After the release of Neill Blomkamp’s Gran Turismo, it feels like the perfect time to reflect on Ron Howard’s biographical racing drama, Rush, starring Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, and Olivia Wilde. The 2013 film focuses on the 1976 motor-racing season and the rivalry between Briton James Hunt and the Austrian Niki Lauda. Like most biographical dramas, Howard dramatizes Rush’s plot points for the audience, including Hunt and Lauda’s rivalry and Lauda’s wife’s reaction to his injuries.
Other story elements were invented for the film, such as altercations off the race track and details about who participated in what race and the results of their efforts. While it’s typical for a biographical film to blur fact from fiction to create a more compelling narrative, Rush takes several liberties with Hunt and Lauda’s story despite the duo being friends early in their careers.
The mood around...
Other story elements were invented for the film, such as altercations off the race track and details about who participated in what race and the results of their efforts. While it’s typical for a biographical film to blur fact from fiction to create a more compelling narrative, Rush takes several liberties with Hunt and Lauda’s story despite the duo being friends early in their careers.
The mood around...
- 9/11/2023
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Ron Howard's movie about 1970s British swashbucking F1 star James Hunt and his antler-clashing rivalry with the icy Niki Lauda is a fast and furious treat
No matter how obsessed we continue to be with the 1970s, there's always one more myth left to excavate, and this very entertaining and well-made motor racing movie from director Ron Howard and screenwriter Peter Morgan brings us a meaty tale from 1976: a story of antler-clashing, engine-revving alpha-males. This was a year in which not everyone in fact was obsessed with the release of the Sex Pistols' Anarchy in the UK. In the profoundly conservative world of Formula One, millions of TV viewers were increasingly preoccupied with an extraordinary duel developing between two drivers: the glamorous swashbuckler from Britain, James Hunt, and the icily correct Austrian Niki Lauda.
Hunt is played by the Australian star Chris Hemsworth, his shampooed mane swishing and shirt permanently open,...
No matter how obsessed we continue to be with the 1970s, there's always one more myth left to excavate, and this very entertaining and well-made motor racing movie from director Ron Howard and screenwriter Peter Morgan brings us a meaty tale from 1976: a story of antler-clashing, engine-revving alpha-males. This was a year in which not everyone in fact was obsessed with the release of the Sex Pistols' Anarchy in the UK. In the profoundly conservative world of Formula One, millions of TV viewers were increasingly preoccupied with an extraordinary duel developing between two drivers: the glamorous swashbuckler from Britain, James Hunt, and the icily correct Austrian Niki Lauda.
Hunt is played by the Australian star Chris Hemsworth, his shampooed mane swishing and shirt permanently open,...
- 9/12/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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