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Some Intriguing New Information About SPEED RACER Slips From Susan Sarandon!
Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
In typically blunt and timely fashion, Steve “Frosty” Weintraub over at Collider.com put up a story tonight that echoes something I heard from Jeremy “Naked Man-Wrasslin’” Smith from Chud.com told me when I saw him after he went to the IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH junket in Hollywood Saturday morning.
Here’s a link.
Everything in the frame will be in focus! And she also confirms it’s rated G
Hope you are all doing well,
Steve
Okay... so what does that mean?
Well, go read that transcript that Steve put up. Sarandon explains the visual approach to SPEED RACER in a more particular way that I’ve heard before. Evidently, they’re using multiple layers of printed information to guarantee that everything in frame is always in focus. Hyper-clarity. As in a cartoon. Unless they specifically add blur, I suppose, as anime often does. Sarandon’s description of the process of working with the Wachowskis is something else... it sounds to me like she did it for the fun of trying something so cutting edge. And I really liked how it sounds like Tommy Lee Jones, in talking to Sarandon about it at this junket, is just as curious about it as anyone else.
The more I hear about SPEED RACER, the more I like it. I have the script for that here, and for the other race movie, the DEATH RACE 3000 latest drafts... they’re in a big virtual stack of scripts that I have to read at some point, and I’m thinking maybe I should just take a day and read them both back-to-back. One giant-budget family film, one SF geek-oriented bloodbath.
Drew McWeeny, Los Angeles
Everything in the frame will be in focus! And she also confirms it’s rated G
Hope you are all doing well,
Steve
Drew McWeeny, Los Angeles
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Busted...
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...I thought you had to be at least 2 years old to post here.
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Aug 26, 2007 7:13:07 AM CDT
Well, if I cared or even knew the toon, I might say...
by jackpumpkinhead
how nice it is of them to take such great care of the most important parts of a movie project - the focus, looking like a cartoon, and so on - and express my hopes that they won't forget of those small and much less important parts (story, script, acting, directing...), either.
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..MACH 5!..i like that part in the song where they repeat Mach 5!
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but i wonder what they'll do to make the actors stand out from the background. it sounds like it'll look great though. I can't wait to see something from this new camera once it's all been treated.
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i just wanna see american gangster
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...about how we're not getting a HARD R-RATED version of "Speed Racer", the way they do about every other movie? Weird.
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it highlights and underlines, but when i click nothing happens.
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it's using "a here='" instead of "a href='"
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Why, Mr. Speed? Why? WHY do you persist?
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But would it have killed them to at least go with a PG? Then I could have at least gotten some CG explosions.
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Oh, that doesn't bode well. I mean, I don't want it to be a bloodbath, but it should be at least PG.
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The Wachowskis blow.
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If everything is in focus that sounds like the film will have no depth of field, like video. Hopefully I'm wrong but that doesn't sound very cutting edge.
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Rated PG-13
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Speed Racer was a very complicated, adult and violent cartoon at the time. You'd think that today it would at least be a PG for the movie.
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Wachowski brother and sister? Just curious.
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You people have your facts wrong, according to Tuesday's Variety, Racer X will be played by Tommy Lee not Tommy Lee Jones.
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maybe the original was "adult and violent" but from everything i'v seen and read, what aired in north america was an edited and watered down version for the kids. so makes sense that the movie would follow that since its an american movie after all.
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That was commonplace on the old cartoon Speed would drive them off the road into cliffs and ravines and their cars would explode so violently you'd know there was no chance they could have survived in fact you'd see them screaming in their final moments and there were no GI Joe style wussout parachutes or ejection seats either
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Speed Racer should be PG. This movie absolutely needs cars wiping out, exploding, etc - it doesn't need blood, but a body count is something Speed Racer always had in pretty much each episode. I can't imagine the MPAA allowing Speed Racer to have a G rating if drivers are getting killed left and right (granted, in exploding cars - nothing remotely graphic). And yeah, if they drove off their cliffs and screamed, heck - knowing the MPAA - they'd probably want a PG-13. I'm not too concerned - there's no way Speed Racer won't have cars blowing up (and taking the bad guys with them). I just think if they're targeting a G Rating there's no way they're gonna get it.
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Fairly Oddparents Speed Racer spoof.
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It sounds like she was just being sarcastically obvious, I dont think se meant it would be in super-duper clarity like a cartoon.
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Jesus...
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so they just used a 3-chip camcorder?
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...they talk all their problems out like civilized individuals. Wow, cant wait to see that. I'm sure it wont be boring or anything ridiculous like that.
