Last year, League of Legends, Intercontinental Finals.
The original Hero RW turned the tide at the last minute, struggling to defeat KZ, the strongest team in the LCK division at the time, to win the final for the LPL division.
Turn the tide of the tide in the fall, help the building will fall.
It was also in this game that I was impressed by a line from the hero Fury Knight Cle:
I found that courage is not reliable at all, only complete madness makes sense.
Seven months later, when I resonated strongly with this line again, it was because of this movie —
"Speedy Wind Flow"
Nikki Lauda: Born into an Austrian family, he was supposed to be a shrewd businessman, a successful politician, and an entrepreneur who was active in financial reporting.
James Hunter: An Englishman from a very privileged family, his father pinned his hopes on him to become a doctor. He was a wandering skeleton, smoking, drinking, taking drugs, and claimed to have had fun with 5,000 women.
It looks like it's like a black-bellied president and playboy story.
But the place where these two legends met was the track, and the tit-for-tat moment was in one F1 race after another.
F1, the most exciting and dangerous sport in the world, F1 racing, is the pearl at the top of the automotive industry.
The director of "Fast And Furious" is not familiar to domestic audiences, but in fact he is the director who knows the rules of commercial film in Hollywood the most, and the best contemporary director who combines commercial film with biopic.
Ron Howard's works include "A Beautiful Mind", "The Iron Fist Man", "Dialogue with Nixon" and so on. These biographical films are both high-quality commercial films and highly popular genre films, and for "A Beautiful Mind", he won two awards at the 74th Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director.
Howard was adept at using the rules of commercial films, often packaging biographies in an entertaining way and presenting them to the audience.
Looking at all of Ron Howard's works, there are both high-quality commercial genre films such as "A Beautiful Mind" and unpopular works such as "Warm Family". The reason is because Howard is too familiar with the set of rules of commercial films, and many works are suspected of being "procedural" and "pleasing to the audience", and lack their own characteristics and styles.
This is also why Ron Howard, who is also an excellent Hollywood commercial film director, is far less famous than Spielberg and Wen Ziren.
But there's no doubt that in the combination of biographical and commercial films, Howard represents the highest standards in Hollywood.
And this "Fast Wind" is also a biopic.
The film shows the story between legendary F1 racers Nikki Lauda and James Hunt, a pair of fateful rivals, and the film focuses the duel between the two on the F1 World Championship in 1976, which was also the most competitive year for Lauda and Hunter.
The 1970s was the golden age of F1, when F1 cars were still using V12 engines, and then the FIA (International Automobile Federation) repeatedly changed the rules, and F1 cars gradually changed from V12 to V10, V8 and now V6.
So to this day, there are still many records in F1 that are stuck in 2004, because before that, every car, every driver, pursued the limits of speed. But since F1 was changed to V6 engines, those cars have no longer looked like a low-roaring beast.
In F1 1976, the V12 engine erupted into a thunderous roar, and the racers won the race with their own abilities and personal skills, and the smell of gasoline and hormones spread across the track and the audience. Lauda and Hunter are the focus of everyone and their only nemesis.
It was the best of times, but it was also the worst of times.
At that time, two or three F1 drivers would die every season, leaving with the speeding car in full view of the public, according to Lauda in the movie:
Every race means I have a 20% chance of not coming back.
The tenth leg of the World Championship that year was at the Nürburgring circuit in Germany. The danger of the track after the heavy rain was greatly increased, but in order to win, the drivers replaced the safer rain tires. It was for this reason that Lauda lost control of the car in a corner, and the car exploded after hitting other cars, igniting a raging fire.
Lauda spent a full minute in the fire at more than 800 degrees Celsius before being rescued, with severely burned skin and inhaled large amounts of poisonous gas and soot into her lungs. Lauda, who was already far ahead, is about to lose the championship.
What everyone did not expect was that after missing two races, that is, the sixth week after Lauda received treatment, he appeared on the field again, facing the criticism of his disfigurement and the huge pain caused by injuries, and rushed out of the finish line in fourth place.
