The story is indeed on occasion fractionated and without connectivity. The plot and story are sometimes complex and sometimes without substance. If after what we reveal about the content of this film you decide see it, you'll find out whether X is Rex. But is he? Racer X appeared just two years after Rex died. Through most of the show implications are that Racer X is really Rex. Corporate crime, fixing of races and manipulation of family holdings start to crumble the Racer family.įrom ten years before comes Inspector Detector (Benno Fürmann) but now with Racer X (Matthew Fox) who together represent justice and are trying to shut Royalton down. So, even after Royalton spares no expense on wooing and pampering Speed, Speed turns Royalton down and a war begins. Royalton has no interest in the sport, just the money whether earned legally or not. But Speed is not so sure he wants to race for Royalton Industries. Arnold Royalton (Roger Allam) who wants Speed to race for him. Speed eventually wins a top profile race and people start noticing him. The pair become inseparable and as the years go by Trixie (now Christina Ricci) is as much a "member" of the household as any of the Racers. While a young lad, little Trixie (Ariel Winter) befriends Speed as the other kids besmirch the name of Rex as a cheat and coward.
Speed (now Emile Hirch) still lives with Pops (John Goodman), Mom (Susan Sarandon), young Spritle (Paulie Litt) and older brother Sparky (Kick Gurry). But not long after this, Rex is killed in a race.
Deceiving their father who has forbid Speed from going to the track without him, Rex takes Speed for a few laps and gives him a few pointers about driving a race car. After Rex picks up Speed, Rex is constantly bombarded with pleas from Speed for Rex to let Speed get his hands on the car. See CAP Rule of 1000 for more information on this technique of loading a film.Ĭonstantly day-dreaming about racing cars, young Speed Racer (Nicholas Elia) fidgets and squirms while taking a test at school, biding his time until older brother Rex Racer (Scott Porter) arrives to pick him up in the Mach Five race car built by the Racer family, aka Racer Motors.
Speed Racer is an example of Movie A which contains the same envelope of ignominy as Movie B but is typically rated less severe. The image below displays this concept pictorially: Consider for example Movie A which presents 100 seemingly innocuous examples of assault on morality/decency each worth only 10 "bads." Now consider same-length Movie B which presents only 10 examples of moral assault but of the extreme nature each worth 100 "bads." Each movie presents 1000 "bads." Thus each of the two above example films has equal potential for morally reshaping the viewer. Specifically, a film with many seemingly innocuous examples of morally invasive content can be (and sometimes is) more corruptive than a film of the same length with fewer but more extreme examples of morally invasive content. Speed Racer (PG) is a very good example of how the MPAA rates films by focusing on only the most extreme morally offensive content without one apparent concern for the potential of lesser examples of morally offensive content to be just as morally corruptive. Written by: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski, Tatsuo Yoshidaįilm Editing: Roger Barton, Zach StaenbergĬasting: Anja Dihrberg, Lora Kennedy, Lucinda SysoĪrt Direction: Hugh Bateup, Marco Bittner Rosser, Stephan O. Producer(s): Bruce Berman, Grant Hill, Michael Lambert, Roberto Malerba, Henning Molfenter, David Lane Seltzer, Joel Silver, Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski, Charlie Woebcken Pictures, Anarchos Productions, Silver Pictures, Village Roadshow Picturesĭirector(s): Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
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