so long letty
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' so long letty' on screen; charlotte greenwood is largely responsible for lively picture .
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what about the talkie debut of charlotte greenwood. so long letty is the title and 1929 the year. hilarious !
' so long letty' on screen; charlotte greenwood is largely responsible for lively picture. - the new york times
so long letty doesn’t fall into those traps. the script is snappy, and the actors all seem dedicated to making the viewer laugh. with charlotte greenwood at the helm as rowdy party girl letty, the film is a real riot .
running at only an hour and fifteen minutes, so long letty is certainly worthy what little time it demands from the viewer for watch. this film is a barrel of fun. the score: 4. 5 / 5
so long letty is a fast - talking talkie. the dialogue zips along to give the film a speed - of - light pace and is full of witty quips, including the declarations of “i’m so hot my husband can’t buy fire insurance! ” and “you don’t want a wife, you want a sanitarium! ”
29. vulture estimates that the runway in the film had to be 28. 829 miles long in order to accommodate the whole scene. (the longest real - life runway is 7. 5 miles long. )
so, is there a chance han isn' t dead after all? they' ve already done it with letty so why not han? we' re hoping for a han / sean team - up in tokyo in 9 .
the team is getting a bbq together, and hobbs arrives with elena stating that they all are free. letty thanks elena for everything, saying she is an amazing woman. elena tells letty that dom is an amazing man, and tells letty to keep him out of trouble to which letty laughs and tells her that that will never happen. dom approaches letty after they leave and asks if anything feels familiar. letty tells him, no but that it feels like home. the two are last seen with letty sitting on his lap as roman says grace at the lunch table .
lloyd bacon directs 1929’s so long letty, a warner bros. marital musical - comedy. the script was adapted by robert lord and arthur caesar, from a play by oliver morosco (which was based on a book by elmer harris). the story had previously been told on the screen in a 1920 silent film .
for dom and letty fans, the biggest surprise of furious 7 didn’t have anything to do with the film’s various stunts. actually, it didn’t even have to do with the fact that letty finally got her memory back. instead, it had to do with what letty ended up remembering .
okay so i watched f7 and it shows dom and letty getting married, how come we did not see them get married in any of the movies. 2015 - 05 - 12t20: 49: 21z
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20. the characters letty and brian don’t actually speak to each other until fast & furious 6 .
long story short, they clearly tied the knot in the dominican republic before the fourth film, which means you should probably watch los bandoleros —if you haven’t already—to fully understand where all those flashbacks came from and what exactly it means for letty to have her memory back .
“uh, not if i have any say so in it! ” michelle rodriguez roared to news corp australia .
shaw, angry, tells letty to get on top of the tank and remove the cable before the car anchors them. she obeys, and is seen by dominic who begins to drive faster, knowing that letty will be killed once the car flips off the bridge. this is also known by shaw who was using letty to get to dom. when the car flips and hits the bridge support, the tank flips and sends letty soaring through the air. dom speeds up and crashes his car into the railing of the bridge and catches letty midair, they both crash into a car windshield, dom looking at letty, relieved she is uninjured .
however, the scene goes on for about 13 minutes, so just how long can one runway be at such fast speeds? the plane lands (which would be around 140mph), and then picks up enough speed to take off again, all on the same runway .
she laughed, remembering letty’s iconic knockout. “dude, i hit him for real by mistake. i did the same thing to paul calderon in girlfight —i dislocated his jaw! it was so fucked up. they trained me how to hit people, but they didn’t untrain me when it came time to do stunts. so funny. ”
yes, yes it is. but any reminder of paul walker is a welcome one, so we’ll take it .
so yes, cue fast and furious 6 in 2013. former british sas major turned criminal owen shaw is running amok, assembling parts for some weapons and hobbs needs dom to help him. letty being alive is of course the motivator which sees the entire crew, la familia, coming back for another pay check. long story short, letty has amnesia, sides with dom near the end, mia is rescued and shaw is dead. oh, and giselle dies, leaving han to travel to tokyo, japan .
letty (rodriguez) ain’t about to fit a baby seat in the back of her hot rod. picture: universal pictures
hobbs approaches dominic with the news that letty is alive and asks him for his and his team' s help in bringing down the international criminal letty is working for: owen shaw. dom agrees, only after brian secures them full pardons for their assistance, though dom had little interest in shaw, which is shown during a chase scene in which he allows shaw to escape in order to chase down letty. after finally chasing her down dom gets out of his car to speak to letty. however, letty shoots dom before getting back in her car and taking off appearing to not recognize who he is .
