Speed Racer Page #4
...one might expect that company
to do very weII for itseIf.
You know what I want.
I know for the Iast few years...
...you've been trying to buy out
your main rivaI, Tetsua Togokahn.
The question is, can we make a deaI?
DeIiver Togokahn at that price
and the transponder foundry is yours.
Done.
-Speed!
-Mr. RoyaIton.
WeIcome!
Come here. Look at this.
Oh.
Wow.
That's what I thought. We're stiII working
on the R and R, but it's getting there.
Come, sit. We can taIk Iogos Iater.
Can I get you something to drink?
Water? BubbIy? A shot of rye?
No. I'm okay.
So I can see you've been giving
some serious thought to this thing.
-I have. Yes, sir.
-Good.
Means you understand we're taIking
about not just your future...
...but your famiIy's future.
I know. I can teII.
That's why this is so important,
because you can heIp them.
AII you have to say is yes.
That's aII I need to hear...
...and I can make so many things happen
for you and your famiIy.
You ready for that?
You ready to say yes, Speed?
[SPRITLE WHIMPERING]
Jackpot.
Oh, boy, oh, boy.
This isn't an easy decision for me,
Mr. RoyaIton.
For my famiIy, racing's everything.
I was tooIing timing pins with Pops
whiIe I was stiII wearing diapers.
I mean, there's nothing more perfect
than a picnic at Thunderhead.
But when my brother died,
aII that went away.
I can't teII you how painfuI that was.
EspeciaIIy Pops.
He didn't set foot in his shop
for over a year.
But one night, when I was stiII
pretty young, I couIdn't sIeep...
...and I went into the Iiving room,
and there was Pops in his beat-up robe...
...watching some oId race recordings.
[ANNOUNCERS SPEAKING
INDISTINCTLY ON TV]
So I sat with him there...
...watching oId Ben Burns coming around
the Iast turn of the 43 Prix and...
...aII of a sudden,
Pops started screaming.
Go!
SPEED:
And then I started screaming.
As Burns and StickIeton
headed for the finish...
...we were cheering our heads off.
And the second the bIack-and-white
came down...
...we Iooked at each other
and we reaIized...
...racing's in our bIood.
But for Pops...
...it isn't just a sport.
It's way more important than that.
It's Iike a reIigion.
And in our house, the major sponsors...
...are kind of Iike the deviI.
I don't mean to offend you, sir,
and I do appreciate your offer...
...but after aII we've been through...
...I don't think this kind of deaI's for me.
[CHUCKLING]
You poor, naive chump.
I'II pretend I didn't hear
that sickening schmaItz...
...and I'II give you an education.
At the end, if you're smart...
...you'II thank me
and then you'II sign that contract.
[VEHICLE APPRO ACHING]
Huh?
Huh?
[SPRITLE GASPS]
Jig's up.
HoIy moIy.
Hey. This is Marvin,
down at the Ianding pad.
I think we got mice again.
MAN [O VER RADIO] : All right. We'll send
someone over to take care of it. Over.
Look. There is the true spirit
of the goIden age of racing.
Benjamin Braddack, ReginaId White, George
WheeIer, Diamond Dave Tewksbury...
...and OIiver Potter.
The five most powerfuI men in the worId
at the turn of the Iast century.
For aII intents and purposes, they created
the modern automotive industry.
But the true stroke of their genius
was the invention of the WRL...
...the world's first racing league.
Interesting that you and your father
were so moved by the 43 Prix.
One of the great finishes
in the history of racing, right?
Everyone remembers Burns and StickIeton
sIugging it out.
But who remembers CarI Potts?
Driving this rebuiIt Wittigan
for Iodyne Industries...
...Potts spun out in the second Iap
and went down as a DNF...
...a forgettable and pathetic finish.
So bad that afterwards,
Iodyne stock dropped six points.
But as Ben Burns sat guzzIing
coId, fresh miIk in Victory Lane...
...a thousand cameras
taking his picture...
...Sirrus Aeronautics saw
aImost a 1 2-point gain...
...which bIocked PenninsuIa Power CeII...
...from being abIe to afford
the price of a takeover.
This put JoeI GoIdman, the CEO of Iodyne,
Inc. in the exact position he wanted to be in.
By first buying controIIing interest
in his own company at a devaIued price...
...he then brokered a merger with Sirrus that
sent Iodyne into the gains record book...
...the onIy record book that matters.
Look out that window. There isn't
a singIe pIane or heIicopter or K-Harrier...
...that isn't powered by Iodyne fueI ceIIs.
That's what racing is about.
It has nothing to do with cars or drivers.
AII that matters is power
and the unassaiIabIe might of money.
Whoo!
Dude! Yeah!
Oh, no! Woo-hoo!
Get out of the way! Out of the way!
Get out of the way!
[IMITATES ELECTRIC GUITAR]
[PEOPLE YELLING]
You understand?
Burns knew he was going to win.
It was aIready decided.
A week before the Prix,
GoIdman and Sirrus...
...met with other major pIayers
at the CargyIe HoteI.
They met there as they had for years.
They met to negotiate
the finish order of the Grand Prix.
No race is more important
and no race is more controIIed.
GoIdman was supposed to win,
but he knew if he soId his win...
...whatever that win might be worth was
nothing compared to what couId be gained.
That's why I spent $3 miIIion
on this burnt and twisted Iump of metaI.
Because it reminds me
of what reaIIy matters.
This is the true heart of racing, boy.
This is my reIigion.
You don't know how often
I've seen that same cow-eyed...
...''say it isn't so'' Iook of disbeIief.
Every bumpkin who comes in from
the sticks Iooks exactIy as you do now.
I won't bother proving it to you.
You waIk away from me and this deaI,
you'II know how true it is soon enough.
So Iast chance. You ready to
put away your toys and grow up?
Are you ready to make more money in
one year than your father made in his Iife?
Are you ready to become a reaI
racecar driver? Then sign that contract!
[CHIM CHIM GIBBERING]
Spearhook.
What's this?
If that's your idea of racing,
you can keep it.
[GRUNTS]
Listen to me and Iisten good...
...because I'm gonna give you
one more history Iesson.
You're gonna go to Fuji and try and prove
everything I toId you is nothing but a Iie.
But no matter how weII you drive,
you won't win, you won't pIace.
you won't even finish the race.
Speed Racer's making his move,
gunning for the Iead.
Ha!
The Harbinger of Boom
...a traiI of carnage and chaos
cartwheeIing behind him!
-Oh, but the fans Iove it, don't they?
-They do, God heIp them.
They're about to get more
as Iodyne is now sIugging it out...
Whoo!
[YELLS]
ANNOUNCER 1 :
Oh, terrible crash!
They'll have to fish
Taejo and Billy Ray out of the drink.
ANNOUNCER 2:
But this race is far from over.
ANNOUNCER 1 :
Right now, one carstands between Speed Racer and the lead:
-The Grey Ghost.
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