【Military Base Camp】Author: Lu Zhi
Speaking of drivers, the image of the American driver is the most distinctive: an arm outside the window, a cigar in his mouth, and a girl in the car with cowboy music eyes but constantly glancing at the passenger seat. But the Fast & Furious series tells us that American drivers have two other distinctive characteristics: they can fight and kill, and their cute shiny bald heads.
When it comes to the Fast & Furious series, we have to talk about American racing culture. When it comes to racing, the word fans say the most is New North, which is called the "Ring of Truth". Nürbürn refers to the Nordschleife in Germany, which is also the most complex and difficult circuit in the world. Those car brands that flaunt themselves with sports will spare no effort to brush up on this track to prove how good their cars are.
But here I want to tell you a little secret, most of the list on this track are European and Japanese cars, but there are not many American cars. I go, are those racing articles the product of American public opinion? In fact, their racing water quality is not high at all?
This also begins with the culture and environment of the United States. Most of the roads in the United States are straight and spacious, coupled with the straightforward and grinning personality of Americans, large-displacement cars have become the favorite of the public, which actually explains why the Ford Mustang was born when it was in the market. American muscle cars, represented by Muskan, Camaro and Challenger, all have similar characteristics and mediocre handling. But they have excellent horsepower and torque, and this setting is advantageous in straight-line acceleration.
The race that Americans are most enthusiastic about is not the various mountain off-road types of racing, but the acceleration races in which various perverted modified cars participate. There are more mountain roads in Europe and Japan, and their old drivers are good at mountain driving, so in F1 and Le Mans, the championship is almost won by European and Japanese drivers. So what do Americans play? They think the buzzing races of F1 are too boring, and the FIA is constantly reducing the incidence of racing accidents, which makes them even more bored.
Americans feel that racing should be more passionate, and it is better to fight after the race. So the oval track became a favorite of Americans, running a full 500 laps in one race! These competitions are like grand festivals, and there will be fighter jets and even bombers from the Air Force to help them.
These cars are not a high-tech product, and they are equivalent to kindergarten children compared to F1 armed to the teeth. But for the audience, they love to watch. Of course, what they love to watch is not to win or lose, but to watch all kinds of crashes. Yes, Americans like cars to crash all over the sky. The Americans don't crash and finish it, as long as they can still do it, they must have another boxing match. These are not seen in Le Mans and F1.
"Fast and Furious" can be regarded as a restoration of the characteristics of some old American drivers, get off the car and dry rack. As long as the bald heads in the film get on the car, they are all god-level drivers who can win various championships. And this plot, it is estimated that even James Bond and Ethan Hunter have to admire, saving the world is nothing, is not that they randomly drag the car.
In fact, the first three parts of "Fast and Furious" are still serious racing films, and by the fourth part, they have become crime and passion, and the enemies are constantly escalating. Because pure racing films don't necessarily have much of a market, the producers naturally won't let the series be confined to street racing. These true temperamental speed fanatics are not inherently bad, if as a villain to destroy the world naturally will not get too much audience recognition, then wash it white. So one by one, the protagonists washed white by saving the world, and the drag racing family transformed into the last hope of mankind. In the latest eighth part, the car is no longer the only protagonist, and a large number of military elements have come to the fore.
Living up to expectations, the director finally invited a civilian tank, the Ripsaw EV2 track car. Friendly reminder, this car is still for the local tycoons, so don't turn over your balance and payroll. This little beast is a tracked fast assault vehicle developed for the military. Although the wheeled car has a speed advantage, it is not as good as the crawler car. The Ripsaw EV2 uses flexible tracks, and unlike the creaking double-pin metal tracks on the tank, this flexible track is a monolithic structure, and the silence and high speed are excellent, just look at the way it throws mud in the mud. In terms of power, the model in the movie has a horsepower of 750 horses, which is the same level as the supercar, and it is estimated that the ordinary car cannot even see its taillights.
The command plane that appeared in the air was also a highlight, but I couldn't help but spit a few words, is the director still alive in the 70s? Can I change to a phased array radar that does not rotate? The aircraft in the play can be called a real multi-purpose, not only able to perform the tasks of an early warning aircraft, but also the function of a transport aircraft, and it is the large hatch at the stern that rescues Dominica, who is being chased by the enemy.
The biggest highlight of this movie is the big killer that appears at the end of the film, the Akula nuclear submarine. The Akula class adopts a streamlined appearance and the usual double-hull structure of Soviet Russia, with a pressure-resistant shell made of titanium alloy, which can still ensure the combat effectiveness of the submarine in the case of damage to some cabins, and it seems that this villain still has some military knowledge. But evil is not good, what is wrong with looking beautiful, it is the villain who has to fail! In the game Red Alert 3, the Soviet faction also has the Akula nuclear submarine, which is powerless with most weapons when it dives. Akula also has a second skill, unleashing a direct-flight torpedo, based on the famous Blizzard Super bubble torpedo in Soviet Russia. However, it is not shown in detail in the film.
The film has a lot of hard injuries, in addition to many scenes that make Newton unable to look at it, mistakes in military content are also blooming everywhere. First of all, EMP weapons can only paralyze the power equipment, and cannot be as smokey as the explosion. When Dominique in the movie attacks the nuclear submarine base with EMP, it is like detonating a shockwave weapon, which is very unreasonable. When the female villain fired the nuclear bomb remotely, the three team members unplugged the circuit board chip in a panic and terminated the launch. Is this a bad weapon in black hair? When the submarine was launched, something even more bizarre happened, these light military high-mobility vehicles and modified vehicles could not run the submarine with a speed of 30 knots! Before it was over, Dominica turned on nitrogen acceleration in order to save his family, using the heat energy generated to attract infrared guided missiles launched by submarines. But the submarines in the movie are attack nuclear submarines, even if there are missiles, they are anti-aircraft missiles or cruise missiles and anti-ship missiles, and infrared guidance can only be anti-aircraft missiles, which cannot be used to hit vehicles on the ground. Even if it could strike, would the modified car escape a few Mach missiles? Even if dodged, would the missile have the power to penetrate the titanium double-hull submarine?
In fact, "Fast and Furious" takes family affection as the core, and after packaging with a large scene, it is a hilarity. A family can go to see it, and friends and colleagues can also watch it, and this is the fundamental reason for the success of the Fast and Furious series. If you haven't seen it yet, you can't get good, but it's no problem to pass the passing line. Friendly reminder, do not take off your glasses the whole time, do not be blinded by a shiny bald head.
In other words, whether the car skills are good or not are bald/bad laughs