The Fast and the Furious

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Abbreviation(s):

TFATF, TFatF, FATF, FatF

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Date(s):

2001 - 2009

Medium:

Film

Country of Origin:

U.S.

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1 Fandom
2 Notable Fanworks
3 Community
4 Mailing Lists
5 External links
6 Archives
7 References

The Fast and the Furious, also referred to as simply Fast and the Furious, is a series of films revolving around street racing that begins with The Fast and the Furious, followed by 2 Fast 2 Furious and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. A fourth movie, titled Fast & Furious, was released in 2009.

The premise of the first film is the undercover investigation by Paul Walker's character, Brian O'Conner, of a series of truck robberies that occur while the trucks are in transit. Vin Diesel's character, Dominic (Dom) Toretto, a noted street racer and ex-con, is the primary suspect and the subject of O'Conner's undercover investigation. O'Conner inserts himself into Toretto's street-racing crew, but quickly finds himself in too deep.

2 Fast 2 Furious paired Brian O'Conner with old friend Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson) in a story that moves the action to Florida and does not feature Dom Toretto.

Tokyo Drift, set in Japan, had a whole new set of characters and does not have much plot relationship to the other films.

Fast & Furious reunites the original film cast in what plays as a direct sequel to the first film. A fifth film, is set to be released in 2011.^[1]

Fandom

The original film was immediately recognized, even by mainstream press, as having clear homoerotic undertones. ^[2] Slash fans readily picked up on this aspect of the film and began writing fanfic, continuing as more characters and plot were added to the canon with the subsequent films.

Fan activity started shortly after the movie premiered, primarily in Yahoo Groups email lists, but grew dramatically with the creation of the LiveJournal community quarter_mile and successful pimping of new fans, particularly through the use of vids. The self-titled renaissance in this fandom, with multiple fans contributing fanfic and vids, peaked in Summer 2005.

The 2009 release of the fourth film say a flurry of new works produced, but not at the original fandom level.

The most popular slash pairings are Brian/Dom, with many Brian/Rome works written after the second film was released. Rome began to appear in Dom/Brian stories occasionally at that time. There are two canon het relationships that get some outings in works, Dom/Letty and Brian/Mia. There is also some femslash, threesomes and the occasional love triangle.

Notable Fanworks

Stories: Much of the fanfic is available only on the mailing lists, but there is quite a lot publicly available:

Gravity by Dawn -- a seminal early story in the fandom
Baja by Devil Child -- one of the first, if not the first, story in the slash fandom, and one of the originators of the gone to Mexico trope
Unfinished Business and other fanfic by Maygra -- helped spread the fandom to a wide audience
Deus ex Machina and other stories by Khaleesian -- responsible for luring many people into the fandom, especially in the early days
Ciudad de Estrellas and other TFatF fanfic by Gwyneth -- along with her vids, helped create the "renaissance" of the fandom