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quarta-feira, 14 de dezembro de 2016

Manipulação Vergonhosa da História de Ayrton Senna na TV Aberta

SENNA VIVE OPINIÃO


*As opiniões mais relevantes dos fãs e publico em geral dadas através dos canais de comunicação do Senna Vive.

Biógrafo de Ayrton Senna, Ernesto Rodrigues, cortou pedaços importantes da história do ex-piloto em série exibida para a TV Aberta.


O comentário a seguir foi feito a partir da postagem desse vídeo acima (extraído do documentário "Ayrton, Retratos e Memórias", exibido em 2015 no Canal Brasil) na fanpage Senna Vive. 

"O documentário da Globo é totalmente diferente do canal Brasil. Eles cortaram todos esses depoimentos contra a família Senna. Inclusive do piloto do jatinho dele, afirmando o controle excessivo do pai e do resto da família. Essa fala e a da Betise não foi ao ar na Globo. Provavelmente por conta da Viviane." - (por Janaína Chaves, comentário na Fanpage Senna Vive, em 12 de dezembro às 19:37)


Print do comentário de Janaína Chaves na fanpage Senna Vive



Relato de Owen O'Mahony, piloto do jatinho de Ayrton, contra Milton da Silva, pai de Ayrton, exibido no Canal Brasil, assim como o da Assessora Betise Assumpção contra a família, foi cortado do documentário exibido TV Globo:




Documentário "Ayrton Senna do Brasil" da TV Globo

Documentário "Ayrton, Retratos e Memórias" do Canal Brasil

O documentário “Ayrton Senna do Brasil”, exibido pela emissora de televisão aberta mais importante do país, a TV Globo, entre abril e maio de 2014, e o documentário “Ayrton, Retratos e Memórias”, exibido pela rede de televisão fechada, Canal Brasil, quase no final do ano passado, são na verdade o mesmo documentário, porém, editados de maneiras distintas para favorecer a família Senna, como bem percebido pela internauta Janaína Chaves. Esse material a respeito de Senna para a TV aberta e fechada foi produzido pelo diretor de TV e jornalista, Ernesto Rodrigues, através de sua produtora Bizum. Ele também é autor do livro “Ayrton, o herói revelado”, biografia sobre Ayrton Senna lançada em 2004.


Produtora do jornalista Ernesto Rodrigues



Infelizmente, mas uma vez o jornalista Ernesto Rodrigues manipula a história do Ayrton para favorecer a família Senna. 



segunda-feira, 25 de novembro de 2013

Depois de Filme Senna, Asif Kapadia Está Em Outro Projeto Chapa-Branca

Asif Kapadia


Parece que o diretor de cinema, o britânico, Asif Kapadia, virou especialista em documentários chapa-branca. E  seu documentário chapa-branca sobre Ayrton Senna, feito a pedido da família do piloto, virou referência para parentes que querem passar uma imagem “maquiada” ou uma história manipulada. Ayrton Senna tem a imagem exemplar, só que no caso da família, eles querem esconder muitas verdades sobre a sua vida. E passar uma pessoa bem diferente do que ele foi na realidade.

Filme Senna


Isso se deve a querer esconder muitos fatos, como a “cachorrada” que a família fez com Adriane Galisteu no funeral de Senna. Como eles vão aprovar a exibição de uma coisa dessas no filme? Isso queima eles próprios. Ou que eram contra o casamento dos dois, como revela o livro “The Life of Senna” de Tom Rubython. E nisso para esconder tantas e tantas informações sobre a vida do ídolo, eles usam a ex-namorada dele Xuxa Meneguel, sempre dando um grande espaço a ela em todas as homenagens que fazem. E em muitas dessas homenagens Adriane Galisteu não teve vez, não apareceu e nem sequer foi citada.

Xuxa muito bem recebida por Viviane Senna na premier do filme/documentário Senna


E agora Asif Kapadia virou especialista nisso, e fará um documentário chapa-branca para a também falecida cantora britânica, Amy Winehouse, a pedido do pai da cantora.

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Pai de Amy Winehouse veta cinebiografia da cantora, mas libera documentário



Tributo 21/11/2013 | 17h39

Mitch Winehouse afirmou que produção será lançada no ano que vem
Não é dessa vez que os fãs de Amy Winehouse vão ver a vida da cantora nos cinemas.Mitch Winehouse, pai da cantora, negou a produção de uma cinebiografia, segundo informações da revista Digital Spy.

— Não quero fazer o filme, mas há um documentário feito pelas mesmas pessoas que produziram Senna [sobre o piloto brasileiro Ayrton Senna, dirigido por Asif Kapadia] e que irá ser lançado no ano que vem — contou durante um evento da Amy Winehouse Foundation Ball, que aconteceu nesta quarta-feira.

