Gran Turismo – A Surprisingly Emotional Ride

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Video game movies and series’ get a bad rap. Something about transporting the small screen and controller to the big screen can get very lost in translation.

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Luckily, Gran Turismo, though it very clearly is a great big advertisement for an insanely popular game

A REAL-LIFE CONTEST Gran Turismo is a story about GT Academy, a competition run by Nissan and Sony, pitting Gran Turismo sim racers against each other to compete to become a real-life racer.

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Of course, the film had to take some chances and make some changes. We follow Jann Mardenborough (Archie Madekwe), a hardcore Gran Turismo player whose family does not take his love for sim racing seriously.

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Part of the story has also been drastically changed, which happens in adaptations. For instance, Jann Mardenborough was actually not the first GT Academy winner.

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BUT WHERE’S THE GAME? Something I did not expect was to see a video game weaved into the film so seamlessly. Of course, the game is Gran Turismo, and we see it played, talked about, and constantly promoted (not a terrible advertisement, that’s for sure).

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THE ACTORS HIT THE MARK, MOSTLY Archie Madekwe was relatively unknown to me before Gran Turismo, but he has several credits, the biggest of which is in Apple TV’s SEE with Jason Momoa.

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His flippant comments towards his disapproving father (Djimon Hounsou) were meant to be disconnected. His distance from his mother was because he felt like a disappointment.

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Gran Turismo – A Surprisingly Emotional Ride

Video game movies and series’ get a bad rap. Something about transporting the small screen and controller to the big screen can get very lost in translation.

Luckily, Gran Turismo, though it very clearly is a great big advertisement for an insanely popular game

A REAL-LIFE CONTEST Gran Turismo is a story about GT Academy, a competition run by Nissan and Sony, pitting Gran Turismo sim racers against each other to compete to become a real-life racer.

Of course, the film had to take some chances and make some changes. We follow Jann Mardenborough (Archie Madekwe), a hardcore Gran Turismo player whose family does not take his love for sim racing seriously.

Part of the story has also been drastically changed, which happens in adaptations. For instance, Jann Mardenborough was actually not the first GT Academy winner.

BUT WHERE’S THE GAME? Something I did not expect was to see a video game weaved into the film so seamlessly. Of course, the game is Gran Turismo, and we see it played, talked about, and constantly promoted (not a terrible advertisement, that’s for sure).

THE ACTORS HIT THE MARK, MOSTLY Archie Madekwe was relatively unknown to me before Gran Turismo, but he has several credits, the biggest of which is in Apple TV’s SEE with Jason Momoa.

His flippant comments towards his disapproving father (Djimon Hounsou) were meant to be disconnected. His distance from his mother was because he felt like a disappointment.

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