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She's smart, sassy, she fights for what she wants and she's a genuinely fun character. Speaking of roles, Trixie is one of the coolest characters in "Speed Racer." She is Speed's childhood sweetheart and present day girlfriend. Like Hirsch, Goodman looks exactly like the his anime counterpart, Pops a jolly, irritable, stern, loving and hard-working father. We dare you to find a John Goodman role that isn't at least one of those. And last but not least, John Goodman plays a role that seems tailor-made just for him. Roger Allam is wonderfully frightening as the two-faced corporate villain we love to hate. Susan Sarandon takes her maternal role with stride, a perfect Mom Racer. It shows, too, as Hirsch plays a perfectly humble, sincere and earnest Speed, finding just the right mix of cheesy and inspiring.
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How these high-profile actors were cast in an anime adaptation is mind-boggling, but it sure worked out well, the cast put all of their heart into these roles.Įmile Hirsch not only looks exactly like Speed Racer, he prepared for the role by watching every episode of the anime and meeting with professional racers. There's Emile Hirsch as Speed, Susan Sarandon as Mom Racer, John freaking Goodman as Pops Racer and Roger Allam as villain Arnold Royalton. The character of Erin was retired in 2010, due to a declining interest and gratuitous association with internet pornography, which took up the majority of online image search results for the character.If there's truly one thing to love about "Speed Racer," it's the cast.
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The closest this ad could come to a full resurface was in the form of stills captured by fan David Alan Ward. As a result, this is the only known Esurance commercial in the Erin campaign to have not resurfaced as of November 2018.
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A high-quality copy of the commercial was embedded via Vimeo onto the official website for Halo Pictures, Hauge's production company, but although the website is still online, all videos featured were unwittingly privatized at one point since 2011 by Hauge, the Speed Racer commercial included, with no means of access. This commercial was available on YouTube for a brief period of time, but was removed and supposedly never recovered since.
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Part of Esurance's tie-in was a TV commercial, directed by Chris Hauge for WildBrain, which saw their controversial animated mascot Erin Esurance driving a pink moped to the film's premiere. However, it would receive a gradual cult interest among critics and fans following its release, its style, in particular, being influential to filmmakers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Despite of this strategy, Speed Racer made around $100 million less than its budget on opening weekend and received lukewarm reception from critics. Their tie-in website, which can no longer be found and even less fortunately was not recovered by the Wayback Machine, hosted behind-the-scenes interviews, wallpapers, film clips, renders and sweepstakes, the grand prize winner earning a two-night stay in Los Angeles and a tour of the Warner Bros. Promotional image for Esurance's Speed Racer tie-in.Īmong the sponsorship deals arranged for Lana and Lily Wachowski's 2008 film adaptation of Speed Racer was with American online insurance company Esurance.