It was also in that game that Hunter withdrew because of racing problems.
In the film, the director focuses on laura's treatment after her injury: a long tube is used to reach into the lungs through the esophagus and clean up the bruises and foreign bodies little by little.
The torture of the surgical scene and the stimulation on the playing field formed a stark contrast and also caused me great discomfort, and until now, when I think of that picture, my throat is still a bout of nausea.
Unlike other Hollywood industrial films, "Fast And Furious" has a budget of only $28 million, which is a small deal compared to the $160 million investment of "Fast and Furious 6", which was also released in 2013.
Fortunately, director Howard polished the script of the film very well – this is also Howard's consistent style. Instead of focusing the camera on the intense race, he cleverly incorporated the beliefs of two legendary drivers, Lauda and Hunter, into the adrenaline-pumping racing scenes.
The differences between the rivals were reflected in the 1976 final in Japan, a day in a more competitive environment than in germany before – torrential rain pouring down and fog blocking the drivers' view.
Lauda, who had already been injured, did not want to take such a big risk to continue the race, so after two laps he drove off the track and announced his withdrawal, and Hunter had to cross the line from the previous three to win the championship.
Under the heavy rain in Japan, Hunter gave up his life and galloped on the limits of speed and the boundary between life and death — this was his last chance, and the moment he was closest to the championship.
As everyone had hoped, Hunter won the 1976 World Championship.
The legend of Nikki Lauda returning to the field six weeks after being seriously injured and James Hunt's final victory can be brought to the big screen without artistic processing. Because it's twisty enough and exciting enough.
Including director Lang Howard also said:
Lauda and Hunter's rivalry is so dramatic that it's hard to believe, if it didn't really happen.
Although both legendary drivers, Lauda and Hunter have opposite personalities.
Lauda was like a sophisticated instrument, he did not smile, he was sensitive to the speed of the car, he was not likable or beautiful, and after the car accident in Germany, he was no longer willing to accept any dangerous conditions. But Laura will go to get acquainted with the track and the car at five in the morning, and will immediately devote herself to training for the next season after the season.
Hunter, on the other hand, is a handsome blonde, indulgent, doesn't care about everyone's eyes, and has fun in time. He doesn't have the sensitivity of Lauda to racing data, but instead completes a race with his talent and sacrifice attitude.
Their relationship is not as simple as their opponents, according to lauda in the movie:
People always think we're rivals, but he's one of the very few people I like, one of the people I respect, and the only one I've ever been jealous of.
Lauda and Hunter are a combination of multiple personalities on the opposite side, and they are also the opposite attitudes when facing extreme sports such as F1 events, and they are two kinds of sportsmanship.
One pursues rigor and diligence, and the other uses his life to challenge the limits of speed.
In a way, the book is not objective, because the characters are more biased toward James Hunt, portraying Lauda as an inferior and jealous figure. On the one hand, because Hunter's image as a blonde handsome man is more pleasing, on the other hand, Hunter's role of dedicating his life to his dreams is also more acceptable to the audience.
In the pouring rain at the final japan station, Hunter who came out of the pit station was ready to die. He didn't care what Lauda called "a mortality rate well above 20%," he had only the limits of speed and the most important honors in front of him.
Because courage is not reliable at all, only complete madness makes sense.
"Speedy Wind" is a very "neat" film - the usual narrative methods of commercial films, the lens editing and background music are old-fashioned, but it is precisely this neat and simple film that is the most intuitive and shocking.
Many people compare Speedy Wind to Warrior because they tell the story of a duel between two lone warriors. But to me, "The Rush" is more like a time machine, which takes the audience to the F1 arena of the 70s, when there were champagne and beauties, the roar of the 12-cylinder engine, and Nicky Lauda and James Hunter watching each other in the heavy rain.
Interestingly, Hunter, played by Hammer Brother Chris Hemsworth in this film, is an alcoholic character.
It turned out that this year he transformed into a fat boy in Reunion 4, and laid the groundwork as early as 2013. (Fog)