If you lived under a rock, you may not notice that a movie about Formula 1 will be coming out at the end of this month. You may have never seen social media be overwhelmed at last night’s New York City premiere.
The North American release date for the film simply titled “F1” is June 27th. So you only have 10 days to wait until you can throw your own eyes.
As one of the lucky members of Formula 1 Media, I got the chance to see it last week at a preview screening of IMAX in Montreal. And that means you’re trying to see a lot of opinions from a lot of people that this film doesn’t aim very much to.
In fact, if you’re reading this work now, it’s not targeting you either. But that doesn’t mean you can’t entertain for 2.5 hours by being a really big blockbuster.
I’m not a film critic, but as David Fear wrote to him, I’m not just taking my words. Rolling Stone Review: “A story of a veteran who took one last shot on the checkered flag, a hot head young man in need of a mentor, and a loser team seeking glory through a story of a sport film that can’t.‘Become more stylized – tip the waiter! – This throwback to the old-fashioned blockbuster is certainly an oiled, finely tuned operation. ”
Of course, the veteran is Brad Pitt. Also, films with Brad Pitt create headlines as the sport is doing today, with much more interest in the radar of people than F1.
It was emphasized that he would walk through Times Square last night. There, a sea of cell phones stretched out to catch shots of the red carpet when the pit arrived. A radio city passerby explained to a colleague that “a new Brad Pitt film is premiering.” It does not mention races or F1. That means it’s a Brad Pitt movie.
And it’s a Brad Pitt movie in every sense. Pitt feels like a caricature of himself, and really leaning against the cheeky, cheesy, injustice aspects of veteran Sony Hayes who appears to be sloppy with rules and authority, but of course he learns what it takes to help him point his struggling team.
You and I know that only drivers have not been driving in Formula 1 for 30 years and are not walking. Tell the technical director what you need and completely turn the teams that can’t score points (spoiler alert).
But this is Hollywood. That’s what makes the story interesting, not a documentary of what actually happens. And Carlos Sainz has fully summed up what it means for existing fans of the Premier.
“I’m going to be open-minded to Hollywood F1 movies to tell pure F1 fans, but for all new fans, that’s our true sport,” Sainz said. “That’s all about our sport. We enjoy it because it’s a good gateway to our sport, about the teamwork, the sacrifices we need to make, and for new fans, it’s a good entry point to our sport.”
F1 films can walk normally along the boundary between Hollywood and the real thing. Sometimes it’s… Ryan Pierce/Getty’s image
What makes reliability comes in the fact that Hayes and teammate Joshua Pierce shots are in the pits, and Damson Idris is in the real Formula 1 circuits, usually driving the car on the actual Grand Prix weekend. It helps to provide some spectacular race footage. It’s really beautifully captured inside the car.
As the entire film was dropped into the real world of Formula 1, a real team factory and a tunnel of wind is used, standing shoulder to shoulder with the real drivers who are not acting, but are really trying to climb cars and races.
Sometimes it probably tries to do so Too much It’s authentic without the need for it in terms of explaining technical details that feel dull when exploiting certain paddock characters or juxtaposed with other aspects of the film. But they are there to try and reach non-race viewers in order to understand how a particular scenario will succeed.
All crash scenes are based on real incidents, especially if the risks are done too far. Still, if you are a race enthusiast, you can use the film to identify real-life moments that set the foundation for what is shown.
And you’ll spend plenty of time saying, “It’s never going to happen,” but not in a “driven” way. Certain regulations may be ignored at certain times for the benefit of the storyline, but mid-race weekends will spend more time choosing real drivers and team bosses than rules violations are not addressed.
On the character side, other film critics see it as old fashioned entertainment, but there are plenty of stereotypes that may seem lazy to some. Among other things, the impressive female technical director is a bit disappointing. Kate McKenna – played by Kelly Condon – is just a love interest and makes a good car just by saying how to make her work better by giving something out of the pit for “combat”.
The word combat is raised again in the entire team chan chan chan scene, which is as much crying as they come, but then the current team on the grid had requested a former team principal in response to his call “Let’s Go…” in “Race!” It’s still close to reality in the garage every Friday morning.
And how close the other aspects are, in fact, could be the making of a film. From an Apple perspective, it aims to be as wide as possible to viewers, generating as much box office revenue as possible, while Formula 1 judges success based on the number of new people who choose to tune to the race at some stage in the future.
Given the number of different disciplines, the film highlights – great racing, epic crashes, in-team fights, political maneuvering, technical glow, and controversy are enough for the window into the sport, so that new fans learn more about Formula 1 advancement and seem completely inseparable from reality.
But you and I don’t need it, so for some people it might be too difficult to get lost in the APXGP world when you know a lot about the real thing it was filmed – just as incredible as that world.
Will “F1” prove to be successful on the front line they want? I think so. But the will you enjoy it? I can only go as long as I say you might.