A ideia de criar uma ficção sobre a vida da cantora existe desde 2011, ano em que ela morreu. Lady Gaga chegou a ser anunciada para o papel principal pelo próprio pai da britânica, mas não evoluiu.
Mitch não definiu qual seria a melhor forma de homenagear Amy, mas já tem alguns planos em mente.

— Um show seria incrível, mas teria de ser em conjunto com a gravadora. Soa ótimo na teoria, mas na prática não é tão fácil. Estamos conversando sobre isso.

Apesar de não querer mais levar a vida da intérprete de Rehab aos cinemas, o pai lançou um livro com a biografia de Amy, além de colaborar com o projeto de um disco póstumo, Lioness: Hidden treasures.

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Hollywood biopic of Amy Winehouse ruled out by father Mitch



Singer's father doesn't want his daughter's life to get Hollywood treatment

November 21, 2013 13:54

Mitch Winehouse has insisted that he will not allow Hollywood to make a biopic of the life of his daughter Amy Winehouse.

A film about the late singer has long been mooted – just a month after Winehouse's death in July 2011, for example, rumours circulated that Lady Gaga wanted to play the lead role – and in December 2011, the singer's family said they would "entertain" the idea of a big-screen telling of her life.

Speaking to Digital Spy at the annual Amy Winehouse Foundation Ball at London's Dorchester Hotel yesterday evening (November 20), however, her father said he did not want the project to take place.

"I don't really want to do a biopic, but there's a documentary film from the same people who did Senna coming out next year," he said. He also spoke about the possibility of staging a memorial gig in his daughter's honour, adding: "A concert would be amazing, but it's actually getting it together with the [record label]. It sounds great in theory, but in practice it's not so easy. We are talking about it though."

Senna director Asif Kapadia was given the go-ahead to make a documentary on Amy Winehouse's life in April of this year. In September, meanwhile, Mitch revealed that he had discovered a new, unreleased song recorded by his daughter before her death.



MITCH WINEHOUSE SAYS HE "DOESN'T REALLY WANT" AMY'S LIFE UP ON THE SILVER SCREEN..




18:48, Thursday, 21 November 2013

Amy Winehouse's father Mitch has revealed he's not interested in a Hollywood biopic being made about his late daughter.

Mitch Winehouse made the admission last night (November 20) at the annual Amy Winehouse Foundation Ball, held at the Dorchester Hotel in London.

Speaking to Digital Spy about the difficulties he's faced finding the right way to pay tribute to the singer, Mitch revealed: "I don't really want to do a biopic, but there's a documentary film from the same people who did Senna coming out next year."

He continued: "A concert would be amazing, but it's actually getting it together with the [record label]. It sounds great in theory, but in practice it's not so easy. We are talking about it though."

Mitch also thanked the "host of wonderful people" who had turned out to support the cause, including Pixie Lott, Boy George and Amy's good friend and producer Mark Ronson.

He said: "I'm emotional, but happy to be here and grateful for everyone who's come to support us."

"It's just wonderful. Amy should be here, but under the circumstances I'm happy."





jueves 21 de noviembre 2013

La familia de Amy Winehouse se niega a que filmen una biopic sobre la cantante

Mitch, el papá de la cantante, confirmó que no quiere que la vida de su hija llegue a la pantalla grande

Tras la muerte de Amy Winehouse en julio de 2011, mucho se habló de la posible realización de una biopic y documentales sobre la cantante. Aunque en diciembre de 2001 su familia había dicho que no le parecía mala idea que la vida de la británica llegara a la pantalla grande, el padre ahora se mostró en contra de esta posibilidad. 

Mitch Winehouse confesó su postura en un evento de la fundanción Amy Winehouse en Londres. 

"Realmente no quiero que se haga una biopic", dijo el padre de la cantante británicaa DigitalSpy, aunque reconoció que habrá un documental en los cines próximamente. 

"Hay un documental, hecho por la misma gente que trabajó en Senna, que se estrenará el año que viene", explicó. 

Además, se refirió a la posibilidad de que se realice un recital en memoria de su hija.  

"Un concierto sería apasionante...Suena perfecta la idea en la teoría, pero en la práctica no es tan fácil", reconoció el padre de Winehouse.





BY ALICIA ADEJOBI ON NOVEMBER 22, 2013


Amy Winehouse's Father Refuses To Allow Biopic Of Late Singer's Life

However he is okay with a documentary coming out next year


Amy Winehouse's house father has stated that he would not allow a biopic to be made about the late singer's turbulent life but has accepted a documentary which is scheduled for next year and also a possible tribute concert.
Mitch Winehouse was joined by the likes of Mark Ronson, Pixie Lott and Barbara Windsor on Wednesday night as he hosted the annual Amy Winehouse Foundation Ball to raise money for disadvantaged children and became emotional as he recalled fond memories of his late daughter who died in July 2011 as a result of alcohol poisoning at the age of 27.

