¡°Need for Speed¡± is an ode to the automobile and not the green, hybrid kind either. The vehicles in this movie are sleek, sexy, gas-guzzling, carbon-spewing planet-destroyers, and director Scott Waugh revels in shooting them from every conceivable angle (plus a few you never even thought possible). In an interview with The Japan Times, Waugh begins by saying that ¡°whatever happens in the world, cars will always be around. People love them too much. And this is a movie that banks on that love.¡±
OK, but what about the environment and a growing discussion in the U.S. about how Hollywood should promote greener, more sustainable values?
¡°It¡¯s not like I¡¯m always making movies about cars,¡± says Waugh with a laugh. (His last work was the CIA thriller ¡°Act of Valor.¡°) Still, Waugh was one of Hollywood¡¯s most famous and reliable stuntmen, officially working on films as a professional daredevil from the mid-1980s until he retired in 2005. To say that he¡¯s good with cars is like saying Einstein was good with physics.
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