...With Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, Universal decided that the Fast and Furious franchise needed a change. Instead of the characters audience members had been introduced to in The Fast and the Furious or 2 Fast 2 Furious, the film would focus on a new set of characters in Japan. They tapped Justin Lin for the responsibility of resetting the films. Little did they know that eight years later Justin would be tying up strings that he laid out in the series’ third entry that redirected what the Fast and Furious films could be. Fast and Furious 6 is in theaters today and brings together elements from every film in the series. It’s The Avengers of gear head movies. We caught up with Justin to talk about how he seeded plot points throughout the franchise, how he plans a fight sequence with his choreographer, and what he thinks looking back on 8 years of Fast and Furious films. —- Nerdist: How do you approach a film that calls for the level of insanity that you crammed into Fast and Furious 6? Justin Lin: For me, it has to come from the characters. A lot of people think we just go and create these action sequences, and it’s very hard for me to do that, because it feels very artificial. I think once I can kind of ground it and find a character reason in their arc of why they’re doing this, then I feel like I have the license to push it. The example, even in Fast 5, was this idea of Brian and Dom jumping off a cliff. I feel like once you are emotionally invested in these characters...
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...Commonly known for the fast and furious franchise, Vin Diesel, failed yet again to break out of his comfort zone and try a different genre. Let's face it when you think of Diesel you think of action and that isn't what you get from the “The Last Witch Hunter”. Diesel acts in this fantasy - action movie as the immortal last witch hunter. Where in his ongoing life, eight hundred years later, he comes to realize that he is far from stopping dark magic. Soon the witch hunter finds out that the queen witch he thought he killed off centuries ago, is still very much alive.This time he must prepare to fight her again. It is not the kind of movie that needs a sequel or the kind of movie Vin Diesel should take part in. I'd have to say this...
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...2 fast 2 furious Review 2 fast 2 furious is one of the best car street racing movies to watch. The Miami police department has been tracking down a drug lord, Carter Verone, but cannot find any evidence to arrest him. The department has Monica Fuentes, an undercover agent, as Verone’s girlfriend. They need street racers in order to capture Verone, so they arrest the main actor Brian O’ Connell at the end of a street race and take him to the department. At the department, they give him the breakdown about Verone and try to assign him a partner. He does not like the partner they try to give him, so he decides to pick his own, Roman Pearce. Their main job is to work undercover and arrest Verone so that their records will get cleared and they can walk away as free men. I like this movie because of the great acting performed by the main actors and the cars. 2 fast 2 furious has great acting. Paul Walker and Tyree Gibson do an excellent job playing the parts of Brian O’ Connell and Roman Pearce. Brian, a former cop, plays a good role as an undercover cop. Roman on the other hand, plays the role of a thug. He is tattooed and dresses with baggy clothes. He uses a lot of slang and likes to use the word “bruh” a lot, which is a slang term for brother. He is a thug because he had to spend three years in jail. He blaims Brian for that and when he first sees him in the movie he punches him in the face out of anger and they begin to fight. As the movie goes on, the hate that he has for...
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...Operation Fast & Furious was a firearms program started by a branch of the Bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives. It stood from 2009 to 2011 and was meant to persuade Arizona gun vendors to sell guns to wanted criminals, so that authorities could then track the guns from Arizona as the criminals migrate from place to place. Republican Darrel Issa, chairman of the Government Reform committee, has made monumental efforts to expose operation Fast & Furious to people across America. Issa has cited his opinion of the Obama administration has the "most corrupt" in all of history. As a result, Democrats see Issa's ideas as a way to further shame the president and a means of political and social gain. The Patriot Act allows authorities...
