your name is justine ( polish : masz na imię justine ) is a 2005 luxembourgish film directed by franco de peña .

de peña had originally wanted to produce the film in germany , but when he was unable to garner enough funds , he came to luxembourg .

the film was co-produced by luxembourg hemisphere films and polish opus film , and shot primarily in luxembourg with the aid of numerous local technicians .

as a result of the multifaceted production , the dialogue of the movie is in english , german and polish .

the plot of the story revolves around a girl called mariola ( anna cieslak ) , who is forced into prostitution in berlin , and attempts to hold on to her sense of self despite being exploited by those around her .

the film was luxembourg 's submission to the 79th academy awards for the academy award for best foreign language film .

although previous submissions ( such as italy 's private ) had been rejected due to not being in the official language of the country , the academy removed the requirement for the 79th academy awards , allowing your name is justine and other films such as canada 's water ( which contained only hindi dialogue ) to be submitted .

however , the film was rejected by the academy of motion picture arts and sciences before the formal review process .

the academy determined that there was not enough creative contribution from luxembourg to qualify under the academy 's requirements , which stress that a " submitting country must certify that creative talent of that country exercised artistic control of the film . "

joy hoffman , the head of luxembourg 's foreign-language oscar committee , was disappointed by the rejection .

although he accepted the notion that the film was a " borderline entry " , he noted that " without luxembourg the film would n't exist " .

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your name is justine <EOT> " your name is . . . " the youtube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third - party notifications of copyright infringement .

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i saw this movie in utv . this is a pain full movie and justine acting is wonderfull .

: what is yours is mine , what is mine is yours . forgot it ?

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“your name is justine” tells a story of contemporary sexual slavery . 2 million people are ‘sold’ around the world every year , of which 200 , 000 are women sold into european prostitution . 15 , 000 are polish women … this is the story of one of these women .

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i don’t know if that one intense and realistic rape scene of monica bellucci’s “irreversible” is more painful to watch or the series of rape and violent scenes of “your name justine” is instead . one thing for sure though , our singapore’s pleasure factory is mild compare to that poor poland girl who got sold into the sex industry in germany .

thanks to india’s pioneer world cinema movie channel utv world movies , i stumbled upon a brilliant polish movie your name is justine . it is a heart wrenching story of a young girl from poland who is pushed into the racket of prostitution by a man who pretends to be her boyfriend . the movie released in 2006 and it traces the story of justine as she fights to keep her sanity amidst the violence and heartlessness surrounding the world into which she is forced .

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unfortunately , outside of its well - orchestrated action sequences , “justine” is rather one - note visually as well .

the real - life slave traffic of young women by their supposed boyfriends has spawned several films , not the least of them lukas moodysson ' s splendid " lilya 4 - ever . " franco de pena ' s more simplistic heroic spin , " your name is justine , " celebrates one woman ' s struggle to retain her autonomy in the face of brutal male exploitation .

the real - life slave traffic of young women by their supposed boyfriends has spawned several films , not the least of them lukas moodysson’s splendid “lilya 4 - ever . ” franco de pena’s more simplistic heroic spin , “your name is justine , ” celebrates one woman’s struggle to retain her autonomy in the face of brutal male exploitation . visceral violence , well - paced action , [ … ]

the title aptly captures the most important aspect of the movie . ‘your’ name is justine’ points towards the fact that this new identity is forced on her and she doesn’t wish to be a part of it . her polish name mariola is forgotten and in moments of utter despair she reminds herself of this name and that she is from poland in a bid to retain her real identity . she cannot even speak in her native tongue and must use english or german for any communication . her whole being is twisted out of its original shape . anna cieslak plays the role of mariola with great aplomb and portrays effectively the numbing sensation resulting from a nightmare like this . the woman is conditioned to her new life of exploitation and unquestioning servitude by violence and sexual molestation . this changes her forever , not only in a physical way sense but also scars her psychologically .

i did my mfa critical thesis on durrell . i wish i’d taken your class first . but this is an excellent excuse to read the quartet one more time .

the first example depends upon the agency of a telescope . the scene occurs in justine at the summer house of nessim and justine hosnani , and i cite the excerpt at length in the hope that the reader will sense the planes of emotion durrell evokes and superimposes as the passage proceeds . darley is anxious that justine’s infidelity has been discovered by her husband nessim who is also darley’s close friend .

helmer pena closely details how human beings can be reduced to quiescent commodities through fear and deprivation , here represented by the titular renunciation of mariola’s true identity and her adoption of another name , “justine” ( shades of sade ? ) , and of another tongue , english , that is not even the language of the country she has been brought to .

the real - life slave traffic of young women by their supposed boyfriends has spawned several films , not the least of them lukas moodysson’s splendid “lilya 4 - ever . ” franco de pena’s more simplistic heroic spin , “your name is justine , ” celebrates one woman’s struggle to retain her autonomy in the face of brutal male exploitation . visceral violence , well - paced action , and sly sexual power reversals could spell commercial potential if pic were not half in polish , and thus caught in the no - man’s land between arthouse and mainstream .

the film has many messages to convey . besides that , it stretches the viewer ' s ability to empathize with the central character . it tests the viewer ' s sense of humanity , sense of justice , and his / her levels of tolerance . the viewer is tortured , is made to think beyond his comfortable life , his family , his friends etc . and is forced to think and feel for girls like ' justine ' , girls who are forced to forego their self - identities to live under the identity of ' justine ' . justine symbolizes the millions of innocent girls born free , born to live normal lives but are kidnapped , trafficked , blackmailed and forced into prostitution . such girls gradually lose the sense of self , lose the sense of identity , sense of being human and begin to believe that they deserve it , that this is what their destiny is , this is what they are made of . how is it justified ? why should such a thing happen to anyone ? is there an escape ? where is hope ? who am i ? what am i ? if i escape , who will i be ? though the film may not offer answers to these questions , but through the character of pauline it raises these questions in an effectual manner in the viewer ' s hearts , making ' your name is justine ' an unforgettable experience .

the movie is inspired by the fact that 200 , 000 women are sold into brothels every day – 15 , 000 of them are polish women . the fact itself is depressing . and the most depressing thing is the process of how the pimp breaks down a girl from someone innocent into a willing party to whore herself to men after being abducted from her hometown , her loved ones . that is what the majority of “your name is justine” is about . some of the scenes are awfully hard to watch like suffocating a person with a plastic bag . that particular scene looks real to me and it seems that the actor and actress have practiced that scene for a long time . i sincerely hope that the main actress was not harmed in any way during the filming of the movie .

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the parents ask the psychologist about justine , and he explains that she ' s his daughter and the reason he started his institute . they also ask how they are funded , and he tells them that they have some very generous benefactors . the father asks if that is how justine has such an expensive computer . he explains that he ' s an engineer and that her computer is powerful enough to hack the pentagon , which the psychologist didn ' t realize .

you see , justine is written by darley . it’s his autobiography . the second volume , balthazar , is darley’s autobiography corrected or revised by balthazar . in mountolive , written by me , darley is an object in the outside world . clea would be the new autobiography of darley some years later , in alexandria once again ( conversations , 41 ) .

back in the room , justine goes to her computer while the boy looks around the room . he sees a framed puzzle of muhammed ali on the wall . justine sits down at her computer to show the boy how she communicates . she types something and the voice greets the boy . she smiles and a photo on the wall shows that she is the same young girl at the beginning of the film who connects with young christian over the puzzle .

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the final scene takes place at harbor neuroscience . two parents are talking to the same psychologist from the beginning , telling him about their son . their son wanders through the house . the psychologist tells the parents that the outside world will treat him like he ' s different or dumb , and then he will be burdened by the low expectations . most of the other people in the house are children , but the boy wanders into the room of an adult woman who is screaming and shaking and smacking herself in the head . the boy ' s parents come in and apologize for their son wandering in . the woman calms down briefly as she looks at the boy and seems to smile at him . the psychologist tells them that the woman ' s name is justine , one of their few full - time residents . she ' s unable to communicate verbally , but she can do so using her computer . he suggests that the boy hang out with justine while he finishes giving the parents their tour . they agree and leave their son with justine who seems to have calmed down .

at the conclusion of the first volume , justine disappears and darley retreats to an island in the cyclades to lick his love wounds . once there , he writes an ms which becomes , metafictionally , the novel justine , the first novel of the quartet . the balthazar of the second volume is a homosexual alexandrian doctor and cabalist who lives and works at the centre of the novel’s ex - pat society . in balthazar , related again from darley’s point of view , durrell creates the device of the “great interlinear” ( b , 21 ) , a massive and detailed commentary written by balthazar on what must be darley’s ms of justine . the genius of durrell’s technique is to relativize – or , better still , recreate — the events of the first novel through the device of balthazar’s interlinear . balthazar has an eye for association and the logic of continuum over that of sequence : “but i love to feel events overlapping each other , crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket” ( b , 125 ) . from balthazar’s interlinear the reader infers that her task is doubled : one should read between the lines of both balthazar and the justine it destabilizes . as darley comes to realize that justine has used him for political ends and that she loves the other older writer ludwig pursewarden , the reader shares his deception with an ontological frisson .

