dave lackey
Veteran
Haven't watch Steve McQueen in Lemans for a couple of years. Given that the race is this weekend...it is time to pop the DVD into the TV and thoroughly enjoy my favorite racing movie.
Reckon I will do that tomorrow evening (Friday).
Get to watch all the photographers and guess their cameras in between the racing scenes.
Reckon I will do that tomorrow evening (Friday).Get to watch all the photographers and guess their cameras in between the racing scenes.
aad
Not so new now.
I can't wait to see how the Deltawing goes...
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
Speaking of Le Mans how about that Delta wing car with the Nissan engine!
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
AJShepherd
Well-known
Speaking of Le Mans how about that Delta wing car with the Nissan engine!
I can't help thinking that with a sharp turn it'll make like a Reliant Robin and roll...
I had not watched if for many years but had good memories of it from seeing it as a youth, and I hired the dvd a few months ago. It was better than I recalled it. One of the best racing movies made I feel, maybe the best and to my eye perhaps the most authentic too.
There is an M or three in the movie from memory, also a Hasselblad appears at one point, possibly even a 1000C. Keep your eyes peeled and you can spot all manner of cameras in the crowds, many of them prosaic no doubt.
The opening sequence with McQueen driving to Le Mans in his 911 has some beautiful cinematography as I recall.
Star of the movie for me (as well as McQueen, of course) would be those incredible 917 flat 12s. I'm not really a Porsche fan, as I tend to prefer the Italian aesthetics to the more functional German road car styling approach (of course there are exceptions) however those 1960s racing Porsches surely rate highly as things of beauty. The 906/908 may be the most curvaceous and feline of them all, but the 917 definitely makes the cut. They possessed style and speed by the bucket load.
Spare a thought for David Piper, too, his big stack in one of the cars (one of the 917s, I think?) in the course of filming the movie, cost him a leg (it's mentioned in the credits as well).
Regards,
Brett
There is an M or three in the movie from memory, also a Hasselblad appears at one point, possibly even a 1000C. Keep your eyes peeled and you can spot all manner of cameras in the crowds, many of them prosaic no doubt.
The opening sequence with McQueen driving to Le Mans in his 911 has some beautiful cinematography as I recall.
Star of the movie for me (as well as McQueen, of course) would be those incredible 917 flat 12s. I'm not really a Porsche fan, as I tend to prefer the Italian aesthetics to the more functional German road car styling approach (of course there are exceptions) however those 1960s racing Porsches surely rate highly as things of beauty. The 906/908 may be the most curvaceous and feline of them all, but the 917 definitely makes the cut. They possessed style and speed by the bucket load.
Spare a thought for David Piper, too, his big stack in one of the cars (one of the 917s, I think?) in the course of filming the movie, cost him a leg (it's mentioned in the credits as well).
Regards,
Brett
Brad Bireley
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Sparrow
Veteran
... no me neither, those 917s in the film were actually old Lola T70s dressed up to to look like 917s ... which were way too costly to crash at the time
bob338
Well-known
There is a doc airing on the Velocity channel about this crash this week. They interview a couple of the racers, and show some new footage of the crash.
Well worth checking out.
Sparrow
Veteran
... it was an experimental Mercedes iirc, the body-work was, of all things, magnesium so the water simply made it burn more furiously ... they should make this current crop of F1 drivers do one race each year in a Lotus 42 then we would know how brave they actually are
shadowfox
Darkroom printing lives
I wonder if this film is the inspiration behind Pixar's "Cars".
bob338
Well-known
kbg32
neo-romanticist
LeMans and Grand Prix are two of my favorite films.
Haven't watch Steve McQueen in Lemans for a couple of years. Given that the race is this weekend...it is time to pop the DVD into the TV and thoroughly enjoy my favorite racing movie.
Get to watch all the photographers and guess their cameras in between the racing scenes.
Lemans is remembered as Steve McQueen's film, but Stewart Linder won the Oscar for it
- for Film Editing.
Linder used to make the 3 block ride from the Hermosa Beach strand (South Bay area of Los Angeles) to Dairy Queen for ice cream in his 1966 Ferrari Superfast. http://www.topspeed.com/cars/ferrari/1964-1966-ferrari-500-superfast-ar78945.html
Stephen
Sparrow
Veteran
I was thinking of this one actually
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmlzni_grand-prix-the-killer-years_auto