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...Furious 7 Michael Smithwick HUM/150 2/22/16 Mr. David Preizler Furious 7 Introduction Furious 7 is a high pace and action-pack movie starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker (his last film before his untimely death), Dwayne Johnson, and Jason Statham. It was produced by Neil Moritz, Vin Diesel, and Michael Fottrell. It was directed by James Wan and written by Chris Morgan. The release date of Furious 7 was April 2015. This is the seventh movie installed in The Fast and The Furious franchise. James Wan, who directed this film, is known for horror movies took the place of Justin Lin, who left after doing the previous four installments. Discussion of the Film After defeating Owen Shaw in the last movie franchise, His older brother, Decker Shaw (Jason Statham) wants revenge for his dead brother. He decides to chase the team down by killing Han in Tokyo and try to take out Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson), Dom (Vin Diesel), and rest of the team in Los Angeles. They go tracking Decker Shaw where they meet Mr. Nobody (Kirk Russell) who is head of a covert ops team. They make an agreement where they can rescue a hacker computer name Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel) and in return, he will help them get Shaw. This is typical action adventure movie with a lot of fight scenes like at the beginning where Shaw tries to take out Hobbs in his office downtown Los Angeles. The fight scene was dramatic and...
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...Elements of Design Jaquana Brown Eng 225 Instructor: Laura Carter May 20, 2013 The movie clip that I decided to view was “The Fast and Furious 6.” The director for this movie is Justin Lin. According to media college.com a good director makes sure that all parts of a film are creatively produced and bought together in a single totality. A director interprets the script, coaches the performers, work together with the monetarist, etc. interrelating them all to create a work of art. The production designer Jan Roelfs may be asked to look at scripts before a director is approached, to provide estimates of the projected Art Department spend on films. When production designers first read a screenplay, they assess the usual qualities that will help to create an atmosphere and bring the story to life (film Makers.com). The art director for the movie The Fast and Furious 6 is James Hambidge. According to Dictionary.com, an art director is a person who determines the staging requirements for a production and often designs the set or supervises their building and dressing. The artists utilize lighting by using natural light during most of the parts of the movie. The movie was mostly shot during broad daylight, there were some scene shot at night, and street light was used as well along with the lighting in the tunnels where cars would race through. The lighting affects me with a feel of excitement when Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johns were talking...
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...The last Fast and Furious One of the greatest films of 2015 and one that you don’t want to miss is Furious 7. Since 2001 The Fast and the Furious movies have caught the attention of billions of viewers all around the world, especially Furious 7 directed by James Wan. It will have you on the edge of your seat and you won’t want to blink! It is a film about family and how this group of friends have come a long way living their lives in the fast lane trying to keep each other alive as they embarked in new missions every movie. As Dominic Toretto states, “I don't have friends. I got family.” They began to see each other as family ever since Fast Five and now they continue their journey together to fight a man that is after them for revenge. According to Matt Singer “This is a lot of revenge for one movie to contain, and that’s before Dom and the rest of his crew (which also includes computer expert Chris “Ludacris” Bridges and comic relief Tyrese Gibson) hook up with a shadowy government operative named Mr. Nobody (Kurt Russell) and then start skydiving out of planes behind the wheel of their custom cars, a sport I guess we have to call “skydriving” (Singer 1). Everything in this film was great, from actions scenes from begging to end and more action all throughout the movie was insane. You wouldn’t believe the stunts they pulled off in this movie, you have to watch it to believe “skydriving.” David Blaustein states in his review “Not only are the "Furious 7" car chases and...
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...For the sheer audacity and bombast of it all, The Fate of the Furious might be the greatest movie ever made. However, it also can feel like one of the worst. With zero you-know-what's to give, this eighth entry into the declining Fast and the Furious franchise is cinematic WWE. We've got a heel turn, a babyface turn, backstabbing of friends, twists and surprises for the sake of twists and surprises, and Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson executing a double-knee gutbuster on someone. (If you smell...what the Rock...is cooking...). On the one hand, all of this is kind of awesome. On the other hand, this whole Furious thing is starting to feel like a gear is slipping, the carburetor is starting to fail, and the ideas are lacking. Maybe screenwriter Chris...
