Sylvester Stallone Created The Rocky Of Racing Movies Before Brad Pitt’s F1

Spoilers Front “F1” and “Driven”.

Although there are numerous examples of movies that helped create a sports movie model, the winner of the 1976 winner “Rocky” in 1976 combined the story of the sports movie with a strong effective formula. The concept of a lower dog, the primary competitor of the past who fights back into a great time that may not win, but just to prove to himself and others that he can Almost every member of the audience can joinwhether they have participated in sports or not.

“Rocky” and the massive success of its sequels, other sports films began to adopt this type of sub -dog structure, and appeared in movies that range from “Karate Kid” to “Top Gun” to a flat, yes “Happy Gilmore”. This is because the basic principles of the “rocky” can be applied not only to other types of sports but also to life in general. “Rocky” writer and star Sylvester Stallone tried to apply “cliffs” pattern – everything – competitive arm at 1987 cheesefest “up”.

Given how many racing sports are about endurance and individual’s willpower in terms of power and skills, it follows that racing films adopt some of the “rocky” spirit. This month “F1: Movie”, “ Director Joseph Kosinski and written by Ehren Kruger, stars Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes, a competitor who has to find Mojo in the same way as Rocky Balbo. Using “Rocky” films as an impression of a movie that first dives into the world of the Formula 1 competition would seem like a beautiful idea. However, it turns out that “F1” has not only been beaten in this regard, but also Rocky Balboa himself (which previously played a competitor in one of his first films). In 2001, Stallone wrote and played in the “Driven” movie, which carries more than the passing “F1” in the story, if not elegantly.

At the “Driven” event, Stallone plays Joe “The Hummer” Tantto, former Championship and Indy 500 champion, whose old team owner Carl Henry (Burt Reynolds) attracts the retirement of Carl’s latest master Car Rookie, James Roman “Jimmy” Bly). Jimmy is shocked by all sides as he tries to settle in the world of racing: his leader’s brother Demille (Robert Sean Leonard) with his own stress and competition with Beau Brandenburg (Til Schweiger), the dominant champion. This latter element gives “driven” the lower part of the extra soap opera, attended by Beau’s alienated girlfriend Sophia (Estella Warren), who sets up flirting with Jimmy, and Stallone’s way is a nod to one of the most famous racing races of all time: James Hunt and Niki Lauda Ron Howard’s “hurry”). As all these feelings and hormones fly on the track and track, the mature tantol is not only a hand full of Jimmy mentoring, but notices himself to start the taste of sports again, which will make him a competitor for both young men.

At the “F1” event, Sonny attracts retirement retirement by the old competitor’s turned team owner Ruben (Javier Bardem) to direct his team’s Hotshot-Setaist Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris). Where Joe “Driven” is a sub -dog more classically in Stallone fashion, Sonny is part of Rocky, part of the “Top Gun” event -a bold joker brand that drives in its own way, regardless of it. Sonny’s refusal to play with the book is under the skin of Joshua, while Sonny thinks that Joshua is not trying enough since the May December competition begins. Where the “driven” paints the river as a sub -dog because he has underestimated all around him, “F1” uses Sonny’s middle age and his grid reputation as a continuous player he must win.

Both films vary wildly aesthetically – “driven” director Renny Harlin decides to describe racing scenes in a very subjective way while Kosinski boasts for himself “F1” is as realistic as possible. However, each movie is soaked in real-life racing culture, both films with a series of cameras from different public characters in the racing world.

Despite the fact that both “drive” and “F1” resemble each other in their comprehensive characters and themes, this is less an example of plagiarism, and more by the by -product of a sports film structure that “Rocky” helped to popularize. By saying that the latter tears the former, there is about as much weight as claiming that every Slasher made since 1978 is tore “Halloween” (even if there is some truth to the concept). “F1” and other racing movies would be easy to compare to almost every racing movie ever. “F1” is so much “Grand Prix” and “Le Mans” like “Driven”, “Thunderstorms” and so on.

In addition, the “driven” and “F1” end up deviating in their conclusions, showing how their story and characterization were, after all, carbon copies. At the “Driven” event, Joe eventually comes third behind Beau and Jimmy, which is his character’s very “rocky” lead. The metaphor behind the movie paints Joe/Stallone as an elderly film star who learns to give up the spotlight to those coming behind him, the theme that the actor/writer/director is still studying “Expendables” movies. In F1, however, Sonny and Joshua not only squeeze the beef, but also throw a lot of respect for each other and learn to work as a team. This allows Sonny to win at the end of the movie, showing that Ruben’s APXGP team is now a viable challenger for F1 and delivers a redemption to Sonny, who washed the racing world as a young man.

The end of F1 continues to prove that this story was not a competition to see who the best man was, but is instead a story of a man who wants to restore his reputation to help his friends in the process. After winning the championship, Sonny decides to worship F1 and move on to another challenge that competes for a small off -road team in Baja, California. If Joe responds to the understanding of the film star that he is no longer a young leading man, Sonny is the counter of Knight’s competitor: someone who is the noble of the aspiration itself. It is clear that both characters, such as Rocky, have gone to the end of the end, literally and patterned.

“F1” is now in theaters.