The Fast and the Furious
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| Name: | The Fast and the Furious |
| 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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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.
The original film was immediately recognized, even by mainstream press, as having clear homoerotic undertones. [1] 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.
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Fandom
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.
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
- 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
Vids: These vids all had a huge impact on drawing people into the fandom
Community
Mailing Lists
External links
- The Fast and the Furious Overview at crack_van
- Fandom: the Fast & the Furious Overivew at newbieguide
- Quarter Mile: Fast and the Furious (Brian/Dom) Index
