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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 10 Aug 2020

      (Lana's interviews about her tough childhood, struggling with dysphoria and with just generally being a lonely nerd Never feeling actually present in the world around her, throwing herself into theatre and movies hoping they could teach her to really *be*)

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 10 Aug 2020

      The message of this movie, corny as it is, is this message about eudaimonia, about what it means to really succeed in life, as a human being That the purpose of art isn't to make money or to earn fans or get laid -- it's not even to make the world a better place and fix society

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 10 Aug 2020

      Speed gets all of those things in the end -- even changing the world and fixing society, thanks to the hilariously unapologetic way this world is built completely around Racecars Are Serious Business ("The world economy rests on the outcome of a children's card game")

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 10 Aug 2020

      But that's not the reason to do it The reason to put the bad guys in prison and to usher in a new era of freedom and prosperity is... he gets to keep on driving The reason to make a movie you hope will save the world is so there will be a world where you can make more movies

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 10 Aug 2020

      The point of being alive is to have that one thing you're damn good at that no one else can do quite the same way you can, and to fucking NAIL IT and know that in that moment YOU ARE AWESOME And to look at your loved ones and see that joy reflected between you and them

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 10 Aug 2020

      (As @FilmCritHulk points out one of the ways this movie nails it, where a wussier movie would just be schmaltz, is the unapologetic use of quick cuts and sensory overload We fully see his victory in the rapid-fire succession of everyone else reaction to it)

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 10 Aug 2020

      (The whole story is told this way -- nothing stays in one place as long as it should, it meanders, it wanders, it jumps back and forth through time and space, things overlap and carry over from scene to scene Talking and talking in one long string without punctuation marks)

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 10 Aug 2020

      (They diagnose minds like this as broken Always moving *too fast*, speeding toward the horizon, that moves on four wheels and not two legs, that can't change direction without accelerating, that needs to travel down an open road without obstacles or it will shudder to a halt)

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 10 Aug 2020

      (And in a world without roads, it would be A racecar trying to go where a racecar can't -- trying to hike through the woods like an animal bred for the rough terrain of nature -- is a sad, useless, expensive hunk of metal)

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 10 Aug 2020

      (But maybe, just maybe If you can, somehow, scrape together the seed capital Give that car a pit crew, fill up its tires and its gas tank, clear a path for it down the smoothly paved track a racecar needs And watch it do the things ONLY a racecar can do Watch it fucking GO)

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 10 Aug 2020

      This movie is a pretty great demonstration of "show, don't tell" and the power of form over content in cinema Talking about it at all in words sounds schmaltzy But the movie works because it is, in every way, in every shot and every cut and every frame, a demonstration

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        1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 10 Aug 2020

          Like, maybe it's my meta knowledge of the Wachowskis' struggles in Hollywood Or maybe it's how the years since 2008 have gone for me, personally A lot of harsh lessons, about talent, and success, and neurodivergence But when Speed crosses the finish line I was fucking bawling

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        1. SnorkletsMom‏ @SnorkletsMom 10 Aug 2020
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          Huh. Because for me, it’s in the top 5 of worst films I’ve ever seen.

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        2. Guybrush Tweetwood‏ @GTweetwood 10 Aug 2020
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          In the last 15 years, NOT "balancing" earnest moments out with near-constant snark/lampshading in tentpole movies has basically become a rare act of courage, for fear of being seen as "cheesy". Off the top of my head, it's basically Speed Racer, John Carter, and Wonder Woman.

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        3. Guybrush Tweetwood‏ @GTweetwood 10 Aug 2020
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          And while I adore a lot of the MCU, they're definitely the biggest contributors to, and arguably the drivers of, that trend.

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