To these Brian O’Conner apostles, it’s not enough to simply re-watch Paul Walker, Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez slam the NOS buttons on their souped-up street racers. You see, Dubreuil is part of a nostalgia-fueled group of fans who spend their time and gobs of cash building replicas of the cars that star in the films some even go so far as to track down the exact vehicles used in the movies. How impactful? Let’s just say he’s spent so much money on his Fast & Furious obsession that he’s “stopped counting.” “I knew it would be impactful for me,” he tells InsideHook. We just passed the 20th anniversary of the original, but even two decades ago Dubreuil had a feeling the movie would change his life. The trailer was for The Fast and the Furious, the surprise street-racing hit from 2001 that launched one of the most lucrative blockbuster franchises in history, with the ninth installment debuting in the U.S. He remembers it looked like “an indie movie with cars” and that it was soundtracked by Limp Bizkit, and he remembers the anticipation afterwards being so great that when the movie finally came out he took the bus to see it by himself because he didn’t have a driver’s license yet. It’s not Steven Soderbergh’s direction or Benicio Del Toro’s Oscar-winning performance that imprinted on his memory rather, it was a trailer that played while people were still taking their seats. Dominic Dubreuil is 36 years old now, but he still remembers seeing the movie Traffic in theaters when he was a teenager.
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