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Anonymous
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"Tokyo Drift" wasn't the most exciting movie to hit the screens, but it wasn't the worst. It was just a fun movie to sit down and watch for a while. You know, for entertainment. Not to raise high upon a pedastle and judge against standards as insurmountable as mighty Olympus itself.
- The lead American character introduces American audiences to one or two precepts commonly known by most residents of Japan.
- The movie was made by a Chinese director known for his action sequences.
- "Drifting" was never referred to as a new driving style, nor as a recent attraction in Japanese culture. And no one said that the Americans hadn't done it before. Race car drivers do know how to drift, but they don't dedicate themselves to perfecting their drifting techniques. At best, they power slide. Drifting has a little more finesse.
- The female lead was the daughter of an Australian mother. Do you know what the standard genetic lines are for residents of Australia? There pretty much are none. Plus, you have no idea what her father was like. She was recognisably an outsider from the rest of the crowd. And this is what the movie focused on. Being an "outsider". Not original, but the point regardless.
- Japanese culture has more and more been taking cues from American society. Japanese culture is based around a more inwardly reflective nature, not making a stark show of itself. Fast and shiny cars are against classic Japanese style in and of itself.
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