Mitch Winehouse says he doesn't want a biopic to made of Amy's life (Mr. Blue/WENN)
With Amy's incredibly successful career, which included six Grammy Awards, two number one albums – one posthumously – a string of iconic singles in addition to her turbulent personal life, it's no surprise that Amy's life would be ideal for Hollywood movie studios to turn into a film, but Mitch isn't too keen on the idea.
Speaking to Digital Spy at the bash, Mitch said: “I don't really want to do a biopic, but there's a documentary film from the same people who did Senna coming out next year.”
“A concert would be amazing, but it's actually getting it together with the [record label]. It sounds great in theory, but in practice it's not so easy. We are talking about it though.”
During his speech at the party, held at London's Dorchester Hotel, Mitch gave a speech recalling the 'Back To Black' singer's charitable nature.



“She'd created the Amy Winehouse Foundation long before we'd even thought about it,” Mitch revealed.
“In so many ways she was a lovely girl who suffered from major problems. She dealt with all her addictions, except the last one. I know we're helping other people, but it's been an incredibly wonderful thing for us to do in the wake of Amy's passing and it's helped a lot with our grief.”
Check out photos from the Ball below...



21 de Novembro de 2013 | 18:28

Pai de Amy Winehouse não irá autorizar nenhuma cinebiografia sobre a filha

Mitch Winehouse não gostaria de uma homenagem em formato de cinebiografia, mas sim, um documentário, saiba mais!

Mitch Winehouse, pai de Amy Winehouse, declarou que não irá autorizar nenhuma cinebiografia para contar a história da filha, morta em 2011.
Na última quarta-feira, dia 20, aconteceu o baile anual da Fundação Amy Winehouse no hotel Dorchester em Londres, onde Mitch contou que está difícil achar uma homenagem digna para sua filha.
- Não quero fazer uma cinebiografia, mas há um documentário das mesmas pessoas que fizeram Senna (sobre Ayrton Senna) saindo ano que vem, disse em entrevista ao Digital Spy.
Ele continuou:
- Um show seria incrível, mas teria que acontecer junto (com a gravadora). Parece ótimo em teoria, mas na prática não é tão fácil. Mas estamos conversando sobre isso. 


Pai de Amy Winehouse veta cinebiografia da cantora, mas libera documentário

O longa será feito pela mesma equipe que fez o filme sobre o piloto Ayrton Senna
21/11/2013 | 16:32 | FOLHAPRESS

O pai da cantora Amy Winehouse, Mitch, afirmou ontem, no baile da fundação que leva o nome de sua filha, que não vai deixar que Hollywood produza uma cinebiografia dela.

Em entrevista ao site "Digital Spy", Mitch disse que não está aberto a discutir um filme de ficção sobre a cantora, mas que um documentário sobre ela deve sair no próximo ano.

"Será feito pelas mesmas pessoas que fizeram 'Senna'", comentou, fazendo referência ao documentário de 2010 sobre o piloto brasileiro Ayrton Senna, dirigido por Asif Kapadia. O acordo para a produção do filme foi anunciado em abril.

A ideia de um filme de ficção sobre a vida de Amy Winehouse existe desde 2011. Um mês após a morte dela, em agosto daquele ano, boatos davam conta de que Lady Gaga queria fazer o papel principal.

Em dezembro de 2011, a família de Amy declarou que "estudaria" a ideia de um filme abordando sua vida.


Winehouse's dad rules out biopic

Amy Winehouse's dad has said no to a biopic about the late Singer

22 NOVEMBER 2013

Amy Winehouse's dad has ruled out the chance of a Hollywood film being made about the late star.

There had been rumours that the singer's life might be given the big screen treatment, but Mitch Winehouse said he isn't keen on the idea of a biopic about his daughter.
He told Digital Spy: "I don't really want to do a biopic, but there's a documentary film from the same people who did Senna coming out next year."
Mitch suggested a memorial gig might be a more fitting tribute to Amy, who died of alcohol poisoning in 2011 at the age of 27.
Speaking at the annual Amy Winehouse Foundation Ball at London's Dorchester Hotel, h e said: "A concert would be amazing, but it's actually getting it together with the [record label].
"It sounds great in theory, but in practice it's not so easy. We are talking about it though."


FONTE PESQUISADA

ZH, Donna. Pai de Amy Winehouse veta cinebiografia da cantora, mas libera documentário. Disponível em: <http://zerohora.clicrbs.com.br/rs/vida-e-estilo/donna/noticia/2013/11/pai-de-amy-winehouse-veta-cinebiografia-da-cantora-mas-libera-documentario-4340879.html>. Acesso em: 22 de novembro 2013.


Hollywood biopic of Amy Winehouse ruled out by father Mitch. Disponível em: <http://www.nme.com/news/amy-winehouse/73975#WxycKGIdVmg1bjJP.99>. Acesso em: 24 de novembro 2013.

