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dark_agenda2011-05-02 08:45 am
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The Fast and the Furious Kink/Cliche Meme/Fest Thingy
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To quote Entertainment Weekly:'The Fast and the Furious': Five reasons this franchise has lasted a freakin' decade
1)The Melting Pot: Quick, what do Harry Potter, Spider-Man, Twilight, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, and Christopher Nolan’s Batman series have in common? Answer: White people, white people everywhere! By comparison, The Fast and the Furious has always looked much more colorful. The original film focused on a West Side Story-esque tale of rival ethnic car gangs, but the big ah-ha moment was probably Tokyo Drift — it was the rare Hollywood blockbuster to feature a predominantly Asian/Asian-American cast, and it was also the first film in the series to gross more internationally than abroad. Fast Five emphasizes the cast’s diversity even more, bringing back 2 Fast 2 Furious stars Ludacris and Tyrese Gibson and setting the film in South America. They’re also adding in Dwayne Johnson for a face-off with Vin Diesel to settle once and for all who looks more like the future of multi-racial humanity. (Even better, the diversity extends behind the camera — Boyz n the Hood director John Singleton helmed 2 Fast, while Justin Lin has steered the franchise since Tokyo Drift.) In this melting-pot context, even Paul Walker, the single whitest human being on the face of the earth, just looks like one more representative of global diversity.
So come help us celebrate the films that handily ($83 million opening weekend domestic) prove Hollywood is, to put it politely, wrong,wrong,wrong about who and what will make money.
To quote Entertainment Weekly:'The Fast and the Furious': Five reasons this franchise has lasted a freakin' decade
1)The Melting Pot: Quick, what do Harry Potter, Spider-Man, Twilight, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, and Christopher Nolan’s Batman series have in common? Answer: White people, white people everywhere! By comparison, The Fast and the Furious has always looked much more colorful. The original film focused on a West Side Story-esque tale of rival ethnic car gangs, but the big ah-ha moment was probably Tokyo Drift — it was the rare Hollywood blockbuster to feature a predominantly Asian/Asian-American cast, and it was also the first film in the series to gross more internationally than abroad. Fast Five emphasizes the cast’s diversity even more, bringing back 2 Fast 2 Furious stars Ludacris and Tyrese Gibson and setting the film in South America. They’re also adding in Dwayne Johnson for a face-off with Vin Diesel to settle once and for all who looks more like the future of multi-racial humanity. (Even better, the diversity extends behind the camera — Boyz n the Hood director John Singleton helmed 2 Fast, while Justin Lin has steered the franchise since Tokyo Drift.) In this melting-pot context, even Paul Walker, the single whitest human being on the face of the earth, just looks like one more representative of global diversity.
So come help us celebrate the films that handily ($83 million opening weekend domestic) prove Hollywood is, to put it politely, wrong,wrong,wrong about who and what will make money.
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