Talking about "Racing Story 2", a film that has successfully captured a large number of children and adults, it seems that everyone knows and knows. The scene of the car running on the track called "Lightning McQueen" is deeply imprinted in every child's childhood impression, and I still vividly remember that when I entered high school, I also saved up pocket money to buy a few McQueen's handmade. Today, after 8 years, I revisited Cars 2 and found a lot of interesting things from the perspective of car editors.
Movies and life, please take a seat
Each car in the movie has its own prototype in real life, but McQueen does not have such an obvious counterpart. Some people say that its creative inspiration comes from Dodge Viper, but at least I think there is a more obvious difference between it and Viper, especially Viper's "no one to enter" temperament, McQueen really does not. Of course, it doesn't really matter what the specific prototype of the Nazca car is, the young audience just needs to understand that it is the protagonist, it represents the quality of speed, strength and kindness.
As the female number one of the first works, McQueen's girlfriend Sally is a Porsche 996 late 911 sports car. The 996-generation Porsche 911 was released in 1997, and when it was first launched, it was attacked as a "freak" because the designer replaced the classic round headlights of the car series, and the engine was changed from decades of air cooling to water cooling. Although the shape is not the most classic in the 911 family, every line of it appears so feminine in the movie, especially in a group of various American cars, the unique headlights are more "ladylike" than the round headlights.
Anyone who knows the plot of "Cars 2" knows that the entire main line is based on McQueen's good brother Banya. This tattered-looking trailer, often referred to as a fool, deduced the final real culprit with heroic combat performance and clever mind, and its deep brotherhood with McQueen also touched every audience. The prototype of the car is a wrecker converted from the L170 pickup truck built by the once famous International Harvester brand in the United States.
The cute Quirrell in the film is based on the famous BMW bubble car, the Isetta. In order to cater to the relatively backward consumption level of Germany after World War II, BMW began production of this pleasing, simple and practical car in 1955, because it was born in Italy as a small workshop specializing in refrigerators and motorcycles, so Quirrell often used Italian to communicate with everyone.
In addition, the characters who can represent the car culture of different countries in the "Cars 2" movie are the most exciting in the final "London War". In addition to the Queen based on the Rolls-Royce Fourth Generation Phantom, the Prince based on the Bentley Continental GT, and the British Special Forces members based on the Second Generation of Range Rover and the Land Rover Defender, etc., there is also sir Stewart who guides the tooth to pay tribute to the Empress at the end, based on the Ethertra T87, and even a collection of some of the most representative models in the history of the car.
Crappy goods and lemon cars confirm the history of the American automobile industry
A perfect movie often needs a lot of people to support, and there are good people who naturally have villains. Fuel is a necessity for every vehicle, and the leader of the villain who wants to monopolize fuel to control the entire car industry is Miles, the Range Rover.
Although like McQueen, Miles, as the most deeply buried villain, does not have a creative archetype that can be seen at a glance. But given the emphasis on British-spec spare parts in the film, and its own SUV identity, it belongs to nothing more than the Land Rover Discovery or Range Rover family. Although the sloping roof is more like a Land Rover discovery, the film also explains that the roof is a modified solar version, so by exclusion, it can be judged that Miles belongs to the Range Rover family. In the Range Rover family, the reliability of the second and third generation models is indeed not good, which is also confirmed by the film. In the end, the British special screws in the film (british cars were always on the market with their own unique parts at that time) and the oil spill of the vehicle finally exposed his identity, and the action to fight for the "lemon car" was temporarily over.
Well, after introducing Miles, we have introduced a concept of what a "lemon car" is. Lemon is a good-looking but sour food, and americans call some of the vehicles that have problems after purchase as "lemon cars", they are mostly recalled due to unreasonable factory settings, lack of important parts in quality inspection, theoretically a car maintenance up to 25 to 35 days can be protected by the lemon law, the villains in the movie are also members of the lemon car, and it can even be said that they are broken cars with an important historical position in the history of the car.
In the case of the villain's Doctor of Weapons Designer, for example, it was based on the German brand Zenapp, which mainly produced motorcycles, and this Janus 250 model was produced in May 1957 and was forced to stop production after only one year of production due to its failed design and very unreliable performance. Look at its head and tail can not be distinguished, have you thought of a domestic car?
Two other crappy cars that often spoil racers are from AMC, Gremlin and Pacer ( The Devil and the Wanderer ) , which have been named third and fifth in the world's ugliest model selection... However, as AMC was acquired by Renault and then sold to Chrysler, they have disappeared ever since.
In any case, the models that are good and high-profile in the market will certainly not be forgotten, and these guys who are called crappy goods are doomed to become unattended. For those famous broken cars in history, the significance of their existence seems to be to warn car manufacturers and consumers not to produce and choose products with similar attributes in the future. Therefore, from this point of view, their existence is very necessary. Without comparison, we don't understand what's good and what's bad, right?
But from another point of view, those villains who choose to challenge the world of "Cars 2" for their own survival are also quite pitiful? After all, becoming a broken car is not their own choice, and survival is also the most basic right for them. Of course, the child audience will not think so much, as long as McQueen finally wins the championship, as long as these friends are lively together. Looking at it this way, it's good to be a kid!