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As a kid, Speed Racer was a big deal to me. That cartoon had balls. I remember an episode where Speed physically beat Sparky because he told Speed not to compete in a race that was going to be very dangerous. I think that episode was, aptly titled, 'The Most Dangerous Race' or it was 'The Fire Race'. At any rate, this isn't as earth shattering as rating a Die Hard movie PG-13 but still, c'mon. Don't cut off Speed's balls.
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Dude Larry Wachowski is one messed up dude. Check this out:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/144000/the_strange_world_of_matrix_cocreator.html
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No, no it isn't.
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This is NOT a good idea. Everything in focus means the opposite of 35mm film and cinema. The reason people hate and think that video looks "cheap" compared to film is because video cameras have such deep depth of field that too much is in focus. With film, focus helps direct the eye, and gives it a "cinematic" look... So, personally, I don't think live-action with perfect focus will look "like a cartoon." It'll look like digital video. And that isn't a good thing, generally speaking.
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That I could dig.
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After burning through so much WB money on those two abortions, its hard to believe any studio is letting them run free again, much less asking them to save bad alien invasion movies. Somewhere, Michael Cimino is slamming his head against the wall.
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-What, no pictures?
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wealthy, creative transexual filmmaker than some sort of sour grapes, professional appreciator, armchair director any day of the week.
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One of them's just completely screwed in the head. Enough to pay someone to whack his naughty bits off.
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I was actually thinking the same thing. But she also mentioned 3D stuff so I'm betting it's more complicated than them spending millions of dollars on what would look the same as DV anyway.
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Apparently his wife is some nasty dominatrix hooker. It's also reported that he/she gets moody when it has to come to the set dressed as a man.
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One could say one of David Lynch's best movies was rated G. "The Straight Story"
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Will he be driving automatic or dick shift, er, stick shift?
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It's easy to get everything in focus. You either use a wide angle lense with tons of lights OR, do what they did in Citizen Kane. Mask off parts of the shot, shoot w/ different focal lengths. Do a composite with Optical print. But I'm sure they've found a really expensive time wasting digital way to do it that takes months to render.
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Aug 26, 2007 11:36:18 PM CDT
So long as Betty Rubble isn't played by a fat lesbian..
by burnhollywood
...Or whatever the equivalent is in Speed Racer, this could actually be worth seeing.
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Yet I'll bet you shits wouldn't say boo to anyone in public. Viva anonynimity!
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In case anyone is interested in a bit of movie making tidbit -- the camera that they are using is called the F23, which is the latest from Sony. Its the next generation camera after the F950 which is what RR used in Sin City and GL used in EP 3. Google it if you're interested in the tech specs of the whole enchilada.
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Is that the same camera that was used for THE LOOKOUT? It was really praised by critics for the "look" of the video. I felt it was impressive, until there was movement (as in the bank heist scene), when artifacts really became obvious (to me, anyway).
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Pah! Is that supposed to be shocking? That's been done and, in fact, parodied already!
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No, in The Lookout they used the Panavision Genesis camera, same used in Superman Returns and Apocalypto for example. I agree with you, its a problem with the Genesis in general, that edge blur when there is lots of movement. My favorite HD cam till now is the ViperCam (used for Zodiac) for example, but I'm sure that the new F23 from Sony is gonna be pretty spectacular as well.
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... Will it feature the Mammoth Car?!
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... not gat people. And every gay person I've ever known has hated fat people like no one else could! Not that there's anything wrong with that...
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WTF!!, Everything I saw and read about this got me really excited until I just read that it was going to be G? Why the FUCK would they do that. that has to be a mistake. Gmovies don't make as much as pg or pg13 plus the cartoon was VERY VIOLENT. and to whoever said the american cartoons were edited and therefore a G rating is ok is obviously on crack cuz even with the edited american versions it was still violent. It was the first cartoon I saw that people DIED in, unlike GI JOE where everyone was shooting and no one was getting hit.
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Maybe you should read said scripts and get back to us on them, eh? Lord knows this site isn't exactly swimming in original content these days.
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Than PG or PG-13 and a whole lot more than R. On Average. There aren't many G movies in the first place. Let's face it, this will be PG. Not G. Not PG-13. Sure as shit not R. It will be on the level of your precious Star Wars. This camera is sounding fucking sweet. The Bros. know what the fuck is up. They can chop off whatever they want as long as they keep making kick ass flicks.
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Great line. Susan Sarandon: Hottest 60 year old ever.
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