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Brief introduction of film
The film is adapted from the classic series of animation works by the master of automatic painting, Takashi Yoshida.
Speeding in the driveway, turning sharply, crossing the finish line ... Speed Racer seems to have merged with his car. There is no doubt that he was born for racing. Aggressive speed, aggressive personality, but a little impulsive, with pride, never considering the consequences-in short, he has all the conditions that a good racing driver should have, plus his courage, which is unparalleled in the racing world. Even though he won numerous trophies, Speed never dared to feel the slightest mistake about Tan Shengli, because for him, there is only one real racing champion in the world, and that is his brother Rex Racer. He is regarded as an idol and can only live in his memory. The legendary racing driver died unexpectedly in a race, leaving a last wish for speed completion.
Speed has always been fascinated by the family racing industry founded by his father Popreiser. Even the "Mach 5" he was driving was designed by Pops himself ... However, as Speed refused the very attractive invitation from royle Industries without hesitation, trouble followed. Speed's refusal not only angered Mr. royle Burton, the owner of royle industry, but also made him discover the terrible secret hidden behind large-scale races: some ruthless and powerful people realized ulterior interests by manipulating top racers to win races. If Speed insists on refusing to join the racing team of royle Denton Industries, Mr. royle Denton threatens to make Mach 5 disappear from the track forever.
For Speed, the only chance to save the family business and the racing car he loves is to use the game manipulated by royle to fight him back ... With the support of his family and beautiful girlfriend Trixie, Speed and his former competitor, the mysterious "Reese X", vowed to win the race that took his brother's life. It was a death challenge called a "severe test" and needed to cross the whole country.
Behind the scenes production
Restart Mach 5.
The founders of the Matrix Trilogy ... Larry Wozowski and andy wachowski, who extended their tentacles to screenwriters, directors and producers respectively, continued to use their iconic production methods and redefined the norms of action movies again-usually, their usual method was to combine a multi-level storytelling method with gorgeous and eye-catching visual effects. The adaptation of the classic comic series Racing into a movie is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Wachowski brothers. They can not only re-expand the influence of this immortal classic, but also let a wider audience enter their film world.
Joel silver, the producer who followed the Wozhuoski brothers into the racing world from the Matrix series, said: "In the Matrix series, the Wozhuoski brothers created a visual style, which is enough for anyone who has seen this film to change the ideology of the previous action movies, because what you see from it, although it really happened in the film industry, is something you can never imagine. The reason why they have the idea of adapting Racing proves that they are ready and want to change the way and cognition of watching movies again. A series of brand-new concepts emerge in their tireless minds, and they want to tell an inspirational sports story with the spectacular scene of racing cars speeding on the runway. Then it is presented in a fantasy action scene that you have never seen before ... The Wachowski brothers still faithfully maintain the film skills of combining CGI with live performance and continue to break the tradition at will. The purpose of their filming is to promote the operation cycle of the entire film system. "
After listening to joel silver, another producer, grant hill, also decided to provide a message: "The original" Racing Car "almost grew up with the Wachowski brothers, so one of their most interesting movie behaviors is to adapt their" Favorite "into a family work with strong motivation. The Wachowski brothers have always had a long-cherished wish, that is, to turn over from the cold technological era and make a family movie suitable for the whole family as a gift that can be preserved forever for nephews and nieces. " Searwar added: "When I saw their adapted script, I found that the whole story became a pure' family gathering'. Although it is slightly different from their previous styles, it maintains the basic structure of the original. On this basis, the protagonist Speed Racing and his family started a new adventure ... The movie is for everyone to see, and there are great characters in it.
Kung fu racing car
The movie version of Racing captures a complete life experience of Speed Racer, that is, how he became the best racing driver in the "racing league of the World". For speed, his life consists of two parts, one is racing, and the other is family ... In the film, Speed and his family formed an independent racing team named after their family, but they faced a series of top racers with strong financial support. The stakes in the race have also been artificially raised to an unattainable level, and the final result of a racing car is enough to determine the fate of a driver and the whole consortium behind him.
In order to create that kind of fast environment perfectly on the big screen, the Wachowski brothers used their wildest imagination and conceived a stadium style that surpassed everything known by anyone. The racing car in the film, both in appearance and function, reveals an advantage of cooperative operation, including that it can continue to do incredible stunts that openly challenge the gravity of the earth throughout the process, even if the top speed exceeds 400 miles per hour. This is the result of the transformation of a racing-related culture by the Wachowski brothers: you will find that every racing car in the film is like a wild horse that is difficult to tame, which can reflect the personality characteristics of racing drivers. Such a humanized design shows the high-end realm of the integration of drivers and people everywhere.
