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The whole point of the Fast and the Furious movies is car chases. Well, car chases, some steamy make-out scenes and Vin Diesel looking concerned/menacing/constipated in a sweaty T-shirt. But mostly, it's about car chases, and over the course of five films, the franchise has amassed quite a bit of footage of people shifting gears.
New viral video "All 5 of the Fast & Furious Movies – Just the Gear Shifting," posted to YouTube Sunday night, collects all of that gear-jamming action into a single, smokin' supercut. (There's a little bit of clutch-engaging in there, too.)
"I'm all about using a supercut to boil a movie down to its barest essence," said the clip's creator, Jeremy Scott, in an e-mail to Wired. "The goal is to find something fun and funny to watch and talk about, but also create a bite-sized way to view the original film's content."
To make his latest supercut, which pulls from all five Fast films (soon to be six!), Scott followed one main rule. Each shot had to show an obvious gear-shift moment – not a scene where characters look like they're shifting gears, but their hands aren't visible on the stick shift. Scott, who works as a digital marketing consultant in Nashville, Tennessee, said it took about 15 hours to cut all the films down to the bare-bones shifting seen in the supercut.
True to its name, Scott's thecussingchannel on YouTube gained web fame for his master cuts of all the curse words in films like Pulp Fiction and Glengarry Glen Ross. (Not surprisingly, Quentin Tarantino's film eclipses the David Mamet adaptation by about three minutes in the supercut swearing derby, and every Glengarry swear is uttered by Alec Baldwin.)
>"I guess I'm looking for that perfect balance between 'funny idea' and 'actually entertaining."
Scott's YouTube channel also showcases supercuts of just the transforming in Transformers, just the violence in Goodfellas, just the kicking in Kickboxer and a humorous edit of the times in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves when Kevin Costner's British accent is actually worth a damn.
"I guess I'm looking for that perfect balance between 'funny idea' and 'actually entertaining,'" Scott said.
Sometimes the supercut creator takes cues from his YouTube viewers. "One of my commenters on a previous video suggested I cut the original The Fast and The Furious down to just the gear-shifting.... I went one better and did all five films at once," he said.
Check out Scott's various supercuts in the video gallery above. Also, we'd like to take this moment to say that we agree with the YouTube commenter (gasp!) on the Fast and the Furious page who requested a quick edit of all the high-fives from How I Met Your Mother.
