Le Mans 66 - Against every chance

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Movie
German title Le Mans 66 - Against every chance
Original title Ford v Ferrari
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2019
length 153 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director James Mangold
script Jez Butterworth ,
John-Henry Butterworth ,
Jason Keller
production James Mangold,
Peter Chernin ,
Jenno Topping
music Marco Beltrami
camera Phedon Papamichael
cut Andrew Buckland ,
Michael McCusker
occupation
synchronization

Le Mans 66 - Against Every Chance (original title Ford v Ferrari ) is a film by James Mangold that premiered on August 30, 2019 as part of the Telluride Film Festival and was released in cinemas in autumn 2019. It is based on the biography Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed ​​and Glory at Le Mans by AJ Baime , which the director adapted for the film together with Jason Keller , Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth . In the film stars Matt Damon and Christian Bale racers Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles .

At the 2020 Academy Awards , Le Mans 66 won two awards for best editing and best sound editing . The film was nominated for a total of four categories, including best film .

action

In order to make the Ford brand more popular with the post-war generation , Henry Ford II wants to invest more in racing and therefore tries to take over Ferrari, which dominates the prestigious Le Mans 24-hour race . When Enzo Ferrari rudely refuses the offer, the angry Ford decides to beat Ferrari at Le Mans instead and commissions the last American winner of the race, Carroll Shelby, to develop a corresponding vehicle. Shelby wants to hand over the coordination of the prototype of the Ford GT40 , which was produced in England at short notice, to the British racing driver and vehicle engineer Ken Miles , but this is viewed with suspicion from Detroit, as Miles is seen as a hot head and therefore does not fit the brand values. Miles was not nominated as a driver for the 1964 race and had to watch from a distance how the vehicles used were driven beyond their limits and ultimately all were eliminated and a Ferrari once again won. As a result, the GT40 is further developed by Shelby and Miles. Shelby offers Ford a bet that if Miles wins the Daytona 24 Hours , he will be nominated for Le Mans. Although Ford is now starting a second team there, Miles manages to win and is finally allowed to compete in Le Mans.

After a few problems at the start and tough duels with the Ferraris, Miles finally managed to break away from the front and drove towards an undisputed victory. But Henry Ford II has other plans: he wants to finish the race with three GT40s that cross the finish line in parallel. Shelby and Miles submit to Ford's wish, assuming that all three would be declared victorious. After the triumphant entry, however, Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon are surprisingly honored, as they have covered a longer distance overall due to their poor starting position. Although Miles realizes that he has been cheated again by Ford, he devotes himself to the further development of the GT40. He dies soon after during a test drive.

Historical background

Carroll Shelby traveling in an Aston Martin in 1958
Ken Miles (front right with helmet)

In 1962 the AC Cobra , as the racing driver and sports car designer Carroll Shelby called his creation, went into series production. The low vehicle weight in connection with the power of the Ford V8 resulted in a performance against which the competition had no chance. On the racetrack and on the road. With this design he had achieved something that few other designers had achieved before him. Shelby had combined simple, comparatively undemanding high-volume technology into a package that drove much more expensive and much more sophisticated cars to the ground. From then on, all doors were open to Shelby at Ford, and he was allowed to lay hands on anything that had the blue brand crest and was supposed to be sporty. And so Shelby was not only responsible for Ford's motorsport projects, but also for hot versions of Ford's most successful high-volume product at the time, the Ford Mustang .

In the 1966 Le Mans race, Ford eventually ousted Ferrari. In addition, the Ford winning vehicles, with an average speed of 210.8 km / h, achieved an average of more than 200 km / h over the entire race for the first time.

In the same year, Ken Miles had an accident during a test drive with one of the Ford J-Car prototypes - which were used as the Ford GT40 MK IV in 1967 in the major sports car races - in Riverside . Carroll Shelby died in May 2012 at the age of 89.

production

Matt Damon plays the engineer and designer Carroll Shelby , Christian Bale the British racing driver Ken Miles . In June 2018, the cast of Jon Bernthal was announced. He plays in the film Lee Iacocca , who was also instrumental in the development of the Mustang. Actress Caitriona Balfe took on the role of Ken Miles' wife Mollie and Noah Jupe played her son Peter. Josh Lucas plays Leo Beebe, head of PR for Ford .

Filming took place on July 30, 2018 in various locations in California, New Orleans and Atlanta. Phedon Papamichael was the cameraman and Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker were the film editors .

The film music was composed by Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders . The soundtrack album, which comprises a total of 15 pieces of music, including three pieces of the actual film music, a new remix of James Burton's Polk Salad Annie and songs by Nina Simone , The Sonics , Buck Owens , The Byrds and The Shadows of Knight, was released on Released for download November 15, 2019 by Hollywood Records. On the same day a separate album with the complete film music by Beltrami and Sanders was released.

David Giammarco , who was nominated twice for an Oscar and who most recently worked with Mangold on Logan - The Wolverine and before that on Knight and Day and Death Train to Yuma, was responsible for the sound and sound editing .

