This word, "family."
It gets thrown around a lot in movies nowadays. And it's come to mean something quite different for a cinematic universe vs., say, a stern ER admitting nurse.
Yeah, the Fast and the Furious franchise has squatted on "family" as a catchphrase for some years now. But that association was forged less through its characters' shared experiences and traditions, and more through endless word repetition.
"I don’t have friends, I got family" Dom Toretto tells us in 2015's Furious 7, putting it squarely on the nose. In that moment, Vin Diesel finally verbalized a mythology that the franchise had long been preaching, if not practicing all that well. Read more...
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