30 Day Movie Challenge: Day 28- Ford v Ferrari (2019)

This years Academy Awards featured a lot of great films that were in contention for a lot of awards including that for Best Picture (the winner being Parasite). The task for today's 30 Day Movie Challenge was to watch a film that was nominated for Best Picture at this year's Academy Awards and with only three options left to choose from, I went with 2019's Ford v Ferrari which was directed by James Mangold (Walk The Line). The film stars Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting) as Carroll Shelby who at one time was considered one of the best racers ever, but after winning the 24 hour Le Mans, he was forced to retire from behind the wheel. After a failed deal with Ferrari, Ford Motor Company decides that it wants to get even by building a race car, but they need someone to do it and they hire Shelby. The only question is can Shelby actually do it despite the pressures from corporate and will they let his driver race? The film also stars Christian Bale (Vice) as Ken Miles, Jon Bernthal (The Wolf Of Wall Street) as Lee Iacocca, Caitriona Balfe (Escape Plan) as Mollie Miles, Josh Lucas (Sweet Home Alabama) as Leo Beebe, Noah Jupe (Honey Boy) as Peter Miles, Tracy Letts (The Big Short) as Henry Ford II, Remo Girone (Live By Night) as Enzo Ferrari, Ray McKinnon (Deadwood) as Phil Remington, and JJ Feild (Captain America: The First Avenger) as Roy Lunn.

One of the sad facts about the film is that Beebe did not like Ken Miles, but it wasn't for his racing style or anything having to do with racing. He disliked Ken Miles because Ken shit all over the Mustang right to Beebe's face so it was a constant d**k measuring contest between the two and obviously Beebe has the most pull being the corporate stooge that he was and let me say that Josh Lucas plays that role very well. I was thinking to myself that I do not remember watching a movie with Lucas where I actually liked his character. Nonetheless, he was a decent secondary villain in the film of course the Ferrari team being the main villains of the film as Ford strives to be number one. I honestly thought that Christian Bale was the main star of the film as he absolutely stole the show as the wild and what seems untameable Ken Miles, but we end up finding out just what his character really was. I loved the action that you get in this film which means that I loved the cinematography cause they did an amazing job capturing everything. I loved the cars, the look of the film, and all of the sets that they designed for this film. So, I definitely agreed with the Academy's choice to have this film nominated for Best Picture, but I definitely agree that it wasn't the best one on the list. The film won two Academy Awards for Best Film and Best Sound editing which I definitely agree with as they did an phenomenal job which is why I am going to give the film an A- for a final grade.