MITCH WINEHOUSE SAYS HE "DOESN'T REALLY WANT" AMY'S LIFE UP ON THE SILVER SCREEN..

La familia de Amy Winehouse se niega a que filmen una biopic sobre la cantante. Disponível em: <http://www.infobae.com/2013/11/21/1525473-la-familia-amy-winehouse-se-niega-que-filmen-una-biopic-la-cantante>. Acesso em: 25 de novembro 2013.

ADEJOBI, Alicia. Amy Winehouse's Father Refuses To Allow Biopic Of Late Singer's Life. Disponível em: <http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news/133428/Amy-Winehouses-Father-Refuses-To-Allow-Biopic-Of-Late-Singers-Life#R8Q5DlYGECxrfGE2.99>. Acesso em: 25 de novembro 2013.


Pai de Amy Winehouse veta cinebiografia da cantora, mas libera documentário. Disponível em: <http://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/cadernog/conteudo.phtml?tl=1&id=1427184&tit=Pai-de-Amy-Winehouse-veta-cinebiografia-da-cantora-mas-libera-documentario>. Acesso em: 24 de novembro 2013.

Winehouse's dad rules out biopic. Disponível em: <http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/winehouses-dad-rules-out-biopic-29776005.html>. Acesso em: 24 de novembro 2013.




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sexta-feira, 22 de novembro de 2013

"Ignorado" no Brasil, documentário "Senna" faz sucesso no exterior

Filme sobre carreira do piloto brasileiro coleciona prêmios e prestígio fora do país, mas obteve pouco destaque quando exibido nos cinemas nacionais

Marco Tomazzoni, iG São Paulo | 19/01/2012 09:18:11

No final de 2011, quando começaram a aparecer mundo afora as listas de melhores filmes do ano, um nome conhecido do público brasileiro estava entre eles. O documentário "Senna" estreou no país em novembro de 2010 – antes do que em qualquer outro lugar –, teve recepção moderada da crítica e ficou poucas semanas em cartaz. Não exatamente o que se esperaria de um filme sobre a vida de um maiores pilotos de todos os tempos, ainda mais se tratando de um brasileiro.
Mas ao começar sua carreira internacional, no início do ano passado, a situação mudou: o filme ganhou o prêmio de público do prestigiado festival de Sundance e bateu recordes na estreia naInglaterra e na Austrália, sempre amparado por críticas entusiasmadas da imprensa estrangeira. Nesta semana, mais uma vitória, ao receber três indicações (melhor filme britânico, melhor documentário, edição) ao Bafta, o "Oscar" britânico.

 "Senna": nas listas de melhores filmes do ano e disputa pelo Bafta, o "Oscar" britânico

A coleção de louros de "Senna" impressiona. A revista de cinema inglesa "Empire", uma das mais conhecidas do mundo, elegeu o filme sobre o piloto como o segundo melhor de 2011, à frente de "O Discurso do Rei", "Bravura Indômita", "Cisne Negro" e até do hypado "O Artista". Ganhou o prêmio de melhor documentário do ano do British Independent Film Awards (onde também foi indicado a melhor filme), do Netflix, iTunes, do Satellite Awards, e nos festivais de Los Angeles , Melbourne e Adelaide. Ficou entre os cinco melhores documentários do ano do National Board of Review, panteão da crítica norte-americana, e entre os 10 melhores filmes esportivos da história segundo o jornal irlandês "The Score".
Não para por aí. "Senna" ainda concorre nas premiações dos sindicatos dos produtores e dos roteiristas de Hollywood, prévias eficazes do Oscar, nas categorias dedicadas a documentário. O filme só vai ficar de fora mesmo da festa da Academia, já que não figurou entre os semifinalistas do prêmio. A exclusão de "Senna" surpreendeu diversos veículos, como o jornal britânico The Guardian, e até serviu de exemplo para justificar a revisão das regras para o Oscar de melhor documentário.
Biografia autorizada
O entusiasmo da imprensa internacional com o filme, no entanto, não encontrou eco na crítica brasileira. À época da estreia, o comentário mais comum nas críticas sobre "Senna" era o de que o filme seria "chapa branca" por mostrar o piloto como um "semideus", glorificando seus feitos e evitando suas falhas. O curioso é que não se trata de uma produção nacional: "Senna" foi dirigido pelo cineasta inglês Asif Kapadia e produzido pela companhia britânica Working Title Films, em parceria com a ESPN.

