"Devil Muscle Man" Christian Bell just gained weight to star in "Vice President". After filming the movie, he lost weight and went to shoot "Speed Car King", too dedicated.
In order to gain weight and lose weight in filming for a long time, foreign netizens even wrote an onion news to ridicule Bell: Bell added 410,000 catties to the sandworm who appeared in "Dune".
"The Speed Car King" is adapted from the real stories of real characters in history. I believe that the audience after watching the movie will be quite shocked by this story, and they will be curious whether they are real or made up.
In fact, these seemingly "fake" stories are not fabricated. Many things in the movie have actually happened.
Henry Ford’s acquisition of Ferrari really happened in history, but he was rejected and humiliated by Enzo Ferrari. It was for this reason that he decided to form his own team to participate in the Le Mans race.
For Le Mans in 1966, Ford really swept the top three.
Originally Ken Miles had won, but Ford executives did a very despicable thing: asked him to slow down and reach the finish line at the same time as the other two racers.
Ken did so, but Le Mans announced that the champion was McLaren.
This scandal caused a sensation in the racing industry and once became one of the most famous events in the racing industry.
I checked and the Le Mans champions in 1966 were McLaren and Chris Amon.
Three people reached the finish line at the same time, and the other two were both champions, but they weren't. It was really miserable.
It is worth mentioning that McLaren’s full name is Bruce McLaren, he is the founder of the supercar brand McLaren.
If it were not for the unreasonable demands of Ford's top management, Ken would be the first person in history to win Sebring, Daytona, and Le Mans consecutively in the same year.
What is the concept of "winning Sebring, Daytona, and Le Mans consecutively in the same year"?
This honor is still not achieved by anyone today, more than 50 years later. One can imagine how difficult it is to achieve.
Ken was originally the person closest to this honor, but unfortunately because of personal grievances and bureaucracy, he could not achieve it.
Two months after the Le Mans race, Ken was killed in the process of testing the car. Perhaps in the second and third years he had a chance to regain the honor that belonged to him, but he left before that day arrived. It's a pity to live in this world.
In addition to being an excellent racing driver, he is also an excellent racing designer. Many racing drivers drove the cars he designed to get better rankings, such as the four-time Le Mans championship from 1966 to 1969. The cars are all Ford GT40s designed by him and Shelby.
McLaren participated in Le Mans in 1965, but did not even rank. Why he was able to become the Le Mans champion in 1966, in addition to thanking Ken for slowing down, we should also thank Ken and Shelby for making the car more perfect.
"Speed King" did not over-exaggerate Ken's experience in order to enhance the drama. The film's realism is still very high, and it highly restores the scandal that shocked the racing industry in 1966.
Shelby is also real, and his experience is no less legendary than Ken.
He suffered from heart valve disease at the age of 7 and spent most of his childhood in bed.
When he grew up, he became a professional racing driver, won various awards in F1, Le Mans and other competitions, and set 16 U.S. and world speed records.
Because he had a heart attack, he pressed the medicine down his tongue to relieve chest pain when he participated in the competition.
In 1959, he bid farewell to the race car driver due to physical problems, retired behind the scenes to work as a car designer and racing designer, and made a lot of contributions to the automobile industry and the racing industry. For example, his Ford GT40 won the 1966-1969 four. In Le Mans, Le Mans even swept the top three in 1966.
The dialogue between Ken and Shelby before the Le Mans game in the film is very moving.
Ken: Why are you still up?
Shelby: I don't have to drive.
Ken: That's a shame.
Shelby: If I had to drive too, we wouldn't be able to form such a great team.
Although the racer is important, the team is also very important.
Ken and Shelby are a trump card combination, without anyone else.
In 1961, Shelby wrote to British CA "Give me a body, and I install Ford's engine", and then wrote to American Ford "Give me an engine, I can press it on the AC body "In this way, the empty glove White Wolf assembled the world's first Cobra.
In 1990, 67-year-old Shelby underwent a heart transplant, borrowed a kidney, participated in the last race of his life before fully adapting to the organ, and almost broke the Viper (Dodge Viper) lap record. .
Shelby's experience in the movie is obviously only a small part of his legendary life. I really hope Matt Damon can make a Shelby biopic.
Next we talk about movies.
Both Ken and Shelby are legends in the racing world, but the theme of the film is not to promote how powerful they are.
