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The history of the series “Fast and the Furious” began in 2001. Screaming tuning and nitrous oxide, coupled with interesting actors and computer special effects, opened up for us a completely new look at chases and generally “automobile” films. The action-packed fighter is almost entirely built around cool cars, races and seasoned with beauties. By the way, the film’s script was based on the real material of the Vide magazine about illegal races that were held in Los Angeles.
To better understand the real situation, the lead actor Vin Diesel had to go to LA to feel the atmosphere himself. In addition, Vin Diesel and Paul Walker underwent special training at the stunt school, which was very useful when shooting tricks that, despite the computer processing, still look very realistic. Rob Cohen paid special attention to the soundtrack, using really the music that usually sounds during illegal races.
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In fact, it was from the movie “Fast and the Furious” that the idea of illegal night races penetrated into Russia, which were then divided into drag racing and street racing. Despite the apparent simplicity of the plot, its director Rob Cohen really created a new genre and the result was not long in coming. The costs paid off in full - look at the budget-to-box office ratio - for this parameter, the first Fast and the Furious is still out of reach for the next episodes, and Vin Diesel and Paul Walker were awarded the MTV music channel award in the Best Screen Team nomination.
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Two years later, the remake was no longer done by Cohen, but by a little-known director John Singleton. From the first roster, he invited only Paul Walker, and this was clearly not enough.
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The film failed at the box office, even despite the presence of the beauty Eva Mendez. The film was nominated for Golden Raspberry in the nominations “Worst Remake” and “Worst Attempt to Make an Actual Film,” and was remembered primarily for its minimal elaboration of the materiel.
Fast and the Furious 3 "Tokyo Drift"
The idea of the third "Fast and the Furious" is fundamentally different from previous series. A completely different plot, new actors and another director - this time from Thai Justin Lin. His "Tokyo Drift" was an excellent stepping stone in a big movie and, looking ahead, I must say that it was he who shot the next fourth and fifth series.
This time the action is transferred to Japan, and unlike the American illegal street races, which are discussed in the first two series, the heroes measure their strength in the field of drift - then still purely Japanese entertainment, which has little in common with the usual races.
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In addition to the fact that Justin Lin essentially glorified drift racing around the world, he also distinguished himself with a very subtle sense of proportion in the use of computer special effects, which sometimes predecessors suffered from excessively. Lin insisted that all the stunts with the cars were real, that everything was as real as possible, and computer graphics were used only in the work on the scenery. The unusual combination of various musical genres that accompanied the car craziness happening on the screen gave the right mood to the whole film.
However, despite all the efforts on the part of the director, the film showed not very good results at the box office. Critics recognized his main problem as a weak play of young unknown actors and a not too exciting plot. However, the automotive part of the film was very decent, which allowed Lin to gain a foothold in The Fast and the Furious.
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Hooray, all the previous actors returned to Forsage 4: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster. That's only Rodriguez plays a minimal role and the whole plot spins around her death. Thus, we are given to understand that in the future in “Fast and the Furious” Michel we will not see …
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But the rest is already familiar chases, fights and true friendship, defeating enemies and obstacles. Cop Brian O'Connor (Paul Walker) and thug Dominic Torreto (Vin Diesel) unite in the face of an external enemy. Having overcome the desert, they find the drug lord and deal with it. Only then, in court, the hero of Vin Diesel, despite all the extenuating circumstances and assistance to the investigation, is nevertheless convicted. But friends promise Dominica that he will not get bored behind bars.
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A simple, in general, plot combined with excellent actors and beautiful tricks provide an excellent result, which in monetary terms almost doubled the rate of the most successful first Fast and the Furious until recently.
Fast and the Furious 5
The new series, although a continuation, got its own name - “Fast Five” (“Fast Five”). As expected, three key actors have retained their places in the film: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Jordan Brewster.
As it follows from the final shots of the previous series, Brian, even at the cost of his police service, helps his friend Dominik escape from prison. And since the two friends are already outlawed, they move to Rio de Janeiro. But here, not everything is calm, and they have to confront both the police and the local mafia.
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And of course, you can not do without beautiful powerful cars that take the main characters away from enemies. Federal agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) is hard at all, as he is already the third force drawn into the conflict, where all the enemies and rivals are in street races.
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Budget / box office ($ million)
Fast and Furious 1 - 38/207
Fast and the Furious 2 - 76/127