A first trailer was presented at the beginning of June 2019. The film premiered on August 30, 2019 as part of the Telluride Film Festival . From September 9, 2019, it was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival . It was shown at the Zurich Film Festival in early October 2019, and a screening was also planned at the Hamptons International Film Festival and the London Film Festival . On November 14, 2019, it came to German and Swiss cinemas and the following day to US cinemas.

reception

Age rating

In the US, the film was rated PG-13 by the MPAA . In Germany, the film was approved by the FSK from the age of 12.

Reviews

The film has so far convinced 92 percent of all Rotten Tomatoes critics and received an average rating of 7.8 out of a possible 10 points.

Christian Bale at the premiere for the film at the Toronto International Film Festival

The film critic Antje Wessels writes that the script focuses on the human factor in this story from the start. Carroll Shelby will be forced to end his racing career overnight and will decide to go behind the scenes of the auto circus, while Ken Miles will be established in a few scenes as a hard-to-handle bully who will prove difficult to work with. Nevertheless, the relationship between the two men is based on deep sympathy and thus underpins the competition between Ford and Ferrari with heart and soul, continued Wessels. His wife and son Peter made Ken Miles not just a highly committed racing driver, but also a family man who always puts the well-being of his loved ones above his passion. With an incredible attention to detail, James Mangold succeeds in capturing car racing as a physically strenuous sport, as cameraman Phedon Papamichael captures furious, overview of the racing events in equal parts of the race track, Christian Bale's strained face in close-up and repeatedly between shots of The steering wheel, accelerator and brake pedals as well as joysticks jump back and forth in order to link the behavior of the car on the racetrack directly with the actions of the driver. The three-person film editor trio, consisting of Andrew Buckland , Michael McCusker and Dirk Westervelt, finally merged the whole thing into a prime example of an equally energetic and tempo-accelerating, but never confusing cut that optimally underlines the heated atmosphere in the situation. Wessels sums up: "Big pictures, a surprising amount of humor and two great leading actors make James Mangold's racing drama one of the best films of the year."

Gross profit

The budget of around 97.6 million US dollars is offset by worldwide revenues of 225.5 million US dollars so far, of which the film alone has grossed 117.6 million in North America. In Germany it has 376,150 visitors.

Awards

At the 2020 Academy Awards , the film was shortlisted in the Best Film Music category . Below is a selection of other nominations.

AACTA International Awards 2020

American Society of Cinematographers Awards 2020

Art Directors Guild Awards 2020

British Academy Film Awards 2020

Camerimage 2019

  • Nomination for the Golden Frog (Phedon Papamichael)

Cinema Audio Society Awards 2020

  • Award in the live-action feature film category

Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2020

Eddie Awards 2020

  • Nomination in the category Best Film Editing - Drama (Michael McCusker)

Golden Globe Awards 2020

Golden Reel Awards 2020

  • Nomination in the category Best Sound Editing: Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Film
  • Nomination in the category Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film

Hollywood Critics Association Awards 2020

Hollywood Film Awards 2019

  • Honored with the Hollywood Director Award ( James Mangold )
  • Honored with the Hollywood Editor Award (Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker)
  • Honored with the Hollywood Sound Award (Donald Sylvester, Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Steven A. Morrow)

Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2019

Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2020

  • Nomination for the best stunt coordination team

London Critics' Circle Film Awards 2020

National Board of Review Awards 2019

Online Film Critics Society Awards 2020

  • Nomination for Best Editing (Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker)

Academy Awards 2020

Producers Guild of America Awards 2020

San Diego Film Critics Society's Awards 2019

  • Award for the best cut (Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker and Dirk Westervelt )
  • Nomination for Best Actor (Christian Bale)
  • Nomination for Best Cinematography (Phedon Papamichael)

Satellite Awards 2019

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2020

Seattle Film Critics Society Awards 2019

  • Nomination for best film of the year
  • Nomination for the best action choreography

St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards 2019

  • Nomination for the best cut

Visual Effects Society Awards 2020

Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards 2019

  • Award for the best cut (Michael McCuster)

synchronization

The German dubbing was created under the dialogue direction by Marius Clarén on behalf of RC Production Kunze & Wunder GmbH & Co. KG in Berlin .

role actor Voice actor
Carroll Shelby Matt Damon Simon hunter
Ken Miles Christian Bale David Nathan
Lee Iacocca Jon Bernthal Martin Kautz
Mollie Miles Caitriona Balfe Manja Doering
Phil Remington Ray McKinnon Viktor Neumann
Peter Miles Noah Jupe Freddy Antoine Gerberon
Leo Beebe Josh Lucas Tobias Kluckert
Henry ford ii Tracy Letts Erich Rauker
Dr. Granger Wallace Langham Axel Malzacher
Dieter Voss Rudolf Martin
Pilot steve Drew rush Armin Schlagwein
Charlie Agapiou Jack McMullen Maximilian Artajo
Franco Gozzi Corrado Invernizzi Jens Hartwig
Brumo's Executive Michael Lanahan Peter Flechtner

Web links

Commons : Le Mans 66 - Against Every Chance  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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