Racing, like candy, is a dynamic and colorful world, where the characteristics and styles of many times coexist and are intertwined in this dynamic environment dominated by racing. Joel Silver said: "From an aesthetic point of view, you can find the past, the present and the future at the same time in the movie ... The society is trapped in a crazy racing field, and the Wachowski brothers designed the appearance of the car in a way you have never seen before. We have seen some fantastic concept cars in magazines and movies, but this movie has pushed them to a whole new height. What these cars can do is enough to make you tremble when watching the game. " Grant Grant hill believes: "The Wachowski brothers are always looking for a new foothold-we have seen extreme sports like skateboarding or snowboarding, and their movements are very smooth, and then imagine what the racing track is like and how fast the car should be, so that drivers can perform similar fantasy techniques."
Of course, the high-level competition "racing league of the World", such as racing, will become worthless if there is no tactical arrangement with a very fighting style. Joel silver said, "This is a visual imagination about the extreme movement of the engine. You can describe it as a mixture of strange martial arts and F 1, or just like the Wachowski brothers. It's called "Kung Fu Race" ... It is precisely because of their fascination with the comic version of the car that the Wachowski brothers entered the Japanese animation industry. They are not only attracted by the stories inside, but also intoxicated by the unique visual enjoyment. Everything was completely different from other cartoons broadcast on TV at that time. The Wachowski brothers immediately became hardcore fans of racing cars and were naturally fascinated by Japanese comics. "
In fact, before it was adapted into a movie, the fan base of racing has expanded across multiple cultures to several generations. The original animation comes from a set of Japanese manga series, and the author is Tatsuo Yoshida, the pioneer of manga industry. At that time, its name was Ace the pilot. 1967, the cartoon was made into a TV program named "Machgo Go Go" ... Almost half a year later, this series was brought to the United States and became an English-dubbed cartoon drama "Racing".
Soon, the animated version of Racing swept the United States with an unstoppable momentum, especially attracting the attention of small audiences. Exciting racing, international intrigue, family values, romantic feelings and satirical humor have expanded their imagination to a wilder degree. Different from the series of comic books they have seen before, Racing Car features a young and determined character, who will travel around the world with his powerful and incomparably fluent "Mach 5" and beat all powerful opponents.
Now, more than 40 years have passed, and several TV versions of racing cars have been released ... The story of speed racing and the danger he experienced driving Mach 5 have finally been put on the big screen by the Wachowski brothers. They not only endowed the story with spectacular visual effects and grand action scenes, but also endowed it with very sharp photography skills, comparable to the imagination of master artists and computer-generated.
[Edit this paragraph] Trivia
In the1960s, Japanese cartoonist Mr. Tatsuo Yoshida found two idols on the screen: Elvis Presley? Presley and Sean? Connery plays Bond. These two characters inspired Takashi Yoshida greatly, and he can't forget them for a long time after reading them. Therefore, Takashi Yoshida decided to create a cartoon based on these two people.
Yoshida Takashi drew lessons from Elvis Presley's modeling, and drew a beautiful teenager with high hair and a scarf around his neck. Then he stole 007' s car, a multi-purpose sports car, and then designed a Mach 5 car. Thus, the comic book Mahgogogo was born.
The animated version of Mahgogogo was also released later, so this bloody animation about a teenager driving a multi-functional sports car to realize his dream became popular in Japan. Soon after, some TV stations in the United States introduced this animation and renamed it Speed Racing, and then changed the name of the character with Japanese flavor in the film (it is said that the name of the protagonist in the original version comes from the famous Japanese movie star Mifune Junlang) to Speed Today? Ryder This animation had a great response after it was released in America. American teenagers are fascinated by its passion, violent scenes and multifunctional Mach 5. This animation has aired nearly 200 episodes in the United States. Since then, Speed Racing, like Astro Boy, has become the first Japanese animation work to enter the American market, and its influence is equally far-reaching. Today, there are still many advertisements and TV programs in the United States involving Speed Racing.
Andy? Wachowski and Larry? The Wachowski brothers have watched this animation since childhood. Now they are all international directors, and they are obsessed with Mach 5 and Speed Racing, and they are bent on making this animation into a movie. However, the shooting plan of this film version was put forward as early as 1992, and it was not a project specially designed for the Wachowski brothers. However, this plan has never met the right person and the right time for more than ten years, so it has never been made.
