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Old 1 Jan 2004, 23:18 (Ref:825378)   #1
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Enzo Ferrari

last night I hired a movie called "Enzo Ferrari" and was wondering if anyone else had seen it ?

its basically the life story of the legend delving into his personal life.

I must say i was intrigued by it but at the same time dissappointed in it.

I dont know alot about the great mans life but I dont think it showed him in a great light but then again that could have been the way he was.

From his childhood making a billy Kart right up until about 1982 when Gilles Villeneuve sadly lost his life.

He certainly has left a mark (or marque) on the world and is trully a complicated man from what I can work out.

So has anyone seen this movie and what did you think of it ?

and was his personal life so torrid as this movie depicted ?
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""and was his personal life so torrid as this movie depicted""

Torrid???
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ok maybe torrid wasnt the right word.

how about "was his personal life as messed up as the movie depicted"
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Like many very successful business men Enzo Ferrari was not a 'nice' man. He was brilliant at what he did which was to use the glamour of Ferrari as a bait to attract very talented people - engineers, managers, drivers - to his company where he would pay them peanuts, use them up and wring them out before unceremoneously tossing them away on the scrap heap to be replaced by fresh talent. He was tight with money and liked to set up people within the Ferrari organisation to compete against eachother, believeing that this would get the best out of them. It was never a comfortable place to work. In his later years I don't think he was even much interested in cars. He didn't drive his own cars but was chauffer driven around in a Fiat. And, of course, he famously didn't go to any races. Money, power and the politics of power fascinated him much more. I suspect that he was particularly pleased with his unique position in Italian society for he effectively became a sort of unofficial regional baron who was untouchable by law, politics or anything else. Only the pope was more esteemed. I think it was Brock Yates (who wrote a biography of Ferrari) who said something to the effect that 'no matter how you slice it, he was a sh*t.'
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