Episode 25 – 'Speed Racer' (2008) - a podcast by Phi Phenonenon

The 25th anniversary episode! Have you too found yourself dismissing the Wachowskis’ exuberant, boisterous, child-like, form-busting IP-driven blockbuster to the dustbin of history? Well, ya shouldn’t! For Shane’s pick this week, he and guest-host Ted Haycraft discuss how this 2008 film utilized the 3D format to adapt a flat 2D cheap TV anime, its use of split-screen and wipes as a hybrid of visual effects and inventive editing, the back and forth intensity and density of its storytelling, live-action Spritle and Chim Chim, and how, even ten years gone, the film still contains currents for the future of digital cinema.

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