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the protagonist mariola is played by a new comer anna cieslak . she is a carefree teenager who stays with her grandmother in a small village . she falls in love with a young out - of - town man who is not what he appears to be . he lures her into running away with him under the promise of a good life in the city , but her innocence is taken advantage of as she is sold for prostitution when they reach germany . the plot follows her painful journey as she is raped , beaten , and starved to break her down .

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ray hands her a stack of photographs , which show terrorists , drug cartel leaders , mafia bosses , and other criminal leaders meeting with the same man , who is only seen from behind or partial profile . ray explains that he is an accountant who works for the world ' s biggest criminals , as they cannot call h & r block when they have a financial problem . he is surprised that the accountant has survived this long , given how dangerous his clientele is . he knows of multiple aliases used by the accountant , including lou carroll and carl gauss . ray tells marybeth that he is retiring soon , and her job is to find out who the accountant is , or he will reveal her criminal past .

marybeth ' s exhaustive search has not yielded anything so far . on a hunch , they pull up the two accountants who fit her profile ( caucasian male , age 25 - 45 ) for the last name on the list , christian wolff . one declared an income of over $ 500 , 000 , which tipped the irs off for an audit , which revealed that he was clean . the other declared an income of $ 75 , 000 . this accountant ' s firm is called zzz accounting , which seems suspicious as it ' s a bad choice for a name when they are listed alphabetically in a phonebook . they look up a picture of the street view for the firm , which is in a dingy strip mall with a nail salon , laundromat and chinese food restaurant . on a hunch , marybeth has her friend look up the tax returns on the three neighboring businesses . zzz accounting is listed as the accountant for all three businesses , who have each declared over $ 400 , 000 in income . when they try to figure out where the money has gone , they realize that huge charitable contributions have been made to harbor neuroscience .

i suppose ( writes balthazar ) that if you wished somehow to incorporate all i am telling you into your own justine manuscript now , you would find yourself with a curious sort of book — the story would be told , so to speak , in layers . unwittingly i may have supplied you with a form , something out of the way ! not unlike pursewarden’s idea of a series of novels with “sliding panels” as he called them . or else , perhaps , like some medieval palimpsest where different sorts of truth are thrown down one upon the other , the one obliterating or perhaps supplementing another . industrious monks scraping away an elegy to make room for a verse of holy writ ( b , 183 ) !

to be honest , i am unsure if there is a ‘solution’ for this human condition . we know this oldest profession cannot be rid of . one way is to criminalize all parties and that motivates even more underground activities . another way is to legalize and regulate this industry but face the moral dilemma as a society .

but the relativism continues with mountolive . the third novel is remarkable for the political overlay it provides to the previous two , and especially because its apparently banal naturalistic technique is held in sharp contrast to the inventiveness of its content . durrell called mountolive the “ clou ” [ 8 ] of the series , and in it he re - shuffles the “four - decker” yet again . within the omniscient third - person narrative technique , darley becomes an objective character , much as he thought the others had been from his first - person perspective in justine and balthazar . pursewarden , the political officer serving ambassador david mountolive , gets caught in the knot of plot and takes his own life , but not before he has revealed the cause of his deception by writing a message on a mirror . the message is the political and symbolic crux of the novel : politically , because it reveals pursewarden’s unwitting self - deception with regard to justine’s “faustian compact” ( m , 201 ) on behalf of the nascent jewish state ; symbolically , because the surface of this mirror reveals for once its depths that have been hidden in plain sight . as implied within keats’ famous epitaph , “here lies one / whose name was writ in water , ” the careful reader has a momentary and awful glimpse of the depths below the surface of reality that , to the more casual , has always seemed to be everywhere intact , constant , reliable . as we read very early on in justine , “our common actions in reality are simply the sackcloth covering which hides the cloth - of - gold — the meaning of the pattern . ” once we catch a glimpse of this meaning , we behold what durrell has called the heraldic universe , the natural home of the imagination from where it makes “‘sudden raids on the inarticulate’” ( conversations , 136 ) .

is this movie worth watching ? to me it is a definite yes because not everything in life is as rosy as the typical hollywood stories . it is nothing pornographic nor erotic about this movie . it is a pure intense picture - house style of movie that tells a facet of life most of us are oblivious to . you will sympathize with the subject and even when the movie has ended and the plot has resolved itself , you will not feel as though anything has ended . human trafficking still continues worldwide , even at this very moment you read this blog .

it is very difficult to write about this movie . this movie have so many messages to convey . this movie defines tragedy in its true sense . we have a habit of complaining for small misfortunes or inconveniences . this movie tells what it is like when you are deprived of these conveniences and happiness . it is a heart touching movie . mariola is a pretty girl who stays with her grandma in a small town in poland . like any juvenile she has dreams of visiting beautiful places and living a flamboyant life . she gets this opportunity when her boyfriend propose to take her to germany to meet his parents and see the country . mariola has become a pollyanna , dreaming of her days in germany with her boy friend . but all her dreams are shattered when she finds that it was a bait and that she is thrown into prostitution by her boy friend . she is optimistic at first but as days goes by she has slowly given up . she has a becomes a wounded tiger who has lost everything and has nothing to lose here after . she pleads for her escapade . but she is turned down again and again . she no more believes that god has that power to do miracles and so she takes law in her hand and stabs her boyfriend to death . she is jailed but for her she has achieved freedom . last scene is the most touching when she is walking along the beach with her old girl friends who are married happily . in her tired strides there is a maturity which is unlike girls of her age . the music and ambiance throughout the movie is apt . all in all it is a cathartic experience .

mariola ( ann cieslak ) is as strong and smart as she is beautiful . she not only stands up to a bullying boss to earn a job as a butcher in a pork factory , but defends her weaker girlfriends in the process .

when you read clea i hope you will feel that darley was necessarily as he was in justine because the whole business of the four books , apart from other things , shows the way an artist grows up… . i wanted to show , in the floundering darley , how an artist may have first - class equipment and still not be one . [ 9 ]

i first spied the aq in the peace corps reading locker at the us embassy in tunisia in 1971 . my comp lit colleagues had alluded to it and now it was my turn . though my life in souk el arba came nowhere close tothe 30’s in alexandria , there was a sprinkling of parallels : young teacher of english , north african nation , robust and over - active romantic perspective ( probably glandular ) . to this day , after reading the four tomes twice and justine a third time , i continue to respire the same air , smell the salt spray at the villa , sense the tightening of the stomach at the intrigue and suspense , feel the excitement . i feel i know nessim , justine and the others . the vivid imagery continues to influence my pen .

durrell noted often and brilliantly that the english language had only one word for love . “the richest of human experiences is also the most limited in its range of expression . words kill love as they kill everything else” ( m , 48 ) . one paradox of durrell’s treatment of “modern love” is its power to convince darley of his own objectivity while he is in the midst of the purest egotism . “for observation throws down a field about the observed person or object” ( m , 160 ) . his reading of events , however sincere as a seeker of ‘truth’ , is still bound unwittingly by the emotional perspective of the loving , and aching , ‘self’ . [ 18 ] we learn as we read in justine , “egotism is a fortress in which the conscience de soi - même , like a corrosive , eats away everything . true pleasure is in giving surely” ( 53 ) . the notion of the “impossible ego” ( conversations , 214 ) , moreover , is the thematic bridge between the investigation into modern love with the birth of darley and clea as artists . darley discovers his truer expanded self by letting go of his ego and by letting go of clea and his love for her at the end of the fourth volume . the letting go of his love , and clea’s intuitive acceptance of the gesture , serves in part to transform both darley and clea into artists . such a pleasure in loving without attachment is the novel’s concluding redemptive moment .

