Rush - everything for victory
Rush - Alles für die Sieg (original title Rush ) is a British - German feature film, which is about the (dramaturgically exaggerated) rivalry between Formula 1 racing drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda . Directed by Oscar winner Ron Howard . The main roles are played by Chris Hemsworth as James Hunt, Daniel Brühl as Niki Lauda and Olivia Wilde and Alexandra Maria Lara as their partners. The film had its world premiere on September 2, 2013 in London. The cinema release in Germany and Austria was on October 3, 2013, in the German-speaking part of Switzerland on October 10, 2013.
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The plot depicts the relationship between Niki Lauda and James Hunt. Both appear alternately as first-person narrators. Lauda takes a distanced view of the present day, while Hunt takes the narrator's perspective directly in the cinematic present.
Lauda and Hunt met for the first time in 1970 in a Formula 3 race at the Crystal Palace Circuit . The very different character traits of the two drivers become clear early on: Hunt is a bon vivant with a Playboy attitude, while Lauda is a technically gifted perfectionist. When Lauda later switched to Formula 1 at his own expense, the racing team owner Lord Alexander Hesketh also decided to compete with Hunt as a driver in the premier class. While Lauda climbs up into the top Scuderia Ferrari team with a lot of ambition and technical expertise and becomes world champion with them in 1975 , the rather undisciplined hunt from the cockpit of the technically inferior Hesketh car has to watch powerlessly. After Hesketh went bankrupt, Hunt was even left without a contract for the 1976 Formula 1 season . He becomes depressed and turns to alcohol, which leads to the failure of his marriage. His wife, Suzy Miller, turns to Richard Burton .
The turning point came for Hunt when he took over a cockpit at McLaren Racing after the short-term cancellation of the driver Emerson Fittipaldi and suddenly had realistic chances of taking part in the 1976 Formula 1 World Championship. The dramatic events of this season form the core of the plot of Rush - Anything for Victory . Defending champion Lauda wins the first races easily. Hunt is disqualified after his first win of the season due to a tip from Lauda to the marshals because he slightly exceeded the permitted vehicle width. The changes that were then necessary to the McLaren throw Hunt back further. The disqualification is only lifted later and Hunt gets the points back for the victory.
During the season, Lauda married his fiancée Marlene and began to have doubts about the usefulness of being a racing driver. Before the German Grand Prix on the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring , Lauda argued in a driver meeting for a boycott of the race for safety reasons. With reference to the then almost certainly fixed world championship of Lauda, who is rather unpopular in the driver field, Hunt can push through the start. In the race, there was a disaster when Lauda had a serious accident that led to the race being abandoned. Despite life-threatening injuries, Lauda only missed two races and intervened again in the world championship from the Italian Grand Prix . He drives less risky from now on and is fourth, while Hunt is eliminated.
At the last race in Fuji , which took place in heavy rain and dark, Lauda gave up on the second lap for safety reasons. Hunt now has to finish at least third to win the World Cup. However, he is struggling with technical problems and is at the back of the table for most of the race. After one last tire change, Hunt starts a dramatic catch-up and is initially classified in fifth place. He apologizes to his team boss Teddy Mayer , who tells Hunt that the scoreboard is faulty and that he actually came in third. As a result, Hunt becomes world champion by just one point over Lauda.
After Hunt has proven that he can beat Lauda, he turns back to his playboy life and can no longer build on the successes of 1976. Lauda, on the other hand, becomes world champion again after his recovery the following year . At this time, Lauda turned to aviation, which he considered safer than Formula 1, and which he pursued as his main occupation during the years in which his racing career was interrupted (1979 to 1981).
After Lauda's accident it is discussed several times in the film that the drivers now treat each other with growing respect. In his final monologue, Lauda explains that the fact that Hunt died of a heart attack when he was only 45 did not surprise him, but only saddened him.
background
Despite the largely realistic representation, Rush is not a documentary , but a feature film. According to the director, the film is "fiction inspired by real events". Screenwriter Peter Morgan confirmed in an interview that many things had been pointed out for dramaturgical reasons.
The film contains numerous details that are incorrect in terms of motorsport history: Temporal relationships are torn apart or compressed, some of the racing cars shown do not correspond to the historical environment, and people are mixed up in individual scenes. For example, Hesketh did not compete in Formula 3 until 1972 and not as early as 1970, as shown in the film. Niki Lauda drove for March in Formula 1 as early as 1972 and not until 1973 with BRM.The Hesketh 308 shown in the film as an entry for Hunt into Formula 1 is incorrect, Hesketh entered Formula 1 in 1973 with a privately deployed March, which The vehicle shown was only used by Hesketh from mid-1974. The sponsors on the drivers' helmets and overalls do not correspond to reality, cigarette sponsors are shown, but are partly replaced by other sponsors who do not fit the time frame, but are named in the credits under credits and for the film production helmets, gloves, cameras etc. have made available.
At the beginning, the film implies a relationship between Hunt and Lauda that, apart from sporting rivalry, is also characterized by resentment and disdain. In reality, the two pilots were close friends in 1976 regardless of the competitive sporting situation. Lauda later stated: "We made sure that our personal friendship never got in the way of our professional relationship". Lauda always emphasized that Hunt was the only one from whom he accepted to be beaten, "because I liked the boy".
