Okay, clearly you guys liked our last episode on The Fast and the Furious,
and then Furious 7 went on to make, like, all of the money.
Just all of the money and all of the land.
(Sound) So sit down, load it in, gear it up,
lock it down, and strap it on, I guess.
Strap it on.
Here are seven more things you didn't know about The Fast and the Furious movies.
Probably. (Music)
>> I smell skanks.
(Sound) >> Dominic and Letty, the Jay Z and
Beyonce of the fictionalized racecar superheroes heist movie world.
But most people don't know that this onscreen power couple
almost never happened.
The love story between Vin Diesel and
Michelle Rodriguez's characters was not in the script for the first film.
In fact, it was something that the director and
actors came up with pretty much on a whim during the first week of shooting.
But it worked out as a great excuse for Vin Diesel to get to do this.
Next thing.
(Sound) See that Samoan security guard
right there?
He has a name that I'm not even going to try to pronounce.
But much more importantly, here's a thing you probably didn't know.
He's about to get his nose broken in real life.
When they were filming this fight scene,
the guard steps in to pull Dominic off of Johnny Tran.
Well, it turned out, Vin Diesel was a little too in the moment during filming
and wound up elbowing him on the face, breaking his nose.
Since he was a stunt guy,
he probably wasn't really allowed to complain or anything.
When you're on stunts, getting your nose broken is pretty much your job.
But hey, the guy played E Honda in that piece of Street Fighter movie from '94 so
he's already pretty used to quiet suffering.
(Sound) >> Let's move onto a thing about
the character Pinkie from Tokyo Drift and his expensive fingers.
I know, that may have sounded like I meant something else.
You know, like a sex thing.
But for the first time ever on this show, I didn't mean anything untoward.
After all, we're three things in and I haven't even mentioned Tasty Hoots.
Anyway, Pinky's fingers.
For this shot where we can see very clearly why the character is nicknamed
Pinky, they cut off actor Kogi Katahokis fingers digitally.
>> Problem was they couldn't have someone on screen who was missing limbs for
the Japanese release of the film.
It's a cultural thing.
Wouldn't go over well and people would protest.
So they actually had to digitally put his fingers back on for
the Japanese release of Tokyo Drift, which I'm guessing cost a lot more than
any finger job I've ever done or had done for that matter.
(Noise) Justin Win has directed more movies from
the Fast and Furious franchise than any other director, but have you ever noticed
that he has a signature way of how he likes cars to land after a crash?
(Noise) Yeah,
having cars land on their roofs is sort of his thing.
So be on the look out for the old upside down car gag in Star Trek 3.
Okay, probably not, but maybe.
And if so, you heard it here first.
(Sound) Remember this chase scene through
the pavilla from Fast Five?
Well, you may not have known that even though it was scheduled to be shot
over a week and
a half, the filmmakers managed to cram the whole shoot into just three days.
And that was with losing an hour or two each day due to rain.
Justin Lin basically just went back to his indie film making methods and
managed to get everything done ahead of schedule.
But there was at least one casualty of the shoot.
Jordana Brewster cut her hand on one of the tin roofs in the pavilla.
You can actually see her hand is bandaged in this shot.
The team wanted to take her to the hospital for the cut, but she refused so
they finished the shoot.
Meanwhile, Vin Diesel faints at the sight of blood instantly,
so he actually did have to go to the hospital.
I may have made that last thing up, but I wish it was true.
Moving on.
(Music)
>> Out here, we're used to getting what we want.
This is London, baby.
>> Let's talk about Rita Ora's scene in Fast and Furious 6,
because it wasn't originally a Rita Ora scene at all.
>> She wasn't even in the film until they put her in using movie magic.
They shot the whole thing as it was scripted, but quite some time later,
Vin Diesel met Rita Ora.
After meeting her,
he basically told the director, hey we should put Rita Ora in this movie.
And since you don't just say no to Vin Diesel, Justin Lin did just that.
He had the Fast and Furious insert unit go ahead and
shoot Rita Ora's part after the fact and then inserted her into the scene.
All this talk about insertion and I still haven't talked about hot cans or
tasty hoots.
Keeping this thing classy.
Go ahead, wake the kids up, they can listen to this.
(Sound) >> What is with this car?
It's like it's trying to embarrass me.
>> Back when Lindsay Lohan still had a career and
some fairly tasty hoots I might add, she did a movie called Herbie: Fully Loaded.
But most people don't know there's a Fast and Furious Easter egg in there.
An Easter egg in the movie, not in her once tasty hoots.
Early on in the junkyard scene,
you can actually spot Dominic's 1970 Dodge Charger.
You know, the hero car from the first Fast and Furious.
Obviously, they roughed the car up for Herbie: Fully Loaded even more than
Dominic had already done in The Fast and Furious.
But more importantly, I think this opens the door to sentient Volkswagens
existing in the Fast and Furious movies.
Considering they're about to be on their eighth installment,
this might actually be one of the least outlandish ideas on the table.
Seriously, I think in the next movie we're going to find out that Dominic can fly.
You heard that here first also, so
don't let me catch any of you assholes putting it on blogs like it was your idea.
Boom, that's seven more things about the Fast and Furious movies.
Let us know in the comments if you saw Furious 7 in the theaters, and
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