The criteria of this collection changed from iconic looks to favorites, so it ended up being a mix of both. I wanted to do a 3x3, so I kept it to a certain decade to limit the selection pool. It pains me that I had to cut Tony Balerdi, but he felt so out of place with this chaotic, feral bunch. Might just do a different one so I can make it up to him.
"drivers should be more like niki lauda" fuck yeah they should they should organize strikes when they get pressured to drive on dangerous circuits and block the pit exit with their car to prevent races from occuring during dangerous conditions
I have spent all day watching classic f1 interviews and I never understood why people called Niki Lauda ugly. He's got an overbite but he was always attractive, even before his accident
featuring: ayrton senna, michael schumacher, alain prost, nigel mansell, jean alesi, gerhard berger, giovanna amati, nico rosberg, lewis hamilton & sebastian vettel
This is the full film from the gif set of Niki and from the edit I made a couple of days ago. The film barely makes sense (will get to that in a moment) and Niki only comes in about half way through, but if you are drunk and need a laugh then this film is a great watch.
Originally this film was made for an award show and celebration of 100 years of cars I believe.
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This here is the entire award show. Here is where the full edition of the film was shown to drivers such as Fangio, Phil Hill, James Hunt, etc. The film, however did extremely badly, and so for its DVD release, they cut it down and edited the plot, which is why the movie above barely makes any sense. If you want to see all of the Niki footage, it is in this video; however, they dub over Niki speaking English with someone else speaking German??
After watching 40+ of his works, I've noticed the roles that he plays often fall into these five categories...
#1 - because he's German, obviously, a Nazi. The bottom two are a little niche as he plays 'unwanted Nazi admirer'.
#2 - guy you can take home to meet your parents. He's played way too many of these—it's a given with that beautiful baby face—but these would be my top five. Bottom layer gets extra points for being a good friend to the elderly.
#3 - opposite that is the guy your parents warned you about. It seems Daniel has a lot of fun playing these, especially the top layer, which leans on the love-to-hate category. I can't tell if it's just my distaste for The Face of an Angel, but I also considered adding Thomas Lang. Could be why Chris in Cargo made it here as well... because what even was that movie.
#4 - now we have 'man in way above his head by the situation his political ideologies have gotten him into'. You almost always need a trigger warning for the films these characters are in as they will absolutely gut you. They're often based on real people and events. So you will learn something about history while Daniel gets tortured into a pulp.
#5 - and finally, 'expert in his field, kind of an asshole, but hella breedable'. Most of my favorite characters are in this category... I don't know what that says about me.
Is it cheating to place Zemo a second time? I don't care. He feels like an entirely different character.
the Toto villain/unsympathetic idiot heel turn needs to be studied by scholars. It needs articles in peer reviewed journals. Who is the Toto of today? It's not the man who had the carefully crafted image of a competent and calculating leader who helmed Mercedes to the history books but IT SURE AS SHIT IS NOT THE MF WHO'D COMPARE HELMUT TO NIKI. NIKI LAUDA? TORGER YOU SAID HELMUT CAN REPLACE NIKI AND IS WELCOME AT MERCEDES? 3 TIME CHAMPION NIKI LAUDA? NIKI WHO RETURNED TO RACE 6 WEEKS AFTER BEING READ HIS LAST RITES BECAUSE DOCTORS WERE CONVINCED HE WOULD DIE? NIKI WHO PUT THE FEAR OF GOD IN F1? NIKI WHO WITHDREW FROM RACES IF HE FELT F1 WASNT TAKING DRIVER SAFETY SERIOUSLY?? TO HELMUT MARKO???? WHOS GREATEST HITS INCLUDE
racism
lying
lobbying for putting drivers in a covid camp and purposefully infecting them all