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Testosterone, Gasoline... Mise En Scene
Jul. 1st, 2008 09:06 pmOkay... so, to explain.
The Alpha-est Of Males is a bit of a revhead. Cars, bikes... all that stuff ~ Crusty Demons et-petroleum-cranium-cetera.
So, he asked me a little while back if I'd seen any of the Fast & The Furious films. I said I'd seen the first one (on Foxtel while channel-surfing, but that counts!!), had ignored the 2nd, but was interested in the 3rd one, set in Tokyo, because I'd liked the trailer one time at the movies but never saw it. He accepted that as some kind of credential & no more was said on the topic...
Until the following day, when he turned up at Debtor's Prison with a DVD of The Fast & The Furious 3 ~ Tokyo Drift... as well as some obscure, mail-order-only Australian trailbike DVD which he raved about. Both DVDs have sat on the backseat of OBluV8 for 10 days or so, pretty much neglected & forgotten...
Until tonight ~ ( mitigating circumstances )
Anyway, I arrived home with some red wine & in a mood for distraction ~ fast cars in 5.1 surround would do... Cue Tokyo Drift...
And it was a lot of fun!! I'd describe it as a Car Ballet. Some of the things they got cars to do in the most unlikely places were either amazing driving, or extremely hi-definition renditions of scenes from Grand Theft Auto. Not being much of a computer game player, I'll stick to the theory that some people are born in the 'Racing Driver' position & are probably best avoided in carparks... on mountain roads... in fact, just avoided in general. Sure, the plot was borrowed liberally (read ~ shamelessly) from every horse/car/chariot race movie ever & was primarily influenced by a hybrid vision of Romeo & Juliet, with a Japanese Mercutio & Rebel Without A Cause, only with much flashier & faster cars. Sprinkle with a (very) liberal dose of Japanese girls in skimpy clothes, add a hip-hop/rock soundtrack & Hey Presto, your plot's irrelevant!! Fast cars... fast women... faster film-editing. Pure Brain-Candy & I'm on a mental sugar-high... Verdict ~ a shameless guilty pleasure. Maybe I'll buy a copy. Maybe not.
So much so that I think I'll pass on the trailbike DVD, having seen enough of it when he played it on his laptop to fake my enthusiasm. Tomorrow's trip to work in OBluV8 could be interesting though...
Later... I find it kind of curious that in this sort of movie, everything ~ no matter how serious, how many people have died & how many gangsters are involved ~ everything can be resolved with a car race. Interesting because I recently heard how someone was concerned about encountering me, as they thought my response to seeing them would be violent. Certainly emotions run high in our circumstance, but I could never be described as someone who wages blood-feuds. Probably because I've never seen any of the Rocky films.
I wonder if a Dodgem Car Derby could balance the books between us? Somehow, I doubt it...
The Alpha-est Of Males is a bit of a revhead. Cars, bikes... all that stuff ~ Crusty Demons et-petroleum-cranium-cetera.
So, he asked me a little while back if I'd seen any of the Fast & The Furious films. I said I'd seen the first one (on Foxtel while channel-surfing, but that counts!!), had ignored the 2nd, but was interested in the 3rd one, set in Tokyo, because I'd liked the trailer one time at the movies but never saw it. He accepted that as some kind of credential & no more was said on the topic...
Until the following day, when he turned up at Debtor's Prison with a DVD of The Fast & The Furious 3 ~ Tokyo Drift... as well as some obscure, mail-order-only Australian trailbike DVD which he raved about. Both DVDs have sat on the backseat of OBluV8 for 10 days or so, pretty much neglected & forgotten...
Until tonight ~ ( mitigating circumstances )
Anyway, I arrived home with some red wine & in a mood for distraction ~ fast cars in 5.1 surround would do... Cue Tokyo Drift...
And it was a lot of fun!! I'd describe it as a Car Ballet. Some of the things they got cars to do in the most unlikely places were either amazing driving, or extremely hi-definition renditions of scenes from Grand Theft Auto. Not being much of a computer game player, I'll stick to the theory that some people are born in the 'Racing Driver' position & are probably best avoided in carparks... on mountain roads... in fact, just avoided in general. Sure, the plot was borrowed liberally (read ~ shamelessly) from every horse/car/chariot race movie ever & was primarily influenced by a hybrid vision of Romeo & Juliet, with a Japanese Mercutio & Rebel Without A Cause, only with much flashier & faster cars. Sprinkle with a (very) liberal dose of Japanese girls in skimpy clothes, add a hip-hop/rock soundtrack & Hey Presto, your plot's irrelevant!! Fast cars... fast women... faster film-editing. Pure Brain-Candy & I'm on a mental sugar-high... Verdict ~ a shameless guilty pleasure. Maybe I'll buy a copy. Maybe not.
So much so that I think I'll pass on the trailbike DVD, having seen enough of it when he played it on his laptop to fake my enthusiasm. Tomorrow's trip to work in OBluV8 could be interesting though...
Later... I find it kind of curious that in this sort of movie, everything ~ no matter how serious, how many people have died & how many gangsters are involved ~ everything can be resolved with a car race. Interesting because I recently heard how someone was concerned about encountering me, as they thought my response to seeing them would be violent. Certainly emotions run high in our circumstance, but I could never be described as someone who wages blood-feuds. Probably because I've never seen any of the Rocky films.
I wonder if a Dodgem Car Derby could balance the books between us? Somehow, I doubt it...