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10. rodriguez almost quit the first film because her character, letty ortiz, was supposed to cheat on dom with brian .
raised a jehovah’s witness, the religion didn’t stick, but the mindset did. “having that suppressive mentality in your family for so long, you think about really serious life things really young, ” she said. “you think about the world and whether it’s owned by the devil or by god, you think about politics, you think about the planet. you think globally; you think universally. so i felt a big responsibility coming into the game. ”
after f & f bosses wanted to bring back han for the fourth movie after his death in tokyo drift, they didn' t bother doing the whole
amnesia
trick back then. instead, they just made a load of prequels so that han could be part of dom' s team for as long as possible .
after that, jesse is killed, letty and vince almost die, so i think it' s understood that leon had had enough of that situation. the heat had become too risky and he didn' t want anything more to do with the gang .
now in its eighth instalment, here’s our film - by - film guide to everything you need to know about the series so far .
when letty was a teenager, she and mia were caught up in an escape attempt somewhere in boyle heights. when they got trapped in a corner, letty drove her car, a ford torino cobra, through a retaining wall. [ 3 ] [ note 4 ]
michelle rodriguez did not know letty was actually alive until the end of fast five when she saw the movie in theaters. [ 5 ]
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so what happened to him? well, actor johnny strong has his own theory. speaking to entertainment weekly, he noted how mia tells brian that leon
just showed up one night and never left
, so it' s easy to assume he quit in the same manner .
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like the rest of the world, aussies raced to see the fate of the furious over the easter long weekend, revving up box office taking to $ 14. 92 million in its first six days of release .
best action sequence: the entire 20 minute finale, with dom’s gang taking down shaw’s plane on the longest runway ever seen in the history of cinema – approximately 27. 86 miles long, as estimated by aeronautics engineer gary spoors .
rodriguez had signed on to universal’s the fast and the furious despite having major beef with the arc intended for her character, streetwise racer letty ortiz. the formulaic screenplay called for a love triangle between letty, dominic toretto (diesel), and brian o’conner (walker). rodriguez was nearly ready to walk .
• johnson was cast after diesel asked his fans on facebook for story ideas on facebook. one suggested writing a villain role for the rock, so they did .
though the production used movie magic, some suspension of disbelief, and multiple passes over three weeks to shoot the final plane sequence, the runway as is in the final movie would allegedly be 28. 829 miles long if calculated out correctly .
so, now that we’ve all seen it, and figured out why dom went rogue, we’re betting everyone has a few burning (rubber) questions they need answered .
the team then prepares to save mia, and letty tells them that she is going with them. they all ride out, and brian, dom and letty all get on the plane that shaw is attempting to escape in. letty then has another physical altercation with riley, she is on the losing end until hobbs tosses her a weapon, which she then uses to kill riley and shoot her out of the plane. she and hobbs escape, but dom stays behind to secure the chip .
letty (michelle rodriguez) and dom begin fate honeymooning in havana — but by the end of the movie, their familial situation looks rather different. picture: universal pictures
• asked by the studio to make a cameo appearance following badly - received test screenings, vin diesel only did so in order to gain the rights to the riddick franchise .
if you need a quick refresher, cipher finds dom in cuba on his honeymoon with letty (michelle rodriguez) where she coerces him to betray his beloved family in order to save a son he didn’t know he had. turns out elena (elsa pataky) got pregnant sometime between fast five and furious 6, but she realized it just as dom learned letty was still alive, so she kept the news to herself with a plan to tell him after he got back from his honeymoon. and so we meet the little chubby - cheeked toretto without a name, which is a super soapy narrative move, but also one of the only justifications that would sell dom’s turn against his family .
letty and dominic' s wedding, i think, was something they thought up specifically around the time they were writing the story... 2015 - 05 - 13t01: 10: 19z
tommy hopes to secure an inheritance from uncle claude, but he knows letty won’t impress the man, even before he’s heard of their encounter at the hotel. he falls into a scheme of wife exchange: his neighbor grace (patsy ruth miller) pretends to be married to him, and grace’s husband harry (grant withers) pretends to be married to letty until uncle claude leaves .
