When talking about Fox’s “Ford v Ferrari,” starring Christian Bale as race car driver Ken Miles and Matt Damon as auto designer Carroll Shelby, director James Mangold stresses the collaborative nat…
When talking about Fox’s “Ford v Ferrari,” starring Christian Bale as race car driver Ken Miles and Matt Damon as auto designer Carroll Shelby, directorstresses the collaborative nature of filmmaking: “The triumph of our editing team is also a triumph of our stunt teams and design teams and cinematographer. They’re all interlocked.” He also notes that while the racing scenes may be memorable, the heart of the film is in the intimate personal scenes.
“There was no single location to shoot this race. The track for Le Mans doesn’t exist in the form it did then, and Le Mans is effectively eight miles of country roads. The roads have been made safer with more grade, they used to be a much more rough-and-ready test. Each segment of the track has unique features that are legendary in the racing world.
“We didn’t shoot with vintage cars; we couldn’t. If they exist, they’re worth bazillions. Our cars were working reproductions, and they don’t sound like originals. We needed the purr of a Ferrari, the bestial growl of a [Ford] GT40. Don and his team had to capture every turn, every moment of brakes and acceleration, at every speed, and create the race with all these ‘voices’ speaking almost musically. The cars weren’t just exciting; they were also soothing.
“Phedon has a remarkable eye, and sense of composition a rebellious sense of trying not doing the obvious. Also he had to deal with little but important things, like how do we denote speed. When you’re tracking with a car, unless there are elements flying by, like grandstands or telephone poles, the sense of speed diminishes to a vague blur. And youto feel things flying by.
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