Hello, my name is Michael Mann. I am the director of “Ferrari”. It is a scene in the Church of San Pietro in which there is a workers’ mass and Enzo and Laura have just returned from their daily visit to the mausoleum where their son Dino was buried. He died a year earlier. They are both in mourning. And it opens with the priest’s speech, which aims to establish the miracle of the eternal combustion engine, almost as if it were something religious, because it has the power to do what has never been done before. been done before, which is to make everyone mobile, to make it so that people can move around the world. This infected Enzo differently in that it inspired him in the early 20s to become a race car driver, which has its own kind of addictive, almost spiritual effect. “…the nature of metal, how it can be forged, shaped and hammered by your skills into an engine, keeping the fire within to produce the power needed to accelerate us through the world.” Meanwhile, at the nearby circuit called The Autodromo, Maserati is challenging Ferrari for the track record. It’s something they take seriously. The driver is Jean Behra, played by Derek Hill, whose father, Phil Hill, was the first American Formula 1 world champion. Interspersing the mass, we hear Mozart’s “Ave Verum”. The priest consecrates the host. Meanwhile, something very important happens. We see Behra going through something called the “Stanguellini Chicane”. It is important to know the changes that need to happen, because in a later scene we will see Castellotti make a mistake that will cost him his life. There’s a particular piece here where you see the camera tilting the crucifix which shows the priest raising the chalice, and then you go right over Jean Behra’s shoulder at the wheel. And it personalizes it and it was to give meaning to things. We see stopwatches, because inside the church we hear the gunshot because the Autodromo is very close. And they are able to time the time between the first shot and the second shot, which will allow them to know whether or not the competitor, Maserati, has broken the record. Meanwhile, the communion continues on “Ave Varem” by Mozart. And we see something unusual in that it’s so ordinary, but it’s very complete of Derek Hill actually driving this Maserati, which is a real car. It belongs to Nick Mason, the drummer of Pink Floyd. It is run in historic races. Due to the technology, the era and the narrow tires, it is extremely accurate. One slip and the car goes out of control. So we see that these controls are actually put in place. And of course, the Maserati beats Ferrari’s record. My serious intention was to imbue the audience’s mind with what is in the minds of our characters, which is to say that there is something almost religious and deadly serious there- inside. The metaphysical and wild power is really what is married as a value in the scene. In reality, the scene operates on two or three different levels at the same time. ” Holy Spirit. Amen.” “Amen.”