letty robbins (charlotte greenwood) is a loud and energetic woman who works as a solicitor for a beauty parlor. she’s married to tommy (bert roach), a far less exuberant man .
letty was presumably born and raised in the same neighborhood as the toretto family. she lived down the street from them. letty took an interest in cars when she was ten years old. dominic, a fellow car enthusiastic like his father ,
always had her attention
. however, when she became sixteen, dominic became romantically interested in her. [ note 3 ] [ 2 ]
letty is introduced as dom' s girlfriend and they have been friends since childhood. although, letty expresses some concern about dominic' s carjacking scheme she participates in every robbery. she is seen at race wars where she races and beats a fellow racer. in the end, during a botched highway robbery, she rolls her car and is injured but is saved by leon and survives .
we' ll let off brian for knowing how to handle himself in a gunfight or actual fight, as he was a cop and later an fbi agent. but what about dom and letty ?
it was very cool to bring [ motherhood ] to the series once i was a mom myself. i actually played a mom before becoming a mom and i kind of got it, but not really. then, the minute i had julian i really understood. when i shot the scene with jack and he’s in the car and there’s this massive explosion, everything became so much more visceral, the stakes became so much higher, so it’s really fun to bring that element to the series. now, she’s a mom of two because in furious 7 mia told brian she’s pregnant with a little girl .
however, letty is not killed by the explosion. gisele yashar, an employee of braga, brings the wounded and amnesiac letty to the hospital. she was found two days later in the hospital, by owen shaw who had went there to kill her. however when he determined that she had no memory of her previous life, he decided she would be a good member on his team .
so, before heading back for seconds, hit the brakes as we hunt down the answers to some of the fate of the furious’ most nagging queries, direct from the horse (power) ’s mouth .
after the first film, undercover cop brian (paul walker) betrayed his fellow boys in blue by allowing dom (vin diesel) to escape. in doing so, he became something of a fugitive himself .
pilot ian hollingworth told the bbc that the cars were travelling at an average speed of 120mph, making that two miles per minute. even if some of the action sequences were happening at the same time, the runway would be around 18 - 20 miles long. that' s nearly a whole marathon right there .
so, yeah, was dom a little guilty for doing that? he let deckard shaw into his family for doing a lot worse. ok, fenix almost killed brian too, but still. justice for fenix !
“to me, it’s the equivalent of run dmc doing their first track with aerosmith, ” rodriguez exclaimed while reclining inside a luxury trailer parked at dodger stadium. “that’s how i feel we did in hollywood! didn’t expect to make a splash, didn’t think we’d be around for long— booyakasha! we ain’t going nowhere. ”
the crazy stunts. the ripe dialogue. the huge box office. the comraderie. as fast & furious 8 comes roaring down the road, here' s our film - by - film guide to the franchise so far
• this was the most expensive film in the series so far. the train heist sequence alone cost $ 25 million to make, and involved buying a stretch of railway in mexico and an actual train to blow up .
the fate of the furious is the first film in a new trilogy. it is known. franchise star vin diesel and long - time writer chris morgan have been trotting out that exact verbiage in interviews over the last few weeks, making it clear that the events of fate will pay off in the ninth and tenth films. so now that we’ve all had a chance to see the movie (at least judging by those box office returns), let’s take a look at the end of fate and what it sets up for the furious films to come .
best action sequence (s): there are so many to choose from here, but the heist chase which sees dom and brian drag a huge bank vault along the streets of rio is as joyful as it is nonsensical .
dom actually bests hobbs (johnson) in a fight in fast five, letty beats ufc champion ronda rousey in 7, and they both know how to handle all the guns in the world by 8. dom is so hard, that cipher decides he' s the only man in the world that can handle stealing a nuclear football from the russians in broad daylight, jack bauer - style. there must be something in the los angeles water .
letty tells him she needs some air and goes out. she is found by dom and a race. the two race, and letty, intrigued by dominic, tells him to follow her. they meet up, and dom tells her that he knows
everything
about her. he begins explaining the scars she has on her and how she got them. he also gives her the famous cross necklace. she grows emotional and leaves .
