Talk:The Fast and the Furious (2001 film)

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Hello, I am rather new here, but when I was reading this article, I felt that the following paragraph needed some work, especially regarding its neutrality:

The plot is extremely similar to that of the 1991 film Point Break. Both films feature an undercover cop infiltrating a gang of extreme sports junkies in order to gain information about a series of heists, in both films the protagonist falls for the sister of the gang's leader and both films end in the protagonist choosing to take up the life of those he was tasked to spy upon. Error in information, Point Break: protagonist falls for antagonist's ex girlfriend, F&F: Toretto's crew are NOT extreme sports junkies, crew members are car enthusiasts. Similarities are Coincidence. Fast and the Furious being the better film.

The final line seems particularly egregious, but I wanted to bring this to the attention of someone more qualified to judge. Thank you CMD Beaker 00:51, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 A second movie? 2 The merge? 3 Do we really need the politically incorrect bit? 4 Fans of the Charger were not outraged! 5 Chevelle at the end 6 Related game info 7 Eclipse is a GS not GSX!

[edit] A second movie?

Isn't there a movie called too fast too furious? Is that film like an number two of the original the fast and the furious? I can't find a article 'bout that. --NorwegianMarcus 13:04, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

2 fast 2 furious

its 2 fast 2 furious, not too fast too furious

[edit] The merge?

I don't see why the three movies in the series were merged together because it looks really confusing and it was better they way it was before when it was all separated. Hopefully, the merge can be reverted to 3 separate articles.

[edit] Do we really need the politically incorrect bit?

Just because the protagonist is Caucasian and the antagonist is Asian, it doesn’t indicate that the entire film is racist. AND DOES ANYONE RELISE, the actual hijackers turned out to be the WHITE GANG! Unless you count Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodrigaz, but most viewers, at the time, didn’t realize that they were mult -racial, and I imagine their characters were not scripted as such. Plus I imagine there are a few groups of Asian-Americans who do engage in violence from time to time, and to say you can’t cast a group of Asians as bad guys because there are no bad Asians would be racial profiling. During the entire movie there were no ethnic slurs used and there were a few non-violent Asian characters. Besides we are talking about the director of the BRUCE LEE story. If you hate the Asian race than why on Earth would you make a movie about an Asian guy?

[edit] Fans of the Charger were not outraged!

I love the Charger! I’ll take American Muscle over a Japanese compact any day of the week, and I was still blown away by how they depicted the charger at the end of the film. It is shown the key element in that films climax. They showed it rearing up on its back wheels like a monster, and it still managed to hold its own against the Supra even after Paul Walker hit the nitrous. And although, if you look closely you can see the Supra just beat the Charger, in a true street race it would have been too close for the drivers to call and most of audience do not realize who the true victor is either. And besides this race was actually about who the better driver is; the old gunslinger vs. the new gunslinger, in the ultimate showdown. And at the end they, like their cars, are both equals. Even though I do like the charger better, for the character development, they had to have Paul Walker tie with Vin Diesel.

[edit] Chevelle at the end

Toretto is seen driving a 1970 SS Chevrolet Chevelle around Mexico after the movie credits. The car should be in the feature car list so please dont delete.

[edit] Related game info

THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS ワイルドスピード by Taito

[edit] Eclipse is a GS not GSX!

If you are actually familiar with the Mitsubishi Eclipse then you'll see that in the movie when Paul Walker pops the hood of his Eclipse the engine is a non-turbo 420A and not a turbocharged 4G63. Furthermore all of the die-cast toy models of the Fast and the Furious Eclipse have the 420A engine under the hood. Therefore this is a no-brainer.