The 20 Year Evolution of Fast and Furious Car Chases
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Published 2023-05-15
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
In this first Fast and Furious film, we're going to talk about how director Rob Cohen made Vin Diesel and Paul Walker into LA's best street racers. In this section, we're going to look at how they used vfx to pull off the drag race scene, which early on was the franchise's most influential movie car chase. And we'll look at how they used to incredible action movie stunts and practical effects to pull off that final drag race between Dom Toretto and Brian O'Conner.
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
In this section we're going to talk about how director John Singleton pushed the visual effects and practical effects envelope to create the yacht jump at the end of the film.
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift brought two major contributions to the franchise: director Justin Lin and drifting. In this section we're going to example how Justin Lin used real stunt driving and a CGI Tokyo to create the visual effects spectacle that is the Shibuya Square drifting scene.
Fast & Furious (2009)
For Justin Lin's rebootquel, he did wat all rebootquels do well remake the original movie just on a grander scale. We discuss how he took the heist scene from the first Fast & Furious movie and used some explosions and special effects to really plus up this reimagined car chase.
Fast Five (2011)
Fast Five is arguably the best film in the franchise. It introduced the audience to Hobbs (The Rock) and has some of the best action scenes in the franchise. We're going to talk about the Fast Five vault heist as well as all the vfx, special effects, and action movie stunts that went into the train heist, at the beginning of the film.
Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
Fast & Furious 6 featured some truly unique vehicles like the flip car and the tank. We take a deeper dive into how they both the Flip Car scene and the Tank scene practically, with good 'ol stunt drivers and special effects (plus obviously some CGI).
Furious 7 (2015)
For Fast and Furious 7, we're going to look at both the Furious 7 plane drop scene and the tower jumping scene. Cars don't fly, traditionally, but in Furious 7 the do a hell of a job trying. We're going to examine how James Wan used vfx, stunt driving, and special effects to create some of the franchise's best movie car chases.
The Fate of the Furious (2017)
In Fast and Furious 8, director F. Gary Gray brought us scenes like the one where the gang is harpooning Dom's car and The Fate of the Furious final battle where the gang needs to outrun the submarine. Obviously, they didn't have a sub. That's CGI. But the explosion they that forces those cars into the air, that's some real special effects going on there.
F9 (2021)
F9 is an odd title for the Fast and the Furious 9. Regardless of its title, it has some amazing action scenes and it did bring John Cena into the mix. We're going to take a BTS (behind-the-scenes) look at both The Rope Swing Scene and the magnet chase (you know, the "Flipping the Truck Scene").
While we don't Fast X (a.k.a. Fast and Furious 10 ) featured in this video. We're looking forward to adding to this once we finally learn what it took to have Jason Momoa blow up Rome.
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All Comments (21)
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"A new era... not bound by what's physically possible." Fast Five, a gift and a curse.
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70 minutes? Holy shit, this is basically a blu-ray bonus feature. Can't wait!
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It never ceases to amaze me how this series could take amazing practical effects and make them look CGI af on the big screen. Truly a feat
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It’s crazy to see how much thought goes into the stunts for these films.
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26:12 "the reason this movie had a huge budget was to ensure the laws of physics don't apply" thank you for writing awesome scripts to your videos ^_^
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43:50 ...fantastic fours greatest hits, car harpoons... wtf?
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At 47:00 - the car flying bit. Early in the film Brian told his son " Cars don't fly". Now remember the crew took their cars onto a plane. In F8 you mean to tell me those cars weren't gutted when they went out the car garages? All that weight from the pileup?I realize they placed Iron plates on the roads then painted them. Was waiting for the Roof Leaping in Brazil stunts. Thanx!!!!!
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What's sad is they put so much work into these Stunts, and then they just replace most of it with CGI to where even the real stuff looks fake.
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An hour long CineFix video? I am so ready for this! 😃🍿
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Love this extra long look at the stunts for such a giant franchise. Would love for you guys to do more videos like this or just more car/stunt vids in general. Also fast 5 still holds up super well. The train sequence and the vault through the streets are both perfection
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My favourite instalment of the franchise will always be Fast and Furious 6. One of the greatest bits of that film was its set in my home city of London. After watching Tokyo Drift I kept wishing for the next instalment to be set in London. Got my wish in the end.
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Fast Five is undoubtedly the best movie in this franchise. Changing from racing movies to (semi) spy/heist movies was genius. Bringing the 'family' together was also inspired.
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This video is amazing. Thank you for the appreciation of the practical effects, stunt work and how the team levels up the bar for themselves each time. Great work!
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24:50 - How many times have you rewatched it? - Yes.
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You kinda skipped over the fact that the "Muscle cars" in F9's jungle chase were custom built AWD buggies.
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I had no idea this franchise had so many pratical effects. Thats amazing
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I watched this whole video without pause and loved every minute of it. And now I want another just like this, but about the Mad Max films.
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This video is incredible. I watch a ton of filmmaking content on YouTube and this is definitely one of the best. The depth of the content and the enthusiasm of the narrator really sold it to me. I really want you people to make a similarly comprehensive and engaging video about the stunts in the Mission Impossible series when the next one comes out in a few months.
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I know a lot of people dislike this franchise, but I do appreciate the films with 1 and 5 being my favorites. Looking forward to 10… please don’t suck. 🙏
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I'm surprised this series doesn't get more praise for using practical effects, Fury Road does after all. The only reason I can think of, is maybe because they later become so outlandish viewers just assume they are CG.