mirren: one of the strong themes in the fast and the furious [ movies ] has always been family, that family is important. i think that’s one of the reasons they’re popular films, because that is the one element that everybody all over the world can identify with simply, easily, and directly, so it’s great to see this other level being brought in with the different generations of the family, the fact that family actually goes on through many generations over long periods of time. i thought that that was a nice thing to introduce into the storyline .
so where in that timeline did they get married? based on some of those flashbacks—and the timing of it all—it would have to have been during los bandoleros. in other words, they got married between the first and fourth films .
uncle claude comes to the ardmore beach hotel to see tommy and his wife. at the hotel, with his two granddaughters ruth and sally, uncle claude meets a wise talking employee named letty... see full summary »
another quip, uttered by letty, speaking of tommy: “he’s not very much to look at, judge, but he does lend atmosphere in the home! he lends more sphere than atmos, but i like him. ”
“i just don’t do that; i’m not that girl, you know what i mean? they’ll probably have to kill letty. again, ” she laughed. “they’d have to kill her again cos she’s no nanny. sorry …
fun fact: the setting of fast five is foreshadowed in the beginning of fast & furious when letty tells dom, “i hear rio is good this time of year, ” while the pair ponder where to escape to next .
loftin rigged the truck with a dead clutch so the 18 - wheeler could drive without anyone behind the wheel. spielberg filmed the crash with seven cameras from multiple angles to be able to use some editing tricks to stretch out the scene .
letty was also a capable fighter. she easily punched a security guard to the floor when they tried to stop dominic from attacking tran and also overwlemed several security guards at a party. she also held her own against trained fighter kara; they were so evenly matched that their fight ended in a draw when they crashed over a balcony and smashed through a table, both too dazed to keep fighting. she did struggle against riley during their fight in the subway, letty being overwelmed, barely preventing the women from handcuffing her to a pole and narrowly escaped an arm lock imposed on her. she did manage to tackle her down a flight of steps though, recovering fast enough to escape as riley was disorientated .
but as each movie has gone on they, along with the likes of roman (tyrese gibson), tej (ludacris) and han, have become so adept at fist fights and weapons training that they might as well be james bond .
nathalie emmanuel: the thing i like about ramsey is that she’s an extremely talented hacker and she’s very intelligent and a problem solver. there’s a stigma about women in [ technological ] types of industries or in those types of jobs and i think that it’s really cool that ramsey is so good at what she does. in a way, that character breaks certain stereotypes and also how you might perceive somebody who is into that kind of thing might look or how they might dress or how they might be as a person. i think that she is a normal girl who just so happens to be quite skilled at computers, hacking, coding, and all of that fun stuff. i think that’s a really cool thing that she represents within the franchise, and i also like that she’s sort of independent of this family that’s been established for so long. she’s come in purely on her own merit and her own specific skillset and it’s useful to this group and what they do. as much as she’s become a part of the group, she’s come in independently and i quite enjoy that .
elsa pataky: it’s beautiful and really sad because i’m a mom too and it’s so difficult to see that story, how it started and how it ends. i think any mom in the world would sacrifice her life for the life of her son. it’s such a big love, and it’s so intense, all the scenes that she has with dom. she’s a police officer, so knows the power of this woman that charlize plays, how dangerous the situation is. she’s suffering and thinking about that helped me a lot with the scene because it breaks my heart. she knew something would happen to [ their son ] if [ dom ] wouldn’t do whatever [ cipher ] wanted. that’s what she focused on — just save our son .
letty, dominic and his new crew hijack a truck in the dominican republic narrowly escaping. after dom leaves her she goes to fbi agent brian o - connor to clear dom' s name in order for him to return home. brian consequently puts letty undercover with arturo braga as a driver running drugs over the us - mexico border. however, after the job is complete she realizes that the leader of the team, fenix calderon, intends to murder the drivers: she escapes in her car .
in furious 7, when letty regains her memory, we get a flash of the couple’s wedding day, and we see how they wrapped the necklace around their hands when they said their vows. suddenly, it all makes sense. well, most of it .
director f. gary gray has said the movie’s opening sequence — in which dom and letty’s cuban honeymoon is interrupted by a drag race through the streets of havana — wouldn’t have happened without former president barack obama “softening the relations” between the us and its southern neighbour .
