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Speed Racer Designer Explains Future City's "Carchitecture"

tamoko — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:43:28 PDT

@Plague: Yeah, I love it too. The depth of backstory and design that goes into a film like this is mindblowing. If there's a "making of" book due out, I'm definitely buying it. Leave it to the Wachowski's to pull this off.

I may have to rent the Speed Racer cartoons and get myself in the right frame of mind to see the film.

tamoko

Speed Racer Designer Explains Future City's "Carchitecture"

kurwinsky — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:33:09 PDT

Great interview!

kurwinsky

Speed Racer Designer Explains Future City's "Carchitecture"

braak — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:06:05 PDT

I really like the idea of an alternate history universe based, instead of on who won which war instead, on the history of automotive engineering.

braak

Speed Racer Designer Explains Future City's "Carchitecture"

medeasin — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:54:34 PDT

Good questions and good answers. This is definitely an interview that makes the movie more interesting.

medeasin

Speed Racer Designer Explains Future City's "Carchitecture"

Charlie Jane Anders — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:45:21 PDT

@bluewyvern: Actually, that's probably my fault.... I was so busy taking notes of his answers that I scribbled one-word things for my questions that I came up with on the spot. So the question that came between the thing about car parts and the thing about gasoline could have really been anything.

Charlie Jane Anders

Speed Racer Designer Explains Future City's "Carchitecture"

bluewyvern — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:36:54 PDT

@smokyburnout: Also interesting about that response -- it's a total dodge of the prompt! ("And you mentioned it's a very corporate-dominated world.")

bluewyvern

Speed Racer Designer Explains Future City's "Carchitecture"

smokyburnout — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:53:45 PDT

"It's also a world where they don't use gasoline. They have motors that take like battery power and convert it using a thing called a transponder and they convert this theoretical energy through a convertinator, into a high powered non-CO2 fuel. They're not burning up gasoline when you see those cars going around."

i imagine just saying they have hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engines would've been much easier than coming up with a nonsensical jumble of technical-sounding words...

and the Cricible sounds a lot more like the Monaco Grand Prix than a Cubs game.

smokyburnout

Speed Racer Designer Explains Future City's "Carchitecture"

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:41:43 PDT

@BloggyMcBlogBlog: Whoops... let me fix that!

Charlie Jane Anders

Speed Racer Designer Explains Future City's "Carchitecture"

beercheck — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:35:58 PDT

@BloggyMcBlogBlog: Sure, sure, but then I'd have had no cause to call you out.

beercheck

Speed Racer Designer Explains Future City's "Carchitecture"

Grey_Area — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:16:28 PDT

Whoa, cornea overload. I think this film may cause a spate of seizures in young children like Pokemon supposedly did.

Grey_Area

Speed Racer Designer Explains Future City's "Carchitecture"

BloggyMcBlogBlog — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:40:47 PDT

@beercheck: Then it could be named after the director of Alien or the mid-boss from Metroid. Still very Sci-Fi.

BloggyMcBlogBlog

Speed Racer Designer Explains Future City's "Carchitecture"

coolfelix — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:40:16 PDT

um ok if i read correctly i wouldnt make an ass out of myself. strike last comment plz

coolfelix

Speed Racer Designer Explains Future City's "Carchitecture"

coolfelix — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:39:37 PDT

Ridley was the director if you didn't know, unless your just wanting it to be after the ass-kicking alien killer. Which in that case, sounds good.

coolfelix

Speed Racer Designer Explains Future City's "Carchitecture"

Plague — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:36:47 PDT

I love knowing how this type of shit is created.

Plague

Speed Racer Designer Explains Future City's "Carchitecture"

beercheck — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:36:45 PDT

@BloggyMcBlogBlog: You're quick. But......should be Ripley the ass-kicking alien killer, not Ridley.

beercheck

Speed Racer Designer Explains Future City's "Carchitecture"

beercheck — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:35:17 PDT

I'd like to visit Ridley Field someday.

beercheck

Speed Racer Designer Explains Future City's "Carchitecture"

BloggyMcBlogBlog — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:35:14 PDT

Should be Wrigley Field, not Ridley field. Even though a field named after an ass-kicking alien killer would be kinda cool.

BloggyMcBlogBlog

Speed Racer Designer Explains Future City's "Carchitecture"

Seth L — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:28:07 PDT

Love it. Nice interview!

Seth L