In this episode of the Five Minutes Quick Reading Movie series, we are led by the racing biopic Ford v Ferrari, which just won the best editing and best sound editing awards at the 92nd Academy Awards. The film was released in 2019 and grossed $220 million worldwide. The score of the Douban movie also reached a high score of 8.5, and the score of "Speed Wind" in that year was 8.8.
The subject matter is based on a large number of real events, of course, some rendering techniques have been added, such as aggravating the contradictions between the characters and the "fake" plot according to the needs of the plot. The film is not about how Ford and Ferrari are as stark as the title suggests, but about Carol Schell and driver Ken Miles, at the behest of Henry Ford II, to build a brand new car and hope to beat the long-dominant Ferrari at the 1966 Le Mans World Championship.
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At the beginning of the film, it is set in the 1959 24 Hours of Le Mans. At this point Shelby was driving an Aston Martin DBR1 car in the final hour of the race. The camera gives a close-up of the oil gauge, and the camera foreshadows that he will refuel at the pit stop.
The 24-hour endurance race is a huge test for all the people and machines involved in the race, and even if there is a shift, it is difficult for you to rest by that roaring arena. When refueling at the station, the oil spilled on the outside of the car body due to an operation error, resulting in a fire. Fortunately, a false alarm extinguished the fire on Shelby's body and car.
In the race against the clock, there was a major mistake. When Shelby asked where he was now, the team returned to lead two laps. Here's a direct teller of what a cow X driver Shelby is.
At the end of the game, Shelby was left in total darkness. The camera returns to the clinic, where she confesses that Shelby has a heart attack. In 1959, when he was 37 years old, doctors had told him that his life was in danger if his heart beat exceeded 130.
It's true that Shelby was diagnosed with heart valve disease at the age of 7, had a heart transplant in 1990 at the age of 67, and a kidney transplant six years later. And fully adapted to the organ, when in 2012, the 89-year-old Shelby grandfather died.
Out of the private clinic, Shelby knocked on the medicine. If this is at the end of the film, it should be a lighthearted and cheerful soundtrack, with Shelby driving slowly and smoothly away. But this is at the beginning of the film, bumping the medicine is naturally to play more hi, and then he is indeed more hilarious.
As soon as the picture turns, another protagonist appears: Ken Miles. The main story of this plot is that a repair shop master, Ken Myers, offends an American driving an MG sports car. Of course, the reason for the offense was that the American brother was too gentle to drive a sports car, and Ken Myers only said a few big truths, and was sprayed by the American brother, and twisted and twisted the tail of the car.
By the way, the character on the far right at this time is Lee Iacocca, a legend in the automotive world and the father of the Mustang. He joined Ford as a salesman at the age of 22, became a regional sales manager at the age of 25, became vice president and general manager of Ford at the age of 36, and rose to president at the age of 46. He set an unprecedented record for car sales, and the company made billions of dollars in profits, making him a big man in the automotive world. He was sacked by Henry Ford II at the age of 54 and joined chrysler, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, as president in the same year.
In the 1960s, he personally went out to develop a new car designed for young people day and night, and named it "Mustang", with sales of 419,000 units in the first year, setting a record for the highest automobile manufacturing industry in the United States. In the first two years, the new "Mustang" model generated a net profit of $1.1 billion for the company, and he became the famous "father of the Mustang".
Ford II appears, although called II, but is actually the eldest grandson of Mr. Ford. Ford II died of his father's illness and began taking over for Ford at the age of 28. In a factory speech, Ford II said that "whoever has the creativity will have a job", which still seems to be true.
By this time Ken Miles had been noticed by the Porsche team owner, and Shelby did not hesitate to introduce Ken's results. Ken drove the Cobra 260 for the 1960 Willow Springs 100.
Willow Springs International Motorsports Park (located in California, U.S.), but if you have played Need for Speed 13, you must have "touched" the track, it is located in the desert, the track surface is very rough and the edge of the track buffer area is also very small.
After 40 laps, Ken Myers completed the overtaking before the finish line and narrowly won the championship.
And Shelby on the sidelines, as the boss after retiring from the race and selling the car, is also being challenged by the psychological defense line. Some people tried to use the "fear of the game" to make Cher return to the field.
Lee Iacocca advised Ford II to shift its focus to international competitions rather than limiting itself to the local NASCAR and suggested acquiring Ferrari. At this time, Ferrari did face a bankruptcy crisis. From the expression of Ford II, we can see that the details are a change in the acquisition of Ferrari.