 Documentário teve aval da família do piloto

O jornalista Reginaldo Leme, que é entrevistado no documentário, discorda de um suposto ufanismo do filme. Ele admite que o documentário teve a aprovação da família Senna, mas descarta o favorecimento de uma visão parcial. "[O filme] mostra, inclusive, a realidade do relacionamento entre Senna e [Alain] Prost. Como faz o Fernando Alonso com o Felipe Massa, [Senna] chega na equipe e quer dominar." Leme se refere à famosa rivalidade nas décadas de 1980 e 1990 entre o brasileiro e o francês na McLaren, fartamente ilustrada com imagens de arquivo.
Também especializado em Fórmula 1, o jornalista Rodrigo França, autor do livro "Ayrton Senna e a Mídia Esportiva", concorda que não seria complicado fazer um documentário pró-Senna. "Falar bem do Senna teoricamente é fácil, um herói nacional. Para a crítica daqui, talvez essa imagem de figura midiática, de herói, provoque um certo ranço."
O crítico carioca Carlos Alberto Mattos vai pelo mesmo caminho. "Existe no Brasil uma desconfiança, um pé atrás, contra o documentário 'a favor', justamente por causa da overdose de documentários laudatórios de figuras da cultura e da política. Já no mercado internacional não dão a mínima para isso. A heroização é muito mais aceita e comum, por exemplo, no mercado norte-americano. A gente não tem a tradição de herói."
França ainda rebate a afirmação de que "Senna" seria maniqueísta, ao procurar demonizar as figuras de Prost e de Jean-Marie Balestre, decano das federações internacionais de Automobilismo Esportivo (FISA) e do Automóvel (FIA), desafeto de Senna, em especial no caso do Grande Prêmio do Japão de 1989 (Senna ganhou a corrida, mas teve a vitória anulada e foi suspenso da F-1). "Isso só surgiu no Brasil. Nos Estados Unidos, na Inglaterra, ninguém reclamou. Nem na França falaram alguma coisa dessa história do Prost e do Balestre."
"Cuidado com biografias autorizadas, no cinema ou na literatura, é sempre salutar", afirma Amir Labaki, fundador e diretor do festival de documentários É Tudo Verdade. "Creio, antes de tudo, que as qualidades cinematográficas do filme não foram devidamente ressaltadas."
nullBilheteria: boa para documentário, ruim para a lenda
Nos cinemas brasileiros, "Senna" foi visto por 211 mil pessoas. Apesar de distante de blockbusters como "De Pernas pro Ar" e "Cilada.com", que atraíram mais de 3 milhões de espectadores, o desempenho, por se tratar de documentário, é considerado satisfatório.
Isso porque em qualquer lugar do mundo o público para o formato é diminuto, já que as ficções dominam a preferência e o circuito exibidor. Nos EUA, por exemplo, "Senna" foi distribuído de forma independente, já que os grandes estúdios não acreditam no potencial de documentários nas bilheterias.

Cartaz internacional de "Senna": recorde de vendas de DVDs no Reino Unido

"O documentário tem um espaço no Brasil maior do que em outros países, mas mesmo assim se trata de um público bastante específico", aponta Pedro Butcher, editor do Filme B, portal especializado no mercado de cinema. "Um filme como 'Lixo Extraordinário', indicado ao Oscar, teve público bem menor [49 mil] do que 'Senna'."
Esse cenário minguado fez de "Senna" o sexto documentário mais visto dos últimos 20 anos no país, atrás de "Fahreinhet 11 de Setembro" (674 mil espectadores), "Vinicius" (271 mil), "Todos os Corações do Mundo" (265 mil, sobre a Copa de 1994), "Pelé Eterno" (257 mil) e "Buena Vista Social Club" (228 mil). Mesmo assim, a ideia de que o filme poderia ter ido mais longe é geral.
"É um público expressivo para documentários no Brasil, mas decepcionante para o potencial do personagem. Poderia ter sido maior", afirma Labaki.
Rodrigo França também acredita que a bilheteria ficou aquém do esperado. "Confesso que me surpreendi não com a recepção lá fora, mas aqui dentro. Reencontrei o diretor do filme no GP de Mônaco e ele disse que esperava mais do Brasil, ficou um pouco decepcionado."
Na opinião de Carlos Alberto Mattos, o documentário não fez um lançamento adequado no país. "O filme chegou aos cinemas de repente, sem nenhuma preparação, sem procurar o lastro de popularidade que o Senna tem no Brasil. Não tinha identidade certa, não se sabia se era inglês, brasileiro... Foi lançado como mais um documentário de esporte, e não como algo sobre o Ayrton Senna que as pessoas amavam."
Segundo Pedro Butcher, é mais comum que filmes esportivos encontrem seu público no mercado doméstico e na televisão. A Universal não divulgou a vendagem de DVDs de "Senna" no Brasil, alegando confidencialidade, mas no Reino Unido foi um sucesso: mais de 600 mil cópias, um recorde para o gênero na região.
Para Labaki, o reconhecimento do filme no exterior é justíssimo. "É um documentário eletrizante sobre um dos maiores esportistas do século 20. Não me lembro de documentário de maior impacto sobre o universo da Fórmula 1."
"Não é sempre que a gente vê documentário esportivo chegar nesse nível de recepção", continua Mattos. "Geralmente só temas maiores, como 'Trabalho Interno' [ganhador do Oscar] e filmes de Michael Moore atingem esse estágio. Mas ['Senna'] é um filme que funciona muito bem e tem uma construção dramatúrgica do personagem excelente."


