No one else nowadays seems to know how to use a xylophone like him. \"Vroom And Board\" uses classic 60\'s TV cartoon light strings and xylophone. Giacchino mines the entire late 60\'s for other pastiches. It’s killer stuff.Īnd that\'s just the tip of it. He\'ll dance around the fragments in a montage like \"32 Hours\" playing the three-note in opposition to the four-note which then contrasts with the Royalton theme. In \"Milk\" especially, he takes the rising three-note pattern of \"Here He Comes\" and uses it for a rousing brass repetition that goes higher and higher until the entire orchestra takes up the \"Go Speed Racer Go\" section with a full choir.
Meanwhile the Four-note \"Mach-a-Go-Go\" is then weaved through the action scenes (\"Thunderhead\", \"Caso Cristo\"). The full eight note fanfare becomes the main theme which he then emphasizes lovingly in \"Racing\'s In Our Blood\", in a rousing fashion (\"Go, Speed, Go\") or triumphantly (\"Let Us Drink Milk\"). To use an elaborate metaphor, Giacchino takes the theme apart like a custom built car and uses every part, organically rearranging the little pieces as various leitmotifs throughout the movie. Of course he uses the famous Nobuyoshi Koshibe theme. He switches styles and references constantly, but it is always sincere. Michael Giacchino guides it along masterfully. Likewise, the movie may quickly switch tone from family drama to broad comedy to action and back again. One of the bolder moves of Speed Racer is to tell the story in overlapping timelines, so that a sequence can be cutting between 2 or 3 events or periods, flashing forwards or backwards in a whiplash speed. It is a pitch perfect update of the opening/closing TV credits that intercuts the loop \"Go Speed Racer!\" next to the original Japanese \"Mach a-Go-Go!\" If there\'s any question of how much they love the source, listen to the closing credits track (\"Speed Racer\").
The Wachowski Brothers do nothing half way in this visually insane adaptation of the late 60\'s Japanese cartoon. Any movie that does that gets my vote though I have to admit they had me at monkey. He plays the role as if he was dubbed from Danger: Diabolik. For me it boils down the voice of the movie\'s main villain, Royalton ( Roger Allam). People are lining up on opposite sides of the fence on this movie, loving or hating it with a unique amount of passion.
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