“This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a highly unscientific experiment designed to gauge how little audiences will settle for these days. Manic and multicolored, "Speed Racer" is an excess of nothingness.” IfsLittlesFunWonderAudienceFilledSpeedExperimentsThese DaysSettlingExcessNothingnessManicJadedGaugesRacersCrassSpeed Racer Author:Stephanie Zacharek
“I was so grateful to have made 'Into the Wild' before I made 'Speed Racer' because on 'Speed Racer' I was indoors every single day, every single scene, on a green screen. Some of the time, just to pass the time, I would think back to climbing mountains in Alaska. That really helped me.” ThinkingMadeSceneMountainGratefulGreenSpeedScreensClimbingAlaskaClimbing MountainSo GratefulRacersSpeed Racer Author:Emile Hirsch
“On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.” SelfUseImaginationActingFrontsDangerMonthsGreenSpeedScreensMy ImaginationRacersSpeed Racer Author:Emile Hirsch
“Well, when I was a kid and I watched Speed Racer, I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason. I don't know.” KnowsWellsReasonKidsUsedWatchesMorningSpeedMilkSodaCerealRacersSpeed Racer Author:Emile Hirsch
“A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a retro-cool family movie, to having the photo-realism with the CG-backgrounds and infinite focus the way they worked with these digital cameras, to even the color experimentation.” WayDoneStuffFocusColorInfiniteCamerasSpeedBackgroundsToneDigitalRealismExperimentationRetroRacersDigital CamerasSpeed Racer Author:Emile Hirsch