The Audience

The Fast and the Furious franchise has a wide variety in the types of audience. Every Fast and Furious film is rated PG 13 in Canada and 14 A in the United States, however, in my opinion the suggested rating is ignored by younger audiences. In the following paragraphs, I go into more details regarding the different types of viewers of the films.

Firstly, at 10 years old, I first begun to be interested in the Fast and Furious franchise. Although, while watching the films for the first time, I did not exactly understand the story line or the dialogue of the film. I found myself repeatedly asking my family what some words meant. However, I am most certain that there are many other young children like me, who were interested in cars and decided to watch the movie, and were confused throughout the majority of the film. It was not until a few years later that I re-watched the films and discovered a whole new point of view for the films.

Secondly, there are viewers of the film that decide to watch the films, mainly because of the thrill of the action, the story lines and the actors. I believe that there is part of the Fast and Furious audience, that only watch the films because of Paul Walker and Vin Diesel. I find that completely fine, because there are also viewers of the films, who watch because of the cars and the street racing. I personally watch because I enjoy watching action movies, and I have interest in cars, therefore the Fast and Furious is a major combination of my interests.  

Lastly, the directors and writers target the writing of the film for male viewers in their 20s to 30s. I believe that is the reason why the racing scenes appear so real, that is the reason why the content is mature. The films have a specific rating for the audience, because it provides more freedom to the writers and directors while creating the story.

In all, the Fast and Furious films are enjoyable to all age groups, whether it is because of the actors, cars or racing scenes. I find the most interesting element of the film is how the films appeal differently to everyone.

Advertising

You are probably reading the title of this post and wondering if there were advertising in the Fast and the Furious movies. Well yes there was and a lot of it. In my opinion, the movies that had the most advertising was the last two movies in the franchise, Fast Five and Fast & Furious 6. However, there is a bit of advertising in all the Furious films, including The Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift. There are many advertisements in the franchise, however I am going to focus on the main advertisements.

First, I am going to discuss the advertisement of Chrysler in these movies. The 1970 Charger that Dominic Toretto drives makes an appearance in all Furious films that Vin Diesel was in. In my opinion, having the the Charger in every film, must cost a fortune, as any other vehicle could have been chosen. As Dominic Toretto is associated with the Charger, which creates its identity. As well, Chrysler vehicles are in several scenes throughout Fast Five and Fast and Furious 6; from the beginning to the end. If you analyse every scene of the films, like I do, you will realize that Chrysler are usually the cars in the races, and the cars that are talked about. Additionally, Nissan vehicles, such as the Nissan GT-R also appear in the films. As Brian O'Connor drives and is associated with the Nissan.

Secondly, there was the advertisement of the company Nitrous oxide system (Nos) and that company supplies in their tanks Nitrous oxide. For example, in all of the cars, the Fast films advertise Nos, a recognized brand, than any other small Nitrous oxide brand that is hardly known. Also, like I said before, if you are like me and analyse each scene you start to notice small stuff in the movies. For example, in the forth movie there is a few posters of Nos in the allies, as well there was a machine selling Nos energy drinks, which you will see Brian O'Connor drinking one of them.

The Fast and the Furious franchise advertises well known brands worldwide, such as Chrysler and Nos. Now all of you readers know that the cars and the bit of advertising comes from and that it helps the movies a lot.

Inspiration

Today I will discuss the movies of racing that inspired this franchise and also what made it a really successful movie. I will also talk about the movies that came out before and after The Fast and The Furious movies, and thirdly, I will talk about what this franchise gave to this type of movie genre.



An interesting fact that most people do not know about is that in 1955 there was a movie that was called The Fast and the Furious. This movie was about crime, racing and love. The Fast and the Furious from 2001 shares a lot of similar ideas as the original The Fast and the Furious from 1955, however the 2001 film included more characters and plot lines than the 1955 film. In my opinion, the original The Fast and the Furious was an amazing movie for its time, however it would not be a number one hit today, mainly because of the amount of characters and action scenes.

Movies that came out before and after, the 1955 film, in my opinion, the best racing movie in the world were, Days of Thunder (1955), RedLine 2007, Torque 2004 and other bad movies. Those movies listed, I find are not as good as the Fast films because they do not seem as real, as well as the racing scenes are not as interesting because there is no background music. In the Fast and the Furious from 2001, is full of music and sounds of the engine. I think these special features make the movie more impacting. Lastly, the movies of the Fast and the Furious brought to these types of movies are their integrated new and old muscle cars, comedy, a lot of action and plenty of really cool stunts.

That is why the Fast and Furious stands out to be one of the best racing film series of all time.