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the root [ of the mirror game ] is relatively banal like an agatha christie novel ; but by changing the lighting the reality of the thing is changed . my primary game was to write a tibetan novel rather than a european novel . i attempted to bring together the four greek dimensions , which are the basis of our mathematics and the five skandas of chinese buddhism . for us the individual consciousness of each person is filtered through five perceptions and notions . i wanted to observe what would become an ordinary novel if one changed the lighting and if individuality became blurred . what seems stable in mountolive in the quartet is simply the collection of states that are always in agitation . in chinese philosophy destiny is not limited to a single life ; it is well known that you don’t learn anything in one life ( conversations , 197 - 8 ) .

in present day , christian is seen talking on the phone with a woman ( the voice ) whose caller id is a smiley face , similar to the ones from the stick figure face diagram referenced earlier . she has a very flat affect as well and is prone to stating emotions or describing her behavior , such as stating " deep sigh " rather than actually sighing . they are discussing new jobs for christian . she suggests he take a legitimate job for a company called living robotics rather than a criminal assignment that is more dangerous , as she cares for his safety . they also discuss some of his assets , including a renoir painting and a pollock painting , that she is trying to sell for him .

as darley’s and the reader’s consciousness of the overlay grow , so does the potential for meaning . the story of balthazar’s ankh – so redolent with suggestions of time — winds the time of its loss and discovery into a recursive loop . justine’s ring , exhumed from an ancient tomb , partakes of death and confers it , however unintentionally . darley’s vision of clea superimposed upon the memory of melissa “refund [ s ] an old love in a new” ( c , 112 ) . melissa is the most vulnerable , marginalized and yet the strongest female in the quartet , and clea must be reborn before assuming her nature as artist . as darley remarks to himself , as if speaking of a grammar of the heart , “and in my own life … the three women who also arranged themselves as if to represent the moods of the great verb , love : melissa , justine and clea” ( c , 177 ) . enacting the relativity proposition across episodes , then , has everything to do with form . as balthazar comments , “to intercalate realities is the only way to be faithful to time” ( b , 226 ) . or , in durrell’s own words :

another flashback to christian ' s childhood shows that the family is living in indonesia . an older man is teaching the boys to fight and is quite brutal in beating them . the father watches from the side while casually reading a newspaper . the instructor finally says that they are just boys and that ' s enough training . the father remarks that if they were done , the instructor would be laying on the ground bleeding . young christian replies in indonesian that the instructor should continue . the younger brother is deeply loyal to christian , though he seems exhausted from the fight as well .

here is a recluse who loves being surrounded by people ; a hedonist whose great pleasure is asceticism ; a lazy man who never stops working ; a man who finds joy in despair ; a traveller who enjoys nothing more than quiet contemplation ; a dandy truly at his ease in the company of tramps and vagrants ; a novelist whose major preoccupation is poetry ; an enemy of literature who gives the best of himself to his work . [ 4 ]

max , d . t . every love story is a ghost story : a life of david foster wallace . new york : viking , 2012 .

paul m . curtis is director of the english department at l’université de moncton , new brunswick , canada , where he has taught english language and literature since 1990 . he has published numerous articles on the poetry and prose of lord byron . professor curtis is preparing the first digital scholarly edition of byron’s correspondence .

durrell’s notebook “a cosmography of the womb , london jan 1939 , ” is quoted in michael haag’s “only the city is real : lawrence durrell’s journey to alexandria , ” alif : journal of comparative poetics , no . 26 , wanderlust : travel literature of egypt and the middle east ( 2006 ) : 42 . ↵

see conversations , “if you remember scenes or characters and can’t quite remember which book they come in , it proves that the four are one work tightly woven , doesn’t it ? the joiner is the reader , the continuum is his private property . one dimension in light of the other . ” ( 71 ) . ↵

interspersed throughout the film are flashbacks to christian ' s childhood . one day his mother leaves their family , as the stress of taking care of the boys , particularly with special needs , is unbearable as the father is never around . young christian is screaming and throwing things and punching through walls , while his younger brother watches resentfully . the father is arguing with the mother that she can ' t abandon her family and tells her to wait a moment . he runs in the house to hold christian tightly until he calms down . the mother gets into her waiting cab , and the younger brother gives her the middle finger from the window .

he takes a break for lunch and happens to sit near dana who is also eating her lunch outside . she notices his dented , steel thermos , and she tries to make small talk with him about why he went into financial consulting . she tries joking with christian , who is polite but doesn ' t get jokes . she tells him that she wanted to study art , but her father discouraged this and told her to follow in his footsteps as an accountant , the kind with a nerdy pocket protector , which christian is also wearing . she tells him the only art her father likes is dogs playing poker , which christian says he also likes .

this brilliant phrase is original to cormac mccarthy in his blood meridian or the evening redness in the west ( new york : vintage international , 1992 ) 247 . ↵

undoubtedly , durrell wants the reader to telescope the two scenes across the four - decker novel , and in so doing to see the one through the other . whereas darley in justine is haunted as if by a hand on his shoulder , clea , in her mind’s eye , extends her hand as if to touch the lovers on the beach . darley’s ‘blind’ love for justine re - emerges as liza’s physical blindness ; but , whereas the blind liza has insight into love , darley must earn his insight through trial and experience . such a compression of formal symmetries works with a crisp logic . if darley can be the eyewitness to his own love affair in justine , clea’s view of lovers on another beach seals her own love darley since , with a curious “optical democracy , ” [ 15 ] she becomes darley’s specular and , therefore , full partner . the extension of a telescope from volume one to four promotes the effect of looking forward to looking back and creates the illusion of the suspension of time , what durrell calls disparagingly , the “western deity . ” [ 16 ] it’s as if each of these local smaller stories has a life that takes form within the larger narrative of the quartet . as darley considers balthazar’s interlinear : “it was cross - hatched , crabbed , starred with questions and answers in different - coloured inks , in typescript . it seemed to me then to be somehow symbolic of the very reality we had shared – a palimpsest upon which each of us had left his or individual traces , layer by layer” ( b , 21 - 2 ) . each reader might enjoy the layers singly or in their shifting ensemble .

in the adjacent room , a psychologist is speaking to the parents of the two boys . there is a sign on the refrigerator with simple drawings of six stick figure faces , happy , angry , sad , etc . they discuss the puzzle boy ' s sensitivity to bright light and loud noises . he is also stubborn and fixates on things , like wearing only one t - shirt , which the psychologist explains is due to a tactile sensitivity . he is also likely to channel his anxiety into repetitive behaviors like shaking , tapping his fingers and talking to himself . he tells them that the boy will likely always have problem with things like maintaining eye contact or making friends . the mother explains that the father is in the military , which means they move frequently , so the boy hasn ' t been able to make friends anyway , leaving his younger brother as the only friend he has . the father seems uninterested in the conversation . the psychologist suggests that they leave the boy at his institute , where they can teach him coping mechanisms and provide a calm , comforting environment that won ' t exacerbate his sensitivities . the father says no , telling the psychologist that if the boy is sensitive to light and sound , he needs to be exposed to more light and sound , as the world is not going to accommodate his special needs .

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though the movie depicts realistically the ordeal of mariola who is sold off , it becomes quite melodramatic at times . the rape scenes are too many and it is difficult to endure them because of their intensity . except ciselak all other actors do just about ok on the acting front and the attention never goes away from the female lead . i presume this was a deliberate design of the directors . the end may seem quite unsatisfying to many viewers but the beauty of the device of realism is not spoilt by making it happily ever after .

that night christian engages in his usual ritual with the strobe light and loud music , but he is deeply frustrated that he wasn ' t able to finish his assignment . he hits himself painfully with his wooden rod and is unable to cope with the stimuli . he grabs his medication and forcefully throws it across the room before calming down and picking it up .

see the first full - length biography on dfw by d . t . max , every love story is a ghost story ( new york : viking , 2012 ) 178 . ↵

the film begins with a man walking through a bar with multiple dead bodies on the ground , having been shot in the head . he slowly makes his way upstairs , hearing someone begging for his life . he passes more bodies , making his way to the door of the room where the begging man is . an abrupt sound is heard and the begging stops .

the next scene takes place about 30 years ago ( via title card ) at a place called the harbor neuroscience institute in new hampshire . it ' s a big , beautiful home in a forested area . two young boys are sitting in a living room . one is sitting calmly in a chair , and the other unboxes a puzzle and rapidly starts putting it together . the boy with the puzzle is shaking and murmuring to himself . a young girl is also in the room with a caregiver who is trying to put her shoes on . the young girl screams and smacks her own head and is unable to communicate . the boy quickly assembles the puzzle but starts screaming inconsolably when one piece is missing , repeating over and over that he has to finish the puzzle . the young girl has stopped screaming and reaches over to pick up the piece that had fallen under the table and hands it to the young boy , and they look directly at each other . the boy completes the puzzle , revealing that he has assembled it upside down , without seeing the image of muhammed ali to guide him .