after the reveal, some fans are probably left wondering when dom and letty tied the knot. considering the twisted timeline of the fast and furious series, any confusion is certainly understandable. so here’s how the movies break down chronologically, in terms of story: the fast and the furious, 2 fast 2 furious, los bandoleros (vin diesel’s short film), fast & furious, fast five, fast & furious 6, the fast and the furious: tokyo drift, and then furious 7 (or rather, furious seven) .
with filmmaker edgar wright, spielberg explained, “ [ producer ] george eckstein told me after the network saw it, ‘well, we’re going back to the desert, they want to push the truck off the cliff again and blow it up again.' i told george why that was such a terrible idea. i’d worked so hard to give the truck a long and painful death and i thought that’s what the audience wanted out of the resolution. i said, ‘if the network does force you to blow the truck up again, you get another director to do it because i’m not going to do it.' george fought for me, and for himself because he agreed with me. ”
“he was a real fucking dude with a big - ass heart. like, fuck talking about doing shit for people, i’m going to go out there and start a charity. hands first. i love that boy so much. we weren’t thinking about anything else, man. ”
the movie debuted on november 13, 1971 as abc’s movie of the week, and proved to be so successful that spielberg was given the opportunity to shoot additional footage (the school bus scene and the railroad crossing scene) to be able to release it in theaters at feature length .
director rob cohen modeled the film’s third act chases through the los angeles hills on similar san francisco - set scenes in the 1968 car - chase classic bullitt, starring steve mcqueen. cohen loved the movie so much that he cast actor paul walker because he thought he resembled bullitt ’s lead actor .
leticia
letty
ortiz is the wife of dominic toretto, sister in - law to mia toretto, and the stepmother of brian marcos. a protagonist in the fast and the furious franchise, letty ortiz is the childhood sweetheart of dominic toretto, turned street racer, mechanic and thief. when she volunteered to go undercover to expose arturo braga for the fbi, she was nearly killed and suffered from temporary amnesia as a result. she was later reunited with her family when luke hobbs of the diplomatic security service recruited the likes of dominic toretto and his crew to stop owen shaw .
• after the opening sequence, han says he’s planning to go to tokyo – a reference to his fiery destiny as revealed in tokyo drift. he doesn’t go yet, and keeps promising to go to tokyo for the next two instalments. he finally does so at the end of fast & furious 6 .
after all, nothing is sadder than a film franchise that should have ended several installments ago. just ask “die hard, ” “lethal weapon, ” “the expendables, ” or even “indiana jones. ” it would be so sad to see an arthritic dom slide behind the wheel of the latest muscle car .
letty became involved in street racing in her teens. when she was fifteen years old, she participated in a street race against dominic which resulted in both of their cars crashing. she managed to pull dominic from the wreck of his car, almost losing her arm in the process. [ 3 ]
ah, the classic
damn, we shouldn' t have killed that character off
problem. after vin and the guys realised they wanted michelle rodriguez back in the team after letty died in fast & furious, they had to come up with a way of bringing her back from the dead .
against the odds and studio convention, 2001’s the fast and the furious went on to spawn six more supercharged sequels, making stars of its actors. and long before paul walker’s tragic death in 2013, that cast had become a family both onscreen and off, attracting a loyal and emotionally invested fan following around a hollywood anomaly: the multicultural blockbuster film franchise. now more than ever, rodriguez feels the responsibility of repping the streets from inside the party .
mia: letty grew up just down the street. she was into cars since she was like ten years old. dom always had her attention. then she turned sixteen... brian: and she had dom' s attention. mia: yeah, it' s funny how that works out .
naturally a success like this needed a sequel. so what if vin diesel wasn’t available? 2 fast 2 furious arrived in 2003 and introduced roman pearce (played by tyrese gibson). tej (aka ludacris) is also in the film along with eva mendes. really, those are the most important plot points right there .
for years now, fans have watched dom risk his life to hold onto letty’s cross necklace. but why? just because it reminds him of her? well, now we know: it’s because they’re married, and have been for some time! as for the necklace, we learned that it’s their version of wedding rings .
end credit sequence: han’s death from tokyo drift is caused by jason statham’s character, deckard shaw, the brother of luke evans' furious 6 villain, owen shaw (who previously mentioned his brother in the scene where he confronts dom after his street race with letty), which leads directly into the plot of furious 7 .
