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I just watched this film for the first time and it was clear to me about halfway through that Twinkie doesn’t actually exist. My first clue is how out of place he is: an inner-city style thuggish stereotype who hustles goods, wears braids/do rags, and American sports attire, attending a Tokyo highschool. It immediately raised a lot of questions; how did he get there? Why is he like this? Who are his parents? Where is all his money coming from?? How long has he been in Japan? He obviously wasn’t an exchange student, he’s far too well established among the racing crowd and as a mechanic to have only been there for a few months. And he couldn’t have gotten there on his own, he’s a minor. The rest of the movie I waited for some back story or explanation of who Twink was, after all it came for all the other characters (including Neela who was an even less important character) so why not him? In addition, I noticed that none of the information Twink gives Sean is anything he necessarily wouldn’t have heard elsewhere, and none of the actions Twink takes couldn’t have been done by Sean and simply imagined to have come from another person. When that never came, I assumed I had just missed something, so I went to check out the Fast and Furious wiki page only to find this: Nothing. His life begins when he meets Sean. After seeing this I thought back to the movie I had just watched; did he ever really interact with anyone other than Sean? No, in fact hardly anyone (other than Sean) acknowledges anything he does or says, and the few times he has physical interaction with other characters its either them brushing past him without reacting or him in the same place doing the same thing as Sean. Furthermore the way he has his hair and the do rag he wears would not be allowed by their school dress code; which we see enforced on Sean by a teacher but never on Twinkie. Twinkie being imaginary has fewer holes in it than Tyler Durden being imaginary. My theory is that Twinkie is an imaginary friend created by Sean to help him cope with the culture shock of moving to Japan. He’s an out of place stereotype, a set of familiar essentially American features/clichés Sean dreamed up so he could have a piece of his own life to keep him comfortable. Not only does he fit all of the gangster clichés, he’s also non-threatening and very loyal, as well as occupies a support role rather than a rival role (by not being a driver) so he can be cool and pleasing to Sean without being “scary” or complex like a real human being. Twinkie is idealized. The name “Twinkie” obviously is not a real name, and the nickname “Twink” reveals something about his character. Twink is gay slang for a young submissive guy, Twinkie is not only Sean’s idealized best friend and anchor to American culture, but his idealized lover. His homosexuality is so repressed his only safe outlet is his imagination. Update: Foreign military members and their families in Japan are required to have plates with the letter Y, Twinkie's plates dont! Not a military brat! This is because Sean doesn't know about Y plates and so it cant be part of his fantasy! Explanation for the rooftop fight: SPACE HOMOS posted:That is a fantasy developed by the main character as he gives up his ipod. Instead of admitting he is a pushover he dreams of being a hero who intervenes with a fight to become the moral superior by giving his ipod away. In reality he was knocked down like a weak gaijin. Bismuth fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Oct 12, 2016 |
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drat that's some deep thought put into the fast and the furious Tokyo drift
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 02:35 |
How do we really know OP exists?
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 02:36 |
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Update the wiki man, you're onto something.
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 02:38 |
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From the moment Twinkie is introduced, everything in the Fast and Furious franchise is imaginary.
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 02:40 |
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Pawn 17 posted:From the moment Twinkie is introduced, everything in the Fast and Furious franchise is imaginary. But whose imagination is it? I would assume Sean, given the ending of Fast and Furious
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 02:42 |
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do Cranked 2 next
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 02:43 |
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Bismuth posted:But whose imagination is it? I would assume Sean, given the ending of Fast and Furious paul walker
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 02:43 |
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u wan gently caress posted:Update the wiki man, you're onto something. Truth! This is cutting edge stuff
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 02:56 |
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netflix stoned
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 03:00 |
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All of Tokyo Drift is a dream sequence that takes place during 2 Fast 2 Furious.
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 03:02 |
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I worked on the set of Tokyo Drift and I assure you that you have just put more thought into that film than any of the writers.
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 03:02 |
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i haven't even seen this movie but this poo poo is deep as gently caress man like wow
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 03:06 |
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Sjs00 posted:netflix stoned Im sober thanks u wan gently caress posted:Update the wiki man, you're onto something. I dont know how to edit wikis and I'm too lazy to figure it out, someone else should do it
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 03:07 |
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he's his aborted half-brother
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 03:12 |
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Tokyo drift is actually an allegory for circumcision. Twinkie is supposed to represent sean's missing foreskin.
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 03:23 |
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bossy lady posted:Tokyo drift is actually an allegory for circumcision. Twinkie is supposed to represent sean's missing foreskin. Why...why is he black..
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 03:25 |
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I post therefore I am.
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 03:26 |
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Bismuth posted:But whose imagination is it? I would assume Sean, given the ending of Fast and Furious The whole series is all the dying dream of Vin Diesel's character in the first movie, slowly bleeding to death in the wreckage of a car crash that happened while delivering pizza to an LA office park on a rainy night. A combination of "what could have been" and pure fantasy. And then the camera pans out, blurs, and we see all of this has actually occurred in the favorite toy snow globe of an autistic boy.
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 03:35 |
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I think the black kid in Tokyo Drift doesn't exist because Tokyo Drift is a work of fiction.
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 03:43 |
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Yeah but was he circumcised? What does the wiki say about that?
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 03:50 |
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tie-dye my titties posted:Yeah but was he circumcised? What does the wiki say about that? I can personally confirm that none of the main characters in Fast and Furious are circumcised except for Letty
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 03:55 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExN76hAiiFI
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 04:09 |
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"Whoa" - Keanu Reeves
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 04:27 |
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Rosebud
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 04:36 |
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 05:49 |
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That's actually a pretty compelling theory, for people who have seen fight club.
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 06:07 |
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paul walker is imaginary because he burned to death in a car
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 06:40 |
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:paul walker is imaginary because he burned to death in a car Please, this isnt about him, he wasnt even in this movie
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 06:44 |
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Bismuth posted:Please, this isnt about him, he wasnt even in this movie
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 06:46 |
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:i know he was imaginary Just because someones in hell doesn't mean they're not real
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 06:57 |
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i believe the whole movie is fiction
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 07:14 |
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gary oldmans diary posted:i believe the whole movie is fiction So is gary oldman's diary
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 07:15 |
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why is tokyo drift so much better than every other fast&furious movie
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 07:33 |
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Savage For The Winjun posted:why is tokyo drift so much better than every other fast&furious movie because the story has nothing to do with the other ones fast 6 was pretty good, though
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 07:37 |
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Bismuth posted:Why...why is he black.. Artistic license
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 07:44 |
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Bismuth posted:So is gary oldman's diary
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 07:54 |
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Ranma Fan Art posted:drat that's some deep thought put into the fast and the furious Tokyo drift Yeah I don't see what the OP finds inherently problematic about a black person living in Japan.
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 15:17 |
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this is the thread ive been waiting my whole life for
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