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Cars
Cars is a 2006 American computer-animated comedy-adventure sports film produced by Pixar Animation Studios, and directed and co-written by John Lasseter and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is Pixar’s final, independently-produced motion picture before its purchase by Disney. Set in a world populated entirely by cars and other vehicles, The film is also the second Pixar film—after A Bug’s Life—to have an entirely non-human cast.
Theme Tune
Real Gone – Sheryl Crow
I’m American made but I like Chevrolet
My momma taught me wrong from right.
I was born in the South
Sometimes I have a big mouth
When I see something that I don’t like
I gotta say it.
Well, we’ve been driving this road for a mighty long time
Paying no mind to the signs
Well, this neighborhood’s changed
It’s all been rearranged
We left that team somewhere behind.
Slow down, you’re gonna crash,
Baby you’re a-screaming it’s a blast, blast, blast
Look out babe, you’ve got your blinders on
Everybody’s looking for a way to get real gone
Real gone.
Real gone.
But there’s a new cat in town
He’s got high-faded friends
Thinks he’s gonna change history
You think you know him so well
Yeah you think he’s so swell
But he’s just perpetuatin’ prophecy
Slow down, you’re gonna…
Cast
Owen Wilson … Lightning McQueen (voice)
Paul Newman … Doc Hudson (voice)
Bonnie Hunt … Sally Carrera (voice)
Larry the Cable Guy … Mater (voice)
Cheech Marin … Ramone (voice)
Tony Shalhoub … Luigi (voice)
Guido Quaroni … Guido (voice)
Jenifer Lewis … Flo (voice)
Paul Dooley … Sarge (voice)
Michael Wallis … Sheriff (voice)
George Carlin … Fillmore (voice)
Katherine Helmond … Lizzie (voice)
Trivia
Luigi’s license plate reads 445-108, which is the latitude and longitude for the main Ferrari factory in Modena, Italy.
Trivia
Nickname Stickers (by Sally Carrera), Buddy (by Mater)
Species Stock car
Gender Male
Occupation Piston Cup Racer (in Cars and in Cars 3), World Grand Prix racer (in Cars 2), Mater’s best friend and Cruz Ramirez’s crew chief (in Cars 3)
Significant other Sally Carrera
Nationality United States American
Full name Montgomery McQueen
While Pixar was wrapping up production on A Bug’s Life in the Fall of 1998, story development artist Jorgen Klubien began writing a story for a brand-new animated feature.The original script (called The Yellow Car, about an electric car living in a gas-guzzling world), some of the original drawings and characters were produced in 1998 and the producers agreed that Cars could be the next movie after A Bug’s Life and would be released in early 1999, particularly around June 4.However, the movie was eventually scrapped in favor of Toy Story 2.Later, production resumed with major script changes, like giving Mater, Doc, and a few other characters a bigger part.
Cars takes place in a world populated by anthropomorphic transportation. The film begins with the last race of the Piston Cup championship, which ends in a three-way tie between retiring veteran Strip ‘The King’ Weathers, infamous runner-up Chick Hicks, and rookie Lightning McQueen. The tiebreaker race is scheduled for one week later at the fictional Los Angeles International Speedway in California.
Trivia
When McQueen is locked in the Radiator Springs city impound, his left front wheel is locked by a yellow tire-lock. However, Mater tows McQueen from the back instead of the front; the front tire is locked and cannot rotate on the ground.
In its opening weekend, Cars earned $60,119,509 in 3,985 theaters in the United States, ranking number one at the box office. In the United States, the film held onto the number one spot for two weeks before being surpassed by Click and then by Superman Returns the following weekend.
Quote
[first lines]
Lightning McQueen: Okay, here we go. Focus. Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast. Breakfast? Maybe I should have had breakfast? Brekkie could be good for me. No, no, no, focus. Speed. Faster than fast, quicker than quick. I am Lightning.
Sally: Forty years ago, that interstate down there didn’t exist.
Lightning McQueen: Really?
Sally: Yeah. Back then, cars came across the country a whole different way.
Lightning McQueen: How do you mean?
Sally: Well, the road didn’t cut through the land like that interstate. It moved with the land, it rose, it fell, it curved. Cars didn’t drive on it to make great time. They drove on it to have a great time.
