Brock Movie.

[Pickles2]

I read in the Herald Sun yesterday that the filming of the long awaited Peter Brock movie is to commence later this year.
Natalie Bassingtwaite is to play Julie,....P.B. would be pretty impressed with that!
Pickles.

[CraigE]

Well it depends on how one sided it is going to be. From all reports so far it will only be one version and not based on a lot of fact. Exactly like the INXS Mini-Series.
Would be good to see a factual movie.

[Eevo]

will it be like every other biopic movie and be fictional....

[Chenz]

I will look forward to the way in which they cover how he drove using parts that were homologated so that he was the only one that had them and how he pranged his car and jumped into the other team car to win Bathurst.

There is no doubt he was a very talented driver but some of his wins were due to having what could be said was an unfair advantage compared to the rest of the field.

Then of course there was the famous Polariser - looking forward to how they are going to deal with that one.

[Pickles2]

We knew Peter & Bev very well. As a matter of fact, I was only speaking to Bev a couple of weeks ago, and yes, she has concerns as to how things will be portrayed.
Whatever, I'll definitely be interested in how it turns out.
Sometimes, well nearly always I guess, people have their own take on how things should be, and so they're not always happy.
As far as Brock is concerned, the BEST book about him that has ever been written was "The Rise & Fall of Peter Brock", a joint effort by John Harvey & Bill Tuckey,....LOTS & LOTS of people (fans/know alls?) didn't like that book, but despite the contents, no-one ever got sued?!
Pickles.

[pop058]

We knew Peter & Bev very well. As a matter of fact, I was only speaking to Bev a couple of weeks ago, and yes, she has concerns as to how things will be portrayed.
Whatever, I'll definitely be interested in how it turns out.
Sometimes, well nearly always I guess, people have their own take on how things should be, and so they're not always happy.
As far as Brock is concerned, the BEST book about him that has ever been written was "The Rise & Fall of Peter Brock", a joint effort by John Harvey & Bill Tuckey,....LOTS & LOTS of people (fans/know alls?) didn't like that book, but despite the contents, no-one ever got sued?!
Pickles.

I have that one on the book shelf although have not read it yet.

[mudmouse]

I think the idea is appalling. The storyline would be as predictable as a sunrise given his public life, and his private life is best kept private....

Let him and the past rest in peace. I can't imagine it would reflect the memory we all have (or would like to have) of him behind a steering wheel.

Matt

[CraigE]

I will look forward to the way in which they cover how he drove using parts that were homologated so that he was the only one that had them and how he pranged his car and jumped into the other team car to win Bathurst.

There is no doubt he was a very talented driver but some of his wins were due to having what could be said was an unfair advantage compared to the rest of the field.

Then of course there was the famous Polariser - looking forward to how they are going to deal with that one.

This has been broached before, usually by disgruntled Ford Fans.
Now's the time to put up or shut up and name exactly the parts that were used that no one else had access to or were illegal.
Has been done to death and remaining HDT engines checked and rechecked.
The fact is if one was doing it all were and there has been quite a bit revealed recently by Ford drivers using illegal parts, using parts that could not be determined as illegal in inspections and engines having parts quickly removed after races before inspections. Ford are the only ones actually caught out on several occasions. Then there was Allan Moffatt that had direct and sole access to Ford performance parts out of Canada and the US. The Dick Johnson running an underweight Falcon and was the sole reason he could even get close to Brock.


Pickles may be able to weigh in on some of this.


Do a bit of reading on the Polariser aside from the retractions. I am not a fan of crystals and hocus pocus, but the open and honest evaluations could not explain why it seemed to work. It was only later these were retracted when GM wanted HDT. Funny that some similar magnets and crystals are now being used for fluid flows and disrupting elements in fluids, water treatments etc. There were a lot of articles written on the performance or harmonics that seemed to occur and no one could actually explain it.
I remember having a similar discussion on hydrogen engines a couple of years ago and look at them now.

[460cixy]

Now I have heard it all.

[RHS58]

Who's going to play Brock?