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''Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby'' is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Adam McKay, starring Will Ferrell, and written by McKay and Ferrell. The film also features John C. Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen, Gary Cole and Michael Clarke Duncan. Various ''Saturday Night Live'' alumni also make appearances. Real life NASCAR drivers like Jamie McMurray and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. also make cameos as themselves, as do the broadcasting teams of NASCAR on Fox (Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds, and Darrell Waltrip) and NASCAR on NBC (Bill Weber, Wally Dallenbach, Jr. and Benny Parsons). ''Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby'' was also Pat Hingle's last film, before his death in 2009. Racecars, stunt coordination, and haulers were provided by joint efforts between Andy Hillenburg's race team Fast Track Enterprises and K4 Motorsports, both of which had previously worked in other stock car racing movies such as ''Herbie: Fully Loaded'' and ''3: The Dale Earnhardt Story''. K4 Motorsports provided the custom wrapping for movie-specific racecars (such as the #62 'Me' car). Racetrack scenes at Texas Motor Speedway were shot at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, using a Porsche Cayenne outfitted with camera mounts on all four corners of the car. Much of the opening scene of the movie where Ricky Bobby first steps into a racecar at Talladega Superspeedway was actually filmed at Rockingham Speedway. ==Plot== Ricky Bobby (Will Ferrell) is a NASCAR driver who wants to go fast. While he was working on the pit crew of Dennit Racing driver Terry Cheveaux (Adam McKay), Ricky replaces him and ends up finishing in third place, despite starting mid-race in last place. Ricky quickly soars to the top of NASCAR by achieving his fame and fortune at Dennit Racing and meeting his future wife, Carly (Leslie Bibb). Ricky eventually persuades Dennit to field an additional car and arranges to have his best friend, Cal Naughton, Jr. (John C. Reilly), on his team. While he and Cal are on top of the racing world, Ricky challenges his flamboyant French Formula One archrival, Jean Girard (Sacha Baron Cohen), who outperforms him on the track and becomes Dennit Racing's next top driver. Desperate to regain his dominance, Ricky pushes himself too hard during the race at Charlotte Motor Speedway and ends up going airborne, barrel-rolling several times. While paramedics attempt to take him to the hospital, Ricky ends up running around on the track in his helmet and underwear erroneously insisting that he is on fire. While recovering from his accident, Ricky persists in believing that he is paralyzed, but realizes that he is not after intentionally stabbing a knife into his leg. Attempting to regain a spot for his team, Ricky test drives at Rockingham Speedway before the next race, but fear causes him to flashback to his earlier delusions. As a result, Larry Dennit fires Ricky Bobby from the team and installs Jean Girard with Ricky's pit crew, while sending Ricky's Wonderbread car to a replacement driver (Jamie McMurray, who in real life at the time drove a car of the same number, 26.) Desperate to not go back to poverty, and remain wealthy, Carly assumes that Ricky's career is over. Carly dumps him, gets a finalized divorce, and later marries Cal, who moves to Ricky's old home before he returns from the speedway. Ricky soon finds out about his divorce upon his return, but despite Cal's desire to remain best friends, Ricky suddenly breaks off his friendship after he accuses Cal of wrecking his life. Ricky moves back with his mom, Lucy Bobby (Jane Lynch), with his two sons, Walker and Texas Ranger (Houston Tumlin and Grayson Russell), and takes his job as a pizza deliveryman. However, Ricky is reduced to using a bicycle and riding the bus after losing his license for colliding his pick-up truck with a customer's shopping cart and the Sheriff later wrote him the ticket for this accident. With Ricky's life at his lowest point, and with his life being unable to get any worse, his father, Reese (who was absent for most of Ricky's life, Gary Cole), teaches him to conquer his demons by driving a car with a live cougar. After receiving his retraining and guidance from Reese, Ricky finally regains his confidence, but Reese intentionally walks out from him with the parting knowledge that the mantra around which Ricky had based his life was in fact meaningless. Ricky talks to his assistant and new love interest, Susan (Amy Adams), who convinces him to return to NASCAR not because of his desire to live up to the expectations of others, but because it is his nature to drive fast. Ricky and Susan fall in love with each other after Ricky decides to heed Susan's advice to race at the Talladega 500. He starts his own team and prepares himself a pit crew and racecar for his races. Before the race, Ricky makes amends with Cal, Girard, and Carly, and finally reunites with his pit crew chief and close friend, Lucius Washington (Michael Clarke Duncan). Ricky is forced to start the race from the back of the starting grid after Lucius rebuilt his car's engine from spare parts donated by other independent drivers. At the start of the race, Ricky manages to pass all the other drivers except Girard. Heading towards the race's final laps, Dennit orders Cal to knock Ricky out of the race. However, Cal refuses and pulls ahead of Ricky, and Cal intentionally allows Ricky to slingshot around him to be in the lead with Girard. On lap 182, the replacement driver of Ricky's Wonder Bread car suddenly runs into Cal, which causes a massive wreck that disables all the other drivers except Ricky and Girard. On the final lap of the race, Ricky and Girard end up colliding with each other and somersault down the front straightaway towards the finish line. Determined not to give up, Ricky and Girard exit their cars and sprint on foot to the finish line to the song "We Belong" by Pat Benatar. Although Ricky wins the foot race, he and Girard are disqualified for exiting their cars, and Cal officially wins the Talladega 500 by default after finishing in third place during the wrecks. Ricky and Cal finally reconcile their friendship and family shortly after the race. Ricky later meets up with all of his extended family in the speedway's parking lot then proceeds to get thrown out of Applebee's. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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