![]() The problem is that I don’t think he translated this kind of ethnological insight of the affective dispositions of drifters into the actual film. That was the things that were important to me. It was just kind of like, ‘Man, who just burned a set of wheels, let’s put another one on. They’re not all testosterone, like ‘I’m gonna kick your ass.’ and stuff like that. I remembered when I was a kid and you know we’d go surfing and stuff, and I got the feeling that people that drift are like surfers. And the cool thing was, for me it’s about the subtlety. The director Justin Lin, says something interesting in this interview (from here) about drifters and surfers:Ī lot of times when you look at magazines and websites there is a bit of front, like people are posing, you know or whatever. Along the way he hooks up with the only charismatic character/actor in the entire film, Han (Sung Kang), who attempts to teach him about the art of drift (see my article here) and the art of war (but in motorsport form). Sean Boswell (Lucas Black) goes from being a surburb-destroying drag racing trailer-trash teen in the US to a nephew-of-the-Yakuza fighting J-spec drifter in Japan. The redeeming quality of the film is that it attempts to stake out some sort of transformation, one that ultimately never actually takes place. But I think Bape is some cool British ‘ Soho‘ thing. A bit like the Beastie Boys-ish, but pop. (Fuck knows what this Bape /Teriyaki Boys thing is about!!! Sure they do a cool retro rap thing. The bells in the title track - “Tokyo Drift” by the Teriyaki Boys - are pretty full on. The mix of East and West sounds is pretty awesome (like that one scene in Blade with “Japanese school girl rap”). If only they had the same level of writing talent. Damn, a bit of a mixed bag, but still not bad. I couldn’t convince a certain someone to see it with me, even after offering to pay.Īnyway, the best thing about the film is the soundtrack. So I saw the film the afternoon of the day it opened. “Remember when Lost in Translation got all that critical acclaim, but there were still a few naysayers who pointed out that nothing much actually happens in it? If it had had more fast cars and no capable acting whatsoever, it would be this movie it’s like Sofia Coppola went through Pimp My Ride film school.” - Luke Y. “You’ve seen it all before, except that you haven’t, not quite this way.” - Todd McCarthy, Variety
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