Sometimes classic, sometimes electric
Electric motor or combustion engine? This systemic question, which divides the car world, was also reflected in some of the film appearances of cars this year.
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In the new “Matrix” film, a Mercedes-Benz G 550 helps the heroes escape from the Matrix.
Foto: Murray Close
Cars become in Hollywood blockbusters, TV Movies or streaming series for decades deliberately staged. The galso applies to several The productionthat hit theaters this year. As in real life, the electric car played an increasingly important role. But at the same time it became clear in the film world: The combustion car is far from being beaten.
Spider-Man flick started in mid-December «No Way Home» the Korean car company Hyundai has put an important novelty in the limelight. Since heroes and villains have chosen the ocean of houses in New York of all places for their final battle, the cars are also in the streets as part of the not inconsiderable collateral damagessen affected. In this case, it is not entirely by chance that Hyundais are one of them. Among other things, you can see Spider-Man jumping on the roof of a new Tucson. Spider-Man is allowed to drive purely electrically in a Hyundai commercial with a specific film reference. When he made his way from a wasteland to New York, some 500 kilometers away, his threads found no hold due to the lack of skyscrapers, and he has to walkss walk. As luck would have it, he was picked up by a driver in a Hyundai Ioniq 5. Advertising message of the commercial: The Stromer offers many amenities as well as many amenities for long journeysssand enough range. Clearly ambiguous motto aussvirtue: mal just briefly save the world.
“Extreme escapism”
Mercedes, like Hyundai successful on the e-wave, continues in the case of the dystopia that opened in cinemas around Christmas «The Matrix Resurrections» but on an old icon of a combustion engine. In the film, allies smooth the way out of the Matrix for the heroes Neo and Trinity with a G 550. A clear message here: with a G-model there is always a way out. In addition to the G-Class, however, differently colored pills primarily decide whether to stay in the matrix (blue) or leave it (red). For the film premiere on December 18th in San Francthat’s why isco existed «Extreme escapism», because in a transparent red and 12 meter long giant pill was a Mercedes-AMG G 63. A furious escape beacon.
Also with ample use of gasoline, Aston Martin cars helped escape villains this movie year. We are of course talking about the secret agent James Bond, who is in the latest strip «No time to die» moved in the field of tension between the history and the future of the traditional sports car brand Aston Martin. Always nice to look at and at the same time well-known is the now mandatory DB5 from the 1960s, which once again has to suffer a total write-off. AussIn addition, James Bond was driving an Aston Martin V8 from the 1970s, while his colleague Nomi was allowed to drive a modern DBS Superleggera. A symbolic scene. Additionally, Aston Martin’s near future made a cameo with the Valhalla hypercarwhile the electric Rapid E cannot be seen. Even with the many Jaguar and Land Rover models shown in the film, the focus was perhaps for the last time in a 007 flick on cars with internal combustion engines.
–For the premiere of the “Matrix” film “Resurrections” in San Francisco, Mercedes carted a 12-meter pill in a G-Class in front of the cinema.
Photo: Daimler
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–Hyundai is promoting the new Spider-Man movie with the Tucson.
Photo: Hyundai
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–In the latest James Bond flick “No Time to Die”, of course, Aston Martin cars were again the focus of the action.
Photo: Aston Martin
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Even if not intended for the cinemas, Netflix produced the film “Red Notice” with classic blockbuster effort. In a short and, according to some critics, also the best scene of the film, a purely electrically powered Porsche Taycan can be seen. When the protagonist John Hartley, played by Dwayne Johnson, wants to pursue his opponent, who is fleeing on a moped, he spontaneously sits down in the electric sports car and after only a few meters wedges himself in a VW T2 ice cream van. The opponent can escape at a snail’s pace with the two-stroke smoke plume. It is not known whether the scene was meant to be symbolic of the question of the “combustion versus electric drive” system. Fun fact on the side: The not exactly skinny Dwayne Johnson is said to have had problems spontaneously getting behind the steering wheel of the Taycan.
The two worlds of electric and combustion engine also met in the Marvel film «Shang-Chi» on each other. Despite the title addition «The Legend of the Ten Rings» however, there were no Audis to be seen. Rather, BMW sponsored the leading automobile roles with the iX3 and the luxury sports car M8 Competition. The latter is nice to look at. But as a true hero mobile, it even functioned anew in details especially for its film use designed electric SUV iX3.
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