10月 08 2008
英语阅读 Rally driver Guy Wilks on Death Race
动作片《死亡赛车》(Death Race)正在英国公映，电影中的男主角，一位汽车拉力赛车手不得不参加一场”死亡赛车”游戏。2007年英国汽车拉力赛冠军 Guy Wilks 从职业角度评述这部电影的可信性。
Another view
Rally driver Guy Wilks on Death Race
Interview by Paul Arendt
Wednesday October 8 2008
Funnily enough, I’m not really into car movies. When I come home after a week’s rallying, I don’t even want to talk about driving – it’s my day job, and sometimes you’ve got to chill. So I found Death Race a bit lacklustre. It starts out well, with a mysterious murder, but as soon as the racing begins the film turns into a sadistic, live-action version of Mario Kart.
Jason Statham plays a wrongly convicted racing driver who has to earn his freedom by taking part in a televised, anything-goes road race. The driving was, surprisingly, quite realistic. Almost everything they did with the cars was plausible. They were bashing into each other and grinding against barriers, but the physics behind those crashes looked pretty accurate.
There were one or two occasions when the film-makers overstepped the mark. For instance, reversing your car in mid-race to drive backwards and shoot at another driver with your bonnet-mounted machine guns . . . that probably wouldn’t work very well. It’s not actually impossible, but you would have trouble keeping up your speed in reverse gear. The amount of armour and bulletproof glass bolted on to those cars would slow them down a lot anyway, and there is no way they were put together in a prison auto shop. That’s highly skilled engineering.
How would I do in Death Race? I’d like to think I’d win – I certainly wouldn’t want to die. If I was ever forced into that situation, my competitive spirit would make me fight tooth and nail, even to the death. I’d have to create a different driving style, though. The trouble with Death Race is that when you get out in front, you just become a sitting duck for the guy behind you with a giant machine gun.
• Guy Wilks is the 2007 British Rally champion. Death Race is on general release.
