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Old 07-11-2006
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Re: Grand Prix Vs. Le Mans

The movie Le Mans wins, hands down. Yes there is no plot, dialogue or really good acting. But who cares, ITS RACING and those engine sounds are fantastic.
This is a neat sidebar. You know that final scene where McQueen is gesturing to the losing Ferrari driver? It seems that this is an old English gesture that the English archers would give to the French.
It seems the French would capture an English archer and cut off his first two fingers so he couldnt pull the bow string back. If the archer escaped back to England he had to find a new line of work.
It seems as though Mcqueen was more of an historian than we may have thought
This gesture made the movie for me
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