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Lotta people go through life doing things badly. Racing's important to men who do it well. When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.
Netflix sent Le Mans today. It's a super-swanky race movie with Steve "The Man" McQueen.
If I remember that "Steve McQueen E! Hollywood Story" episode I saw back in my cable days, Le Mans was big money pit that almost didn't make it to release.
The screen play for this must be something like:
We see race tracks. People looking on. More race tracks. Zoom into railing where car crashed. McQueen looks pensive. Zoom out from railing. McQueen looks pensive.
McQueen to lady whose husband died in last year's race: "How are you?" Lady says nothing We see cars racing. People looking on. More cars racing, now with headlights. Rain. Authoritative dude in old guy hat (the "manager") looks concerned. More cars.
Minus McQueen doing the Hemingway thing, I guess that's what Matt's got in store for him in Phoenix.
Tragically, he'll probably also miss out on the mega-lounginatin' sound-track, which is just what you'd expect from a movie about European racing released in 1971: muted horns, slow psuedo jazz riffs that say, "hey baby, this shag rug is real soft...and afterward maybe we can chopper over the bay to get some steak and lobster, baby. I'll wear my thick, white turtle-neck. Oh...I'm sorry, did I blind you with my lucious side-burns? Well, how about that shag, baby?"
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