“But then, by the end of the third act, it really becomes a story about the Villeneuve family and the Pironi family. I think the film starts as a story about Gilles Villeneuve and Didier Pironi. You can kind of connect them to any walks of life, really.”ĭid you achieve what you set out to do with the documentary? That was the follow-up, to which Jones replied: “I hope so. “That’s why I hope, audiences will watch the film, not just Formula 1 fans, because I think you can kind of go into those bigger themes. “The story is really about how the families and the wives and the girlfriends and the children, how they react to that and how they have to live with the emptiness of not having a husband, not having a father, and the kind of long term emotional scars that come with being with people where that singular passion really overtakes everything. But then, when tragedy strikes, and particularly, you know, with Formula 1 of that era, you know, tragedy struck a lot. It’s very, very fast-paced, it’s very intense. It’s incredible, as a straightforward story, but I think what it actually came to represent, for me was really, it was a story about passion. “If you managed to get both families to agree to be on board, and you simply laid out what this story is, it’s got highs and lows, it’s got twists and turns. It has incredible chronology of events that happened. For the reason that it was just an incredible story. And I think with Villeneuve Pironi I was really drawn to it. “I thought it was going to be about this but actually, it’s about something completely different.
He replied: “I guess the question is, you set out make you set out to make a film, and then I always find on the projects that I work on, it’s very near the end of the project, or even after you finish that you go, Oh, actually, that’s what the film was about. To kick start the discussion, ahead of the 18 March release on Sky and NBC Universal, I asked Jones to start with the best question he had been asked during his media interview campaign to promote the show.
0 kommentar(er)
