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I think Matt Damon was an extremely poor choice for Carroll Shelby.
Shelby's family didn't think so. They gave Damon some sort of medallion for his portrayal of him, through Jay Leno. Leno has done a brief interview with Damon about the film, available on You Tube.
Other point I remember from this video is that Ferrari was known as "the assassin" because so many of his drivers died racing.
I thought Bale and Damon were an excellent team, and thoroughly enjoyed the film.
Just saw the movie last night and found it pretty disappointing. It was "Hollywooded" way too much. Rather than focusing on the actual development of the cars, and on more of what happened at Shelby America, they made the show just about the exaggerated interpersonal relationships between the Ford execs and Shelby. They really didn't explain what the Cobra was all about, anything about it's development or just how significant it was. They never mentioned that while Shelby America was working with the GT-40 project in the GTP class, they also built their own Shelby Daytona (Cobra based) for the GT class-and won it. They never showed the actual design and building of the GT-40, it just showed up at Shelby for additional development. It was never mentioned that the first ones were built by Lotus.
The race scenes were mostly dumb (fun, but dumb). Just because you "let your driver loose" doesn't mean that his car is 30 miles an hour faster than anything else on the track. And why are they always downshifting when increasing speed? The whole show felt more like Days of Thunder (IIRC-the old Nascar film with Tom Cruise) than a story about Shelby America.
There is a Netflix documentary out on Shelby right now that actually is better than the movie.
Just saw the movie last night and found it pretty disappointing. It was "Hollywooded" way too much. Rather than focusing on the actual development of the cars, and on more of what happened at Shelby America, they made the show just about the exaggerated interpersonal relationships between the Ford execs and Shelby. They really didn't explain what the Cobra was all about, anything about it's development or just how significant it was. They never mentioned that while Shelby America was working with the GT-40 project in the GTP class, they also built their own Shelby Daytona (Cobra based) for the GT class-and won it. They never showed the actual design and building of the GT-40, it just showed up at Shelby for additional development. It was never mentioned that the first ones were built by Lotus.
The race scenes were mostly dumb (fun, but dumb). Just because you "let your driver loose" doesn't mean that his car is 30 miles an hour faster than anything else on the track. And why are they always downshifting when increasing speed? The whole show felt more like Days of Thunder (IIRC-the old Nascar film with Tom Cruise) than a story about Shelby America.
There is a Netflix documentary out on Shelby right now that actually is better than the movie.
Hollywood always embellishes some what and you have to expect it. You’re never going to hear ALL the story or at least the REAL story. I personally enjoyed it but I do plan on watching the one on Netflix too.
I loved the movie, but I have to wonder ... why didn't Matt Damon ever don the traditional Carroll Shelby overalls that we always saw him in??? Huge Shelby fan here ... in fact, my youngest son's middle name is Shelby!
I loved the movie, but I have to wonder ... why didn't Matt Damon ever don the traditional Carroll Shelby overalls that we always saw him in??? Huge Shelby fan here ... in fact, my youngest son's middle name is Shelby!
Yeah, I wondered the same thing. It was sort of a signature thing for him.
Shelby's family didn't think so. They gave Damon some sort of medallion for his portrayal of him, through Jay Leno. Leno has done a brief interview with Damon about the film, available on You Tube.
Other point I remember from this video is that Ferrari was known as "the assassin" because so many of his drivers died racing.
I thought Bale and Damon were an excellent team, and thoroughly enjoyed the film.
I’d like to see Bale and Damon do another movie together.
I loved the movie, but I have to wonder ... why didn't Matt Damon ever don the traditional Carroll Shelby overalls that we always saw him in??? Huge Shelby fan here ... in fact, my youngest son's middle name is Shelby!
Good question, but didn't Shelby wear these mostly during his racing career?
Maybe not so much as an employee of Ford.
Damon's body type wouldn't look so good as the real Shelby's in overalls, perhaps that was a factor.
People who expect to have history rewritten to serve the social meme’s of today are worthless as critics
The interesting point was that Lee Iacocca was the man who thought of the Ford racing team
Tried to buy/merge w/Ferrarri and played second to Josh Lucas’s syncophant Leo Bebbe in the hierarchy at Ford but went on to run Ford and Chrysler...
Josh Lucas played Beebe as such an ego-fixated ass-kisser he gives the term “executive” a thoroughly negative connotation...
This was quite possibly the best film of the year that I have seen. Now I fully enjoyed say Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Far From Home and Frozen 2 more, BUT this was a far better film than those three, if that makes sense. And I am NOT knocking those three films, but this was a great story and had fun car race set pieces.
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