Ferrari Set to Enter the World of Sailing
The Prancing Horse is preparing for its maiden voyage in the world of sailing as a way of improving its technological capabilities.
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The Prancing Horse is preparing for its maiden voyage in the world of sailing as a way of improving its technological capabilities.
I went into the holidays looking forward to relaxing, spending time with family, and taking the edge off with a racing movie. You know the one. Spoiler alert: Michael Mann’s Ferrari isn’t a motorsport film. It’s mostly a film about Enzo Ferrari’s extramarital affairs, which, while scandalous, didn’t quite hit the mark for me. The most exciting part of it is when Enzo’s wife, masterfully played by Penelope Cruz, tries to shoot him in their office. That happens within the first five minutes, and Cruz’s standout performance can’t keep the rest of the disjointed film afloat.
It seemed like it had everything: big stars, big budget, and a main subject that everyone knows. Yet Ferrari the movie seems to have screeched to a halt without ABS and hit a bridge abutment after its opening Christmas/New Year’s week. So far, the $98 million megamovie has garnered only $11.8 million on domestic big screens and another $4 million internationally. It made only $6.8 million on its first four days. In its first week at the box office it ranked eighth—behind Wonka, Aquaman Dos, and The Color Purple, among others. A less-than $16 mil
Midway through Ferrari, the iconic Italian motor-racing impresario sits at a table with his adolescent son, born of his mistress. Enzo Ferrari sketches a design for a 12-cylinder engine, in long, chalky swoops, like a seamstress designing an elegant gown. He explains to his boy that the curved, sweeping angles create better airflow, which means more power, and more speed. “When a thing works better,” Ferrari, played by Adam Driver, tells the child, “usually it is more beautiful to the eye.”
Of course, a movie titled “Ferrari,” for a certain audience, has to be less about a character named Ferrari and more about Ferraris.
Napoleon Bonaparte. Leonard Bernstein. Willy Wonka. Aquaman — there are a ton of Guy Movie Heroes out there as 2023 ends. And yet up zooms another — in “Ferrari.”
If conflict is the essence of drama, Enzo Ferrari led a dramatic life. Director Michael Mann and screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin—both working with the late, great Brock Yates’ book—finally got that life hammered and wedged into a two-hour movie. Did they do it right? Yes, for the most part, and you should go see it. If only for the cars, which are all accurately portrayed and professionally driven by the likes of racer/actor Patrick Dempsey, who plays Piero Taruffi, and by Derek Hill, son of P
This year's Ferrari Cavalcade Classiche concluded in early September, and the Prancing Horse is already looking back on the event with a short video. The clip highlights some incredible moments and gives us mere mortals a chance to relive the iconic road trip, albeit only vicariously.