Name: Watch Christian Bale Burn Rubber in ‘Ford v Ferrari’ | Anatomy of a Scene
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Hi, this is Jim Mangold, director of 'Ford v Ferrari.'

is walking out about 10 minutes before the race

begins to prepare to start a 24 hour race at Le Mans.

what this place looks like in the stands, and the spectacle

empty, but never seen it in this moment in full flower,

was to kind of show the calm before the storm.

There's a lot of pageantry and everyone's tense.

Here's Matt Damon, who plays Carroll Shelby, joining

Christian, looking over the Ferrari cars as they go by,

which are their chief nemesis in the race and the most

brilliantly engineered cars that exist at that point,

Enzo Ferrari in the stands watching over them.

was to show the kind of stress that everyone is living with,

but playing down, going about their tasks,

Here we see Ken Miles' family back at home in Los Angeles

For all the characters you see, these Ford executives--

that's Jon Bernthal is Lee Iacocca, Enzo Ferrari--

all the characters brought to this point in time

with the fate and their future at stake in this race.

That's kind of the reason the whole film is building

up to what becomes an almost hour long race

Beautiful tradition at Le Mans that's long since passed

is that all the drivers start on the opposite side

I thought this was a really unique opportunity

to stage a kind of start of a race in a different way

with each driver uncontained by the shell of their car,

standing there on the side of the road moments

before they have to leap in the cars, turn the ignition,

and begin what will be a 24-hour endurance test

but one I really wanted to get in one piece, which

is feeling all the drivers leaping in and pulling out.

Well, we shot with real cars, not digital ones.

vintage and semi-vintage cars pulling out all in unison

from the stands with 400 extras, is a challenge.

We waited for the right moment to do the shot.

All of that to create a kind of moment of expectation

One of the very true and kind of interesting

facts of the race that I wanted to very much replicate

had a malfunction immediately with the door of his car.

So he's driving in excess of 150 miles an hour

on a track with a door that won't shut, and is already

preparing for this race and preparing this car

for so long, running into trouble in the most mundane

You might notice that I'm shooting this sequence very

much from the point of view of the driver or very close

My goal was to somehow tell the story of an auto race,

but not emulate the coverage you see on sports shows,

but to put you much more behind the wheel

and on the track so that you're feeling much more what

Not only the harrowing nature of the speed and the thrills

and the danger, but also the adrenaline and the excitement

and the sense of even a kind of perfection

that they're chasing when the driving is going right

The actual work of the visual effects team in this sequence

is much less about the cars and much more

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Watch Christian Bale Burn Rubber in ‘Ford v Ferrari’ | Anatomy of a Scene

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