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...Plotlines of Fast Five Director Justin Lin (The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious) returns to the helm for this adrenaline-charged sequel reuniting series stars Vin Diesel andPaul Walker for their biggest thrill ride yet. With the police in hot pursuit and wanted fugitive Dom (Diesel) in tow, Brian (Walker) and Mia (Jordana Brewster) make their way to Rio, and realize they've run out of luck. In order to earn their freedom, they'll have to pull off their biggest job yet. After assembling a crack team of the top racers in Brazil, the gang prepares to confront the crooked businessman who seeks to silence them forever. Meanwhile, unstoppable federal agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) has assembled his own team, an intimidating group of top cops whose sole mission is to capture Dom, Brian, and Mia by whatever means possible. But as the race heats up, Hobbs loses his ability to tell the good guys from the bad guys. Now, in order to prevent the lawless trio from being turned into roadkill before he can arrest them, Luke puts his pedal to the metal, and begins to rely more on his killer instinct than his police training. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi When Dominic "Dom" Toretto (Vin Diesel) is being transported to Lompoc prison by bus, his sister Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster) and friend Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) lead an assault on the bus, causing it to crash, freeing Dom. While authorities search for them, the trio escape to Rio de Janeiro. Awaiting Dom's arrival...
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...Plot Busted explosively out of police custody by his sister (Brewster) and best bud (Walker), Dominic Toretto (Diesel) gets to work on a heist in South America. But will crack DSS agent Luke Hobbs (Johnson) let the air out of his tyres once and for all? Review How to re-ignite an ageing franchise? Drop The Rock on it. The best thing, by far, in Fast Five (aka Fast & Furious 5) Dwayne Johnson hulks through the movie leaving testosterone trails in his wake. Clad in a flak jacket and a cage-fighter’s beard, he’s the man hunter “the FBI call when they want to catch someone” His body is hard as marble, his mind as sharp as Marple’s. There is literally nothing believable about the character, least of all his Blade Runner tech, yet from the moment he juggernauts on-screen, barking, “Rule number 2: Stay the fuck out of my way!” at a shrimpy South American cop, this quinquel goes from entertainingly stupid to joyously lunk-headed. In what may or may not be a reappropriation of the script for The Brazilian Job, the aborted Italian Job sequel, the set-up has Diesel’s Toretto in Rio de Janeiro, assembling a crew for the inevitable one last job. Their plan is to jack a corrupt businessman for $100 million — a sum that, in a film this overblown, seems positively unambitious. It requires the talents of all the old franchise ‘favourites’, from Tokyo street racer Han (Sung Kang) to mechanic Tej (Ludacris), though the film’s only street race is hastily skipped over. Don’t expect precision-built...
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...the fiery crash that killed "Fast & Furious" actor Paul Walker on Saturday, an investigator said Monday. Investigators got a phone call tip Sunday suggesting that another car was at the scene when the 2005 Porsche Carrera GT, driven by Walker's racing team partner, slammed into a light pole and burst into flames, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Richard Cohen told CNN. "Naturally, from an investigative standpoint, we need to find out if that is one of the issues," he said. Even if drag racing was not involved, investigators are looking at the possibility that another car veered in front of the Porsche and caused the crash, Cohen said. Actor Paul Walker dies Actor Paul Walker dies Witness: Walker was not drag racing View scene of Walker's deadly car crash Jim Torp, a car enthusiast who was at the charity event that Walker attended before the wreck, said he doubted drag racing was involved. Walker was smiling as he got into the Porsche minutes earlier. Torp thought he heard a blast in the distance before the car slammed into a light pole, he said. "What the first explosion was, I don't know if their tire blew up, because it sounded like a tire blew on the car," Torp told CNN Monday. Tire skid marks on the asphalt near the crash site, which indicate a car was doing doughnut spins, also are being looked at, Cohen said. It has not been concluded that they are related to the Walker wreck, he said. The street has a reputation for fast drivers, which spurred a crackdown...
