Rewatchables Reference

• Bill and Shea both lean toward the favela rooftop chase – an incredible 4 minutes with a 420-foot cable camera rig, the first time Rock and Diesel lock eyes, and Elena falling for Dom.
• Other contenders: the prison bus escape, the train heist (cars jumping off a real train), the balcony BBQ/'What do you remember about your father?' monologue, the 'get the team together' montage, Dom vs. Hobbs fight, the bank vault chase, and the ending when they open the safe.
• Shea's pick: the 'get the team together' montage – loves a scene he can pull up on YouTube in under 2 minutes and get all the pieces he needs.

• The Rock as a free-agent acquisition – like Durant to the Warriors but the happy, fun version. Extended the franchise the way Kirstie Alley extended Cheers.
• Vince's dramatic return and the devastating 'How's your family now, Dom? Where's Letty?' line.
• Gal Gadot's slow-motion bikini walk at the beach club – 'put an entire generation of 13-year-olds through puberty.'
• Whoever thought of the bank vault dragging through the streets of Brazil.
• Dom's explanation for what he needs from his team – 'a chameleon, a fast talker, surveillance, guys to punch through walls, utilities and weapons, and two precision drivers.'

• Shea refused to pick anything – 'This is the first time in the history of the Rewatchables that I'm not picking a thing for what aged the worst.'
• Bill: Dom and Brian surviving the 350-foot waterfall, Dom being inexplicably wired into Rio's street racing scene, and Hobbs being the worst FBI agent of all time.
• The dramatic buildup of Diesel vs. The Rock has lost its luster since they're now in every movie together.

• Bill: Danny Trejo should have been in this movie.
• Shea: Michael K. Williams – replace the main bad guy's muscle with basically Omar.
• The role of Hobbs was originally developed for Tommy Lee Jones.

• The guy in the police department that Roman Pierce goes to talk to – you can tell he just learned how to be an actor and was going for an Oscar.
• Eva Mendes in the post-credits scene – plays two minutes and gets off like 3 threes and grabs 5 rebounds.
• Vince – only in 4 scenes but has the devastating Letty line and the 'Brian was a cop' callback.

• First trailer released on Diesel's Facebook page – first-ever use of this marketing approach.
• Filmed in Puerto Rico for $11M tax incentives instead of Brazil.
• 420-foot cable camera rig for the favela chase.
• Bank vault had a car inside it; 6 versions built, 200+ vehicles destroyed.
• Flatbed truck into train was real and nearly derailed it.
• Tyrese flying between 'Fast Five' and Transformers sets.
• Rock/Diesel brawl took weeks of rehearsal and a week of filming.
• Michelle Rodriguez didn't know about the Letty twist until the theater.
• Gal Gadot's character name (Giselle) is never mentioned in the film.

• Vin Diesel – yes. His best start-to-finish performance in a Fast movie, and the moment the franchise became a billion-dollar empire.
• Paul Walker – yes. This was the best version of the best franchise he was ever in.
• The Rock – no. His apex was mid-2010s (Central Intelligence, Moana, Fast 8 era) before Skyscraper and Rampage disappointed.
• Cocoa butter – a good movie for cocoa butter. The Rock has 10 pounds of it on his arms.

• Jordana Brewster is pregnant in the movie and has gained zero pounds.
• Nobody asks a single question when recruited to Brazil – no 'what clothes should I bring?', no 'how long are we staying?'
• The train heist physics are ludicrous – they should have died in the 350-foot water jump.
• How did they get Wi-Fi in a Brazilian warehouse?
• Dom's giant warehouse stays a complete secret despite cars zooming in and out and a fake bank vault being wheeled in.
• Rock and Dom have one of the most brutal fights ever and have zero bruises or cuts afterwards.
• Hobbs joining the heist makes zero sense – he just tells his boss 'my team got wiped out, I'll be back in two days after this bank heist.'
• How did they swap the safes in a 10-second window?
• Careful camera work to hide that The Rock is about 8 inches taller than Vin Diesel.

• What happened to the two Brazilian team members who went to Monaco? Did they win at roulette?
• Why not just rob the first drug stash house ($10M) and split 3 ways?
• What would have happened if the safe went over the bridge at the end?
• Why was there never a Han and Giselle spinoff movie?
• What's the boxing scorecard for the Dom/Hobbs fight? Shea says 10-8 Dom, Bill agrees.

Both agree: The Rock. He took this role and spun it into the career he has now – planted his flag and became that guy. The role showed Hollywood exactly who he should be in movies.