I realize it's a blind question , but just picture two well-adjusted "normal" girls, neither of which are very competitive and who nothing whatsoever about cars or racing
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tomieland, the movie is a magnificently photographed work of racing art. It puts you in the race from beginning to end. Not one bit of CGI in it. These are the most beautiful racing cars that have ever existed. A better auto racing film has never, in my opinion, been made, though there are a couple which may be as good. The themes in the movie have been compared to an allegory for good vs. evil, and do tell a story.
All kids are different. You know your girls. Will they relate to this? Talk with them about it ahead of time, and see if you think they will.
Happy viewing!
No, they will more than likely hate it. Heck, it would be difficult to get a 20 something to sit still long enough for this film... which IS excellent by the way!
"I don't want your watch, man. I want your friendship!" - Lightfoot
No, this ain't Fast n Furious.
No sexy bald-headed guys driving colorful rice burners...
Who gives a f@ck?
Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection. Send my credentials to the House of Detention.
I doubt any 16- or 12-year olds would be able to enjoy this. Le Mans focuses on the race, eschewing a lot of conventional narrative elements that people expect.
shareThis movie is more of adventure and a lot of it shows the difference in speed from one car to the next to the next. The rest is primarily why thrill seekers loved Le Mans in the 70s - the danger and American actor Steve McQueen and German actress Elga Andersen, nee Elga Hymmen, reflect on that and pray one team makes a mistake or has a mechanical problem.
If you have a couple mathematicians in your house you want to make engineers, with any luck, you may get beyond the "stupid oh they're just going around in circles" crap (anyone thinking like that doesn't understand what racing is), forget the danger because that's mostly gone, although former Aston Martin Racing driver Allan Simonsen still proves it lingers around to this day.
Le Mans is man and machine, however these days the machine is what makes the man, in the past it use to be the other way around, because these cars are much better than they were in 1971 in all aspects of the word.
If your daughters after watching this movie are not asking yourself, how the hell do they build these damn machines and the 5,000 components they require to make them run up to 225 miles an hour 4 times an lap nearly 400 times in a 24 hour race with very little mechanical or electrical problems, then they'll never fully grasp this movie, racing in general, or how complicated cars can be. For me, Formula 1 got me interested in racing thanks to my dad's doing in 1996, but 2003 is what made me an engineer when I discovered 24 hour endurance racing at Le Mans and the Rolex 24 at Daytona. This is the pivot of technology. Love sprint racing, watch F1, love machines that go fast and last, watch endurance. Endurance racing is in fact 16 1 1/2 hour F1 races molded in one event back to back to back and just wait for something to happen. That's the name of the game.