FONTE PESQUISADA

TOMAZZONI, Marco. "Ignorado" no Brasil, documentário "Senna" faz sucesso no exterior. Disponível em: <http://ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/cultura/cinema/ignorado-no-brasil-documentario-senna-faz-sucesso-no-exterior/n1597584238939.html>. Acesso em: 22 de novembro 2013.

sexta-feira, 15 de novembro de 2013

O ESTADO: Antonio Banderas Diz Que Vai Fazer O Papel de Senna

Era isso que foi noticiado, mas ao ver o roteiro a família Senna vetou o projeto. 









MORAES, Angélica de. Antônio Banderas diz que vai fazer papel de Senna. O Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, 29 de junho 1998. Cad. 2, p. 67.

Assista também:

Tudo Sobre O Filme Documentário Chapa Branca de Ayrton Senna EM CONTRUAÇÃO

Está em inglês

Viviane Senna, a representante da família, tudo que envolve o nome de seu irmão tem que ter o aval dela.

Date: July 23 2011

Stuart Jeffries

Filme/Documentário Chapa Branca de Ayrton Senna

Asif Kapadia sips his latte and glances at the Tour de France on the TV. We've been discussing Senna, his biopic about the tragic Brazilian formula one motor racing star. After winning the world cinema audience award for documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, it has quietly become one of the most successful documentaries released in Britain.
It also played strongly at the Sydney Film Festival and is poised for a US release that could put it in frame for an Oscar.
''There's only one documentary we'll never overtake - Fahrenheit 9/11,'' says Kapadia, a Londoner, of the film's performance in his home country. Michael Moore's 2004 documentary has, like Ayrton Senna in the 1993 Brazilian grand prix, an unassailable lead in this race.
Kapadia's achievement is all the more remarkable in that his film is set in a sporting milieu often regarded as unremittingly snoozeworthy. ''The challenge was to make a film that appealed to people who think formula one is about men driving in circles in oversized cigarette packets,'' he says. ''I guess we must have done it.''
He's already thinking about the next project. ''I'd love to do a film about another sport. There's a story there,'' he says, nodding at the TV in a trendy London bar. ''The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.''
Getting permission to use old race footage was key to Kapadia's success with Senna. Improbably, the little-known filmmaker elbowed aside some of Hollywood's biggest names to make a movie about the most charismatic motor racing star.
''Lots of filmmakers over the years approached the Senna family,'' Kapadia says. ''Oliver Stone, Michael Mann and I'm pretty sure Ridley Scott all approached and were told, 'No'. Antonio Banderas wanted to play Senna.''
Why were they rebuffed?
''The main thing was they all wanted to make a film about his final weekend at Imola in 1994. The family didn't want that. They preferred what we wanted to do, which was a three-act drama celebrating his life, from archive footage.''
The idea for the film came in 2004 when producer James Gay-Rees read an article about Senna on the 10th anniversary of his death. Gay-Rees and Kapadia pitched the idea for a documentary to the British production company Working Title. ''The executive said, 'You've got to meet my husband, he's Senna's biggest fan'.''
That husband was Manish Pandey, who became the writer on Senna. ''He's a surgeon but he's seen every race and knows every stat. So Manish and James worked out the story and pitched it to the family. Manish was such a fan that they trusted him like nobody else.''
Kapadia's CV didn't suggest he had what it took to direct a film about an adrenalin-charged sport, with a protagonist who lived fast and died young in a high-speed crash. He had made confident, quiet, leisurely paced art films - The Warrior, a 2001 Hindi-language feature set in the deserts of feudal-era Rajasthan, and 2007's Far North, a harrowing portrait of human loneliness in the Arctic wastes.
The little-seen Hollywood thriller The Return, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, is the only blot on his re´sume´. ''I learnt a lot from that - this is show business, not show friendship,'' he says.