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...Criminal Procedure-Probable Cause Article Summary David L. Clay CJA/315 February 8, 2016 Scott Horwath Criminal Procedure-Probable Cause Article Summary Manuel Celis-Acosta is accused to be the ring leader of the Fast and Furious Operation who helped organize the transfer and purchase of about 2,000 weapons to the Sinaloa Castel. He is also accused of providing the weapons used in the kill of border patrol agents Brian Terry. In April 2, 2010 Manuel was stopped by Phoenix Police and booked to jail for cocaine possession and two handguns were confiscated by police at that stop. Manuel Acosta followed by ATF agents for 18 months for the Fast and Furious Operation was previously arrested twice in 2010 violation related to drugs and guns but he was released. After 2 am in the morning Police detected a blue Chevy pick-up truck without its headlights. Police activated their lights and sirens after watching the truck and reports say that handguns were thrown out the windows by Acosta and two associates. At the stop police officer also found other weapons hidden in the backseat and between the front seats as well as numerous of scattered casings in the floor. All three individuals were arrested and booked into jail under different charges. Acosta for narcotics possession, Hector Carlon for aggravated DUI and drug possession and Julio Carrillo for misconduct with a weapon. Prosecutors received the case but it was never file. The case was send back to police for further investigation...
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...Criminal Procedure Probable Cause Article Mario Velazquez CJA 364 Bobby Kemp Criminal Procedure Probable Cause Article Manuel Celis-Acosta is accused to be the ring leader of the Fast and Furious Operation who helped organize the transfer and purchase of about 2,000 weapons to the Sinaloa Castel. He is also accused of providing the weapons used in the kill of border patrol agents Brian Terry. In April 2, 2010 Manuel was stopped by Phoenix Police and booked to jail for cocaine possession and two handguns were confiscated by police at that stop. Manuel Acosta followed by ATF agents for 18 months for the Fast and Furious Operation was previously arrested twice in 2010 violation related to drugs and guns but he was released. After 2 am in the morning Police detected a blue Chevy pick-up truck without its headlights. Police activated their lights and sirens after watching the truck and reports say that handguns were thrown out the windows by Acosta and two associates. At the stop police officer also found other weapons hidden in the backseat and between the front seats as well as numerous of scattered casings in the floor. All three individuals were arrested and booked into jail under different charges. Acosta for narcotics possession, Hector Carlon for aggravated DUI and drug possession and Julio Carrillo for misconduct with a weapon. Prosecutors received the case but it was never file. The case was send back to police for further investigation from the Maricopa County...
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...Character Representation There are many different characters when it comes to movies. There are also different roles played in every movie. Most characters are considered to be male or female. Even if it is behind a creature, there is still a woman or a man behind the character. The male and female characters have been making changes in the role they play in movies over the years. The movie, The Fast and the Furious have many different kinds of characters. Letty and Dom are two of the many main characters in this movie. Letty and Dom both play in this major action movie dealing with fast cars and the intensity of everyday life and also the love they have for one another. Letty and Dom both make a major statement when it comes to being sexist in this dramatic action movie. Dom and Letty are more like the new modern day Bonnie and Clyde. Letty is Dom's partner in crime, and she is always by his side. They both have been in love with one another through all of the Fast and Furious movies. They have always stuck by each other’s side throughout the squeal of The Fast and the Furious movies. Letty proves how immense she is, and she is always proving that she can do just what Dom does in the movie. She proves her loyalty to him and he does the same. They both have this vendetta about them that allows them to keep going hard for one another. 3 When you have two characters who are both fearless and fearful of anything and isn’t afraid to go to war for one another anything is...
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...specialization,” said Issa at a breakfast hosted by The Christian Science Monitor. “And there’s no reason you can’t have a special unit under the FBI. And it is a frustration that I’m getting close to saying, ‘You know, as the reform committee — organizational reform — we may have to do that.’” Issa criticized the way law enforcement agencies share jurisdiction and partner with each other on operations like Fast and Furious, which the ATF led and had help from the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and U.S. attorneys with the Justice Department (DOJ). The ATF falls under the DOJ’s umbrella. But Issa immediately seemed to back off his initial push to have the FBI absorb the ATF as a cure-all solution, saying that the FBI and its director, Robert Mueller, share some of the blame for the botched gun-tracking operation, which oversaw the sale of thousands of weapons to known and suspected straw buyers for Mexican drug cartels. “When I talk about reform I’m not going to go forward with something as simple as 'put it in the FBI.' Because understand, Fast and Furious was an FBI failure. So you’ve got problems that go up to the director there too of, how can he have joined?” said Issa. “The ATF is not a single organization that runs its show. The ATF is always teamed in these other organizations and so … you’ve got a host of other people and then...
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