Talk:The Fast and the Furious (2001 film)/Archive 1

Archive 1

Do we really need the politically incorrect bit?

Just because the protagonist is Caucasian and the antagonist is Asian, it doesn’t indicate that the entire film is racist. AND DOES ANYONE RELISE, the actual hijackers turned out to be the WHITE GANG! Unless you count Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodrigaz, but most viewers, at the time, didn’t realize that they were mult -racial, and I imagine their characters were not scripted as such. Plus I imagine there are a few groups of Asian-Americans who do engage in violence from time to time, and to say you can’t cast a group of Asians as bad guys because there are no bad Asians would be racial profiling. During the entire movie there were no ethnic slurs used and there were a few non-violent Asian characters. Besides we are talking about the director of the BRUCE LEE story. If you hate the Asian race than why on Earth would you make a movie about an Asian guy?

Fans of the Charger were not outraged!

I love the Charger! I’ll take American Muscle over a Japanese compact any day of the week, and I was still blown away by how they depicted the charger at the end of the film. It is shown the key element in that films climax. They showed it rearing up on its back wheels like a monster, and it still managed to hold its own against the Supra even after Paul Walker hit the nitrous. And although, if you look closely you can see the Supra just beat the Charger, in a true street race it would have been too close for the drivers to call and most of audience do not realize who the true victor is either. And besides this race was actually about who the better driver is; the old gunslinger vs. the new gunslinger, in the ultimate showdown. And at the end they, like their cars, are both equals. Even though I do like the charger better, for the character development, they had to have Paul Walker tie with Vin Diesel.

Chevelle at the end

Toretto is seen driving a 1970 SS Chevrolet Chevelle around Mexico after the movie credits. The car should be in the feature car list so please dont delete.

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Eclipse is a GS not GSX!

If you are actually familiar with the Mitsubishi Eclipse then you'll see that in the movie when Paul Walker pops the hood of his Eclipse the engine is a non-turbo 420A and not a turbocharged 4G63. Furthermore all of the die-cast toy models of the Fast and the Furious Eclipse have the 420A engine under the hood. Therefore this is a no-brainer.

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Chronology in infoboxes

I feel that we should add a chronological order in the infobox template. Like it shows the previous film, the film's article you are currently reading, and the next the film in the series/trilogy/franchise, in this case the latter. I feel it would simpilize reading Wikipedia and help others read articles about the F&F movies more smoothly rather than having to jump up to the search box or find a link mentioned in this article or scroll all the way down to the category box. Just a suggestion. I will add this to the talk on the 'Fast and Furious' franchise talk page as well.

Purplelavendermidnights 17 (talk) 18:24, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Preceeding/Succeeding was previously removed from the infobox for multiple reasons, not least that there was oftentimes disagreement over what constituted the "proper" order. In lieu of that, the navbox at the bottom of the article offers more functionality in any case. DonIago (talk) 19:31, 2 June 2023 (UTC)