03-23-2020, 06:36 PM
Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans (2015)
Fascinating behind-the-scenes Documentary about Steve McQueen's out-of-control 1971 "passion project" 'Le Mans'. He insisted that nothing be faked in pursuit of capturing the essence of speed and racing on film. If a car was supposed to be going 200mph in a scene, then the stundrivers had to be doing 200mph for real (one of them got maimed). McQueen wanted to do all his own driving and they filmed the actual 1970 race to use in the movie (they entered a camera mounted car in Le Mans). Unfortunately there was never a script McQueen could agree on, so the director quit, the studio took over, something compromised was eventually released and it bombed. From the amazing footage shown in this doc, I'd still love to see the movie when I can get to a copy.
Fascinating behind-the-scenes Documentary about Steve McQueen's out-of-control 1971 "passion project" 'Le Mans'. He insisted that nothing be faked in pursuit of capturing the essence of speed and racing on film. If a car was supposed to be going 200mph in a scene, then the stundrivers had to be doing 200mph for real (one of them got maimed). McQueen wanted to do all his own driving and they filmed the actual 1970 race to use in the movie (they entered a camera mounted car in Le Mans). Unfortunately there was never a script McQueen could agree on, so the director quit, the studio took over, something compromised was eventually released and it bombed. From the amazing footage shown in this doc, I'd still love to see the movie when I can get to a copy.
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