like paul curtis , as a young writer i was enthralled by lawrence durrell’s four astounding novels — justine , balthazar , mountolive & clea — together known as the alexandria quartet . i can’t count the vivid snippets of scene and dialogue that still float up in my mind : especially the end of clea when the painter’s wounded hand can suddenly “paint” as here healthy hand had never been able to do or the moment when the feckless journalist ( a minor character throughout ) returns from war in the desert , a tan , golden warrior who has suddenly found his place in existence . yes , i love the transformations at the end of the quartet , when time suddenly moves forward . i loved the mysterious and ineffably sad hand prints on the brothel walls , justine’s mad search for her stolen child , and pursewarden’s epigrams ( i began to learn to write epigrams reading the alexandria quartet ) . there are so many things i tried to copy here as a beginning writer ( the faux einsteinian structure and the pursewarden endnotes , for example ) , so many ideals inhaled and transformed to my own uses .

the passage begins by establishing an earthbound perspective as the perspective descends from sky to minaret to hut , and the agency of the telescope serves to conflate the vision of nessim and darley . the telescope’s magnification brings to darley’s eye the precise scene that it had previously brought to nessim’s , and with an eerie irony darley becomes an eyewitness to his own adultery as he rummages about in his host’s private quarters . the lovely personification of the breathing landscape in contrast to darley’s breathlessness brings to bear the weighty hauntedness of the scene . seeing through nessim’s eyes magnifies , of course , darley’s own blindness vis - à - vis the affair . such shifting of visual perspectives is the quartet’s primary motif , and the characters often encounter each other through the beguiling surface of a mirror , at one remove from unmediated vision . [ 14 ] darley’s ostensible reason for his presence in the observatory is for paper to write melissa , his other lover ; but one can’t help but wonder how sincere darley’s motivation to write her might be if he pursues it in the wake of a beach - hut encounter with justine . the copy of king lear is a clever device developed with increasing effectiveness by durrell in his first three novels . shakespeare’s play resonates powerfully in this scene more from an ambiguity of symbolic reference than through precise allusion . does darley’s revelatory moment of telescopic vision imply gloucester’s blindness and fall to another beach ? or is the reference more general still , about the power of a genuine love unperceived , as is cordelia’s by lear and melissa’s by darley ? the example is one of durrell’s painterly touches where an image creates a plane of emotion that haunts a scene rather than appearing in full outline .

conversations , ed . earl g . ingersoll ( madison : fairleigh dickinson university press , 1998 ) 207 . hereafter conversations followed by page number . this collection of interviews is essential reading . ↵

at the time when we knew [ pursewarden ] he was reading hardly anything but science . this for some reason annoyed justine who took him to task for wasting his time in these studies . he defended himself by saying that the relativity proposition was directly responsible for abstract painting , atonal music , and formless ( or at any rate cyclic forms in ) literature . once it was grasped they were understood , too . he added : “in the space and time marriage we have the greatest boy meets girl story of the age . ” ( b , 142 ) [ 1 ]

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christian sets out to see lamar ' s sister , believing her to be behind the plot . as he pulls up to her home , he sees a suspicious man exiting her building . he follows from across the street , and we see that it ' s the assassin . the assassin seems to know someone is following him though he never turns and looks . he then quickly pulls out his gun and fires two shots at christian , who ducks behind a car . when he peers out , the assassin is gone . christian enters the building and finds that lamar ' s sister is dead .

later , the assassin is setting up a team of henchmen at the home of lamar , the ceo of living robotics , as he was behind the whole plot and killed his cfo and his sister to cover his tracks . the assassin questions lamar about christian , but lamar is dismissive and says he ' s just a freak . he also asks lamar what the point of all of this was . lamar claims that his ability to help people far outweighs any crimes he ' s committed . christian is able to get on the premises and kill the henchmen one by one , leaving only one man and the assassin , who has been monitoring the situation on surveillance cameras . as the assassin watches , he realizes that christian is muttering nursery rhymes to himself , which the assassin recognizes . the last remaining henchman has a gun on christian , but the assassin bursts in and tells him to stand down . the henchman ignores him and is about to pull the trigger when the assassin kills his own henchman .

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christian takes dana with him to his storage unit . he instructs her to wait outside but she enters anyway , finding his cash and valuable paintings and a storage space his weapons . he is annoyed that she came inside to his private space where he is packing up clothes , cash , passports and comic books . she questions how he owns an original renoir and an original pollock , which he explains he received as payment .

since one is haunted only by what the senses cannot perceive , durrell had to turn upon his inner self and to exorcise much of his englishness in order to become an artist . through the creation of his symbolist

another flashback shows christian in prison , talking with an older man with glasses ( jeffrey tambor ) . the man is very kind to christian and is trying to coach him in having normal interactions with people , learning to read their emotions from the tone of their voice and their facial expressions . they share a bunk , and late at night , he tells christian about his clients , who are the criminals mentioned in the beginning of the film .

dana is back in her apartment and repairing the damage caused by the fight when she gets a mysterious package delivered to her . she opens it up to find a painting , seemingly expecting the pollock she saw in christian ' s trailer . instead , it ' s the painting of dogs playing poker . she laughs , but when she notices the canvas seems to be loose , she pulls at it and realizes the pollock is underneath the dogs .

while living with her grandmother in poland , a young woman falls in love . her boyfriend is charming and suggests they travel around europe and work here and there to pay for their trip . . . . see more »

while living with her grandmother in poland , a young woman falls in love . her boyfriend is charming and suggests they travel around europe and work here and there to pay for their trip . . . . see full summary »

it could do so only because , three months ago , oscar rules were changed to allow a country to nominate a film that isn ' t in its indigenous language as long as english is not the dominant language in the film .

director franco de pena has dealt with the subject without any nudity and great sensitivity which is almost brutal . the cinematography keeps up the mood of utter disdain and hopelessness . the choleric yellow wallpaper peeling away from the walls symbolizes mariola’s breaking self . the dark and dingy surroundings are an indication of what this world has to offer her , death and decay . one of the most moving scenes of the movie is when mariola calls out for help through a small window but there is nobody around to hear her . later even her clients refuse to help her even after realizing that she is being forced into this trade . the scenes are painfully realistic and at times i just had to turn away from them and gasp for a little breath . the story has the major element of verisimilitude in its telling and it’s not all’s well that ends well . there isn’t a definite closure and like real life the issues don’t just magically resolve themselves .

christian works through the night and is able to deduce that $ 61 million is missing from the company . he starts to explain it to dana who catches on quickly . the ceo ' s sister interrupts them and dismisses dana . she wants to know if christian has guessed who ' s responsible for the missing money , to which christian responds that he doesn ' t guess . he needs to keep reviewing the documents to figure it out . she expects a full report from him shortly .

haag , michael . “only the city is real : lawrence durrell’s journey to alexandria . ” alif : journal of comparative poetics , no . 26 , wanderlust : travel literature of egypt and the middle east ( 2006 ) : 39 - 47 .

christian drives to his home , which is very bare . he has no art or photos or any decorations in the house . he owns exactly one plate , one fork , one knife , one spoon , and prepares himself dinner . he is highly ritualized in the way he prepares his food . he continuously shows small tics , like blowing on his fingers before picking up his fork . later in the evening , he goes into his bedroom and turns on a strobe light and loud , heavy metal music . he picks up a small , wooden rod and uses it to roll on his leg muscles . he is trying to remain calm , subjecting himself to the stressful stimuli until his alarm beeps and it ' s time to take his zoloft .


speed racer is a 2008 american sports action-comedy film written and directed by the wachowski brothers and based on the 1960s japanese anime and manga series of the same name .

the film stars emile hirsch , christina ricci , matthew fox , john goodman , susan sarandon , roger allam , benno fürmann , hiroyuki sanada , rain and richard roundtree .

its plot revolves around speed racer , an 18-year-old automobile racer who follows his apparently deceased brother 's career .

his choice to remain loyal to his family and their company racer motors causes difficulties after he refuses a contract offered by e.p. arnold royalton , the owner of royalton industries .

the film had been in development since 1992 , changing actors , writers , and directors until 2006 , when producer joel silver and the wachowskis collaborated to begin production on speed racer as a family film .

speed racer was shot between early june and late august 2007 in and around potsdam and berlin , with an estimated budget of $ 120 million .

its score was composed by michael giacchino , and the film 's soundtrack , which contains the sound effects and theme song from the original series , was released on may 6 , 2008 .

speed racer premiered on april 26 , 2008 at the nokia theater , and was released in regular theaters in north america on may 9 , 2008 .

although it grossed over $ 93 million , it was considered a box office bomb due to its production cost .

it was subsequently nominated in multiple categories at the teen choice awards , and was nominated for the golden raspberry awards .

the film received mostly negative reviews by the time of its release ; it was criticized for its storyline , characters , dialogue , and use of special effects , but received praise for its capacity to entertain the target audience and the performance of its cast .

years later , however , the film received more of a positive reception , with some commentators calling it an " underrated " film .

