Speed Racer (2008)

About this episode

Zach and Chris discuss the 2008 film Speed Racer, exploring its visual style and corporate themes.

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris hit the track to discuss 2008's Speed Racer, which just arrived on 4K [https://amzn.to/4uZ47y7]. Based on the classic anime series and directed by The Wachowskis, Emile Hirsch stars as Speed Racer, who races for his family's Racer Motors. Tempted to become sponsored by Royalton Industries, Speed's refusal causes Royalton CEO E.P. Arnold Royalton (Roger Allam) to sinisterly reveal the truth that all of the biggest races are fixed, and it's all just a conspiracy to manipulate corporate stock prices. Determined to prove Royalton wrong and take down the criminal activity, Speed teams up with Inspector Detector (Benno Fürmann) and the mysterious Racer X (Matthew Fox). Zach and Chris discuss the movie's hyper-vibrant visual style, the nonexistent physics in the racing, ninja fights, the overly complicated corporate plot, and more. You can grab the new 4K of Speed Racer or rent it on Prime Video or Apple TV. Next week, with Nicolas Cage back as a live-action superhero in Spider-Noir, we're revisiting his prior turn as Johnny Blaze in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. We want to hear your comments and feedback. Send them all to…

People in this episode

Hosts: Zach, Chris

Topics covered

• film discussion
• anime adaptation
• corporate conspiracy
• visual style
• racing
• action

Keywords

• Speed Racer
• Wachowskis
• Emile Hirsch
• racing
• anime
• 4K
• corporate conspiracy
• film review

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Royalton Industries, Racer Motors, Everything Action, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music

Books & works: Speed Racer, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Spider-Noir

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