In the 1976 Formula 1 season, James Hunt drove a McLaren M23 and Niki Lauda drove a Ferrari 312T . For the most part, the original racing cars from the 1970s are not used in the film. The producers used a copy of the McLaren made by WDK Motorsport in 2012. It is powered by a 2.0 liter four-cylinder Vauxhall engine . In addition, three replicas of the Ferrari appear, based on chassis from Formula Renault and built by Rob Austin Racing. As far as original vehicles are shown, they are only used for decoration; For reasons of cost, production refrained from showing original vehicles in racing.
When Niki Lauda is in the hospital in Mannheim, you can see a TV in his room with the live broadcast of the Grand Prix of Holland. This is the only "real" racing scene in the film. This is commented on by Heinz Prüller .
production
The film was shot in Great Britain and Germany, including at the original Nürburgring location. The scenes that take place at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza , on the other hand, were recorded at Brands Hatch , UK . The wet race of Fuji Finally, in Snetterton adjusted.
The film was funded by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and the MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg . German co-producers were Egoli Tossell Film and action concept .
A budget of $ 38 million was available for production. The worldwide box office result was over 90 million US dollars.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| James Hunt | Chris Hemsworth | Tommy Morgenstern |
| Niki Lauda | Daniel Brühl | Daniel Brühl |
| Suzy Miller | Olivia Wilde | Natascha Geisler |
| Marlene Lauda | Alexandra Maria Lara | Alexandra Maria Lara |
| Alastair Caldwell | Stephen Manganese | Viktor Neumann |
| Clay Regazzoni | Pierfrancesco Favino | Nico Mamone |
| Doc Postlethwaite | Jamie de Courcey | Bastian Sierich |
| John Hogan | Patrick Baladi | Matthias Rimpler |
| Nurse Gemma | Natalie Dormer | Rubina Kuraoka |
| Lord Hesketh | Christian McKay | Marcus Off |
| Louis Stanley | David Calder | Reinhard Kuhnert |
| Peter Hunt | Geoffrey Streatfield | Bernd Vollbrecht |
| Stirling Moss | Alistair Petrie | Peter Flechtner |
| Teddy Mayer | Colin Stinton | Oliver Stritzel |
reception
Reviews
“Director Ron Howard delivers a remarkable performance after the rather weaker Dickste Freunde . Rush - Alles für die Sieg is an excellently cast, adrenaline-charged and moving piece of cinema. A movie like a rocket launch; fast, loud, hot and highly explosive - even for non-Formula 1 fans. "
“Daniel Brühl delivers in the Formula 1 drama in his role as Niki Lauda an acting performance that is second to none. Unfortunately, this noticeably fades his colleagues next to him. But this does not detract from the successful cinema experience. "
Awards
- Nomination in the category Best Film - Drama
- Nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category for Daniel Brühl
British Academy Film Awards 2014
- Nomination for Best British Film
- Nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category for Daniel Brühl
- Nomination in the Best Sound category
- Award in the Best Editing category
AACTA International Awards 2014
- Nomination in the Best Film category
Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2014
- Nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category for Daniel Brühl
- Nomination in the category Best Editing for Daniel P. Hanley & Mike Hill
- Nomination in the category Best Make-up
- Nomination in the Best Action Film category
Screen Actors Guild Awards 2014
- Nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category for Daniel Brühl
- Nomination in the category Best Stunt Ensemble in a Film
Satellite Awards 2013
- Nomination in the category Best Director
- Nomination in the Best Camera category
- Nomination in the Best Visual Effects category
- Nomination in the category Best Production Design
- Nomination in the category Best Film Editing
- Nomination in the category Best Sound Editing
- Nomination in the category Best Costume Design
Web links
- Rush - Everything for the victory in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
- Report , Focus 39/2013, p. 124
- Rush True Story vs Movie - Real Niki Lauda Crash, Real James Hunt Comparisons Between Film and Reality
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Marc Graser: "[...] Oliver and Eaton structured the project as a UK-German co-production [...]", Ron Howard's 'Rush' for Independent Film Financing on variety.com (English)
- ↑ a b Producer Andrew Eaton: "I also should point out that Rush is a British-German co-production.", Why being British is no longer a handicap when it comes to films on theguardian.com (English)
- ↑ Rush - Everything for Victory
- ↑ Age rating for Rush - Everything for victory . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Rush - Alles für den Sieg - moviepilot.de, accessed on May 11, 2015
- ↑ a b c Alistair Weaver: Adrenaline Rush. Hunt vs. Lauda Movie . Discussion of the film from a motorsport historical perspective. Octane Magazine, October 2013 issue, p. 99 ff.
- ↑ Interview at www.welt.de from September 20, 2013 .
- ↑ Quoted from: Elmar Brümmer, Bodo and Ferdi Krähling: Rivals of the racetrack. The big Formula 1 duels . Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2013. ISBN 978-3-7688-3595-4 , p. 54.
- ↑ Nigel Roebuck: “I didn't mind actually. The only one who should beat me was James because I liked the guy… ” In: Motor Sport , September 2013, pp. 66–70 (English).
- ^ Mark Dixon: Creating the Cars . Octane Magazine, October 2013, p. 104.
- ↑ Cinema advertising for Formula 1. In: auto motor sport. September 3, 2013, accessed May 25, 2016 .
- ↑ Adam Cooper: Making a drama. In: Motor Sport , September 2013, pp. 73–77 (English).
- ↑ Production costs and box office earnings according to Box Office Mojo
- ↑ Sven Asbach: Review: Rush - Everything for victory. (No longer available online.) Kino7.de, September 27, 2013, archived from the original on October 17, 2013 ; Retrieved October 18, 2013 .
- ↑ Norman Heinz: Rush - Everything for victory: film review. In: Serienjunkies.de . October 2, 2013, accessed June 10, 2019 .