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I watched Rush last night for the second time, great movie. Got me thinking, what race/season/story Woukd make the best moto movie. Let's assume a guy like Ron Howard wanted to sell a story from our sport to the masses, what story would be the best? I'm sure most of the answers will be from the 70's and 80's, which I have no beef with, but would they translate to the big screen as well as Rush did? Just a question.
Massacre at Saddleback
Magoo
Lackey
Let Brock Bye
Bailey
McGrath and Emig in the 90's
Other
Massacre at Saddleback
Magoo
Lackey
Let Brock Bye
Bailey
McGrath and Emig in the 90's
Other
MC and Emig in the 90's would be decent, but they were't completely different from one another like Lauda and Hunt... the only difference was that MC won a fuck ton and Emig didn't, they were both partying at Havasu on Sunday.
ps... Rush was an awesome flick
The more I think about it Lackeys GP career probably has the craziest stories. The on track story is great but I'm sure he went thru some shit off the track too, being an American in Europe riding a CZ in the Cold War.
Hannah is such a character his life would make a great movie.
What was cool about Rush is that a lot of people probably had no clue those events ever happened (my young self included). I'd love to see one of those stories in moto make it to the masses.
Also, I think someone could pull it off, but a movie about JT Racing. Similar to the movie 'Drift'. If you haven't seen the movie, check it out it's on Netflix.
Guy gets to Suzuki, and they tell him the following year they are canning their open class effort. "Now or never"
He puts the Simonz front end on the bike... Suzuki tells him no... He responds "if you want a World Championship, they stay on the bike" Fast forward 6-7 years and every bike on the track has upside down forks.
Forgot which Belgian was running second in points that year, but apparently at Namur, he had to time his perfectly where he passed the guy with a lap or less to go, otherwise the Belgian fans would crowd the track, throw shit at him and rip him off his bike.
Before you call BS on the fans ripping dudes off their bikes, they broke Graham Noyce's arm.
As far as movie cinematography and drama go, I don't think there is a better story. The dude is the "James Dean" of motocross, plus you could do a little "Marty Moates USGP" segment in there somehow.
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