Sequential Art is a webcomic drawn by Phillip M. Jackson (aka Jolly Jack) about a group of unlikely housemates. Art is a chronically frustrated graphic designer (and. First published in 1977, The Shining quickly became a benchmark in the literary career of Stephen King. This tale of a troubled man hired to care for a remote. The AXS Cookie Policy. This website, like most others, uses cookies in order to give you a great online experience. By continuing to use our website you accept to our. ![]() The 1. 7 Moments That Defined The Fast And The Furious. The eighth of the Fast & Furious movies is upon us. This is an exciting, nerve- wracking time. If you’re only just tuning into the Fast & Furious franchise today, you might think that the series is—and always has been—a raucous series of action- movie epics, each new one trying to out- class its predecessors with bigger explosions and crazier stunts. It wasn’t always this way. NOTE: This article covers all the movies, including the newest one. But we’ll warn you when you should bail out before hitting spoilers for movie number eight. The leading information resource for the entertainment industry. Find industry contacts & talent representation. Manage your photos, credits, & more. Photos from left: Picture Post/Hulton Archive, Screenshots from A Christmas Story, Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images. Here’s a horror story straight out of your weirdest Mountain Dew-fueled nightmare: An Alaskan dentist recently charged with Medicaid fraud is also accused of. Go see that film, and then come back for the wrap- up. Fast & Furious began in 2. The Fast and the Furious, which was inspired by an article in Vibeabout undergound street racing. It was one of a handful of late- nineties and early- 2. There was also Collateral, Gone in 6. Seconds, and Transporter. It’s amazing and at times difficult to explain how Fast & Furious survived for 1. It’s also remarkable that it did so with (mostly) the same core cast members and characters. To make it as long as it has, the Fast & Furious series, much like its own stars, has had to perform a number of quick, dramatic shifts and seemingly impossible turnarounds. So how did we get from underground street racing in Downtown L. A. Paul Walker plays an undercover cop (Brian) who’s working a case that has to do with truckers being robbed of DVD players by some high- tech thieving street racers. During one of their first conversations, Vin Diesel brags about having his tech- savvy sidekick use the internet to dig up information on Brian. To pin down the perpetrators, Brian tries to infiltrates the crew of known car driver and muscular person Dominic Toretto (that’s Vin Diesel, of course). He , first tries to do this by showing up at the gang’s shop repeatedly, ordering tuna sandwiches, and staring intently at Dominic’s sister Mia: That doesn’t work. Brian gets beaten up by Mia’s other main suitor, Vince, and then told to stay away for good by Dom. So he tries to beat Dom at his own game: street racing. That doesn’t go well either. Brian isn’t a talented racer, let alone a competent driver, yet. Dom is the 8. 00- pound gorilla of the local street- racing circuit. He’s not only the part- patriarch, part- older brother figure of his crew, but also a powerful enough figure in the racing scene that his mere presence commands respect. That respect is what Brian demands of him—if he can win the race. Short as it is, the very first Fast & Furious race establishes key motifs for the series. The CGI- fueled zoom into the inside of a car to show all the mechanical high- tech stuff activating—mostly NOS, or Nitrous Oxide, also known as the special gas that makes cars go super fast with the press of a button: The “serious shifting”: It even has a rapper providing comic relief and extra character while simultaneously providing half of the movie’s soundtrack. In this first one, that role was occupied by Ja Rule: It also gives us one of Vin Diesel’s very best speeches: Brian: Dude, I almost had you! Dom: You almost had me? You never had your car! Granny shifting, not double clutching like you should.. NOS didn’t blow the welds on the intake.. Ask any racer,” Dom concludes, “any real racer. It don’t matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning’s winning.” The crowd cheers him on. Brian is humiliated. Vin Diesel and Paul Walker would spend a lot more time together in Fast & Furious movies. They aren’t even friends yet at this point. But already, the core dynamic of their relationship is established: Brian looks up to Dom, admires his racing skill and his cool confidence. Dom seems fond of Brian’s mixture of competitive energy and steadfast impassiveness. The two make for a very.. Luckily for Brian, Mia seems equally chill. Brian and Mia’s First Date. Once Brian’s finally in with Dom’s crew, he takes Mia out to dinner and once again stares at her intently: It feels cruel to admit this in light of Paul Walker’s tragic death during the filming of Furious 7 in 2. He brings as much personality to his role as the cars he drives do. And yet the two of them have one of the more important relationships in all of Fast & Furious lore. Walker works so well in the series, because Brian fits within Walker’s boundaries as an actor. He’s an eminently chill cipher of a bro who often seems like he’s displaying more emotion or critical thought than he actually is. That’s thanks to the man’s steely, steely gaze: Mia couldn’t resist it. And neither could Dom: And neither could we: Really, the only person who could (and only sort of, really) resist that gaze was the undercover cop lady from 2 Fast 2 Furious. And let’s be honest, he’s not really doing his best work here: Alright, enough of Paul Walker’s piercing eyes for now. Let’s move on. The First Family Dinner. Technically this comes before the date scene since it provides the lead- in to their budding romance (the two of them doing dishes as he continues to stare intently at her). But it was an easy episode to overlook, because we only realized how tear- jerkingly important it would be years later. Also during their dinner at Cha Cha Cha, Mia says something interesting regarding what would come to be known as The Family. Brian asks her how “the gang” got together in the first place, and she scoffs at him.