Maybe you will guess at the beginning that this is the same kind of movie where the same protagonist successfully won the championship, but on the contrary, they lost the 1966 Le Mans.
Was it a better racer that beat them?
No, but a dark human nature and a corrupt system.
Shelby has repeatedly emphasized that winning a championship is more than just throwing money. You can't rely on the bureaucracy to win the game, just as a document has to go through more than 20 people to reach Henry Ford's hands.
When Ken and Leo met for the first time, Leo said that he was vice president of Ford. Normal people must flatter him and please him. However, instead of doing this, Ken spoke out of the car instead. The shortcomings of Leo also gave Leo suggestions for improvement.
Leo is the second in command of Ford. He always wants the wind to get the wind and the rain to get the rain. Wouldn't he be upset by flattering him like everyone else.
It just so happened that Ken was also a racing driver on behalf of Ford, which allowed Leo to find a chance to retaliate against him.
Maybe at first Leo didn't have to kill Ken, he just wanted Ken to bow and bow to him like everyone else.
But Ken is born to be the kind of person who doesn't buckle for five buckets of rice. He doesn't want to be sleek, he just wants to follow his heart.
Leo sees Ken is not convinced, he can't beat Ken with a car, so he must use his position and power to defeat Ken.
If Ken can win the Le Mans championship, Leo would also have gold on his face as a vice president of Ford, but he would rather not have gold on his face, and he would never be willing to live well. Therefore, he will avenge private revenge and make things difficult for him, too. Ruthless.
This is the highest state of cheapness-harming others and detrimental to yourself.
Maybe the racing field is far away from us, but the story between Ken and Leo must make you feel the same.
Even if you are not a racer, you must have experienced the corrupt culture of the company that "if you don't humble your head, your superiors will beat you".
We have no ability to change this trend, so we can only choose to forbearance in the end. And the more we forbear, the more our superiors will show off, and the more we want to try how powerful we are, which is a vicious circle.
Enzo Ferrari refused to be acquired by Ford because he did not approve of Ford's philosophy of requiring racers to obey orders.
Leo did not dare to admit that Ford’s philosophy was wrong, nor did he dare to confront Henry Ford. He would only say what Henry Ford wanted to hear, so that Enzo Ferrari had tricked them and said that he had no intention of selling the company to them.
As Ken said: They only have their own interests in their eyes, and they only want to please their superiors. Although they hate their actions, they hate and hate people like you even more, because you are not the same person as them, because you are smarter than them, and because you are different.
At the beginning, he was willing to raise the flaws of the Ford Mustang, but Leo only wanted to listen to people’s criticisms. This is the same as Henry Ford’s inability to listen to Enzo Ferrari.
Leo treated Henry Ford respectfully and asked others to do the same to him.
But Ken didn't treat him that way, so Leo had to put on his little shoes.
At Le Mans in 1965, Leo randomly found a reason to deprive Ken of his qualifications.
The result was a fiasco for Ford, and the entire army was wiped out.
Even so, Henry Ford and Leo did not allow Ken to participate in Le Mans, forcing Shelby to use his company as a bet in exchange for Ken's chance to participate.
If he is willing to win at Daytona, Ford will allow him to participate in Le Mans;
If Ken fails to win at Daytona, Shelby will give the company to Ford.
During the Daytona race, Leo said in an interview with the media: The choice of the driver, the speed, the strategic planning, and even the number of turns to be stepped on are all determined by us.
This shows that Ford is not suitable for racing at all. They only think about how to control the racer and how to make the racer obey the order, which is contrary to the spirit of sportsmanship.
Are you a racer or will you be a racer?
A typical group of amateurs go to command professionals.
They require Ken not to exceed 6000 revolutions, which severely limits Ken's performance.
Fortunately, Shelby disobeyed the order and allowed Ken to step on to 7,000 revolutions before allowing Ken to win the championship.
Leo did this again during the Le Mans game.
Ken broke the lap record and everyone was very happy, including Henry Ford, but Leo was very disappointed.
Even said: Ken can't drive the car so fast, this is not in the plan.
Seeing Ken was about to win the championship, Leo even asked him to slow down and even threatened him to stop him from participating in SCCA and FIA competitions if he was not obedient.
