Cinef1, Formula 1 movie with Brad Pitt, is a blockbuster Old School

The average speed of a car Formula 1 It revolves around 210 km/h, but with the right person behind the wheel, you can reach 400 km/h. (Don’t try this at home, children.) Of course you also need a flawless machine and a professional team ensuring that everything works smoothly and efficiently. Mastering the circuit requires practically an entire village. But the difference between a competitive team and a champion is usually who is in the cockpit.

“Do we have the car?” F1the drama on Formula 1 who tries so much to sell the sport to those who do not know the difference between a McLaren and one MCRIB how to surf the wave of this billionaire phenomenon of global popularity. “We have the pilot!” JAVIER BARDEM with a solemnity worthy of doing Moses drop the Ten Commandments and start clapping slowly. And we sign under the statement of the winner of the Oscar.

A story about a veteran trying a last chance on the line of arrival, an impulsive young man who needs a mentor, and an Azarona team seeking glory in a sports narrative that could not be more formulaic – tip the waiters! – This return to Old School blockbusters is even a tuned and well -lubricated operation. But above all, there is the pilot. Forget the engine power. The fuel that moves this aerodynamic and elegant bolide is 100% pure star power.

Call it Mr. Pitt – And even before I officially know the character of Brad Pitt, Sonny Hayesalso known as “the best it has never been,” the film already prepares the terrain to present it as a rebel, legendary and outside the system. Serene images of nature interspersing with first -person running scenes, cars cutting the wind at speed. This is what goes through the mind of Hayes Before leaving the van where he lives, his sacred space, and follow slowly to the track. In this case, for the 24 HOURS OF DAYTONAwhich officially opens the season. He gets in the car, runs his stretch his way and, thanks to the leadership of Hayesthe team goes out with the trophy. (Our hero doesn’t touch the cup – he says he gives bad luck.) And the fact that all this happens to the sound of “Whole Lotta Love”, From LED ZEPPELINjust makes it all, I don’t know, a hundred times cool. After that, Sonny If you send – “one and ready,” ready to let the wind decide your next destination. THE Baja 500 It’s coming. Maybe he can’t get a vacancy.

But who enters the laundry in Orlando where Hayes Are you killing time? Your old friend Ruben (Bard). In the past, the two were promises of Formula 1disputing position to become the next great stars of the sport. Until Hayes suffered an accident in a race against Ayrton Senna And he spent the next 30 years to the drift in obscurity. Rubenon the other hand, it became owner of the APXGPa team eternally sunk in the last place. Now he is $ 350 million in the red, about to lose everything. And you need someone to turn the game. Why not Sonny? The answer is a non -solid. Until suddenly it is no longer. AND Hayes It appears on the team’s training track, arriving with that floor of those who have won.

Because he has already won – when you are a fucking pilot interpreted by Brad Pittwalking through a film that carefully paints you like the human equivalent of a running car that runs on the edge, but happily ignores any “rule”, everything is already earned, right? Well, not so much. Hayes still need to conquer Joshua Pearce (DAMSON IDRISfrom the series Snowfallon the rise), the promising novice who needs to learn the paths, etc., and sees the veteran as a threat. The same goes for Kasper (Kim Bodnia), the Danish team chief, and Kate (Kerry Condon), the Irish technical director – both suspicious that this geriatric newbie will be able to operate a miracle. From the press conference that announces Hayes as a new pilot of APXGPeveryone – from journalists to the mother of Pearce (Sarah Niles) and your manager (Samson Kayo) – It starts to make fun of his age. Shortly thereafter, the movie already shows Hayes Diving without a shirt in an ice tub, as who says, “Yes, the guy is old – but he’s the tasty old Brad Pitt in sixty -one years. “

Hayes It also needs to learn that Formula 1 It is a collective sport, even taking into account what we said about the pilot being the decisive element. He will have to balance humility with experience and talent, realizing that even his genius and eccentric tactical actions have consequences in the real world, and face not only professional obstacles but also their personal demons. As much as “meetings” involving drinks and makeshift poker games Sonny and Joshua They are organized by the technical director who tries to mediate the two, the confidence between these two ASES needs to be conquered, returns around.

If you think the flirty full of barbs between Sonny and Kate indicates that it will be the Irish romantic interest with attitude – fortunately, Condon It’s too talented to fall into the cliché – then trust your instinct. (She comes out much better than the female character who only gets in the way at first, apparently existing just so that Hayes seems more generous when it proves to be essential later.) And if Tobias MenziesSince the smiling executive of the team immediately seems to be a great Judas, congratulations: you understand how the movies work.

Joseph Kosinskiformer member and director of Top Gun: Maverickyou know exactly how to make it all work – another epic that revolved around a big star, a lot of spectacle and the idea that only an exceptional individual who ignores protocols can save the day. F1 It could quietly be called “Form ‘One: MaverickThat no one would find it strange.

Just like that movie with Tom Cruise, F1 Bet that authenticity, likelihood and a feeling of “you are there” can turn a good movie session into a visceral experience. Marketing has been highlighting that production was really incorporated into the Formula 1 for a season, that the team of Pitt interacted with real mechanics, that the actors directly drive in various scenes and that real figures of the F1 They appear in the movie – all to make everything as real as possible.

To have Lewis Hamilton interpret Lewis Hamilton helps a lot – yes, that moment of “Through Goes Hamilton! It is here, with a panting narration – especially considering that Hamilton is the producer of the film. Kosinski and the director of photography Claudio Miranda They use the most technically advanced, with state -of -the -art cameras and camera plans that slide from the pilot’s point of view to the side profile, so fluidly that it can still impress at the hundredth time. Most of us never piloted a Boeing Super Hornetmuch less a car of F1 in Abu Dhabi. The bet is that these second -hand but first -class pleasures will compensate for the fact that we are running at 400 km/h on a well -known path.

And, in a way, it compensates for – enough to make F1 Don’t just become the Days of Thunder (1990) of the new generation. Both films have the touch of the superproductor Jerry BruckheimerMaster in delivering to the public what he wants – louder, faster and to the sound of rock for fans of Nascar. His signature is there, but what really gives this air of hot nostalgia is the fact that this movie, clearly made to be a star vehicle, understands that the emphasis is on “Star.”

Stars still appear in the 21st century, but few manage to carry a movie of this size and do not look like extras in the face of sound and fury. The way Pitt Inject your presence, physical, charisma, persona, discipline mixed with carefree and a way of channeling a rocker charm Golden of Hollywood Without looking dated is what makes this movie win. He even can overshadow the cars. It is a performance that remembers CLARK GABLE, Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, William Holden and especially Steve McQueenanother lover of running movies. (It is no coincidence that one of the Zen hobbies of Hayes be playing a ball against the wall – the same Mcqueen in Fleeing.)

F1 It could not be more current by focusing on a sport that became a world obsession, and at the same time could not be nostalgic – an nod at the time a longer star than life was the only IP needed. This is what the blockbusters used to be. You go for the most beautiful car than a billion budget can play. But it is for the pilot.

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