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Warchoskis' 'Speed Racer' to Employ 'Car-Fu'
From the creators of “bullet-time” and “the Burly Brawl,” comes “car-fu.”
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-ca-speedracer13jan13…
Befitting a movie that owes a stylistic debt to the early ’60s, as well as notions of what the future would look like, writer-directors Andy and Larry Wachowski came up with a mashed-up nickname for the film’s mélange of Formula 1, the X Games and demolition derby.
“Car-Fu — that’s what the boys were calling it,” said “Speed Racer” producer Joel Silver, speaking for the notoriously media-averse Wachowskis, the dystopian auteurs behind the blockbuster “Matrix” trilogy. “Cars fighting in the air.”
And:
Unlike most movies in which computer generated imagery stands in for sets, extras, props and even production design (“Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow” please stand up), “Speed Racer” is using high definition digital video to blur genre boundaries.
“We looked at the textures and attitude of the original ‘Speed’ and wanted to be faithful to the core concepts of the story,” Gaeta said. “But we thought it would be fascinating to take the structure of old animé and modernize it. It’s computer generated but it’s not a cartoon. It’s a high-fidelity interpretation of animé.”
Also:
“The perspectives were deliberately done wrong to have an emotional impact rather than a realistic one,” said visual effects supervisor Dan Glass. “We wanted an impressionistic feel. This is a movie for kids and families. They tend to not have as many judgments in place about what cinema should look like.”
Finally:
To achieve what they call “Speed Racer’s” “hyper” color palette, production designers mined the work of animé pioneer Hayao Miyazaki (“Spirited Away”), Tokyo-born pop artist Takashi Murakami, the high-concept fashion photography of David LaChapelle and neo-noir shoot ‘em up “Sin City,” among myriad other avant pop influences.
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New Mach 5 rival car revealed:
http://rocketpunchautoblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/racing-team-from-japan-t…
Go Speed Racer, Go!
As an old school, after school watching uber fan of Speed Racer (please, please let him roll on the ground while firing a machine gun) this movie is either going to be spectacular (which I’m predicting) or will approach Matrix Revolutions ambiguity, which will have the general googleplex audience going “huh?” Maybe Larry Wachowski will dress up as Trixie at the premiere.
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Googleplex
Is “Googleplex” a reference to Ebert’s Answer Man column this week?
I’ve never heard anyone call a theater a googleplex before this week.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googleplex
I Guess I'm Wrong
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=googleplex (#4)
Is it a Simpsons thing?
Roger Rules!
Busted. I picked it up from Rog on Friday. But I knew it was in the lexicon somehow.
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