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Forum - View topicStealth director finally admits Macross influence!
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GATSU
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Question: Was that part of the attraction for you was also making a film that was special effects driven as this is?
Answer: Yeah, I had an idea that, you know, there was - in looking at not only the world of videogames and computer games but also the, Macross movie, ah, just beginning to see that the shift of perspective in a videogame was a very fascinating thing that film had never really taken advantage of, and probably had not been able to in a major way because it would - A, be done with editing so you would cut and that would change the perspective; but there was something rather joyful about changing the perspective in a continuous flow. So, I'm the first-person shooter and then, boomp, I see myself in this hallway, and then boomp I see the other guy and, whoow, I swing around and then the other guy is seeing me. You know, there's that kind of 3D environmental camera work that just is, ah, a new frontier if you take it into the film arena. Source: http://www.darkhorizons.com/news05/stealth1.php I guess that means Fast and the Furious was "inspired" by Initial D! Edit: Question before that for reference. Question: What do you think defines a Rob Cohen film, if there is such a thing? Answer: Usually I source my movies in subcultures, either martial arts like Dragon - or Hollywood like The Rat Pack, the ivy league like The Skulls, and the extreme sports culture in xXx. In this film I had grown up at the foot of West Point and I had grown up with a father and an uncle who had both been in World War II in the Army and I thought, well, I have had all this feeling about the military, both fear and fascination, why don't I look into this subculture through this film, and I got in very heavily as you can see |
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Tenchi
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Doubt it. It wasn't commercially available in North America at the time The Fast and the Furious was being produced, and the "underground" street racing and tuning scene was ripe for exploitation anyway. Just admitting a single vague anime influence based on a relatively well-known anime franchise does not mean he's intimately familiar with every detail of every anime ever produced. All I'm expecting to see from Macross is a couple of homage shots at most; the plot really isn't that similar at all. |
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zaphdash
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Not that it necessarily proves anything, but Initial D is mentioned by name in the current script for Fast and the Furious 3. But I'm not sure if it's written by the same guy who did the earlier movies, and it obviously doesn't necessarily mean he was a fan of Initial D at the time he wrote the first one. But it's still interesting, I guess.
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freshkazuki
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I was thinking that Stealth actually sounded like a rip-off of Yukikaze. I mean the whole show was about jet fighters being equipped with AI to the point that pilots would not even be needed. The AI also begins to gain more sentience in that anime.
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Tenchi
Posts: 4663 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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No, it's even less likely a rip-off of Yukikaze, considering that the film was already in pre-production before the first DVD was released domestically.
AI going haywire and gaining sentience is a sci-fi cliché on both sides of the Pacific. |
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