Speed Racer
Speed Racer is a 2008 live action film adaptation of the 1960s Japanese anime series of the same name. The film is written and directed by the Wachowski brothers, directors of The Matrix trilogy who also serve as co-producers. The film had been in development since 1992, changing writers and directors until producer Joel Silver and the Wachowski brothers collaborated to begin production on Speed Racer as a family film.
- Directors : Andy Wachowski , Larry Wachowski
- Release Date : 8 May 2008
- Genre : Action | Family | Sport
- Tagline : Go
- Runtime : 135 min
Cast
- Emile Hirsch : Speed Racer
- Nicholas Elia : Young Speed
- Christina Ricci : Trixie
- John Goodman : Pops Racer
- Melissa Holroyd : Speed’s Teacher
- Susan Sarandon : Mom Racer
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Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is an 18-year-old whose life and love has always been racing. Racing is “in his blood”: his parents, Pops (John Goodman) and Mom (Susan Sarandon), run an independent business building race cars; and his older brother, record-setting racer Rex Racer (Scott Porter), was killed in Speed’s childhood in the running of the Casa Cristo, an incredibly intense cross-country racing rally notorious for rough and foul play. Before his death, Rex was rejected by his father for his choice to run the Casa Cristo, and publicly defamed for appearing to cheat underhandedly in a race. Now, Speed Racer is quickly sweeping the racing world with his artistic skill, driving the Mach 5 (and later the Mach 6) of his father’s design, but remains interested only in the art of the race and the well-being of his family.
When Mr. Royalton (Roger Allam), owner of conglomerate Royalton Industries, offers Speed an astoundingly luxurious lifestyle in exchange for signing to race with him, Speed is tempted but declines, knowing that his father would never wish Speed to sign with the very power-hungry corporations he so mistrusts. When Speed refuses Mr. Royalton’s offer, Royalton reveals that top corporate interests, including Royalton himself, are fixing the races to gain profit, and then threatens Speed’s career success and very life when he still does not agree to sign on. When Royalton later proves ready to make good on his threats, Speed teams up with his girlfriend Trixie (Christina Ricci), his one-time rival, Racer X (Matthew Fox), and shifty racer Taejo Togokhan (Rain) to enter the Casa Cristo 5000 – known as “The Crucible” – in part of a plot to uncover the treacheries of Royalton and save the Racer business. Read more
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Speed Racer Quotes : -
Trixie: [while watching race from above] Move it, Speed! It’s getting ugly out there!
Pops Racer: You think you can drive a car and change the world? It doesn’t work like that!
Speed: Maybe not, but it’s the only thing I know how to do and I gotta do something.
Mr. Royalton: [to Speed] Listen to me and listen good, kid, because I can give you one more history lesson. You’re going to go to Fuji and you’re going to try and prove that everything I’ve just told you is nothing but a lie. But no matter how well you drive, you won’t win, you won’t place. I guarantee you right now that you won’t even finish the race!
Speed: [to Royalton] Racing’s in our blood. Like for Pops, it isn’t just a sport. It’s way more important than that. It’s like a religion. And in our house, the major sponsors are kind of like the devil. I don’t mean to offend you, sir, and I do appreciate your offer, but after all we’ve been through, I don’t think this kind of deal is for me.
Mom: Distracted?
Speed’s Teacher: No, that’s not exactly right. Your son seems to be interested in only one thing. All he talks about, all he seems capable of thinking about, is automobile racing.
Mom: Well, you know, his father designs racing cars.
Speed’s Teacher: And where is your husband?
Mom: Working. He couldn’t be here.
Speed’s Teacher: Perhaps the apple hasn’t fallen very far from the tree.
Speed: Racing hasn’t changed, and it never will.
Racer X: It doesn’t matter if racing never changes. What matters is if we let racing change us. Every one of us has to find a reason to do this. You don’t climb into a T-180 to be a driver. You do it because you’re driven.
Trixie: Oh my god, was that a ninja?
Pops Racer: More like a “non”-ja. Terrible what passes for a ninja these days.
Minx: [after seeing Speed race] He’s going to be very good.
Racer X: No, he’s going to be the best… if they don’t destroy him first.
Trixie: Cool beans.
Mr. Royalton: Pancakes are love.
Ben Burns: This isn’t a race; it’s a showdown.
[first lines]
Race Announcer: All drivers to your cars, please. All drivers to your cars.
Speed’s Teacher: Speed Racer, slow down!
Rex: [to Speed] Stop steering and start driving. This ain’t no dead piece of metal. A car’s a living, breathing thing, and she’s alive. Feel it talking to you. Telling you what she wants, what she needs. All you gotta do is listen. Close your eyes and listen.
Young Speed: [dazed after crashing] Who are you?
Young Trixie: I’m Trixie. I’m in your class.
Young Speed: Oh yeah. Hey, you want to see my car collection?
Young Trixie: I’d love to!
Mom: [catching Spritle playing with his chimp in the living room] Hey, what are you two doing?
Spritle: Nothing.
