For the second year in a row, Brad Pitt and Lewis Hamilton’s newly titled F1 production took over some of the ground in the Silverstone paddock last week at the end of the British Grand Prix and set about filming the scripted drama at Silverstone, the famous World War II airfield. Pitt and company have followed virtually all of Formula 1, from time to time, since the start of the occasional 2023 season, won by Red Bull champion driver Max Verstappen. Since July 4 is not public during the Formula 1 holidays, Pitt was warmly greeted as he strolled through the paddock on July 4 and made his way to the motorcade in the green cast room, dressed in his fireproof racing clothes for the fictional “APX GP” racing team. . His co-producer Hamilton, meanwhile, was completely engrossed in the actual practice sessions and, surprising even the champion driver himself, managed to end his long podium drought and take the win in his home country.
As always, the other task for Hamilton and his co-producers will be to plan the shoots, which consists of carefully reading the script and cutting it into small pieces that can be received at a specific location. The difference between Pitt/Hamilton F1 and a “normal” film production is that Pitt, Hamilton
This is the real challenge that the production has been sweating for two years, and that is why they are leaning a little more towards principal photography in European and/or American (read: English-speaking) locations that know the demands of cinema. the warmest movie. Array We can’t know how much or how much of the story is actually in the works or, in other words, how much the filmmakers have indulged in this year. The task of capturing the story on film of an F1 race is more complex than it seems, the rough metaphorical equivalent of filling a few Hollywood stars (Pitt, Javier Bardem, Damson Idris, et al) with a few dozen of cameramen and many dozens of adorable technicians in a giant turbine and seeking to prevent everyone from wasting limbs to grinding the teeth of the device while the thing accelerates the moans around them. You have to concentrate on the heat of this or that race to be sure of what you can film.
That said, the stories have to take place somewhere, and as a whole, the F1 list of genuine life positions oozes courage and romance, any of which is one of the most sought-after by filmmakers, much like a high-stakes film. , luxury that the formidable Bond franchise has. It works its high and low tones. Meanwhile, the real Formula 1 will move to the “Hungaroring” circuit in Budapest on July 21. Hamilton, brand new from his almost absence on the podium due to Mercedes cars, with a victory that surprises even the driver himself. , will look for a clever message to repeat or at least compete.
As it did in 2023, the summer center, Pitt
From Zandvoort, there are only five days left before the real Formula 1 leaves for Baku, Azerbaijan, which remains an unstable destination for F1, from a contractual point of view. It’s hard enough to see Formula 1 itself heading towards oil state dictatorship. Before Liberty Media bought him out, Bernie Ecclestone had no qualms about negotiating with the defeated pro-Putin Azeri strongman Heydar Aliyev, or more accurately, he had no qualms about negotiating with Aliyev for a few million of his lubricating petrodollars (in the “mentioned fees”) of F1 may simply not go ahead.
The point is that with Putin’s war literally aligning every single former Soviet satrapy opposed to Ukraine, it’s pretty hard to believe that the Pitt/Hamilton Formula 1 production team has taken its bags of cash and has been thrown at the knees of Heydar Aliyev’s son and has existed. The Azeri strongman, Ihlam Aliyev. It’s worth digressing to note that the agitated propaganda of Azeri news is, by definition, quite agitated, but to appreciate Ihlam Aliyev’s cheerful lapdog role in the region, this delightfully upbeat dispatch from a recent stopover in Moscow will be enough.
Stranger things have happened, however, in general, Azerbaijan is not a country where a Western film production would have to be noticed making a cash investment, if only for the quick PR nightmare, not to mention what the totalitarian state’s own racial promoters would demand. of a production entitled Pitt. La authentic Formula 1 has the excuse that he earns additional money competing in Baku.
As the Fast and Furious franchise teaches us, there’s almost no narration, just the roar of many engines, some quick and decent stunt montages, glances from other guys, and some cool, rocking “roads. ” The melodies that go on forever” on the soundtrack may motivate many moviegoers to give up their dukedoms.
Fortunately for Pitt and Hamilton, there’s more inherent athletic pressure, more characters and more narrative intensity in genuine F1 than the makers of the Fast and Furious videos ever imagined they could have, no matter how much oil. to be robbed to give everyone a “project”. The fact is, we still can’t know how much of the narrative is actually in the box or, in other words, how much the filmmakers let themselves do in this year’s genuine F1 season. .
The most productive assumption is that there are a few left. In form, that is, with an aging champion (Pitt) taking an up-and-coming one under his wing (Damson Idris), there is only one story arc, and that is the arrival of the young star to a career as the eldest prepares his inevitable farewell. Hollywood is smart about those kinds of coming-of-age stories, which is why there have been 4 remakes of A Star Is Born since the original in 1937. Set against the backdrop of authentic Formula 1, a game in which, simply put, there is none, for anyone in the paddock, this carries plot implications that provide the right narrative bulwarks and turning points, whether it’s the character’s first win or the searing chaos of an accident, fatal or not.
In this ultimate narrative twist, it’s about whether, in this film, Pitt’s character will say goodbye to his beloved game. This plot component will surely have been on co-producer Hamilton’s brain: there are plenty of pleasingly lucrative trade routes. through which champion Formula 1 drivers can leave their game for free, but unfortunately, until the drivers take one of those routes, it is an integral component of F1 that, every time the drivers put their horses into the track, just a few centimeters away are the many unsightly tactics in which drivers can be forced to abandon their race in a moment of tension.
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