Hi all.

I was wondering if you guys could give me a few ideas on how I can relate the film Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift to my Asian American Studies class. I need to write a paper about it that is due in a few weeks. I am just looking for some themes that are evident in the film that may related to the topic and hopefully, with those themes, I'll be able to critically analyze the film. Any help is appreciated.

TIA.

Oops. The title should say: AUDT: Kind of need your input for a class (Tokyo Drift). Will deal with it after I come back from class.

 

For Hamamoto?

 

Um it has nothing to do with AAS. gajin and dk is al you need to know

 

For another teacher. Have not had a class with Hamamoto yet.

 

Maybe contradictions, or anything that has to do with Lisa Lowe or Feaucaut (sp?).

 

I don't think it has to relate to Asian American in terms of the work. I think it just has to be produced by an Asian American. In this case, Justin Lin. I dunno, this class is kind of confusing.

 

That's a weird project. Some films that came out before Tokyo Drift about drifting?

Shuto Kousoku Trial 1-5 and Shuto Kousoku Max.

That's all I got.

 

I think I need to look at the prompt again. I am not sure if they wanted me to critically analyze a film in the sense that it is a piece that is created by an Asian-American, or as a piece that is considered Asian-American. I think it is the first though.

 

Initial D?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsXYKtm4hug

oh... I have the DVD btw.

 

Not Asian American sadly. Great drifting, horrible acting.

 

Better Luck Tomorrow would be a good movie (unless like...most of your class is writing about that movie too). You've got more sh*t to write about on that one than Tokyo Drift. Tokyo Drift is just good guilty fun. You can probably come up with a paragraph on that one. I guess you can write about military brats who live in other countries and how other countries accept "gaijin", but there really isn't much you can write from a guilty pleasure movie.

 

I got a small list of all type of things and I'll watch it again and see if I can squeeze out a few more topics.

 

talk about america's international influences. drifting is a fad in japan, and has become a fad in america.

 

Good idea. That'll definitely fall into the contradictions category. Instead of American, or other European influences on the international community, it'll be Japanese influence on a superpower.