Mom: Was that the same nothing that broke my last couch?
Spritle: No, that was a totally different nothing.
Trixie: Since when did winning become so important?
Speed: It is important. You gotta win if you want to keep driving, and that’s what I want to do. It’s the only thing I really know how to do.
Trixie: That’s not true.
Speed: Come on, I wouldn’t have made it out of high school without your help.
Trixie: Okay, that’s true.
Speed: [finding him hiding in his truck] Spritle!
Trixie: You little sneak!
Spritle: It wasn’t my idea!
Speed: Oh no?
Spritle: [pointing to his chimp, who points back] It was his.
Pops Racer: [to Spritle] Get some exercise. You’re too pale!
Speed: Okay, no more Mr. Nice Guy!
Speed: Haven’t any of these drivers read the rule book?
Speed: I thought we made a good team today. It felt like we’ve been doing it for a long time.
Racer X: If you say so.
Speed: It’s going to be okay.
Mom: You wouldn’t lie to your mother, would you?
Speed: Never again.
Pops Racer: This is abso …
Speed: - lutely crazy.
Pops Racer: I couldn’t have been more proud of you, son. Not because you won, but because you stood up, you weren’t afraid, and you did what you thought was right.
Speed: It didn’t amount to anything. It was completely meaningless.
Pops Racer: How could it be meaningless? I saw my son become a man. I watched a man with courage and integrity drive the pants off of every other driver on that road. This is not meaningless. This is the reason for a father’s life.
Trixie: [seeing Speed in a formal suit] Hubba-hubba!
Spritle: [Racer X and Inspector Detector are at the Racer's front door] It’s Racer X, The Harbinger of Boom!
Spritle: Go Speed, Go!
Pops Racer: You want a real kick? You go Bernoulli.
Speed: [shouting at Pops] Don’t take it out on me because you feel guilty about what happened to Rex!
Mom: Do you remember the day that you rolled the car? How upset I was?
Speed: [laughing a little] I remember. Rex said the only reason we survived was because I was wearing those red socks.
Casa Christo Announcer: I know he blew up at Fuji, but this kid is flat out magic!
Speed: Sounds beefy, Pops.
Speed: [to Cannonball Taylor] Get that weak shit off my track!
Sparky: [as Speed preps for a race] How are you feeling?
Speed: [as he observes the coliseum] It’s big.
Sparky: Hey, this cockpit is the exact same size as it was at Thunderhead.
Speed: Right.
Sparky: [pauses] Just wanted to say thanks, for what could be the most exciting moment of my life.
Speed: Couldn’t have gotten here without you.
[they hug]
Pops Racer: [to Speed] God, you sound like Rex! You wanna die like him, too? Will that make you happy?
Rex: [to young Speed, on the track at Thunderhead] Feel that shimmy? That’s your hind legs trying to outrun your front.
Young Speed: What do I do?
Rex: Stop steering, and start driving.
Speed: [to Mom Racer] Maybe Royalton is right. Maybe racing really is all about the business, and anyone who doesn’t understand that is just a chump.
Mom: [to Speed] We just have to stick together…and something good will happen. You’ll see.
Mr. Royalton: [to Speed] You don’t know how many times I’ve seen that same cow-eyed, say-it-isn’t-so look of disbelief. Every bumpkin who comes in from the sticks looks exactly as you do now. I won’t bother proving it to you. You walk away from me, you walk away from this deal, you’ll know how true it is soon enough. This is your last chance. Are you ready to put away your toys and grow up? Are you ready to make more money in one year than your father made in his whole life? Are you ready to become a *real* race car driver? Then sign that contract!
Ben Burns: [to Speed, in the Fuji locker room] Hey, kid.
Speed: Ben Burns?…
Ben Burns: Nice race. I ain’t seen moves like that in a long time.
Speed: [pause] Didn’t matter. I still lost.
Ben Burns: Yeah. Tough break.
[pause]
Ben Burns: Well. Good luck.
[turns to leave]
Speed: [pause] Mr. Burns, can I ask you something?
Ben Burns: Sure, kid.
Speed: The ‘43 Prix. Did you know you were gonna win?
Ben Burns: [pause] Y’know, everybody thought that me and Stickleton hated each other. Funny, ain’t it?
Mr. Royalton: I hope I didn’t scare you, Speed, by showing you how hard we push our team. I just want you to see how serious we are about winning.
Speed: [long pause] I get that.
Pops Racer: [to Speed] I went to Cortega because I was afraid what happened to Rex was gonna happen to you, and I couldn’t take that. But once we got there, I realized something. I didn’t lose Rex when he crashed, I lost him right here. I let him think a stupid motor company was more important to me than he was. You’ll never know how much I regret that mistake. It’s enough that I’ll never make it again. Speed, I know every child has to leave home. I just want you to know that that door is always open. You can always come back. ‘Cause I love you, son.
Speed: [At Cannonball Taylor] Ok, Mr. 2-time-Grand-Prix-5-time-WRL-future-Hall-of-Fame… teach me something.
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