Lee Iacocca represented Ford in talks with Ferrari about the acquisition plan, in which production was focused on Ford and the race was focused on Ferrari.
In the end, of course, the biggest contradiction in the film arises, Ferrari asks Lee Iacocca to go back to his pig-headed boss and tell him that ii is only two. The SECOND ordered Lee Iacocca to build a Cow X engine and a Cow X driver at any cost.
At this point, the biggest contradiction in the film has been generated, and Lee Ikoka comes to Shelby's company to express Ford's wishes.
Shelby went to the repair shop to find Ken Miles, and here's a plot that I skipped directly, which is simply that Ken Miles' wife wants him not to race again, and to open the repair shop steadily, and it is ten thousand times better to make less than to lose his life.
Shelby told Ken Miles about Ford's plan, and Ken Miles found it difficult to complete within 90. Before leaving, he accepted Shelby's invitation to attend the launch of the first generation of Mustang.
Ken Miles arrived at the scene with his son, but was warned by Leo Bibibi, then executive vice president, not to let your son touch the paint. Ken Miles naturally does not give a good face, and directly sneers. At this time, the contradiction between the characters was buried.
Lee Iacocca also told Shelby about the meaning of "obedience" from the side, signaling him and Ken to compromise.
Of course, this did not affect Shelby to take Ken to see the GT40, and Ken also directly raised the current GT40 problems.
Ford's team wanted to monitor the vehicle's data through bulky test instruments, but Dad's gesture was simple to say, "Shut up." Instead, it uses the method of attaching yarn to the body of the car to analyze the turbulence through the telescope.
Ken proposed that the engine should be further reduced. At this time we also saw the familiar name, BEAST. To this day, Ford still uses this name, like the "EcoBeast" 2.3T that we are familiar with now.
Bibby, on the other hand, came to inform Shelby that Ken's personal image did not match the Ford brand and demanded that it must be replaced.
Shelby was force majeure and allowed Ken to stay at home, while Ken continued to tune the vehicle in the workshop while listening to the broadcast of the game on the radio.
After the game, Shelby's meeting with Ford II made Shelby very unhappy, directly exposing the redundant process of submitting documents layer by layer. He also persuaded Ford II to continue to get Ken back.
When Shelby went to see Ken again, the two fought each other, and Ken's wife made a bench as a melon eater.
When Ken takes his son to feel the track, this warm picture, this restless racing car and this sunset track are the childhood that many people yearn for.
Ford II suddenly came to the testing site, felt the newly tuned GT40, and cried, feeling that his father had not felt all this. And bet with Shelby that he would either win the Daytona championship and then play at Le Mans, or if he didn't get Shelby, he would give the company full control to Ford.
At the Daytona race, Ken showed off his super-high driving skills, but was controlled by Bibby's "can't exceed 6000 rpm".
Shelby signaled Ken to step over 7000 rpm near the end of the game, breaking the "taboo" and allowing Ken to overtake his opponent and win the championship.
The Le Mans competition began, and the situation was frequent. First Ken's car couldn't close because the crash door, and then The Ferrari's car crashed. At this time, Ford II left the arena to enjoy a high-class dinner.
Entering the night stage, heavy rain poured in, but it did not affect Ken's courage. When Ken overtook from the inside, the opponent collided maliciously, but was still played by Ken.
In stark contrast to Ford II, the Ferrari grand master has been keeping a close eye on the team's every move.
At this time, in order to retaliate against Ken's personal grudge for many years, Bibby told Ford II that such achievements are not planned now, and if three GT40s are crossed at the same time, they will be more successful. Shelby reluctantly told Ken Ford about the decision of the leadership, and Ken's response was that when it was his turn again, he did the fastest lap and broke the record.
Although Ken was more than 4 minutes ahead of the second-place GT40, which was driven by McLaren, Ken eventually chose to obey the order.
However, because McLaren started farther from the heavy finish line, the big game decided that McLaren won. And all of this is actually designed by Bibi.
After the race, Ken was killed in the process of testing the GT40 car, and the reason was also a brake failure.
In fact, most of this kind of competitive sports theme is in the end of the protagonist through various efforts to achieve life dreams. However, the film is even more impressive with the opposite plot description. If Shelby had made it to Ferrari, if Ford II cared about racing and results like Enzo Ferrari, if Ken and Shelby's boss was Enzo Ferrari, would the ending have been different?