Would F1 be the same success without Brad Pitt?

There are actors who are always able to make a difference and, in this, Brad Pitt He has never been second to anyone. Nor when he was one of the most requested stars in the world nor that, at 61 years of age, he continues to exercise an unparalleled magnetism and a scenic presence. His latest film as the protagonist and producer is F1an ambitious and adrenaline film that in two and a half hours is capable of bringing the viewer into the circuits of Formula Uno rejoicing and suffering together with the protagonists. Brad Pitt in this story, rather than the hero, is the revive that is looking for redemption: interprets, in fact, Sonny, an almost champion of the past who runs to the rescue of the former race companion Javier Bardem to try to raise his disastrous stable, considering that his machines have never obtained a point in any race.

With that Brad Pitt smile and that unconscious air that knows what it does very well, Brad Pitt is the real ace in the sleeve of F1, To the point of leading us to believe that, without him, the film would not have achieved the success he is enjoying all over the world, especially in Italy, where he managed to overcome the new Pixar film Helium, Unjustly passed in silence. Beyond one actually excessive duration – half an hour less and would have been perfect – the film puts us in front of a new perspective: Better to bet on the young promise or on the veteran who tries to finish his career with honor? If that veteran is Brad Pitt the answer is very simple, also because F1 He does everything to demonstrate that youth often brings inexperience and haste to arrive with it.

Pitt’s Sonny, on the other hand, has nothing to lose and demonstrate: They all look at him from top to bottom certain that he will make some nonsense, and this judgment can only be comfortable because, when we expect nothing from someone, that someone can really afford the luxury of trying to make the difference. Ultimately, the new film by Joseph Kosinski, already behind the success of Top Gun: Maverick who brought back to life a historical franchise in an intelligent and original way, he teaches us two things: that, when it comes to old glories like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt The public runs to the cinema without making it repeat twice, And that in these very quick times in which today you are famous and tomorrow you risk being forgotten the real stars are and will always remain the ones who have established themselves when we did not have social media. As a demonstration of the fact that we know the daily life of a star and the more we are enchanted by its mystery.