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In this featurette, Director Michael Mann and Car Bodies Manufacturer Rita Campana discuss how they have replicated some Ferrari sports cars such as the 315s and 355s for the movie “Ferrari.”
Transcript
00:00 (dramatic music)
00:02 If Jesus had lived today and not 2000 years ago,
00:07 he would have been not a carpenter,
00:12 but a craftsman in metal like yourselves.
00:14 The nature of metal, how it can be forged, shaped,
00:20 and hammered by your skills into an engine,
00:23 holding inside a fire to make power,
00:27 to speed us through the world.
00:30 (dramatic music)
00:33 Had to replicate the sports race cars,
00:36 the 315s and the 335s that we used in the film.
00:40 You couldn't possibly use the authentic ones.
00:45 We needed cars to be safe, reliable, and very, very fast.
00:48 Michael Mann asked us to reproduce cars
00:54 from the Mille Miglia of 1957.
00:59 We are using the old techniques
01:01 that makes the car wonderful.
01:04 But we are at the same time using new technology
01:09 that can give us more information.
01:12 We replicated those cars by doing 3D LiDAR scans
01:17 of real cars, and then we put the shape together
01:25 with a tubular chassis, which we designed.
01:28 We create two kinds of cars.
01:32 One is the fiberglass cars.
01:34 The other is metal, because they are going to be crashed,
01:38 and so they need to be realistic when they crash.
01:42 (gunshots)
01:44 We are having a few of the cars actually made
01:49 from aluminum body panels.
01:50 (gunshots)
01:52 Where the guys are hammering out the aluminum
01:55 in the shapes necessary, hammer welding them together,
01:58 and it's absolutely gorgeous.
02:00 We're to the point where we shouldn't even paint these cars,
02:03 that you can see the craftsmanship.
02:05 It's handcrafted, and anything that's handcrafted,
02:09 I think, has a soul on it.
02:10 You feel that energy because of all the time
02:13 and thought and emotion that's put into it.
02:16 This is much better.
02:18 Why?
02:19 Oh, and we look at other objects that are designed,
02:22 you know, 70 years ago.
02:23 They don't stand the test of time.
02:25 These are museum objects.
02:26 They're absolutely stunning and they're gorgeous,
02:28 and they're not self-conscious art objects.
02:30 No one is sitting there on a Ferrari saying,
02:32 "Oh, let's make an art object that moves."
02:34 (engine revving)
02:36 It's just the opposite.
02:37 Ferrari is saying, "I build engines.
02:40 "What's the car you get for free?"
02:42 And they're not designed to look good.
02:44 They just do look good.
02:45 It looks better.
02:49 In all life, when a thing works better,
02:53 usually it is more beautiful to the eye.
02:55 (engine revving)
02:59 (tires screeching)
03:01 (tires screeching)
03:04 [BLANK_AUDIO]