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How ‘Ferrari’ Sourced $70 Million Vintage Cars to Create Authentic Racing Sequences
'Ferrari''s cinematographer and picture vehicle supervisor worked with a classic car expert to achieve authentic racing footage on screen.
With cars like Taruffi’s Ferrari 315 S and the others featured in the race, Triphook says he was essentially convincing people to let them risk damaging what was in some cases a multi-million-dollar conveyance in order for Mann to achieve a few extra minutes of historical verisimilitude. Along with being an “amateur mechanic,” Messerschmidt says his work on films like JD Dillard’s “Devotion,” where he mounted cameras to airplanes traveling at 300 knots, helped him anticipate how to shoot “Ferrari.” “There is a diminishing return at a certain point, depending on your lensing, before the audience no longer feels speed,” he observes. He says, “conversations Michael and I had were about the cinema grammar of how referential to be to the modern techniques of visual storytelling and assembly, and when to step back and let it be visceral and loud — and to some degree disorienting.” Even so, the “Ferrari” cinematographer welcomed the pressure to get that balance right.
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