Fast and Furious 7
B: I think you definitely know the hottest film these days right?
J: Sure! fast and furious VII right? This is a movie that is every movie at once. It’s the uber-film. It’s got explosions, romance, stunts, cars, thrills, fights, chases, guns, jiggling buns, cars, fights, questionable gender politics, guns, heists, intrigue, mystery, terrorism, The Rock. Cars.
It is every movie that ever was and ever will be. So now I’m done. I’ve seen it all.
It’s also a two-hour love letter to one of the greatest bromances in cinema history. It kinda destroyed me.
B: OK plot.
B: Dominic Torretto and his crew thought they left the criminal mercenary life behind. They defeated an international terrorist named Owen Shaw and went their seperate ways. But now, Shaw's brother, Deckard Shaw is out killing the crew one by one for revenge. Worse, a Somalian terrorist called Jakarde, and a shady government official called "Mr. Nobody" are both competing to steal a computer terrorism program called God's Eye, that can turn any technological device into a weapon. Torretto must reconvene with his team to stop Shaw and retrieve the God's Eye program while caught in a power struggle between terrorist and the United States government.J: By about 2009 when 'Fast & Furious' was released, the franchise had slowly began to veer away from its focus of street racing and instead began to turn its attention to the action genre.
B: However along with this change of style, the franchise was actually getting better and better with each film. 'Fast & Furious 7' is a no-holds, over- the-top and mindless action film, but this aside, it is an extremely entertaining and fun film to watch.
J: Yes. With an all-star cast and some brilliant action sequences, 'Fast & Furious 7' is proof that certain franchises can continually make great movies.
B: The most notable moment however in the entire film is the emotional and respectful ending during the send-off of Paul Walker, the film finishing with a montage of Walker in the previous six films, finishing with just two words, 'For Paul', this is the first time a Fast and Furious film has affected me emotionally, and it is arguably the best in the franchise.
J: we want to talk about the director James Wan
B: Maybe James is not familiar to everyone, but the director once directed one sequels of the franchise film SAW.
J: 'It’s time for me to move on to other things and I’m thrilled that Universal and Neal have selected James Wan to lead the franchise into its new chapter.' the young director noted.
B: Director James Wan faced lot of challenges finishing Furious 7 after Paul Walker died in an unrelated car accident, but sticking his film's ending was, perhaps, the biggest.
J: Since Furious 7 is Wan's first film in the franchise, he only really got to know Walker once he'd signed on for the job. But that barely mattered. "When you hear rumors around Hollywood of, like, whether a person is cool, or whether a person is a dick, those are usually true. Paul's reputation is that of a really good human being and a great guy, and just so down to earth,"
B: Paul Walker had only completed about half of the film before he died and they doubled him with his brothers and digital effects and such. I remember you saying after that you didn't notice.
J: Nope because I am a simple gal who moved to a big city and doesn’t understand digital floating faces.
B: I guess I was looking for it. There were a lot of scenes where he was turning away from the camera in the background or playing with his child, and picking the kid up so it obscures his face.
J: And you could tell a large part of the opening of the film had been rewritten, just because not many of the scenes had Paul Walker in. It was characters talking about him, sort of setting up this ending to his part in the franchise.
B: There was a definite line in the sand moment when the film went from PLOT AND EXPLOSIONS to remembering Paul Walker. But it didn’t jar. It was welcome. This is a character we’ve spent six films with, and an actor we lost far too young.
J: What they did was a sendoff to Paul/Brian, having him drive off into the distance in a white Toyota Supra, the car he drove in the original film. It was lovely moment. A lovely, soul-crushing, messy-crying moment. The montage, and the song, and the real look of mourning on Vin Diesel’s face as he says good-bye.
B: I was pretty emotional at the ending and I didn’t even know why.
J: I’m still not over it. I’ll never be over it. The song. See you Again
B: yes, I have to tell you that this song is so touching and I bet most furious fans would cry for it
J: Absolutely, the song is performed by the famous rap artist Wiz Khalifa and singer Charlie Puth, and as the ending of our programme today we bring you the song.