Kapadia knew a little about F1 before the film, he says. ''I remember when Senna died - I was watching it with my dad and sister at my parents' house … But you're right - I was an outsider to that world while Manish is like the guy in [a quiz show] when it comes to formula one, so there was a nice dynamic. And once we'd got the family's approval, that helped us get access to the archive of Bernie Ecclestone [the F1 tycoon].
''At one stage we had 15,000 hours of footage. We had to edit it down to 90 minutes - it took us four years.''
Kapadia's muted sensibility paid dividends - he does justice to Senna's serenity and gentleness. There's a lovely scene in which the young Ayrton, long before the F1 duels, sits eating a TV dinner. He looks up and smiles at the camera, an image silently conveying what made him beloved in Brazil and beyond: his humility and disarming sweetness.
''I wanted to make a film that wouldn't just appeal to formula one fans,'' Kapadia says. ''That's what the great sports documentaries do - Hoop Dreams, When We Were Kings - they're human dramas first, sport second, if at all.
''Lots of people who enjoyed it are not like [Top Gear presenter] Jeremy Clarkson. Often they're women who couldn't care less about motor racing.''
What captivates non-fans about Senna's character? ''That he wouldn't quit and he stood by what he believed in and yet had utter dignity. How many sports stars can you say that of? [Boxer Muhammad] Ali's the only other one. Ali was my hero - and my dad's - when I was a boy. And now I've made this film, Senna has become my hero too. There aren't many real heroes, you know?''
Senna, perhaps, is not so unlike Kapadia's earlier films. ''It's the story of an outsider - a Brazilian who came to Europe and took them on. A man who was slightly apart from the world he inhabited, a still centre around the noise.''
The film is not afraid of dealing with Senna's faith. ''My films often have a spiritual dimension, which comes from my Muslim background, and I'm happy to tackle that in cinema,'' Kapadia says.
He decided to have no talking heads, partly because he didn't want any retrospective rationalisation by his interview subjects. ''These guys [the racing drivers] hated each other, whatever they say now, and I wanted to show that.''
The film's central drama is the rivalry between Alain Prost and Senna - the former a Frenchman nicknamed the Professor for his coolly calculating approach to races, the latter determined to win at any cost. At the Japanese grand prix in 1990, Senna - angry and reckless - tried to overtake Prost on a chicane but the cars collided and both crashed out of the race.
''You can't excuse him,'' Kapadia says. ''He could have killed himself and Prost. I didn't want to judge him but to understand his motivation and to show the life-or-death nature of their rivalry.
''At some points when I was editing I was thinking of them as dramatic figures rather than people. Then I stopped.''
Kapadia says when he edited footage of Senna's mother at his funeral, his responsibility to the family became clear.
''I realised it's someone's life I'm dealing with and so, morally, I felt a responsibility for the images I've never felt before. If the family had objected to the film, it would have been very tough because I'd tried to make something honest and moving.''
The last act of the film deals with the cursed weekend at the San Marino grand prix at Imola in 1994. In footage from the starting grid, Senna looks haunted.
He was driving a Williams car whose steering seemed unpredictable, was up against Michael Schumacher's Ferrari that he couldn't catch and had witnessed the death of the Austrian driver Roland Ratzenberger during qualifying.
''Senna generally had his helmet on, looking straight ahead and focused at the start of a race. On that last day he chose not to wear the helmet and looked in such a state - he looks in the wrong place, he looks so lonely, so unhappy, so out of love with the sport.''
On that last day, Senna understeered at Tamburello corner, leaving the track at 305km/h then slowing down to 215km/h before hitting the wall. He died in hospital aged 34. Some think Senna had a death wish.
''I don't think he wanted to die,'' Kapadia says. ''There are people on my team who think God was saving him from himself because he's got to the position where he hates the sport so much and the only way out is to take him out.
''That's certainly one reading but I wish he'd walked away.''
The Guardian
Senna opens on August 11.

