Hitchcock vs. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift: Part 1
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What do hot cars and burning rubber have to do with Alfred Hitchcock? That's what patron Joe B. wanted me to investigate. So I put the pedal to the metal and raced down to the video store to pick up a copy of Justin Lin's 2006 street racing flick, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. The parallels between his work and Hitchcock's run so deep I had to split this Freak the Geek story into two parts.
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