Fast Five Director Speaks!

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Recently having had the experience of sitting through the latest edition of the Fast & Furious franchise with a roomful of children between the ages of five and nine, I was intrigued as to why this high-revving explosion-fest appealed to them.

It couldn’t be, could it, the curves and tatts of the sexy lead femme? Surely it couldn’t be Vin Diesel’s gym-queen posturing. The throbbing hemis seem archaic even to an eight year old.

But the Onion recently came up with this revelation. The success of the movie with our kids is of course based on that fact that the screenwriter has complete empathy with his audience.

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