(Music) Let's go for a little ride.
(Sound) >> Yeah that's right
we're doing the Fast and the Furious movies this week.
And if that somehow disturbs your sense of integrity as a film lover,
nay film scholar, take some advice form the people who made these movies and
don't think about it too much. >> Dude,
I almost had you. >> Relax and just try to have a good time,
all while your brain dies a little.
Here are seven things you didn't know about The Fast and the Furious, probably.
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We've gotta make our first thing about the first movie, right?
In fact, I'm going to go one better.
I'm going to make thing number one about the very beginning
of the very first Fast and Furious movie.
Most people don't know that they hijacked this whole hijacking sequence.
They stole it from John Ford's Stage Coach.
In this case, the 18-wheeler is the stage coach and the Honda Civics are the horses.
Finally, they echoed the runaway horses in Stage Coach with the highway construction
in The Fast and the Furious.
We're only one thing in and
we already dropped a John Ford knowledge bomb on your asses.
All you snobs who thought this whole episode was going to be nothing but
fast cars and tasty hoots can suck it.
Tasty hoots and fast cars are at least two or
three more things away, maybe four, but it's definitely two or three.
(Sound) Let's talk about fast cars and tasty hoots.
Actually, just fast cars for this one.
Obviously there's a whole mess of stunt guys and
professional drivers doing the stuff in these movies like this.
(Sound) Or this.
(Sound) That was a real crash, by the way, and it was not supposed to happen.
Anyway, in 2 Fast 2 Furious, the late Paul Walker successfully pulled off this skid
for real with no special effects, and he hit his mark in everything.
Plus, Walker also pulled off this 180 on the freeway.
No stunt guy.
Sure, it was a nightmare getting insurance for Walker to do the stunts but
hey he nailed them. >> Yeah Rob how do you like them apples?
>> Show off.
(Sound) >> For
our third thing we're jumping ahead to Fast and Furious.
While it's the fourth film in terms of release order Fast and
Furious is the third in terms of story chronology.
Anyway the church they used in this scene here was funded by real life drug dealers.
(Sound) It was never finished because people kept dying during construction.
It's widely accepted that this place is cursed because well I guess the Lord
didn't want anything to do with drug dealer and their blood money.
Director Justin Lin was happy to get the hell out of there as fast as possible
because the place wasn't structurally sound,
and the place being cursed wasn't that awesome to deal with either.
The one good thing about shooting there was they found an orphaned puppy behind of
the church.
He was only about five inches big at the time.
Lynn adopted him and he grew up to be a big, healthy, crazy dog.
We couldn't find a picture of the actual dog he found, but
hey, this dog's pretty cute, right?
Next thing.
(Sound) >> Help me.
(Sound) >> That's for my team,
you son of a bitch. >> Let's move on to Fast Five.
And since this is the one where they added The Rock to the franchise,
finally, because obviously these movies needed The Rock, let's make it about him.
(Sound) Actually let's make it about the guy who actually got blown up in that shot
because it wasn't The Rock.
The guy getting exploded is Tanoai Reed.
The Rock's stunt double and cousin.
He got pretty close to explosion for
this shot safety precautions are not that's pretty bad ass.
In fact, he's such a bad ass that he doubles for his cousin The Rock,
seriously check out his IMDB, Baywatch Nights
there's your tasty hoots. >> The label says
no driving and no brain surgery tonight. >> Moving on.
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Hey so you know how The Fast and Furious 6 was unusually long at two hours and
11 minutes.
You know, especially for a movie where they probably didn't bother to write
a script? >> Ride or die.
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>> Ride or die. >> Well,
that's because it was supposed to be two movies.
Justin Lin intended for
the story to be split into the final two chapters of the franchise.
He wanted to call the sixth one The Fast, and the seventh and
final film was supposed to be called The Furious.
The decision was made to cram everything into one Film instead,
which they marked as Fast & Furious 6.
However, the official title of the film is still Furious 6,
at least as far as Justin Lin is concerned.
The mashing together of the two movies does explain why there are two massive
sequences basically back to back toward the end.
This part with the tank was meant to be the end of movie six, The Fast and
then this plane sequence was going to be the end of The Furious.
Although, and this is a bonus thing you didn't know by the way, the plane sequence
had been on Lin's mind since he was working on the fifth installment.
He talked about putting it at the end of that film, but
the technology just wasn't ready yet.
He wouldn't have been able to accomplish it and
have it look the way he wanted it to back when he was making Fast Five.
Which is of course the old James Cameron defense.
Well played Justin Lin.
Well (Bleep) played.
(Sound) >> Hey,
you talking to my girl? >> She was just admiring
my ride. >> See,
now we can do a thing about Tokyo Drift.
In the interest of keeping the movie spoiler free for you guys,
we won't explain why Tokyo Drift clearly comes after the sixth movie, but
if you've seen all the films you already know.
What you may not know is the real life king of drift is in the movie.
He's right there.
His name is Keiichi Tsuchiya, and I'm sure I just butchered that.
The point is he's a legendary drift racer and he's not only in the movie for
this cameo.
He's the only driving this tandem drift scene on the mountain road.
(Sound) Basically, it's super dangerous and
they needed someone as skilled as he is to help them out with the driving.
In fact, the only struggle Keiichi had with the filming was making his driving
look sloppy enough.
For this particular scene, the driving is supposed to be messy.
Well, Keiichi was just too good at drifting and too in control of the car,
which was making the driving look far more professional than it was suppose to.
I can't say that my boss has ever said anything about me doing my job too well,
but I'm sure that's just an oversight.
(Sound) >> Just when you didn't think it
could get any better? >> Here we go.
>> All right, you know what this is.
It's our seventh thing and our final thing so it's our thing about the seventh and
final movie in the Fast and Furious saga.
Except, it may not be the final movie because fool me once, shame on you,
but fool me two or three or four or five or six times and
you've got a franchise that's pretty much a licence to print money.
So yeah, they're going to make three more I'm sure.
Anyway, what you may not know is Furious 7 is the first movie in the franchise that
does in fact take place after the events of Tokyo Drift.
So in a way this is technically the first movie in the series that isn't a flashback
since 2006.
It's also the first movie in the series not directed by Justin Lynn since
Jon Singleton's 2 Fast 2 Furious from 2003, and
Furious 7 is the first one since 2 Fast not to feature Sun King as Han.
By the way, this Han is actually the same Han from Better Luck Tomorrow,
Justin Lin's 2002 Indie film that put him on the map.
>> You ladies ready?
>> Since Han chainsmokes in
Better Luck Tomorrow, and they couldn't have him do that in the PG-13 Fast and
Furious movies, they just made him a constant snacker instead.
Boom.
Bonus snack time thing you didn't know.
Well we made it through seven things and
with minimal mention of all the hot cans in these movies.
Hot cans, tasty hoots.
They're all the same to me but if you guys liked this, hit us up for a part two.
There is seven of these movies so
we easily have enough things to do this again and again, and again.
And we can also go ahead and
announce that we're going to do a trilogy, because that's what you do.
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