the performances from the entire cast are great, particularly the central foursome of letty, grace, tom, and harry. at times very exaggerated, the performances work because they suit the film’s outrageous mood. and though exaggerated, the performances are still very natural in the sense that the characters seem real and the dialogue isn’t stiffly delivered .
now, if you still haven’t watched los bandoleros, it’s the short film that vin diesel wrote and directed in order to explain what dom had been up to after leaving brian—and the country—in the first film. in it, dom and letty reunite in the dominican republic, which is where we find them at the start of fast & furious .
so ahead of the debut of furious 7, take a look back at all the fun facts surrounding the making of the movie, including who originally wanted out of the first film, the actor who asked for a role in the franchise after it became a big hit, and the easter egg that connects the worlds of fast & furious and herbie .
the harrowing sequence was originally supposed to be the ending of fast five, and got so far into the production process of that movie that is was storyboarded and pre - visualized before being scrapped for budgetary reasons. the leftover storyboards and pre - viz were simply grafted on to furious 6 and updated to account for new characters and the new movie’s plot .
the premise has high potential for hilarity and it fully lives up to that potential, which has been pretty rare in my viewing of comedies from any era. so often films in this genre seem promising, only to fall flat due to bad casting or a poor script. (still, when done right, it is one of my favorite genres. )
the logistics of the vault heist were so difficult that, like the train sequence, the scene was almost scrapped entirely. to portray a large vault being dragged by diesel and walker’s characters on - screen, six separate vaults were built to accommodate certain shots that were needed, including a full - size vault and a lightweight vault that could be easily towed .
dear universal, vin diesel, & family, a plea. after eight films and $ 4. 4 billion and counting, it’s time for the “fast and the furious” series to eye the exit ramp. i’m not saying you have to send dom toretto into the great garage in the sky without giving him and letty and hobbs and the [ … ]
it was also the first time in eight years that diesel, walker, and jordana brewster had appeared on - screen together as their characters since the first film. though michelle rodriguez returned as letty ortiz, diesel is the only original cast member she shares screen time with, because her character (allegedly) dies off - screen after the opening sequence .
luke hobbs is sitting at his desk at the dss offices when u. s. customs agent, monica fuentes, presents him with a file on a heist committed in berlin. attached to the file is a photograph of letty [ note 5 ] suggesting that not only is she alive but she is involved in large - scale criminal activity. [ 4 ]
when dominic discovers vince has associated himself with hernan reyes after attempting to steal the device in the gt40. dominic accuses vince of betrayal, but vince defends his character, and makes a point to say that dominic' s failure to listen to him about brian o' conner resulted in the loss of their home, family and the death of letty. [ 4 ]
who could have ever thought that the fast and the furious, a 2001 film about illegal street racing and michelle rodriguez’s lack of facial expressions, would grow into such a mega success? this is a series that has gone from being need for speed: underground the movie to kill bill but with cars and now involves charlize theron with a submarine in wintery landscapes. how in the world did we get this far? more importantly, what various plot twists should you be aware before watching the fate of the furious, the eighth film in the long - running saga ?
however, she is chased by calderon who manages to flip her car leaving her injured in the wreckage. as calderon approaches intending to shoot her, he instead shoots and blows up the car after letty crawled out of it. the explosion throws her into the underbrush, and calderon leaves her for dead. brian was left to assume that she had died as did dominic and mia .
in order to have the real actors behind the wheel of cars going upwards of 80 to 100 miles per hour, a special rig was built by second unit director and stunt coordinator mic rodgers that the filmmakers dubbed the “mic rig. ” it consisted of a high - powered truck with a long chassis in the back on which the bodies of the custom cars in the movie could be interchanged. a stunt driver drove the high - speed truck while the actors were behind the wheel of the dummy car in back, which made it look like they were really driving at dangerous speeds .
the film also has some visual interest. some of letty’s costumes have really odd details to them — an asymmetrical hat, a jacket adorned by an enormous bow that’s half her size. (see the video below for a look at that outfit .) in the beauty parlor scenes, though they are few, the old hair / makeup / spa contraptions are fun to see as well .
