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...NASCAR fans out there, take note. I just told a joke you and you alone might get. Enjoy it, because it may never happen again...
...radios, door handles, glass and backseats from "stock" cars (i.e., directly off showroom floors) and muscling up the engines in their own garages. Although Johnson had to take an enforced break from driving to serve a 10-month bootlegging sentence, his road skills won him 50 races on the NASCAR circuit. A cult developed around him and other cavalier drivers who flouted the law, pocketed good money, spit tobacco and always had great tales to tell...
...matters, Thunder is about the exploits of Cole Trickle (Cruise), a rookie North American Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) driver out to prove--surprise--that he is the best race car driver around. The differences betweenThunder and Top Gun don't go much deeper than that. The storyline and plot twists of the two movies coincide with eerie familiarity...
...film as a whole revolves around something akin to how individual drivers are at the mercy of large corporate sponsors who--horror of horrors--think that winning is everything. But the elaborate workings of NASCAR sponsorship unfold mysteriously and inexplicably...
Then there's the sponsor of the NASCAR circuit itself--a cigarette manufacturer. Though cigarette advertising is banned from the airwaves, the sponsorship of an entire event is a clever way of getting around...