The most insidious thing is that he knew that if three cars reached the finish line at the same time, the champion would belong to McLaren, so he deceived Shelby and Ken with words like "team spirit" and "Ford brothers".
Many directors like to shoot the protagonist's side in a movie, and shoot their opponents sinister, cunning, despicable and shameless, and promote themselves by belittling their opponents.
"The King of Speed Cars" did not promote Ford by belittling Ferrari. On the contrary, Ferrari is a very respectable company in the film. On the contrary, Ford executives are selfish, hypocritical, and sophisticated.
When Le Mans announced that the champion was McLaren, everyone cheered for McLaren, and only Enzo Ferrari paid tribute to Ken.
Why was Henry Ford's acquisition of Ferrari rejected? Is it really because Fiat pays more money?
In fact, Enzo Ferrari had to agree to be acquired by Ford, but Enzo Ferrari found that his ideas were inconsistent with Ford.
He asked Iacocca, a Ford employee: If I want to participate in the competition, but Ford does not agree, who should I listen to?
Iacocca said, then Ford would not allow him to participate in the competition.
It was this concept that made Enzo Ferrari, who was preparing to sign, repented.
Enzo Ferrari wants to be acquired by a company that really loves racing, but Ford's bureaucracy is too serious. What they want is not a racer like Ken, but an obedient racer, which is contrary to the spirit of sportsmanship.
It turns out that Enzo Ferrari is not making a fuss. His questions and Iacocca's answers appear frequently in the movie.
Ken obviously is a very good racer, but Leo has never felt sorry for him from start to finish.
Ken and Shelby were blocked by Henry Ford and Leo in every possible way, and a huge scandal that caused a sensation in the racing world eventually occurred.
Enzo Ferrari himself is a racer, so he respects motorsports and racers.
Henry Ford was a businessman, and Shelby was scared to tears when he took him in a drag racing. He and Leo disrespect motorsports and racing drivers. In Ken's words, "the one who sells the car is the one who sells the car."
Enzo Ferrari was 68 years old and watched the entire race at Le Mans. He is a true racing fan;
And 49-year-old Henry Ford (only one year older than Ken) took a helicopter and left halfway through the game, and did not return until the end of the game.
All the details show that Enzo Ferrari really respects the car, and Henry Ford and Leo are just businessmen.
Ferrari pursues perfection, Ford only sells cars.
The title of the movie is "Ford VS Ferrari". Although the Ford racer defeated the Ferrari racer in the end, did the Ford spirit really defeat the Ferrari spirit?
Leo doesn't respect motorsports and racing drivers. He only knows that he is the vice president. Everyone should kneel and lick him, otherwise he will punish you.
He only cares about his own future and promotion, and doesn't care about the hard work of racers and designers.
He has a personal grievance with Ken, so he has to use despicable means to deceive Ken.
It was not a better racer than him that defeated Ken, but business operations and bureaucracy.
The biggest enemies of racers and athletes are not opponents, but companies and people that violate the spirit of sportsmanship.
In previous sports and sports-themed movies, I always guessed that the protagonist won the championship at the beginning. Therefore, in recent years, such movies have gradually reduced the emphasis on winning the championship. In many movies, the protagonist failed to win the championship.
The protagonist’s failure to win the championship is indeed not perfect, but this imperfection just makes the film more real.
The values conveyed by the film are also correct: the championship does not mean everything, and failure to win does not mean nothing.
Just as Shelby said after the game: I shouldn't have told you about slowing down.
Ken said: What you promised me is a chance to compete, not a chance to win.
Of course, the premise of "championship does not mean everything, and failure to win does not mean nothing" is that you have done your best.
If you do your best, even if you fail to win the championship, you will still be defeated.
But it would be a shame if you missed the championship because you didn't try your best.
Nothing can be a reason for you to retain strength, because people will never remember the name of the second place.
Any game should go all out, because maybe this is the last game.
In the 5 Le Mans races from 1960 to 1964, Ferrari won 4 championships. Enzo Ferrari spent all his money in pursuit of perfection and finally declared bankruptcy.
Enzo Ferrari doesn't care about money, and Henry Ford and Leo do not hesitate to violate the spirit of sports for the sake of face, money, and selfishness.
If Ken and Shelby’s boss is not Henry Ford, but Enzo Ferrari, will the outcome be different?
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