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The interesting thing about Speed Racer 2008 being an adaptation is that the fact that the Wachowski sisters are huge weebs probably posed more of a barrier for them than if someone else got hired to make a movie from that license
Like, weebs specifically hate Speed Racer
Like, weebs specifically hate Speed Racer
Most normal Gen X Americans born in the 60s just remember Speed Racer as one of the kitschy little icons of their childhood
If you were actually into anime, you remember it as the show that spawned all of the negative stereotypes of anime you argued with your parents about
If you were actually into anime, you remember it as the show that spawned all of the negative stereotypes of anime you argued with your parents about
The show wasn& #39;t actually *that* popular in Japan, it also wasn& #39;t objectively all that good, and it became a staple of US Saturday morning cartoons for basically random business reasons where they got the foreign license extremely cheaply
And they made the dub extremely cheaply
Three people play almost all the voices
Corinne Orr (Trixie) is also all the other women, Peter Fernandez (Speed), who was also the writer and director of the dub, was all the men, Jack Grimes played Sparky and the monkey
Three people play almost all the voices
Corinne Orr (Trixie) is also all the other women, Peter Fernandez (Speed), who was also the writer and director of the dub, was all the men, Jack Grimes played Sparky and the monkey
The dub dialogue is extremely stilted and badly synced to the lip flaps
It& #39;s the origin of the "bad dub memes" where someone rattles through this long sentence without any breaths
Fernandez said for each episode they gave him one day to write the script and one day to record
It& #39;s the origin of the "bad dub memes" where someone rattles through this long sentence without any breaths
Fernandez said for each episode they gave him one day to write the script and one day to record
And the animation of the show itself, although it& #39;s not that unusual for a series from the 60s, aged pretty badly
Especially since it& #39;s a show about racecars
Much of the time the Mach 5 is a completely static cel just moving across a background cel
Especially since it& #39;s a show about racecars
Much of the time the Mach 5 is a completely static cel just moving across a background cel
It& #39;s just, it& #39;s everything that& #39;s supposed to be embarrassing about anime
Back in the 90s your whole ongoing battle was to convince people to watch Evangelion or Ghost in the Shell or whatever by assuring them it was nothing at all like Speed Racer
Back in the 90s your whole ongoing battle was to convince people to watch Evangelion or Ghost in the Shell or whatever by assuring them it was nothing at all like Speed Racer
So while an anime outsider might think that Speed Racer was some kind of natural progression for writer/directors who introduced Ghost in the Shell to a Western audience by ripping it off as a live action movie, it really wasn& #39;t, it& #39;s the opposite
It was a great act of humility
It was a great act of humility
And that& #39;s why it& #39;s so inspiring that they didn& #39;t fuck with it
The movie is extremely true to the tone of the original Speed Racer, when ANYONE ELSE would& #39;ve tried to give it at least a little bit of the grim and gritty treatment
The movie is extremely true to the tone of the original Speed Racer, when ANYONE ELSE would& #39;ve tried to give it at least a little bit of the grim and gritty treatment
The mission statement in the opening scene of the movie, man
Young Speed doodling a racecar crash in the margins of his homework and making it into a flipbook
Transitioning into a (groundbreaking at the time) cel-shaded CGI scene of him racing a handdrawn car on a doodled track
Young Speed doodling a racecar crash in the margins of his homework and making it into a flipbook
Transitioning into a (groundbreaking at the time) cel-shaded CGI scene of him racing a handdrawn car on a doodled track
Transitioning to the "real life" present day scene with the lovingly rendered "real" CGI race
What a clear manifesto
What a clear manifesto
"Maybe they were cranking out a hand drawn cartoon at, like, 5 frames per second
And maybe we& #39;re the legendary creators of the Matrix working with millions of dollars and the finest computer rendering algorithms known to humankind
But we& #39;re all doing the same damn thing"
And maybe we& #39;re the legendary creators of the Matrix working with millions of dollars and the finest computer rendering algorithms known to humankind
But we& #39;re all doing the same damn thing"
