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== Most events of the movie are the fantasy of an autistic kid ==
A kid who calls himself Speed Racer, but whose real name we do not know. The key for this interpretation is a line pronounced by his teacher: "All he seems capable of thinking about is automobile racing." And she means this literally: automobile racing is everything this kid is physically able to think about, just like other savants are only able to think about prime numbers, dates in the calendar or train time tables. He actually has a brother named Rex, a racing pilot who he admires, and on whose idealized image he based his view of himself at a later age. His fantasies literally distort his perception of the world: the fluorescent colors, the extreme brightness of everything, is how the real world appears to him (and to him only). He believes his father's and mother's names to be Pops and Mom, because he and his brother always called them like that. He invented the name Speed Racer for himself because he thinks it would be a much cooler name than his real one. His view of automobile racing (supersonic cars, car-fu, acrobatic tracks with loops and jumps, technological gadgets, explosions) is an idealized view of the little he can comprehend about real automobile racing, mixed with his fantasy.
* Whose real name we do not know? It'd have to be [[St. Elsewhere|Tommy Westphall]].
* As an autistic kid, he also has no interest in (or possibly even knowledge of) alcohol, [[Did Not Do the Research|hence why he imagines pilots celebrate victories with milk]].
** There are plenty of normal kids who have no interest or knowledge of alcohol, just saying.
*** Interest, sure, but ''knowledge''?
* Except that the [[wikipedia:Indianapolis 500#Milk|milk]] is [[Truth in Television]], even for grown-up drivers. You just don't want to be drunk when you do your victory lap...
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* Don't be crazy! What's next, Aizen's the [[Big Bad]] in [[Bleach]]? C'mon, the guy doesn't even look like Rex! Also, Aizen's a kind and nice person.
* Or Yammy turning out to be the Zeroeth espada, or Tobi turning out to be the big bad in [[Naruto]]. Never gonna happen. Besides, we all know Racer X is really Speed himself; from the future. And also a [[Doctor Who|timelord]].
* In the original cartoon series they wear the same color sheme, I might have to agree on this time Lord idea.
== The Aero Jack/jump button has an auxiliary control which doesn't need to be seen ==
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== There will be a sequel ==
* Now THAT'S crazy.
** This was justified in that there was a headline somewhere that appeared shortly after the film was released, which said the Wachowskis wanted to start a sequel. Of course, it's now been over two years... and not one more word followed since.
== This will be [[Vindicated by History]] ==
Come on, [[Citizen Kane]] didn't get an Academy Award for Best Picture. It didn't even make a profit in the theaters. Yet everyone says it's one of the best films ever made, and it is enjoyable.
** Just wait until ''[[Speed Racer]]'' hits TV; [[Vindicated by Cable|ratings will be through the roof]].
== All the above was written by [[Speed Racer]] [[Fan Boy|Fanboys]] ==
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== The film IS a anime. ==
It's not a deconstruction, parody, or homage it's a straight up anime, just using flesh and blood actors instead of ink. It treated and scripted like a anime it's just a medium, sort of like how Anime is a moving picture of Manga but still has all the trappings of manga just in the new medium Speed Racer is a Live Action Anime, if it was done in cgi or pen and ink it would be indistinguishable from say Astro Boy.
== The amazing feats Speed can do comes form his imagination ==
He is not really driving, he's carsitting for his neighbor and he invites over his friends, Rex, Spritle, Pops, etc. and one of his friends has a monkey. His names comes from, well... you guessed it, his drug of choice. This troper knows he does not drive because of the non moving image that is often displayed.
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