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 »  Home  »  Editorials  »  BLOG: Red Carpet World Premiere of TOKYO DRIFT MOVIE! (With photos!)
BLOG: Red Carpet World Premiere of TOKYO DRIFT MOVIE! (With photos!)
By  Antonio Alvendia | Published  06/5/2006 | Editorials | Rating:
The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift, Page 3

I know alot of you guys are skeptical about this movie, and I was too. There have even been talks of people trying to organize a boycott of this movie, and I think that's just ridiculous.

People have even said this FF3 movie will "ruin drifting" because it's gonna get exposed to mainstream media and all that jazz... but those people really don't know about drifting for real. Yes people, there is a "behind the scenes story" to everything, including drifting. Insiders like me and my friends know and see what's happening behind the scenes, and believe me, it's not easy.

Each one of us has to go through a personal struggle each time we try to deal with any of these big companies trying to get into the drifting market. Whether it's a driver trying to get sponsored by a big company, or whether it's an event organizer or magazine trying to get advertisment revenue from corporate America, or whether it's little old me trying to ink a deal with a big time automotive publisher to create a drifting book, or promote a drifting trading card series.

All of us guys and girls who work in the drifting industry are drifting fans too! Just like you! But you gotta realize, sometimes you need to do things people might call "selling out" (or I prefer, "selling yourself short") in order to achieve the bigger picture- advancing the sport of drifting. Reaching more of an audience, and introducing more people to drifting. Just think about the first time you saw drifting, and how you reacted to it, and how it made you feel. If we REAL CORE DRIFTING ENTHUSIASTS don't take part in projects like this, then someone else who doesn't know shit is just gonna take the initiative and do it themselves, and they're gonna do it in the wrong way. So I want to ask some of you certain "hardcore drifting fan" people, please stop spreading bad rumors about this movie, or the so-called "sell outs" who were involved in it! They aren't sell outs! We love drifting just as much as you do! We all want to see drifting advance in America, and all over the world. Both as a sport, and as a lifestyle and culture.


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  • Comment #1 (Posted by Ben Fried)
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    Nice article and pictures! I agree, I thought it was awesome to see how well they depicted Japan with their various shots of the bike racks, the train station, the street full of people, the school uniforms, etc. I also thought it was cool to see some familiar faces such as the D1 guys on the docks, or (I think) Rhys on the plane at the begining of the movie!
     
  • Comment #2 (Posted by Trenton)
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    it would have been excellent if it would have had pictures of the main stars the cars.
     
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