Senna & the Art of F1 Storytelling - The James Allen on F1 Podcast
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- This month the F1 world is celebrating Ayrton Senna, the three-time world champion who died 30 years ago.
For many lovers of the sport, he remains the greatest driver of all time. His story and passionate, intense character are captured in the 2010 documentary Senna, a movie that crossed F1 over to mainstream entertainment audiences. This wasn’t a film about cars and race results. It was about a human being.
Without the Senna movie would Drive to Survive have been the crossover hit it has been? And would F1 have the fanbase it has today? In our main feature interview, the writer & producer of Senna, Manish Pandey gives us his take. Senna’s niece Bianca gives the family’s point of view and reveals how over 36 million children in Brazil have been given educational support by the Ayrton Senna Institute.
Joining James to discuss all things Senna are Autosport Editor-in-Chief Rebecca Clancy and Brazilian journalist Julianne Cerasoli. They also touch on the bombshell story that Adrian Newey, the designer of the last F1 car Senna raced, is to leave Red Bull at the end of the season.
Get in touch with the show by emailing: jamesallenonf1@motorsport.com
0:00 Senna & the Art of F1 Storytelling
3:18 Adrian Newey to Leave Red Bull
12:11 Interview with Manish Pandey
36:22 Senna's Legacy
47:19 Interview with Bianca Senna
55:51 The Senna Institute's Impact
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Great work, please can we have more with James Allen.
35 Million kids educated in 30 years, that’s utterly incredible.
Truly Ayrton and his family have created a legacy that will live long beyond all of them, another crowning achievement.
Manish Pandey - the feeling with which he talks about Ayrton, it brings tears to my eyes.
Thank You very much Autosport for this informative set of interviews. Bravo James Allen.
Julianne a MAIOR que nós temos ❤️👏🏻
This is a great feature. Manish Pandey is a truly great biographer. Looking forward to the Montezemolo film
Topgear put me on this film back in the day and i became obsessed with f1 since then... got a free movie ticket book from my parents one year of about 15 tickets to use in about 10 days, i went and saw this movie alone every single day; phenomenal film.
miss james allen,should've retain him with martin brundle
Now I'm really hungry for Pasta Pomodoro 😅
Embraer is a global player actually
Man I miss the James Allen site….we just seem to be full of the same story with loads of adds just regurgitated by folks not interested in F1 but just want hits to their social media channel..as shown by all the images and memes aimed at winding folks up and getting folks arguing online. JA get your website back up and running.
Comparing Senna to drive to survive garbage is an insult
If you watch back the Senna film, you'll notice that they do a lot of very similar techniques to Drive to Survive, such as using footage from different years/events. (I.E. Monaco 1990 onboard footage is used for Monaco 1988, some footage of Ayrton talking to the FIA about the grid positions at Hockenheim is used for Suzuka 1990) Another thing is the way some of the interview audio is edited, especially for Alain Prost. If you watch the extended 4 hour cut of the film on the Blu-Ray, you get a lot more of Prost's unedited thoughts and you get a much better understanding of where he is coming from. A good example is how the theatrical cut very heavily implies that in 1993 Prost put it into his contract that he did not want to be teammates with Ayrton because he thought that would rob him of the opportunity of a 4th title. (I.E. That Senna would beat him because he knew he was better) What he actually says in the extended cut is that he was worried about bringing a toxic atmosphere to Williams given that things did not really cool down between Senna and Prost until midway through '93 when Prost was very clearly on his way to the title. At no point does Prost say he doesn't think he could beat Ayrton as his teammate, he just didn't want the hassle and to tear the team apart.
Given that a lot of the same people (like Pandey and Box to box films) worked on both Senna and Drive to Survive, I think it's reasonable to compare them; Senna was in many ways the historical trial run for Drive to Survive, although what I would say is that Asif Kapadia's direction elevates the Senna documentary in a way that suits the format of a theatrical drama. Drive to Survive by contrast is schlocky reality TV with the occasional unique or interesting behind the scenes insight; In the footage of Senna you never really get the sense that Senna is playing to the camera; the only exception is his interview with Jackie Stewart where he attempts to defend Suzuka 1990, and it's cleary performative from Senna; he knows he is 100% in the wrong and chose to deliberately crash into Prost, but he cannot admit it, (He pretends there was a gap, but he knows full well there wasn't and admitted as such a year later) and it's a deeply uncomfortable scene; the direction and the score portrays it as a tragic scene where Senna betrays his own values to win the title. Elsewhere he comes over as authentic and passionate, rather than someone playing to the cameras, whereas the Horners and Steiners of DTS are the exact opposite; they know they are being filmed for a documentary and absolutely play into it, which makes everything feel staged and inauthentic. I think both of them are manipulative and ignore/bend the truth in service of their narratives, the Senna doc is just better at hiding it whereas in DTS if you have watched the actual sport then the fake rivalries and such are completely transparent.
@@GeriatricFan1963 senna documentary wasn't perfect, particularly don't like the way prost was portrayed, but it's miles better than the drive to survive. Of course i watch the sport but stopped watching dts after several seasons because it's so fake, like It's made for the lowest common denominator, all the drama, made up rivalries, everyone acting for the camera...i just couldn't watch it anymore. btw about senna vs prost. There is a james hunt clip with which i agree:
ruclips.net/video/UPXZyj8DpV8/видео.html
I wish we could trade Croft out for iconic Allen...
Sennas car was faulty it wasn’t a driver error
Sorry ,can’t watch, wrong host.
Why’s that?
Not the greatest