“The gang?” she continues. The only character who actually uses the word “family” in The Fast and the Furious is one of the FBI agents steering Brian from behind the scenes. Late in the movie, Brian is squirming under the pressure to offer Dom (now his BFF) up to the authorities, saying that Diesel will likely refuse to go back to prison, meaning that he’ll end up dead in any confrontation.“Well that’s a choice he’s going to have to make,” the agent says. That’s a choice you’re going to have to make.”Family, The Fast and the Furious suggests, isn’t who you’re born to, or who you grow up with. It’s who you choose to spend your life with. This is a theme Justin Lin would return to once he took over the reins of the series with Tokyo Drift. Family—that is, the strength and love the core cast of Fast & Furious find in supporting one another—is the single most important reason why serious fans of the series set it apart from any other, more forgettable action movie franchise. The concept of The Family has been around since the beginning of the series. But as Fast & Furious has evolved and leaned ever more heavily on the term “family” for all its branding needs, the exact meaning of “family” has changed in interesting and sometimes troubling ways. When Dom Tried, And Failed, To Save Vince. As the leader and patriarch of The Family, Vin Diesel’s Dom very rarely fails at things. He’s the undisputed champion of pretty much every race he enters into in the entire series; Brian is the only one who’s even had a hope of beating him—and that’s really just because Dom let him. But he does fail at one, very important thing, and that’s when he tries to help wrest his childhood friend Vince free of a wire that’s trapped him at the front of a Mack Truck driven by a man who’s very fed up with being robbed and has a shotgun to prove it. Ultimately it’s Brian who has to save Vince, using both his jumping- off- of- cars skills and his cop connections to chopper in a medic to stop Vince from bleeding out: The final chase scene in the original movie established one of Fast and Furious’s most memorable visual tropes: Vin Diesel leaning precariously out of a car he’s driving insanely fast while somehow still managing to steer. He usually does this to try and save the lives of other members of his crew. And, again, he’s usually successful.. Vince. More on this later. When Brian And Dom Say Goodbye. When Brian tells Mia during their date that his goal in getting into Dom’s inner circle was actually to get to her, he’s staring so intently that you just know he really means it. But he clearly starts to care about Dom a lot, too. Their half- brotherly, half- fatherly relationship comes to a head when Brian casts his undercover cop duties aside and lets Vin Diesel get away from the incoming fuzz. Brian giving Dom the keys to the last race car either of them have at their disposal was probably something the original film’s masterminds came up with to make the ending seem dramatic and vaguely ambiguous—that is, ambiguous enough to leave it open for a sequel but not feel obligated to make on if it’d ended up tanking at the box office. But it actually ended up working really well. The two of them wouldn’t see each other again for quite some time. Suddenly, We’re In Miami. And Here’s Ludacris! Fast 2 Furious is the black sheep of the series. It’s not hard to see why. A lot of people from the original movie simply walked away after its release, not seeing much potential in its future and thus losing interest. Dom, Mia, and Letty were all gone. Even Ja Rule turned down an offer to return to the sequel with an expanded role. He must really regret that decision now. Lacking most of its original cast, Fast & Furious had to reinvent itself, and it did so in hilarious and awkward ways. Of all the movies in the series, 2 Fast 2 Furious feels the most dated—which is saying something, considering that The Fast and the Furious is so old that Dom’s tech specialist sidekick uses floppy discs. Fast 2 Furious feels so old because, more than any other installment in the series, it confines itself to a particular time and place. In its effort to reinvent itself, the movie takes Brian down to Miami, rewrites him as a guy who wears West Coast Choppers shirts and says “bro” every other word, and gives him Eva Mendes as a new potential love interest and co- star. Collate Is a Privacy- Focused Evernote- Style Notes App. Windows/Mac/Linux: When it comes to notes apps, you have a seemingly endless trail of options, but it’s rare to find one that’s cross- platform, supports the Evernote- style of rich notes, and works without needing an account somewhere. Collate is just that. The idea behind Collate is pretty easy to get behind. It uses an the now standard “big notes app” organization methods of notebooks with individual notes inside. Those notes can be Rich Text, Markdown, an outline, or a web clipping Organization is done with the aforementioned notebooks as well as with tags, but you can also just search for anything you need. Collate even supports syntax highlighting, which is great if you save lines of code. Most of that is standard these days, but Collate also saves all your notes on your computer in a format any computer can understand outside of Collate. Nothing is locked into the app or hidden away in a database. Likewise, everything stays on your computer. This means you miss out on any type of syncing function unless you manually choose your a folder in something like Dropbox to save those documents. It does, however, mean you’ll always have full control over those notes and they never go some server that you don’t want them to. Collate is pretty early in its development, so it might be a tough pill to swallow for $2.
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