Quote
Lightning McQueen: I’m a very famous race car!
Luigi: You are famous race car? A real race car?
Lightning McQueen: Yes, I’m a real race car, what do you think? Look at me.
Luigi: I have followed racing my entire life, my whole life!
Lightning McQueen: Then you know who I am. I am Lightning McQueen.
Luigi: Lightning McQueen!
Lightning McQueen: Yes! Yes!
Luigi: I must scream it to the world, my excitement from the top of someplace very high. Do you know many Ferraris?
Lightning McQueen: No, no, no, they race on the European circuit; I’m in the Piston cup.
[Luigi and Guido frown at McQueen]
Lightning McQueen: What?
Luigi: Luigi follow only the Ferraris.
Info
| Cinematography |
Jeremy Lasky Jean Claude Kalache |
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| Edited by | Ken Schretzmann |
| Music by | Randy Newman |
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Production
companies |
Walt Disney Pictures Pixar Animation Studios |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures Distribution |
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Release date
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May 26, 2006 (Lowe’s Motor Speedway) June 9, 2006 (United States) |
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Running time
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117 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $120 million |
| Box office | $462 million |
Trivia
Even with a farm of computers that ran four times faster than the ones used for The Incredibles (2004), and 1,000 times faster than the ones used for Toy Story (1995), each frame of this movie took an average of 17 processor hours to render.
QUIZ 1
Who Plays the Voice of Harv. Lightning McQueen’s Agent ?
A. Adam Ferrara
B. Nigel Mansell
C. Burt Reynolds
D. Jeremy Clarkson
Press for Answer
D. Jeremy Clarkson
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QUIZ 2
The Character “Lightening” McQueen in the movie “CARS” is named after who ?
A. Steve McQueen
B. Owen Wilson
C. Glen McQueen
D. Paul Newman
Press for Answer
C. Glen McQueen
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QUIZ 1
Who Plays the Voice of Harv. Lightning McQueen’s Agent ?
A. Adam Ferrara
B. Nigel Mansell
C. Burt Reynolds
D. Jeremy Clarkson
Adam Ferrara is an American actor and comedian who played the role of Chief Needles Nelson on the critically acclaimed FX series Rescue Me is also a co-host on the U.S version of Top Gear.
Nigel Mansell, CBE (born 8 August 1953) is a retired British racing driver who won both the Formula One World Championship (1992) and the CART Indy Car World Series.
Burt Reynolds, Jr. (February 11, 1936) is an American actor, director and voice artist. Some of his notable roles include Bo ‘Bandit’ Darville in Smokey and the Bandit.
Jeremy Clarkson was born on April 11, 1960 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England as Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson. He is a writer and producer, known for Top Gear (2002), Top Gear (1978) and Clarkson (1998).
Cars (2006)
Harv: Where are you? I can’t even find you on my GPS.
Lightning McQueen: I’m in this little town called Radiator Springs. You know Route 66? It’s still here!
Harv: Yeah, that’s great, kid. Playtime is over, pal.
Harv: It is such an honor to be your agent that it almost hurts me to take ten percent of your winnings. And merchandising. And ancillary rights in perpetuity. Anyway, what a race, huh, champ? Uh, didn’t see it, but I heard you were great.
Lightning McQueen: Harv! How you doin’, buddy?
Harv: My star client disappears off the face of the earth! How do you think I’m doing?
Lightning McQueen: Harv,I can explain.
Harv: I’m doing great! You’re everywhere! TV, radio, the papers. You can’t BUY this kind of publicity! What do you need me for? That’s just a figure of speech, by the way. You signed a contract.
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QUIZ 2
The Character “Lightening” McQueen in the movie “CARS” is named after who ?
A. Steve McQueen
B. Owen Wilson
C. Glen McQueen
D. Paul Newman
Old-time movie fans might think that Lightning McQueen was named after actor Steve McQueen. It would make sense, as McQueen was an on-screen costar of Paul Newman’s (who of course provided the voice of Doc Hudson), and he was also an avid race car enthusiast. However, Lightning was actually named after Pixar animator Glenn McQueen who sadly passed away in 2002.
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- A. Steve McQueen
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- B. Owen Wilson
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- C. Glen McQueen
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- D. Paul Newman
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