Ayrton Senna: charismatic champion

Brazilian Ayrton Senna is considered one of the most dazzling talents ever to take the wheel of a grand prix racing car.
In 1991 he became the youngest driver to win three formula one world championships.
When Senna - a 34-year-old known for his ferocious competitiveness and boyish smile - died while leading the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, the Brazilian president declared three days of public mourning. During the largest funeral in the country's history, traffic stopped on highways, trains halted on bridges and an estimated 3 million people lined the streets.
Senna's millionaire lifestyle included luxury homes in Brazil, Portugal and Monaco, a helicopter and glamorous girlfriends. While deeply religious, he was known for his aggressive behaviour on the track and turbulent rivalry with France's Alain Prost.
''It's lonely driving a grand prix car but very absorbing,'' Senna once said. ''I have experienced new sensations and I want more. That is my excitement, my motivation.''
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Senna

The Life of a Racing Legend


Asif Kapadia wasn’t even that big a racing fan when he began making Senna, one of the best sports documentaries of recent years, which rolls out this month to theaters around the country. But like many sports fans of a certain age, he knew the basic outline of the plot. Ayrton Senna was the Brazilian Formula One wunderkind who captivated the racing world in the late 1980s and early ’90s, fought a historic rivalry with French racing legend Alain Prost and died in a tragic crash in the prime of his youth.
It’s a story that seems tailor-made for a film. “The story just naturally had this three-act structure,” says Kapadia. “Most movies would end when he came out of nowhere to win the world championship, but that’s just the beginning of our film. That’s just the start. That’s easy. It’s what comes after, in the middle of the movie, the rivalry is really the heart of it. And then after that is the fateful weekend.” The characters are straight out of central casting as well: “Senna was a movie star. He had all of the looks, he had all of the talent… and we watched more and more of the footage, I was just amazed. First of all, I can’t believe a camera is there, and two, if we had written that, no one would have believed us. No one would believe Jean-Marie Balestre [the head of the racing governing body]. If you made him up, they’d say, brilliant character, but too over-the-top.”
Even so, the choice to make a documentary, rather than a narrative film, might seem surprising; Kapadia is a BAFTA-award winning narrative director (The Warrior, 2001), after all. And the word is that narrative directors from Ridley Scott to Michael Mann to Oliver Stone have pursued the project, and that Antonio Banderas has a long-standing desire to play the part. But, says Kapadia, that’s the rub: “You don’t get an actor to be Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali is the best Muhammad Ali. And you don’t get anyone to play Senna. It can be a feature film, but you have to make it a doc. So coming from a drama background, I felt very early on that we had an opportunity to make something that wasn’t a conventional, television-style talking heads documentary. We could make a movie. An epic movie.”
That desire to transcend conventional documentary conventions led Kapadia to possibly the most daring choice of all—Senna is told completely in the moment, with all period video from the late ’80s and early ’90s. The audio of recent interviews is mixed in seamlessly with audio of period interviews. I felt very strongly very early on,” he explains, “that I didn’t want to see any of these people and what they look like now, because it would pull you out of the feeling of being in a movie. When you go forwards and backwards and have people talking over stills, it becomes a bit like television to me. Because every frame of the footage was originally TV, I thought we had to do something, stylistically and aesthetically, to lift it into cinema. And my thought was, let’s never come out of that moment, and the tension and the drama will drive us through. And even if you know where it’s going, hopefully you forget along the way.”
It creates a magical effect, almost as if we’re watching reality as it unfolds, just in a compressed manner. By the time the film reaches Senna’s final race, the audience is sitting with Senna in that car, both emotionally and visually via his onboard camera. “He’s driving amazingly,” raves Kapadia. “It’s like he’s flying. There’s something transcendental and spiritual for me, in that last lap. It’s so moving. I’m not aware of any other cars, I’m not aware of any other people. The way he drives around that track is perfect. It’s the smoothest of the driving in the film. It’s like he’s just going to another place. I would show this film to editors, when we told them we wanted to do the film with all archival footage, and they’d say, ‘Yeah yeah yeah, that never works.’ And I’d show them some from the beginning, some from the middle, some from the ending. And quite few of them were Senna fans, and few of them had ever heard of him. And I’d get to that final lap, and all of them would be in tears. There’s just something inherently in that material that makes people cry.”
Words like transcendence and spiritual come up often in discussions about Senna, a deeply religious man who prayed constantly. “When you talk about religion,” Senna says in the film, “ it’s a touching point, very easy to be misunderstood … But I try hard—as hard as I can to understand life through God. And that means every day of my life—not only when I’m home but when I’m doing my work too.” He never failed to thank God for each victory, in a humble way rather than the current fashion for athletes. “It’s more than just putting it out there for the sake of it,” says Kapadia, “because if you look at the film, he really only speaks about God in Portguese. He stopped talking about God in English, because the English and the rest of the Europeans really jumped on him for it. Because when you’re doing 200 mph in a car, it’s so easy for someone else to say ‘Well, if you think God’s on your side, that’s dangerous for the rest of us.’ And Prost did say that. So Senna would do these press conferences in English after he won a race and say, ‘Yeah, everything went really well with the gears, and the brakes were going, and all this.’ And then in Portugese, he’d open up and be much more honest and personal, because he was speaking to people in Brazil. And it was a big part of him. It’s just another thing that if you had made it up, no one would believe you. He was a genius in the rain, and there were so many key races when he was losing and it would rain and give him time to catch up, and then he would win and it would stop raining.”
It’s that sense of Senna’s devout faith that makes his final accident seem both all the more heartbreaking, and simultaneously makes it bearable. He’s going to meet his maker, literally. The morning of that race, his sister recounts, he actually reads a Scripture that promises “That he would receive the greatest gift of all, which was God himself.” Kapadia muses: “The tragedy is, at the ending, it’s an act of God, the way he dies. It’s a series of incidences and freaks that had to happen in an exact way. Technically, something had to happen to the car, but then he had to hit the wall at a particular angle for the wheel to come off, and to come off at the exact angle to hit him in the head. No other injuries, nothing. If the wheel had missed him he’d be fine. That, for me, is an act of God. I don’t know what else to call it. For me, the spiritual element is a major thread all the way through, from the first time he gets in a car and thanks God for giving him the talent to drive the car. And throughout his career, he’s saying I thank God for doing this. And the very last time he’s in a car it’s God that takes him out of the car.”


“I knew the driver,” remembers Kapadia, of the days before he began work on this documentary, “but I didn’t know the man.” Thanks to this film, the world now knows the man, and is richer for it.

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