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A friend and I saw the movie this evening. Some observations: I agree with your overall assessment, articulated above. My thoughts as I watched the Ford and Ferrari business interactions depicted in the movie was that, in the greater overall view of this event, Ferrari could be described as the underdog, vs a giant American corporation and the associated corporate culture. However, as an 8 year kid who was at this race with my family (dad was in the US Army stationed not far away from LeMans), what was exciting to me, at the time, was that American cars came in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. That was my principal emotional memory of the event. I also remember watching the victory in the pit lanes with the large crowds swarming the cars, thru a chain link fence about 400 yards away. Interestingly, we drove to the race in a 1962 Chevrolet Impala, bronze color. Lee Iacocca's character in the film nailed the description of what a young family-oriented man wanted (and I saw that same model car as background in the film). The few things that didn't get accurately depicted (to my memory of that era) in the film were the numbers of people smoking-- cigarettes seemed to be everywhere at the time, and also litter. In the photos my dad took, the viewing areas of the race course were heavily littered. Also, the 2nd day of the race was cloudy and overcast, with potential of rain showers-- the film showed blue skies. All, in all, a very good film with much better character development than the 1971 Steve McQueen film Le Mans.