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speed racer ( film ) <EOT> speed racer is a american 2008 action film and the live - action film adaptation of the 1960s japanese animated series speed racer .

film crit hulk smash : speed racer as artist | birth . movies . death .

peter fernandez and corinne orr , the original english voices of speed racer / racer x and trixie / spritle in speed racer ( 1967 ) , voice race announcers in the film .

speed racer promotional art featuring rain as racer taejo togokahn . ©2008 warner bros . ent .

speed racer . dir . andy and lana wachowski . warner bros . , 2008 . film .

blair : and racer x , the mysterious masked racer who was really speed ' s brother .

that ' s really all that needs to be said . speed racer is the god hand of film .

emile hirsch as speed racer christina ricci as trixie matthew fox as racer x john goodman as pops racer susan sarandon as mrs . racer roger allam benno fürmann hiroyuki sanada rain richard roundtree

speed racer the movie is an american compilation film produced by streamline pictures in association with speed racer enterprises , containing three episodes from the original speed racer television series . it was released theatrically as the speed racer show in select markets in 1992 , before being re - released on vhs and laserdisc in 1994 , and later on dvd in 2001 .

the korean superstar discusses his role in the new speed racer film author : keith aiken source : warner bros . official site : speed racer the movie special thanks to gemma cacho , warner bros .

orr is the last surviving member of the " speed racer " main cast .

fernandez conceded to the times that he would be best remembered as speed racer .

speed racer / the real mach 5 [ s4 ep . 3 - 3 ]

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wkd prediction : problem - plagued ‘speed racer’ distant no . 2 to ‘iron man’

same is true of this poster , which further validates speed racer being awesome .

mtv : you couldn ' t go from more of one extreme to another with your next film , " speed racer . "

also , i need to check out the speed racer film . i barely remember the show but i see a lot of people saying the film is a lot of fun .

the wachowskis developed a positive working relationship with rain during the speed racer shoot , and tailored a subsequent film – the 2009 james mcteigue film ninja assassin – specifically for him .

speed racer intends to convey a sense of heedless momentum , but it drags painfully .

how speed racer reminds me to look at the world through my little brother’s eyes .

in the immortal words of speed racer himself… get that weak shit off my track .

" we are very excited about this natural extension from the speed racer film to the videogame . larry and andy are videogame fans themselves , so they believe that an interactive game is a key component to the entire speed racer experience , " said film producer joel silver .

: inspector detector asks racer x if he really wants to be at the racer house for the attempt at recruiting speed . racer seems unusually emotional about it . we learn later that

speed is also rex’s . rex is scrupulously careful to refer to speed as his brother

“get smart , ”and " speed racer " by far is the riskiest of them all .

michael giacchino used musical cues from speed racer ( 1967 ) when he composed the score .

it’s all about the need for speed for susan sarandon in her next film , speed racer . she’ll be playing ‘mom’ in the new adaptation from andy and larry wachowski and joel silver .

[ xxvi ] jack giroux , “matthew fox transforms for alex cross and mourns the fate of speed racer” , film school rejects , 17 october 2012 .

cooke’s film has picked up numerous awards including best documentary at the magners irish film festival 2006 , best documentary award at the 2006 boston irish film festival and winner at the chashama film festival , new york city 2008 .

showdown : ' speed racer ' vs . ' cloud atlas ' vs . ' jupiter ascending '

[ iv ] steven weintraub , “joel silver interview speed racer” , collider , 7 may 2008 .

[ xxii ] steve weintraub , “emile hirsch interview speed racer” , collider , 5 may 2008 .

[ xxiii ] steve weintraub , “matthew fox interview speed racer” , collider , 3 may 2008 .

the original car - racing anime aired in 1967 - 68 under the name mach go go go . when it was released in the u . s . they renamed it speed racer . other speed racer series ' followed over the years , such as the new adventures of speed racer in 1993 , the speed racer x remake in 1997 , and spinoff shorts such as mach girl in 2008 . it was that same year that lionsgate developed speed racer : the next generation , and the wachowskis released the american live - action film adaptation .

stacey vanek - smith : happy meals are among speed racer ' s $ 80 million worth of promotional partnerships . general mills put " speed racer " action figures in cereal boxes . there is a " speed racer " lego set . and puma made " speed racer " shoes . so what happens to all that stuff when the movie crashes and burns ? consumer retail consultant burt flickinger .

there’s a very strong argument to be made that speed racer is , when all is said and done , the most expensive experimental arthouse film ever produced .

in june 2004 vince vaughn was going to produce the film and star as racer x . however , production never became fully active , so he left the film .

" . . . little does speed know that the mysterious racer x is actually his long lost brother rex , who went missing and reappeared as the mysterious racer x , in actuality rex racer , the long lost brother of speed . . . "

and in case you missed them , here’s a link to 7 movie clips from “speed racer . ”

check out everything we ' ve got on " into the wild " and " speed racer . "

part 3 : speed racer is born ! mach go go go comes to the u . s .

commercial : speed racer , the movie , rated pg , is now in theaters and at mcdonalds .

[ v ] quoted in speed racer production notes , warner bros / village roadshow pictures , 2008 .

[ x ] quoted in speed racer production notes , warner bros / village roadshow pictures , 2008 .

[ xi ] quoted in speed racer production notes , warner bros / village roadshow pictures , 2008 .

everything goes to shit after the race , and racer x finds speed at thunderhead . all speed really wants is his brother back , and racer x can’t give him that ; but he can at least tell speed that rex would be proud of him

initially panned on release , and a subsequent box office bomb , speed racer is finally being recognised as a game - changing film which redefined and reconceptualised the film form as we know it . kaleidoscopic and mesmerising , the visuals , editing , and pace of the film are perfectly in line with 21st century aesthetics and the way a new generation of film fans see the world . an adaptation of the 1960s anime , speed racer is pure and simple at its heart – speed racer loves to race , and must keep winning in order to race .

the movie based off of the anime series speed racer , directed by the wachowskis . it features the titular speed racer characters with their same basic personalities thrown into a racing world where corporate greed determines everything .

if you want to answer the questions , " who starred in the movie speed racer ? " and " what is the full cast list of speed racer ? " then this page has got you covered .

fighting fingerprint : played with . speed suspects racer x of being his long lost relative rex , because racer x drives in the same distinctive way rex did .

best bit : speed drives almost vertically up the side of a mountain to thwart evil driver snake ' s dastardly plans . go speed racer ! go !

a new version of the 1960 ' s cartoon " speed racer " is set to debut next year on nickelodeon ' s 24 - hour cartoon channel , urltoken reports . the new toon will come out around the same time the live - action " speed racer " film hits theaters . in the series , young speed racer enters a racing academy for the fastest kids on earth and then discovers that he ' s the son of the legendary speed racer and that he has a brother , racer x , who he never knew existed .

an excellent cast , story and visuals combine for an adrenaline - fueled experience . go , speed racer !

this cast list of who was in speed racer includes both lead and minor roles . ( 20 items )

new york — “speed racer” is emerging from a prolonged pit stop with director alfonso cuaron at the wheel .

juego de autos 19 : speed racer the great plan : meteoro y el mach5 en el camino serpiente .

[ xx ] paul fischer , “ricci fast tracks her career in speed racer” , girl , may 2008 .

in the month since “speed’s” spinout , there’s been much second - guessing about what went wrong . but the reasons aren’t as elusive as the film’s mysterious racer x . here are the top 10 factors leading to the film’s failure :

there’s more than speed racing going on on the set of emile hirsch and christina ricci’s upcoming film . a chimp bit an actor on the set of “speed racer” — and there are allegations that the chimp was beaten .

a film about real cars being driven fast ; that ' s about all there is to need for speed .

so : assume a trans speed racer . since we’re sticking with the movie essentially as written , this speed will be female - assigned and male - identified .

" racer x " wears a black suit with a black mask in the movie , but wore a white suit with a black mask in speed racer ( 1967 ) .

racer x is rex , speed ' s older brother who everyone believes died years before in a racing crash .

speed racer is anime - the animated form of japanese graphic novels , which really became popular in the 1990s . kelts says those seven buttons on speed racer ' s car back in the ' 60s are typical of anime .

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“speed racer . ” imdb : the internet movie database . imdb . com - amazon . com , 1990–2015 .

[ xvii ] sheila roberts , “john goodman talks monuments men , speed racer” , collider , 4 february 2014 .