“they’re not going to bring your mum in unless there’s something down the line. there’s so much opportunity for what we can understand about where the shaw family is really from, what they’re really capable of... i don’t want to spoil what they’ve got coming, but they’ve got some really good stuff coming. that would include helen and, obviously... i’m not gonna say anything! ”
so, how come everyone in tokyo drift is using flip phones and other gadgets that are nearly 10 years old? the last time we checked, tokyo is pretty ahead of the curve with this kind of stuff. plus, how come sean (lucas black) has aged about 9 years in between scenes after dom shows up? there' s some weird timey - wimey voodoo at work here, clearly .
rodriguez sat out the second and third films, she says, after diesel opted out. but when the studio and filmmakers floated the idea of bringing the gang back together as the franchise was rebirthed under director justin lin, letty ortiz gave fans two of their biggest surprises—a shocking offscreen demise in 2009’s fast & furious, and a cathartic return from the dead in the closing moments of 2011’s fast five .
chronologically, the film segues into the fast and the furious from 2009. letty is dead (like, totes, for real), having worked with a drug dealer named braga and paid with her life. dom is determined to find her killer and brian is somehow working for the fbi (and falling for dom’s sister mia) again. in the midst of all this, a convoluted plan is cooked up to have dom and brian serve as braga’s drivers. lo and behold, however, letty was working undercover with brian. following some unnecessary twists and turns, braga is finally apprehended. though brian tries to gain clemency for dom, the latter is sentenced to jail for 25 years. psych! brian and mia in fact free dom because this franchise just has to keep going. next stop: rio !
so, a little retconning was needed by the time fast & furious 6 rolled around. it turns out she was alive all this time! not only is this a silly plot twist (if this happened in real life it would have at least made the news), but she just magically got back her memories for no apparent reason at the end of furious 7. why? don' t worry about it .
after the lobotomy rage hit american shores, dr. walter freeman took to traveling the country in his
lobotomobile
 (no, really), performing the technique on everyone from catatonic schizophrenics to disaffected housewives. his road - ready procedure involved inserting a small ice pick into the brain through the eye socket and wiggling it around a bit. while some doctors thought he' d found a way to save hopeless cases from the horrors of life - long institutionalization, others noted that freeman didn' t bother with sterile techniques, had no surgical training whatsoever, and tended to be a bit imprecise when describing his patients' recovery .
originally the tank sequence was supposed to take place in the streets of london, and the production planned to re - create 12 city blocks on a soundstage to shoot what they needed (london city officials wouldn’t grant the production access to city roads because the olympics were happening at the same time they shot the movie, so most of the street scenes were shot in glasgow, scotland as a stand - in for the uk capital) .
tommy’s uncle claude (claude gillingwater), a millionaire, comes to town for a visit. he and his granddaughters, flapper girls ruth (marion byron) and sally (helen foster), are staying at the posh beach hotel where letty’s salon is. not knowing who claude or the girls are, she tries to sell them salon services. claude takes an instant dislike to her, not realizing she’s married to tommy .
when she arrives back to shaw' s lair, he questions her to see if she remembers dom at all, to which she says she doesn' t. later, she meets up with dom' s team again, when going to investigate a phone call made by the man who made special vehicles for them. a shoot out ensues, in which her team mate, ivory, is killed by gisele. letty tries to escape through the subways, but is followed by riley. the two fight each other, and letty tackles riley down the stairs, and finally escapes on a subway train. she heads back to shaw, and tells him that ivory was killed, but his lack of caring frustrates her. shaw then comes to her and tells her that he has a soft spot for her because she is a blank page who remembers nothing .
shaw is captured, and they all go back to the military base. when the guy in charge attempts to arrest letty too for working with shaw, dom steps forward and says ,
she' s always been one of us
. brian then goes up to her to apologize, feeling that everything is his fault, to which she tells him that no one makes her do something she doesn' t want to do .
