I am a student of the Alfred Hitchcock brand of storytelling and there
may be something rather Hitchcockian about this narrative. The beautiful
girl, driving an equally beautiful car, through the most extreme of
winter passes, with a wolf perched high above analysing the situation.
All the assets in play seem to complement each other, but only one party
is perhaps alive to all the facts - the wolf. Tall snow berms like the
ones in the photograph are not easy to find these days and our research
led us to Lake Tahoe in late April. The Sierra Nevada Mountain range
still gets hefty 3-foot snowfalls in March; perhaps as much as any ski
area in the world and this is where we focused our efforts. Meanwhile,
the 1953 250MM Ferrari, is a precious car and we needed to be very sure
there was easy access to this location. So I guess we were being greedy
as we wanted deep accumulations of snow, along with fresh snow on a
newly ploughed road and then, somehow or other, the means to get the
Ferrari in position on the bend in the road. We have little appetite for
doing banal things that come easy. When we arrived, the height of the
berms offered an opportunity to use the black wolf we sometimes bring on
set. It was not a preconceived idea and we remind ourselves that it is
good occasionally simply to adapt to circumstance as you find them. As
always, we thank Brooks Nader for being such a laugh to work with on set
- as well as being on point in her role playing.