[ xviii ] quoted in “speed racer : interview with rain” , sci - fi japan , 9 may 2008 .

after winning a race , speed racer jumps out of his car while it ' s still moving and strikes a pose as his car slows and stops just behind him ; in addition , the lights flashing in the grandstand behind speed briefly dissolve into a red - yellow checkerboard background . this scene replicates the trademark pose of speed racer in the opening credits of speed racer ( 1967 ) .

i used to watch the speed racer cartoons as a kid , so i was happy to see this bluray with the remake ( i must have missed it in the movies ) . the special effects , picture quality and sound are terrific ! the story , well , that ' s speed racer ( afterall it ' s not shakespeare ) , but why did they change racer x into someone else ! every speed racer fan knows racer x is rex racer , speed ' s brother . i was kinda irritated by that , anyway , call me silly : - ) )

but trixie , like the racers , takes speed at face value . she’s not as into cars as speed is , but she’s into how into cars speed is . she’s generally into the whole weird speed package .

everything from young speed’s fantasy to the racing visuals , and even spritle’s manic shenanigans , make this film a great peak into the head of a kid . the film apparently did very well with the child demographic , as it should since”speed racer” is basically everything great about a kid’s fantasy with speed . this is the true magic of the movie , as it evokes such child - like wonder that it makes you feel like a kid again ! when you watch it with this mindset , “speed racer” is a truly wonderful film .

the reason that setting up capitalism as the villain of “speed racer” works so well is because the film focuses on speed and his relationship to his family , especially rex and pops . family values and hard work stand at the core of this film , supporting the racers as they go up agains big - name racing companies . “speed racer” is a classic underdog sports narrative with some other fun elements thrown in .

go speed racer go written by nobuyoshi koshibe and yoshida yoshiyuki performed by ali dee and deekompressors ( as the deekompressors ) produced by ali dee and jason gleed ali dee and the deekompressors appear courtesy of deetown entertainment contains samples from the " speed racer " classic television series ( 1966 - 1967 ) licensed courtesy of speed racer enterprising , inc .

' speed racer ' film a far cry from its anime roots the movie speed racer opens thursday . it ' s based on the japanese animated series that was a hit with american kids in the late 1960s . the movie is directed by larry and andy wachowski , who directed the matrix .

blair : when people write about " speed racer " today , they often mention how japanese it seems . but it turns out tatsuo yoshida created " speed racer " with the american market in mind , says author roland kelts .

speed racer cast list , listed alphabetically with photos when available . this list of speed racer actors includes any speed racer actresses and all other actors from the film . you can view additional information about each speed racer actor on this list , such as when and where they were born . to find out more about a particular actor or actress , click on their name and you ' ll be taken to page with even more details about their acting career . the cast members of speed racer have been in many other movies , so use this list as a starting point to find actors or actresses that you may not be familiar with .

the second director signed on to helm speed racer was julien temple , best known for his 1985 film absolute beginners . at this stage the project was budgeted at us $ 30 million dollars , making speed racer a mid - range studio picture but by no means intended as a major summer blockbuster .

at one point during the film ' s early development in the 1990s , nicolas cage was offered the role of racer x .

spritle and chim chim are obsessed with candy and food , just as they were in speed racer ( 1967 ) .

full disclosure : i dressed as speed racer for halloween the year of its release . it was a great costume .

speed racer premiered on may 3 , 2008 at the tribeca film festival , and was released in the united states on may 9 , 2008 . the film received negative reviews . speed racer was criticized for its storyline , characters , dialogues , and for being very childish , while the film was praised for its capacity to entertain the target audience and its cast performance . speed racer was noted to use overmuch special effects by some critics that criticized it , while others praised its visual . it received nominations of awards that both qualified the film as one of the best in a certain category and as a golden raspberry award .

the " mach " series vehicles are designed , built , and stored in the " racer " family ' s garage , just as they were in speed racer ( 1967 ) .

families can talk about whether speed racer feels more like a live - action film or a cartoon . why ? what do you think the filmmakers wanted watching it to feel like ? é

and now , warner brother pictures has announced the family adventure film , " speed racer " , which has already entered pre - production and set to be released may 9 , 2008 .

the big damn kiss : speed and trixie ' s kiss at the end after speed wins the grand prix .

a female - assigned speed’s early childhood is pretty much the same . in the racer household , assigned sex informs very little beyond diapering logistics . speed still grows up tooling timing pins . his parents dress speed in sturdy , colorful clothes

in addition to the speed racer content , the film included unrelated commercials contemporary to the show ' s broadcast era , as well as a colonel beep cartoon short . the home video release included a commentary track with peter fernandez and corrine orr , and a music video featuring a remix of the original theme song spliced with footage from the series , live action dancers and speed and racer x from the new adventures of speed racer .

warner bros . interactive entertainment announced speed racer , based on the upcoming film by the wachowski brothers , where players will be able to take on the role of the characters from the film , getting behind the wheels of each character ' s signature vehicles to experience firsthand the film ' s high - adrenaline , combative racing style .

so much of “speed racer’s” charm , beauty and excellence comes from the design work of the film . most critics address the visuals as the film’s strongest element , and they’re completely right . the design work on “speed racer” evokes the zaniness of the anime , amps it up and gives it just the right dose of reality ; all present in the costume , car and world design .

you can check out speed racer on may 9 , 2008 , and in the valley of elah in theaters september 21st .

: speed and trixie tell a fib to help racer x and inspector detector by racing in the race that killed rex .

: taejo togokahn offers to turn over incriminating evidence if racer x and speed help his team win the casa cristo 5000 .

a different version of the mach 6 appeared in the television sequel cartoon speed racer : the next generation ( 2008 ) .

high octane , low wattage : speed racer ( emile hirsch ) can ' t outrun the wachowski brothers ' tiresome technomania .

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this week ' s round of new movie release information contains release dates for shooter . pathfinder , speed racer and more .

you don ' t climb into a speed racer thread to defend individual qualities , you do it because it is quality .

well , maybe “burst” is the wrong word . in reality , the speed racer movie “fizzled” onto the scene . the critical reception of the film was less than stellar , with a 39 % on rotten tomatoes , and a 37 % on metacritic . speed racer drew criticism for its weak writing and sickeningly colorful effects .

the film had been in development since 1992 , changing actors , writers and directors until in 2006 producer joel silver and the wachowskis collaborated to begin production on speed racer as a family film . speed racer was shot between early june and late august 2007 in and around potsdam and berlin , at an estimated budget of $ 120 million . the film score was composed by michael giacchino , and the film ' s soundtrack , which contains the sound effects and theme song from the original series , was released on may 6 , 2008 .

rex goes back home as racer x , and watches speed’s back at casa cristo . when ninjas attack them in the hotel , rex ends up in the racer family’s room , and sees speed in his pajamas , without a binder . and for the first time , speed is really , really scared about that

speed racer is a fantasy action film about a young racing prodigy who becomes a star and has to balance the demanding world of big money racing with his family ' s racing tradition and values .

racer x is secretly rex racer , speed’s older brother . in the anime , rex left his family and donned the racer x identity after feeling ashamed for racing recklessly and crashing the mach 5 . the film amps up x’s origin a bit , having him fake his death during a race to escape his ties to the mafia . ashamed , rex undergoes plastic surgery and dons the racer x mask .

japanese voice artists katsuji mori , kiyoshi kobayashi and kenji utsumi voiced ben burns , mr togokahn and pops racer in the japanese dub of the film . these three all worked in the original speed racer ( 1967 ) series : mori in particular voiced the title character .

and when young speed sees young trixie for the first time and when they kiss at the end of the film they are hearts .

actor also describes what it was like to shoot ' speed racer ' with the wachowskis ( and a pair of chimps ) .

there are many troubling elements in speed racer , front and center of which was the casting of emile hirsch as speed racer — a whitewashed casting trend that continues to plague anime and comic book adaptations , from dragonball : evolution to ghost in the shell .

speed ' s first encounter with racer x , a mysterious masked driver who is rumored to cause car crashes whenever he races .

emile hirsch was a big fan of the speed racer ( 1967 ) show , and used to watch it on cartoon network .

speed racer is objectively the greatest movie of all time , and if you talk shit about it , i will fight you .

as warner bros’ speed racer movie opens in theaters today , audiences will be reintroduced to the wonderful cast of characters from the classic anime series . the film brings back a slew of familiar faces , from speed , trixie , racer x and chim - chim to supporting players such as inspector detector and recurring villains like snake oiler .

( cnn ) - - " speed racer , " the wachowski brothers ' first film as writer - directors since " the matrix reloaded " five years ago , is a dizzying pop - art confection .

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it is revealed that rex racer faked his death and had magic plastic surgery as the ultimate disguise to fight against corruption as racer x .

shooting on the latest wachowski brothers opus , speed racer , has just got off the grid , marked by a berlin press conference to introduce the cast , the look and very key prop of the film .

