After humans, and possibly before dogs and horses, there is no more vital character for the screen, and more vital on the screen than the car.
Driven or without driver, the car is the most lively inanimate objects, sometimes literally a cartoon, with a voice, a personality, a name. Even when they don't speak, Ronrononalan, roar. They are stars in their own right: the Batmobile, Munster Koach, Aston Martin DB5 by James Bond, Kitt (the Modified 1982 Pontiac trans of “Knight Rider”), the Ford Grand Torino (nicknamed the scratched tomato) driven by Starsky and Hutch. They could represent freedom, power, crime or even the devil. Complete films have been built on them and the incredible things they can do, but even when they are not jumping, turning and colliding, they play an essential role to help the characters of flesh and blood to take care of business.
Perhaps in some kind of reaction to our enlightened vision of the effects of our forms that gain gas, two new series fetishizing the internal combustion engine arrive, Max's “duster”, now transmitting and “Motorheads” of Prime Video, which premiere on Tuesday.
Created by JJ Abrams and Latoya Morgan and named for the red cherry Plymouth supernaturally, the hero drives, “Duster” is funny funny, a comic melodrama full of exploitation movies of the 1970s, with a lot of loving clothing for period clothes, Knickknacks and interior design. The driver is Jim Ellis, played by Josh Holloway, in what is read as a turn in Sawyer, his lovely and criminal character of Abrams, surpassed with a photo of Matthew McConaughey.
Jim, a man who has never bothered to make a three -point turn, works in Phoenix for the head of the crime of the Southwest, Ezra Saxton (Keith David, monumental as always), collecting this, delivering that. The first installment we see turns out to be a human heart, collected from a fast input window, destined for Saxton's sick son, Royce (Benjamin Charles Watson). Throughout the trip is Little Luna (Adriana Aluna Martinez), who calls Jim “Uncle”, although you are free to speculate; His mother, Izzy (Camille Guaty), is a great rigita truck, for the transport of trucks, being another fun characteristic of the pop culture of the 70s, which will find a cause to become a Labor leader.
Keith David left, like Ezra Saxton and Benjamin Charles Watson as her son, Royce.
(Ursula Coyote / Max)
The Ellises and the Saxtons, who also include daughter Genesis (Sydney Elisabeth), have history: Jim's father, Wade (Corbin Bernson), served with Ezra in World War II, and his late brother lamented had also worked for him. Saxton is the bad type with which somehow sympathizes despite the violence he uses; There is a genuine affection among families, although one is never sure when or where a line is drawn, only that will probably be.
In the low but relatively established world of Jim, even Happy World, comes FBI Nina Hayes (Rachel Hilson, Sparky), just out of quantic and ambitious to leave a brand. As a black woman, they have told him: “No one cries for an agent like you”, but has been assigned to Phoenix “because we have no other options.” He associated there with the cheerful Awan Avojo (Asivak Koostachin), as to corner minorities in a manageable corner, and assigned the case of Saxton, considered as “damn” and so intractable that it is not worth touching.
That is, the agents considered that it is not worth taking seriously, together with the underestimated “Girl friday” Jessica (Sofia Vassilieva), has been thrown a case considered that it is not worth taking seriously. This is a classic premise for a procedure and attacks some notes on racism and sexism in treatment, not out of tune with the times in which it is established, or in the times in which we are seeing.
Nina, who has managed to gather evidence that Jim crossed the state lines to deliver the heart, which was stolen, and that Saxton could have been responsible for the death of her brother, the stalkers and tempted to become a confidential informant. Thus an uncomfortable association begins, although their stories are largely executed on separate clues in separate scenes.
“Lost” was not a program that bothered a lot with the meaning to achieve its effects, and “Duster”, although it implies a great scope conspiracy whose payments reproduce as the end of a story of furry dogs, it is a show of effects, of pieces and sequences, of persecutions of cars and confrontations, of notions and left field characters. These include Patrick Warburton as a gangster obsessed with Elvis called sunglasses; Donal Logue as a corrupt, perverse and evangelical policeman; Gail O'Gray as Jim's stepmother, a former showgirl who doesn't like it very much; LSD experiments; absurd puzzles (also see: “lost”); An Air head version by Adrienne Barbeau (Mikaela Hoover), with Real Barbeau, a gender movies, making an appearance; Richard Nixon (in a few creepy seconds of AI); A strangely cheerful Howard Hughes (Tom Nelis) in his Kleenex-Box shoes; and a “Roadrunner” pastiche. Although it does not lack genuine feelings, it is better experienced as a collection of attitudes and energies, noises and colors. Do not take it more seriously than it is taken.
Opening titles are super great.
Zac (Michael Cimino), left, Caitlyn (Melissa Collazo) and Marcel (Nicolas Cantu) in “Motoheads” of Prime Video.
(Keri Anderson / Prime Video)
“Motorheads” is a family type of modern teenage soap opera but with cars. For reasons known only by the creator of the John A. Norris series, the entire city is obsessed with them, and together with their human stories, the series is an automotive entertainment tour: resistance races, street races, Atv races, Karts races, classic cars collection. I have no idea if this will resonate with the target population group, but there is much that I cannot tell you about the children these days.
As is common to the form, our young protagonists, Michael Cimino, such as Zac and Melissa Collaz Cristiano (Diacon Phillpe in flashbacks. It is a local infamend, admired by his ability behind the steering wheel; Christian's aerial images are made through a police cordon of the police while the driver of the getaway in a robbery continues to reach the program, although if you live in Los Angeles, you see this kind of thing in the news all the time. Uncle of the children Logan, who directs a garage that apparently does not do business, but has love and wisdom of plenty.
Although in the center of the series, Zac's story is a bit of a store, not only his desire to be, almost from nowhere, the Ironwood maximum speed corridor, but his interest in the textbook in Rich Girl Alicia (Mia Healey), Rich Boy Boy Harris's girlfriend (Josh Macqueen), a large number of Porsche who is also going around, therefore, feels free to be free to be a free Your guy. More interesting is sister Caitlyn, who prefers to build cars to compete and is perhaps the most balanced character in the series.
She becomes a friend of the classmate Curtis (Uriah Shelton), tall and attractive, whose criminally inclined brother, Ray (Drake Rodger), will become a kind of dark mentor for Zac. With the incorporation of Marcel (Nicolas Cantu), the archetypal “Geek who becomes the best friend of the hero”, who works in the restaurant that his father (afflicted, drunk) used to be possessed and dreams of designing cars, the four constitute the external band of the show of good boys.
They will have their business not always happy among them, being teenagers, you know, things happen, and with their elders, as their elders will do it with each other. The past has not passed in Ironwood; The old feelings will resurface and the old plots fall apart. (And nobody knows what happened to Christian). Except the rocked cars at the top, it is something old, not very deep, but produced with an attractive naturalism that rounds the narrative extremes, improves what is common and makes the “motorheads” easy to see. (Colin Hault is the sensitive director of photography, it is worth mentioning).
Drive.
