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Via Japanator.
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Showing posts with label anime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anime. Show all posts
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Friday, December 7, 2007
Here He Comes
USA Today provides first look photos of the Speed Racer movie, and AOL Moviefone has the trailer.
The filmmakers are clearly trying to preserve the colorful, campy, and over-the-top tone of the cartoon, but I'm not quite sure it translates to live-action film. As one blog commenter put it, it looks "like a rainbow barfed". They've translated some things faithfully — Speed's neckerchief — while making typical Hollywood changes to other things — turning Racer X's costume all-black, for example. Fans of the show in the blogosphere seem to be excited by the pictures and the trailer, though, so maybe the siblings Wachowski have hit their mark. As usual, for those unfamiliar with the 1960s cartoon, Wikipedia has a good summary.
To me, it's funny that the Wachowskis made this film. The "bullet time" effect, made famous by their film, The Matrix, always reminded me of the end of the Speed Racer title sequence (though their direct influences, I think, were two other manga/anime, Akira and Ghost in the Shell).
Speed Racer itself reminds me of middle school, since there was a time back then that my friend and I would play the computer game a lot. (I still have the installation floppies somewhere in my closet!) Maybe, then, it's fitting that the film turned out to look like a big-screen video game.
The filmmakers are clearly trying to preserve the colorful, campy, and over-the-top tone of the cartoon, but I'm not quite sure it translates to live-action film. As one blog commenter put it, it looks "like a rainbow barfed". They've translated some things faithfully — Speed's neckerchief — while making typical Hollywood changes to other things — turning Racer X's costume all-black, for example. Fans of the show in the blogosphere seem to be excited by the pictures and the trailer, though, so maybe the siblings Wachowski have hit their mark. As usual, for those unfamiliar with the 1960s cartoon, Wikipedia has a good summary.
To me, it's funny that the Wachowskis made this film. The "bullet time" effect, made famous by their film, The Matrix, always reminded me of the end of the Speed Racer title sequence (though their direct influences, I think, were two other manga/anime, Akira and Ghost in the Shell).
Speed Racer itself reminds me of middle school, since there was a time back then that my friend and I would play the computer game a lot. (I still have the installation floppies somewhere in my closet!) Maybe, then, it's fitting that the film turned out to look like a big-screen video game.
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