“speed racer , the score , is nothing like what i expected , and just about everything i dared not to hope for . ”

so they went from the shiny leather and dour visual style of the matrix to speed racer ' s full contrast and splashy color .

if family members have seen the matrix movies , you can talk about what they have in common with speed racer , if anything .

there’s no doubt in my mind that the speed racer movie isn’t exactly citizen kane , but after seeing it lambasted by all manner of websites , i’m going to do something contrarian and crazy . i’m going to try and convince people to watch and enjoy speed racer .

this is because “speed racer” didn’t force a gritty take . it’s not “a speed racer movie , but…” it’s just a speed racer movie , and that’s what makes it great . from “batman begins” on , every comic book movie had to throw something else into the mix to keep things from being too campy and fun , two things that producers thought audiences didn’t want . “speed racer” is a true adaptation of the anime ; it’s fun , silly , colorful and not afraid to get cheesy . some might fault the film for not taking itself too seriously , but honestly , that’s what makes it work so well .

the film , silver says , will have a " retro future " look and will center on speed ( hirsch ) trying to make a name for himself in the racing world despite the efforts of corporate giants to foil his career . the film also stars christina ricci as girlfriend trixie and matthew fox as speed ' s older brother , racer x .

another aspect of speed’s driving that resembles a video game is the “race” with his brother for the track record at thunderhead at the very beginning of the film . with speed ahead of the pack by a sizable margin , speed’s mechanic sparky remarks , “holy cannoli , speed ! do you know who you’re racing ? ” just then , the ghost of rex’s car appears slightly ahead of speed’s car .

it is easy to see why this film didn’t fare well at the box office . it wasn’t an easy film to market and it still isn’t going to be a film for everyone . however , it is pure cinema and a film that demands to be watched through the eyes of your inner - child .

the moment of truth is a fictional film about real life bullfighter but he actual did fight the bulls , stab them , etc . in the film .

speed racer is a 2008 american action film based on the japanese anime and manga series speed racer by tatsunoko productions . the film was written and directed by the wachowskis , and stars emile hirsch , christina ricci , john goodman , susan sarandon , matthew fox , benno fürmann , hiroyuki sanada , rain and richard roundtree . the plot revolves around speed racer , a 18 - year - old automobile racer , who follows his apparently deceased brother ' s career . he is very loyal to his family , particularly to his father , pops , who is a man of solid convictions . however , these convictions lead the enmity of mr . royalton , a business man , after speed refuses a contract offered by him .

the wachowskis’ film adaptation of speed racer has a rating of 39 % on rottentomatoes , was panned by most critics and was complete box office failure . but how well does this reflect upon the film ? it’s campy , over - the - top and incredibly fast - paced , but these aren’t flaws . it’s these very elements that make the film an under - appreciated masterpiece .

the wachowskis’ anime adaptation may be their most underrated , and subversive , film .

although light on plot and performances , the film delivers exactly what it promises .

this film comes out next week . ( may 9th to be exact . )

faux affably evil : despite being warm and friendly while initially courting the racer family , after speed rejects his offer , royalton reveals his true personality by giving speed a " the reason you suck " speech .

: rex teaches speed to " drive , not steer " by listening to the feel of the car . speed later uses this ability

speed racer : while it was poorly received at the time , the wachowski’s speed racer succeeds by being exactly what it set out to be—a bright , colorful adventure for kids . which , in turn , makes it exactly like its source material . unfortunately , the film’s poor critical reception and box office performance very likely served to further stigmatize anime adaptations to big studios .

` speed racer , ` the animated tv series that aired during the 1960s and ` 70s and followed the adventures of a hotshot race car driver , is racing to the big screen as a full - length animated film . streamline pictures , which will distribute the film in february , is producing the 95 - minute animated film using episodes gleaned from the classic animation series . warner bros . also holds an option to produce a live - action version of " speed racer , " a project that is in active development . . .

speed racer , bless its heart , only made just shy of $ 94 million in worldwide gross off of a budget of $ 120 million .

" speed racer " is rated pg and runs - - and runs and runs - - 135 minutes . for entertainment weekly ' s take ,

npr ' s elizabeth blair reports that the original " speed racer " was the way a lot of young americans were introduced to japanese anime .

and then speed racer came along . for my brother and me , speed racer was a movie - length game of cars and blocks , one we could both enjoy together . we could lose ourselves in the dazzling cinematography , a cinematic language of imagination that he , as a kid , intuitively understood , but which i had completely forgotten . speed racer is what cars and blocks looked like to him . speed racer taught me how to see through his eyes again , to remember what the world was like when it was full of something new and exciting every single day .

like many of you , i dismissed the wachowski ' s effort to recreate speed racer back in 2008 . the lukewarm critical reception mixed with moviegoer reaction sullied me on taking a chance on a film i had high hopes for .

the character depictions of rex , speed , and spritle in speed racer ( 2008 ) demonstrate a range of how children can be empowered within their own environments and understanding . the aesthetic , technology , and depiction of the family in the film allow speed , the representation of the empowered child , to exert control over his situation and express himself through his own strengths .

i believe that wb did an alright job in marketing this film , not great . the real problem this film faced was that nobody knew what it was . was it ment to be a kids film , directed at the people in their 40 ' s that knew all abou the cartoon , or a hybird of both . it was too different , in which nobody had even seen . and because of this , cirtics bashed the hell out of the film . even though speed racer did got better reviews then what happens in vegas , people knew the vegas film was a chick - flick and knew what to expect , but had no idea what speed racer would offer . therefore , people staied away from sr .

high speed over the top action with lots of crazy cgi gave this live action film a great feel for the old cartoon . fun but not great .

loved ones montage : during the grand prix at the finale of the live action speed racer film , speed ' s heroic second wind after restarting the mach 6 is accompanied by flashbacks to his discussions with his friends and family throughout the film , mixed with cuts to each of them watching in pride as he comes from behind to take the lead for the second time in the race .

upon its release ten years ago ( time certainly flies ) , the wachowski ' s speed racer was met with largely negative reviews , but over the years , the live - action cartoon has steadily increased its cult following with many now viewing the film as an underrated masterpiece . the wachowski ' s already had plans for a sequel before the release of speed racer , but as the film wound up becoming a bit of a . . . read more . . .

the film is written and directed by the wachowski brothers who also serve as co - producers . it has been in development since 1992 , changing writers and directors . finally , producer joel silver and the wachowski brothers collaborated to begin production on speed racer as a family film so the directors could reach a wider audience .

we failed this film is a series about various films that simply didn’t get the love that they deserved upon initial release . for the third entry , we’ll be getting behind the wheel of lana and andy wachowski’s criminally underappreciated speed racer , a film that flopped upon release but is far better than initial reaction would suggest .

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. the film is due in october 12 , 2018 with rob letterman directing again .

the cast : emile hirsh as speed racer ( yes , that ' s his real name ) , john goodman as pops racer ( his dad ) , susan sarandon as mom racer ( his mom ) , christina ricci as trixie ( his girl ) , matthew fox as racer x ( his teammate ) , roger allam as royalton ( his nemesis ) , three kids and a monkey .

speed racer was produced in germany at babelsberg studios , where filming took place entirely against greenscreen . the wachowski brothers also filmed in high - definition video for the first time , using a layering method to put both the foreground and the background of scenes in focus to have a real - life anime appearance . marketers have prepared toys and video games to coincide with the film ' s release . speed racer will premiere on may 3 , 2008 as the closing film at the tribeca film festival , and will go on general release on may 9 , 2008 .

