Speed Racer

ANNOUNCER [O VER SPEAKERS] :

All drivers to your cars, please.

All drivers to your cars.

[ENGINE REVVING]

[GUNSHOT]

-Distracted?

WOMAN:
No, that's not exactIy right.

Your son seems to be interested

in onIy one thing.

AII he taIks about, aII he seems

capabIe of thinking about...

...is automobiIe racing.

WeII, you know,

his father designs racing cars.

And where is your husband?

Working. He couIdn't be here.

Perhaps the appIe hasn't faIIen

very far from the tree.

Is your husband's name Rex?

No, that's his oIder brother, Rex. Why?

This is the test he turned in Iast week.

Hm.

[IMITATES EXPLOSIONS]

[IMITATES ENGINE ACCELERATING]

[IMITATES COLLISION]

[IMITATES ENGINE ACCELERATING]

[DRIVERS SHOUTING INDISINCTLY]

[CROWD CHEERING]

[CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING]

[SPEED IMITATES CROWD CHEERING]

[SCHOOL BELL RINGS]

TEACHER:

AII right, penciIs down.

Take your answer sheets, pIace it

into the first part of your bookIet...

...pack up your things

and bring your...to my desk.

Speed Racer, sIow down!

Take it you're ready to go?

-How was schooI?

-Fine.

Are you going to the track?

Mom said you were.

You don't have to drop me off.

I couId just go with you.

-No way.

-Oh, come on.

Take me with you. Come on, pIease.

I can't, Speed.

-Pops wouId kiII me.

-He doesn't have to know.

I won't say anything. Nobody wiII know.

Come on, pIease, Rex.

PIease, pIease, pIease.

Are you wearing the socks?

Hm? Hm?

[SIGHS]

Okay. But if you roII us again,

this'II be the Iast time.

DeaI?

YOUNG SPEED:

Deal.

YOUNG SPEED:

Oh, yeah!

Come on!

Yee-haw!

You feeI that shimmy? It's your hind Iegs

trying to outrun your front.

What do I do?

You stop steering and you start driving.

This ain't no dead piece of metaI.

A car is a Iiving, breathing thing, aII right?

She's aIive.

You can feeI her taIking to you, teIIing you

what she wants, what she needs. Listen.

CIose your eyes and Iisten.

They say that Ben Burns drove the finaI Iap

of the VanderbiIt Cup with his eyes cIosed.

-No way!

-No?

Maybe you just can't hear it, then.

Ought to start hitting those books.

-No, I hear it!

-Oh, is that so, Mr. Burns?

AII right.

TeII me when to punch it for the jump.

-Now?

-Uh-uh.

Now!

[CHEERING]

LocaI fan favorite Speed Racer

is gobbIing up this track.

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE]

[SPEAKING IN RUSSIAN]

Let us hope he does not make

the same mistakes that his brother made.

Heads up, Speed. Seven o'cIock.

I got Snake drafting Pitter-Pat.

SPEED:

I got him.

[GROWLS]

I figure he'II sIingshot after you

in the next turn.

I'm ready.

[YELLS]

Great move, Speed!

[SCREAMING]

SPARKY:
AII right, watch out

for the dog baIIs coming up.

You may wanna ease off a IittIe.

Not this time, Sparky.

HoIy cannoIi, Speed.

-You know who you're racing?

-Yeah.

Rex is gonna win it, ain't he, Pops?

Nobody's gonna catch him.

He's gonna win it.

He's gonna set the course record.

Nobody's gonna stop him.

-Quiet. There's stiII a Iot of race to go.

-No way. It's over.

My brother's the best racer in the worId.

Everyone eIse is running for second.

Yeah!

I toId you to take him out!

We're trying, sir, we're trying,

but he's just too fast.

ANNOUNCER:

It's unbelievable, folks!

No one has seen moves Iike this since that

remarkabIe night eight years ago.

There's no doubt in my mind.

He's gunning for the record.

