The interesting thing about Speed Racer 2008 being an adaptation is that the fact that the Wachowski sisters are huge weebs probably posed more of a barrier for them than if someone else got hired to make a movie from that license Like, weebs specifically hate Speed Racer
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Most normal Gen X Americans born in the 60s just remember Speed Racer as one of the kitschy little icons of their childhood If you were actually into anime, you remember it as the show that spawned all of the negative stereotypes of anime you argued with your parents about
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The show wasn't actually *that* popular in Japan, it also wasn't objectively all that good, and it became a staple of US Saturday morning cartoons for basically random business reasons where they got the foreign license extremely cheaply
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And they made the dub extremely cheaply Three people play almost all the voices Corinne Orr (Trixie) is also all the other women, Peter Fernandez (Speed), who was also the writer and director of the dub, was all the men, Jack Grimes played Sparky and the monkey
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I was reading about the Speed Racer cartoon yesterday randomly, why are you now tweeting about it
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Someone posted a snippet from an interview Lana Wachowski did about the 2008 film and it's got everyone talking about the movie again
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