Over the years, like Alfonso? Caron and Julian? Tom Puller and other directors were in charge of the shooting plan, but for various reasons, they finally gave up the project. As for actors, from the earliest Henry? Rawlings will go later. Johnny? Depp or even Vince? Vaughn was exposed to this film. The screenwriter is more involved, from Mark? Raven, J.J. Abbas and other famous filmmakers have written scripts for this film, but when this edition of Speed Racing was born, these big-name filmmakers didn't have the opportunity to participate in this film, which is somewhat regrettable.
By June 5438 +20061October, the wozhuoski brothers, who are famous all over the world for the Matrix series, contacted the producer Joe? Civil affairs. Civil cooperated with two brothers in The Matrix trilogy and Vengeance of the V Family. The Wachowski brothers told Civil that they wanted to make a movie suitable for children this time, because all their previous movies, whether the Matrix or V for Vendetta, were R-rated movies, and their nieces and nephews, their mothers, aunts and other family members could not watch them. Children can't watch it and adults are not interested. So they thought of putting the speed racers who had seen great excitement from their childhood on the screen for women and children to watch.
Warner Bros. Pictures has long wanted to put this film on the screen. As the Wachowski brothers are directors, they started the project with great confidence and invested 65.438+0.2 billion dollars. At the same time, the film was sponsored by the German New Film Fund of nearly $6.5438+0.3 million, and the whole film was shot in February 2007 in Babeur, Germany. All the stunt shots were done here, and they were shot in front of the green screen. Joe? Civil lamented that a movie like "Ben Xu" used a lot of horses and chariots and had an accident when shooting that thrilling chariot race, and it took nine months to finish. Now all you need is a green screen to shoot the big scene of extreme racing, and then everything can be done in the computer. You can't even find a car on the set. What advanced technology this is.
What the Wachowski brothers are interested in this time is how to decorate the whole picture with extremely luxurious colors and how to present the indiscriminate fighting of cars with various dynamic effects, that is to say, technological innovation is their most concern, and actors are not that important. A brief comment on the casting of the whole film is not so much based on who is more suitable for which role, but rather on which actor can bring which audience to the film. So the actors in this film, besides making American popular stars, such as Emile, who played Alpha Dog and fistful of dollars? Hejsky plays the leading role, and Matthew, a sexy male star contributed by the popular TV series Lost? In addition to being the first supporting actor Leser X, Fox also specially recruited three stars from Asia to star in bit part. Although there are not many of them in the west, it seems that there are only three lines in Hiroyuki Sanada, and the situation of the other two lines is not much better, but they still attract many media reports in Asia, which shows how purposeful the casting of this film is. The roles played by these Asian stars seem to have been forcibly brought into the script. These people were not mentioned in the original book, but this genius move increased the audience of the film. As mentioned earlier, this film was actually shot by the Wachowski brothers for their nephews and nieces. Therefore, children's characters in the film, such as Speed's younger brother, as well as animal characters and Speed's younger brother's pet orangutan, are magic weapons to attract children. These characters are all from the original works. Perhaps the most attractive thing for children in this film is the cute orangutan.
From this point of view, this film, which tries to take care of more audiences, seems impossible to repeat V's practice of "vendetta" and "The Matrix", and contains a lot of profound contents. Therefore, the audience who have deep feelings for the first few films of the Wachowski brothers should avoid adjusting their mentality before watching Speed Racing, and remember that this is a colorful children's film. (Netease Entertainment)
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Director Alfonso Cuarón was once interested in this film, but he directed this film on the premise that the leading role must be Johnny Depp.
According to joel silver, the producer, most films are shot in front of green screens.
Rose mcgowan once seriously considered playing the role of Trixie, but both directors thought she was a little old.
Scott Porter and matthew fox played the same role at different times. Although they are different in age, their birthdays are all on the same day-14 July.
Milka Duno, who plays Kylie Gil Beukes in the film, is actually a real professional racing driver in India racing league.
Danica Patrick, a sexy female racing driver, promised to play a small role in the film, but she refused because she couldn't stand losing to Andreetti Green and Indy racing league.
Peter Fernandez, who voiced Speed Racer and Racer X in the original animation series, will play the role of game commentator in the film.
Keanu Reeves turned down the invitation to play "Reese X".