Awesome / Gran Turismo (2023)

• Jann honing his Gran Turismo skills early by managing to escape getting pulled over using his dad's old Volkswagen.
• Just about nearly every racing sequence where Jann is victorious is emotionally gripping all the way through, and the elation the character(s) feel is contagious. The race sequences (minus the virtual qualifying race which takes place in the game itself) are often overlayed with Gran Turismo screen elements, such as live positions, lap times, and the optimal racing line, perhaps a look into Jann's Tetris Effect-style perspective in helping him focus during races, and the aforementioned chase scene.
  • Winning the virtual qualifying race in-game that allowed Jann to qualify for GT Academy membership.
  • Beating out Matty in the final GT Academy race, backed by a slight motif of Moon Over the Castle, Gran Turismo's theme song, in the orchestral score.
  • Finishing 4th in his final race in his first season with Team Nissan to qualify for an FIA license.
  • With the combined efforts of his two former GT Academy classmates (including Matty), finishing on podium at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the most enduring, grueling race on earth, and jovially celebrating with Jack, Danny, his classmates, and family who all helped him get to that point.
    • Jann managing to snap out of two separate mental bouts within the race in which he recalled Jack's past Le Mans crash, and Jann's own Nürburgring crash.
    • As Jann passes the last car he needs, a member of Jack's former team and Jann's rival on the track, Nick Capa, Jack and Danny arguing with Jann when he decides to race with his own line, before Jack breaks and lets him, knowing it's what's right in the end. And it works.
      Jack: ...fuck it. Find your own line!
  • Achieving all of this with car experience most exclusively with playing Gran Turismo games growing up, and being able to prove to his father and family that his dream was possible, as is the true story it's based off, of the real Jann Mardenborough, who was actually a stunt driver for the cars in the movie!
• Jann convincing Jack that the reason why his penultimate test ended in failure because his brakes were faulty. Jack put the blame on the inexperience with real cars, but one of the Academy employees were able to confirm to Jack that they were indeed faulty, this results in Jack personally telling Jann that he was impressed with his car knowledge, and that he had made it into the final Academy race. As Jack walks away, as composed as he was to Jack before, Jann can't hold in screams of excitement, and the former sports a slight amused smirk, the beginning of the slow turn of belief Jack has for Jann, and sim racing's translation to real racing skill.
• Jann's dad, as well as his mother, brother, and Aubrey being there to watch his much anticipated 24 Hours of Le Mans race.
• Jann meeting with Gran Turismo series creator Kazunori Yamauchi.
• The camera angles, cinematography, and editing of the racing scenes in general are wild to watch, with some drone work and even a camera strapped to the rear of a car to emulate third-person views in racing games.
• In the final Le Mans race, as Jann gets in the car during a pit stop for the race's final stint, a crew member fails to apply a front wheel on, causing the cap to come loose and roll away. This halts the stop, causing Jann to lose positions, and a ruckus among the pit crew. Jack spots the cap and makes a dash for it, retrieving it and putting it on the car himself, Jack's more-or-less unofficial theme song Paranoid playing as this happens, spotlighting his own shining moment in saving a crucial moment of the race.