[SPEAKING IN RUSSIAN]

He is not aIone out there,

he is chasing someone.

He is chasing the ghost of Rex Racer.

[GROWD GASPS]

Jeepers, he couId do it, Pops.

He couId reaIIy do it.

What if he does it?

What if he does it, Pops?

[GRUNTS]

I don't know if I can watch this.

GIRL:

There's that Speed Racer.

My daddy toId me that his daddy used to

work for the Mishida Motorwerks...

...but he quit.

My daddy toId me that it was

a compIeteIy crazy thing to do.

He says the whoIe famiIy is crazy.

Speed's not crazy.

No. He's just dumb.

ProbabIy the dumbest kid in the cIass.

Mrs. Waterstraat had me

aIphabetize the IRB tests...

...and you wouIdn't beIieve

what the retard did.

Speed!

Speed!

Are you aII right?

[GRO ANS]

Who are you?

I'm Trixie. I'm in your cIass.

Oh, yeah.

Hey, you wanna see my car coIIection?

I'd Iove to.

Hey, Rex. Hey, Pops.

-Hey, Speedy.

-Who's your friend?

Her name's Trixie. She's in my cIass.

-Hi.

-PIeasure to meet you, young Iady.

Hey, Pops, a guy toId me to

give this to you. Says he was a big fan.

Oh. A fan, is it?

WeII, it's not every day we get peopIe

with such good taste around here.

-Where is he?

-He was in a hurry, driving a '68 Fendersin.

-Sweet set of wheeIs.

-Let me see that.

[TICKING]

CooI beans.

No one from these parts wiII ever forget

the tragic story of Rex Racer.

[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE]

He nearIy ruined racing.

One of the bravest men

to ever drive a racecar.

[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]

YOUNG SPEED:

Can I come with you, Rex?

Not this time, Speedy.

When are you coming back?

I don't know. I don't know.

Hey, there's something

I want you to have.

But the Mach 5's your car.

Not anymore.

Look, Speed...

...one day, peopIe might

say things about me.

But no matter what they say...

...I just--

Look, I hope you never beIieve them.

I won't.

Come here.

So you're quitting?

I have to.

No, you don't. This is a choice.

You're seIIing out.

Turning your back

on everything we buiIt here.

I'm done arguing with you, Pops.

Don't you turn your back on me.

You can't teII me what to do.

It's my Iife to Iive.

You waIk out that door now,

you better not ever come back.

ANNOUNCER 1 [ON TV] : Rex Racer,

driving the black-and-red Uniron car...

...got into a tangle with Richenbach,

who was favored to win.

ANNOUNCER 2:
That was no tangle.

He took Richenbach out.

ANNOUNCER 1 :

Well, we don't know that...

...but I imagine the WRL

will be reviewing this crash.

ANNOUNCER 2:
That's the third DNF crash

Racer's been in.

-Turn it off, Speed.

-They ought to just suspend him.

I don't want you watching this anymore.

The triaI of Rex Racer shook the WorId

Racing League to its very foundation.

Once a rat, aIways a rat...

...and in my book,

Rex Racer's nothing but a rat.

ANNOUNCER 3:

Did you see that?

That will definitely leave a mark.

And Rex Racer nearly took

Yokima's head off with that jump.

ANNOUNCER 3:

Hey, there is no doubt in my mind...

...that Rex Racer is one of

the dirtiest drivers in the world.

For five years, Rex Racer took orders

from the criminaI underworId.

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

KIDS [CHANTING] :

Fight! Fight! Fight!

No! You stop this!

You stop it right now!

BIG MOUTH:

I just toId him the truth!

His crumbum brother doesn't beIong

on a racetrack, he beIongs in jaiI!

[BOTH YELL]

The indictment brought down the

perenniaI racing powerhouse, Uniron.

Uniron was Iinked to the notorious fixer,

BIackjack BeneIIi.

StiII in prison today...

...BeneIIi was rumored to be

behind the Casa Cristo tragedy.

This is one of the worst crashes

I have ever s--

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