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...this virtual virtuosity right from the start, in a flashback that shows young Speed (Nicholas Elia) in maybe third grade, bored with and addled by the test paper in front of him. Its complicated questions blur into "blah blah blah" as the boy loses focus; then he daydreams that it reads, "All drivers to your places, please" - and we see a Formula One-type race as it might be animated by an eight-year-old in the corner pages of a flip book. Later, as Speed reaches manhood and drives in "real" races, the visuals get wildly sophisticated...
...wide broken tracks, roads that wind around mountains and across rivers. The autos skid sideways and fly over other cars on stilts. In a reference to the Ben-Hur chariot race, they brandish hubcap spear hooks to disable their opponent's vehicle. And, since the rallies take place in Virtual World, there's no fretting about the waste of fuel. All of Speed Racer is a holiday not only from the gas tax, but from...
...Movies like Polar Express and Sin City proffered seductive experiments in digital cinema and green screen, but Speed Racer announces the arrival of the virtual movie. If you watch the film overwhelmed by the assault of seductive visual information and wonder what you're seeing, here's the happy answer: the future of movies. And the people who made it? They're the industry's can-do-anything superheroes. Not Spider-Men, not Hulks or X-Men. No: Speed Demons...
TELEVISION Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey Cinemax; May 15, 8 p.m. E.T. The joke about Second Life is that it's for people without first ones. But during six months of "filming" in the virtual realm, Douglas Gayeton finds fellow seekers asking questions about identity, authenticity and whether anyone can create a better world. Also running on YouTube, iTunes and, yes, Second Life, this is a digital life well examined...
Movies like Polar Express and Sin City proffered seductive experiments in digital cinema and green screen, but Speed Racer brings the virtual movie to full maturity--the, for now, ultimate blending of man and machine. If you watch the film, are overwhelmed by the assault of seductive visual information and wonder what you're seeing, here's the happy answer: the future of movies. We sing the movie electric...