{"id":28717,"date":"2023-06-07T10:38:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T09:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28717"},"modified":"2023-06-07T10:54:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T09:54:11","slug":"a-review-of-the-2019-film-le-mans-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28717","title":{"rendered":"A review of the 2019 film &#8220;Le Mans &#8217;66&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\nI&#8217;m no petrolhead. I don&#8217;t own a car and I don&#8217;t even drive. But this car-racing movie is a cracker. That&#8217;s because it&#8217;s a well-written, character-driven film pitting corporate bureaucracy against individual flair.\n<p>\nThe corporation is the American Ford motor company which decides in the mid 1960s that it wants to make its image more exciting by winning the Le Mans 24-hour race which had traditionally been dominated by the Italian company Ferrari. \n<p>\nThe individualistic over-achievers are American former racing car driver, now designer, Carroll Shelby and top driver and engineer, the British Ken Miles. The support roles are well-cast but Matt Damon, as Shelby, and especially Christian Bale, as Miles, are terrific.\n<p>\nDirector James Mangold does a fine job keeping the excitement going for some two and a half hours which earned him a nomination for Academy Award for Best Picture.\n<p>\nAs the ending tells us: &#8220;The Ford GT40, developed by Shelby and Miles, won Le Mans in 1966, 1968 and 1969. It remains the only American-built car ever to win the 24 hours of Le Mans.&#8221;\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m no petrolhead. I don&#8217;t own a car and I don&#8217;t even drive. But this car-racing movie is a cracker. That&#8217;s because it&#8217;s a well-written, character-driven film pitting corporate bureaucracy against individual flair. The corporation is the American Ford motor company which decides in the mid 1960s that it wants to make its image more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28719,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28717\/revisions\/28719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}