, with the exception of susan sarandon , who played the wholesome mom racer .

hell , prior to this i just assumed racer x was a bad guy .

i don ' t see how you can make " straight " film about a guy called speed racer . the wachowskis hit the mark bang on . there was no other , no better way to do it . and it rocked ! 😀

written and directed by the wachowski brothers ( the matrix trilogy , v for vendetta ) and produced by joel silver , speed racer is based on the classic series created by anime pioneer tatsuo yoshida . a live - action family adventure , speed racer follows the young race car driver speed in his quest for glory on and off the track in his thundering mach 5 . the film will feature other characters that fans of the show will remember , including speed ' s family and his mysterious arch - rival , racer x . the new high - octane actioner will combine the kind of revolutionary visual effects and cutting - edge storytelling that have become the benchmarks of the wachowski brothers ' films , bringing speed racer into the 21st century . the film stars emile hirsch ( " alpha dog " ) as speed , christina ricci ( " black snake moan " ) as trixie and matthew fox ( tv ' s " lost " ) as racer x as well as oscar winner susan sarandon ( " dead man walking " ) and john goodman ( " evan almighty " ) as mom and pops racer .

i should add that i ' ve never seen the original animated movie or any other speed racer material . this was my first exposure to the franchise . hell , prior to this i just assumed racer x was a bad guy .

ironically , the nostalgia appeal is equal parts herculean bicep and achilles’ heel . if you watched the show as a kid , there’s a decent chance that speed racer will bring back memories of good times gone by . but if you never saw the show , you’d probably just think it was a nauseatingly colorful and poorly - written film . and frankly , you wouldn’t be wrong . but folks who watched the original show are more likely to find amusement in speed racer ’s idiosyncrasies , and it’s to these people that i most powerfully recommend speed racer .

random fact : joel silver has held the rights to develop speed racer for nearly twenty years - other development ideas included johnny depp in the title role .

high octane , low wattage : speed racer ( emile hirsch ) can ' t outrun the wachowski brothers ' tiresome technomania . warner bros . pictures hide caption

they also created a co - branded tv spot that pitted esurance’s spokes - cartoon erin against speed racer’s mach 5 in a race to a movie theater .

in this case , much of that imagery revolves around the mach 5 , the white , futuristic race car driven by speed racer ( emile hirsch ) .

speed racer is a young man with natural racing instincts whose goal is to win the crucible , a cross - country car racing rally that took the life of his older brother , rex racer . speed is loyal to the family business , run by his parents pops and mom . pops designed speed ' s car , the mach 5 . the owner of royalton industries named arnold royalton makes speed a lucrative offer , but speed rejects the offer , angering the owner . speed also uncovers a secret that top corporate interests , including royalton , are fixing races and cheating to gain profit . with the offer to speed denied , royalton wants to ensure that speed will not win races . speed finds support from his parents and his girlfriend trixie and enters the crucible in a partnership with his one - time rival , racer x , seeking to rescue his family ' s business and the racing sport itself .

the story begins with speed racer who is a young man with natural racing instincts whose goal is to win the crucible , a cross - country car racing rally that took the life of his older brother , rex racer . speed is loyal to the family business , run by his parents pops and mom . pops designed speed ' s car , the mach 5 . the owner of royalton industries makes speed a lucrative offer , speed rejects the offer , angering the owner . speed also uncovers a secret that top corporate interests , including royalton , are fixing races and cheating to gain profit . with the offer to speed denied , royalton wants to ensure that speed will not win races . speed finds support from his parents and his girlfriend trixie and enters the crucible in a partnership with his one - time rival , racer x , seeking to rescue his family ' s business and the racing sport itself .

blair : there ' s a reason speed racer looks a little like an anime elvis with the pompadour hairstyle and scarf around his neck . kelts says yoshida modeled speed after elvis presley in the movie " viva las vegas . "

producer and anime distributor william winckler told anime news network that he was glad that renewed interest accompanying the 2008 live - action speed racer film , fernandez " finally got the attention and respect he deserved from the general public and mainstream press . "

scott porter and matthew fox , who play the same character at different ages ( rex racer and racer x respectively ) , have the same birthday of july 14th .

at one point julien temple was attached to direct with johnny depp starring as speed . both dropped out of the film due to delays in production and personal issues .

big bad : e . p . arnold royalton is the main antagonist of the film .

is the only film opening wide this weekend . the real competition are three other films that opened earlier , sometimes much earlier . the first is the film that started this summer ,

director doug liman told ign that the film will " revolutionize how people make sequels . "

the third film in the series is still , thankfully , going by the american definition of " pants . " a british version would make for a very , very different film .

asked about how well they knew speed racer before coming onto the film , the far eastern cast members ( hiroyuki saneda and korean pop idol rain ) had the best credentials , but hirsch and ricci both claimed to have loved the show as kids .

emile hirsch was 6 years old when he saw his first episode of the cartoon speed racer and , more important , caught a glimpse of the mach 5 .

a young driver , speed racer , aspires to be champion of the racing world with the help of his family and his high - tech mach 5 automobile .

adaptation distillation : the wachowskis managed to distill the feel of the animated speed racer , keeping the bright colors , but bringing it into the live action arena .

mr . peter fernandez ( as speed racer ) : these are the controls of the most powerful and amazing racing car in the world , the mach 5 .

[ xix ] cole smithey , “matthew fox talks to cole smithey about vantage point , speed racer , and staying lost” , cole smithey , 21 february 2008 .

[ xxv ] lauren a . e . schuker , “speed racer stalls , highlighting a risk” , wall street journal ( eastern edition ) , 12 may 2008 .

speed racer is a film that upon initial release polarized audiences due to its story , performances , dialogue and visual style . however , visually , this film is a real treat . to be honest , i wasn ' t sure what to expect from this film , but i came out of it surprised . speed racer is a film that pure entertainment value from start to finish , if you enjoy films that are visually appealing , then this is a film for you . sure , i agree that the film is over stylish , but that ' s a good thing . although the script does seem a little rocky at times , the payoff comes in the races themselves . overall this is a fun , entertaining film that is underrated , and it definitely deserves more praise just for the creativity alone . if you enjoy a good , effective and captivating picture , this film is worth seeing . keep an open mind , it ' s a film that deserves much more recognition than it deserves . sure , it ' s a flawless masterwork of cinema , but it ' s nonetheless a worthwhile and memorable viewing experience that anyone can enjoy if you ' re in the right frame of mind . the film ' s strong points are the visuals , races and overall look at the film , its flaws are in the dialogue and sometime cheesy performances , but really all that goes out the window because of its entertainment value . speed racer is a film that works well because its cast are good , and the direction is effective enough to grab your attention . although it ' s not perfect , the film is well worth your time if you ' re looking for a pleasant visually charged time waster to watch . upon seeing the film , i was surprised that mainstream critics couldn ' t see the merit in such a movie . speed racer deserves far more credit than it deserves , and most importantly , it deserves a second look .

if there’s truly one thing to love about “speed racer , ” it’s the cast . there’s emile hirsch as speed , susan sarandon as mom racer , john freaking goodman as pops racer and roger allam as villain arnold royalton . how these high - profile actors were cast in an anime adaptation is mind - boggling , but it sure worked out well , the cast put all of their heart into these roles .

speed racer ’s failure at the box office was clearly down to two key reasons . the first was the competition . the summer of 2008 was a highly competitive season for hollywood , and in the face of numerous superhero films , animated extravaganzas and high - profile sequels , speed racer was simply squeezed out of the marketplace .

the debt that the film franchise owed to anime would be acknowledged in the direct - to - video release the animatrix , an anime anthology of short stories set in the film’s world .

the story resolves around speed racer , who is loyal to the family business run by his parents . after turning down an offer to race for one of the big companies he uncovers a race fixing plot and joins forces with former rival racer x .

the exteriors in speed racer are completely computer - generated , their artifice seemingly intent in order to heighten the gonzo nature of the film . rather than cheap , it feels innovative . most films use cgi in order to make the unreal look real , but this film is unashamed and chooses to use cgi to make the unreal look fantastical . the effect is undeniable euphoria . i saw speed racer twice in theaters , and both times i spent the entire two hours of it with the widest smile on my face .

lana wachowski : got it . here’s one . it was an encounter that happened after we had finished speed racer and there was something quite depressing in peoples uh…uh… .

that he’s a boy , speed and rex are brothers . speed is adamant about this , and rex is fine with it , and no one really wonders whether it speaks to larger issues of identity , because speed always wants to be

if there was ever a film that proved how wrong critics can be it ' s speed racer . if you skipped it initially . give it a shot . i can ' t promise you won ' t be disappointed but it at least deserves your attention !

in fact , the james bond film goldfinger was an inspiration for the creator , tatsuo yoshida when he created the original speed racer television show . thus , this scene plays with multiple layers of intertextuality . speaking of the television show , there is even a scene in the speed racer film in which spritle and chim chim imagine that they enter the anime they’re watching , a direct nod to the film’s japanese and anime roots . the easy incorporation of and flow between different genres , styles , and texts reflects a child’s multitextual learning , mirroring how a child processes different aspects of reality and synthesizes them into a single understanding .

the puppies one is a shame but not really the fault of the film maker / producer .

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there’s no doubting that “speed racer” is a campy movie , but that’s what gives the film so much heart . the film hits a lot of emotional beats , each evoking very real reactions . the fun , crazy , downright silly action keeps you on the edge of your seat , while the family moments have you tensed up and on the verge of tears .

it still feels surreal working with them . i’m currently doing another project with them , ninja assassin , and i think i’ll be in the next speed racer as well .

blair : the new " speed racer " movie was directed by the wachowski brothers , who almost never give interviews . but they , too , loved the 1960s show .

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