“the reason dom went to jail in the original film is he did some violence against someone who hurt his family. deckard’s story is not too far away from that. the reason he comes after our guys (in f7) is because he has a similar code — he looks after family. so... that felt like you might be able to turn him, in a way that you could start understanding what his motivations were. ”
“i was really worried that it would be a cover - up, that it wouldn’t be a legacy, that it would be a machine thing—‘what’s next, what’s next? ’” said rodriguez. “man, [ universal ] surprised me with their respect. they were human. they had heart. and they really gave a shit. everybody involved, down to catering. they all put so much heart into it and i’m proud. i think he would be. ”
the coma - therapy trend began in 1927. viennese physician manfred sakel accidentally gave one of his diabetic patients an insulin overdose, and it sent her into a coma. but what could have been a major medical faux pas turned into a triumph. the woman, a drug addict, woke up and declared her morphine craving gone. later, sakel (who really isn' t earning our trust here) made the same mistake with another patient—who also woke up claiming to be cured. before long, sakel was intentionally testing the therapy with other patients and reporting a 90 percent recovery rate, particularly among schizophrenics. strangely, however, sakel' s treatment successes remain a mystery .
like her husband dominic, letty is an extremely skilled race car driver. she was able to outrace a contestant at a race with relative ease and was recruited to be a part of braga' s drug cartel, which required driving prowess to cross the border at high speed. she was even a match for dominic, narrowly losing to him in their one on one race in london, despite having held the lead for the majority of the race .
now the fast and the furious: tokyo drift, released in 2006, comes into play. it’s mostly about some brat who can’t drift learning to do so thanks to han’s teachings. han is assassinated in the film, a race is had and the brat rules tokyo or something. in the end of fast and furious 6 however, we learn that it was deckard shaw, owen shaw’s brother played by “are they seriously trying to make this cast manlier” jason statham .
those women include michelle rodriguez (letty), jordana brewster (mia), nathalie emmanuel (ramsey), elsa pataky (elena), nathalie kelley (neela), and helen mirren (magdalene), who spoke with ew about their characters, how those roles evolved over the years, the state of women in action films today, why representation in the genre matters, and how the fast films (and hollywood) can improve on that representation .
somehow, dom was able to make contact with magdalene (who presumably just happened to be in new york at the time), despite being under the watchful eye of cipher and her goons. he was then able to somehow give her the god' s eye device so that she and deckard could find where owen was being locked up. and they were able to come up with the whole plan in the five - minute window dom had before cipher knew something was up .
“it’s been 14 years since i’ve been the lead in a movie, since i’ve carried a movie on my own, ” she said. “i’ve just been so shocked by life in the last two years. i’m going to open up. i’ve kind of made myself a carcass of safety and i’ve protected myself against playing the ‘girlfriend’ or ‘the girl who gets raped and then gets empowered, ’ ‘the girl who gets empowered and then dies’… they’re always taking the power away from the women. ”
after the shocking reveal that dom’s a dad, the even - more - shocking disposal of dom’s baby mamma elena by that heartless villain cipher (boo, hiss, charlize theron !), and the more - ridiculous - than - shocking rescue of the baby by that ex - villain deckard shaw (hoorah, the stath !), the fate of the furious ends up all happy families with dom introducing the new kid to his girl letty and the rest of the fast family .
the verdict: with a title that falls firmly under so - bad - it' s - good, it' s disappointing that the rest of the film doesn' t follow suit. 2 fast is paper - thin and full of highly questionable racial and gender stereotypes, and the while the original film is hardly shakespeare, we could forgive the film its flaws if the race sequences were any good. they’re not, though – they’re overly cartoony, and it’s almost impossible to tell what’s going on .
the movie was shot primarily on location in tokyo, which doesn’t grant filming permits. so for many shots, including the ones of lead actor lucas black wandering around highly populated areas like shibuya crossing, the director and a minimal crew just shot black amongst real pedestrians until the police shut the production down. to make sure lin wouldn’t get into trouble or thrown in jail and have the production halted, he had the production manager trick the police by telling them that he was the director and not lin.
so long letty is a 1920 silent american comedy film directed by al christie , and starring grace darmond , t. roy barnes , and colleen moore . so long letty was an adaptation of a 1916 popular stage comedy musical of the same name that starred charlotte greenwood . 
so long letty is a 1920 silent american comedy film directed by al christie, and starring grace darmond, t. roy barnes, and colleen moore. so long letty was an adaptation of a 1916 popular stage comedy musical of the same name that starred charlotte greenwood.
so long letty is a 1920 silent american comedy film directed by al christie, and starring grace darmond, t. roy barnes, and colleen moore. so long letty was an adaptation of a 1916 popular stage comedy musical of the same name that starred charlotte greenwood.