man hole cover thing was cool and accurate. When I worked the Houston Gran Prix back in 2000 before it went around Reliant, we spent the first hour of the weekend inspecting all of the man hole covers for hold-down bolts.
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But the man hole cover thing was cool and accurate. When I worked the Houston Gran Prix back in 2000 before it went around Reliant, we spent the first hour of the weekend inspecting all of the man hole covers for hold-down bolts.
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Correct. I was mixing my eras there.
The original Cinerama film format never caught on (for what seem to be obvious reasons - cost, cost, and cost.) So "Grand Prix" (and "2001") were shot in one of the three forms of 70mm available at the time and then displayed in the true Cinerama theaters (wrap-around screens) using a "rectified" print. Single projector display, though, not the original Cinerama thing (1952.)
My grandmother was a real movie freak and whenever she'd visit us in So Cal (she was from Illinois) she'd always take me with her to see movies. One of those movies was the original "This Is Cinerama" with the famous roller coaster scene. I still remember it vividly.
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The original Cinerama film format never caught on (for what seem to be obvious reasons - cost, cost, and cost.) So "Grand Prix" (and "2001") were shot in one of the three forms of 70mm available at the time and then displayed in the true Cinerama theaters (wrap-around screens) using a "rectified" print. Single projector display, though, not the original Cinerama thing (1952.)
My grandmother was a real movie freak and whenever she'd visit us in So Cal (she was from Illinois) she'd always take me with her to see movies. One of those movies was the original "This Is Cinerama" with the famous roller coaster scene. I still remember it vividly.
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