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My research involved two of my favorite things: movies and cars. Coming up with what I wanted to research was easy. The difficult part was figuring out how to how to create a research question that not only related those two things together, but also was actually researchable. Finding secondary research proved more difficult than I had anticipated. I started by looking back at when movies and cars started being made and it turns out, they were pretty close to each other. I also found out that the 1950’s was the best decade for cars. They had started to become really popular in America. During this time, cars actually influenced American pop culture, not the other way around, as my research question stated. To get more at what I was initially trying to find out, I knew I had to focus more on my primary research. I first thought about the Fast and Furious movies, as they are my favorite and obviously have some cars in them. I am part of a group on Facebook called “Chicagoland Petrolheads and Car Spotters” where people post pictures of cars the see around Chicago as well as talk about cars in general. Once in a while someone spots a certain car that everyone goes crazy over. Those cars are mainly the Nissan Skyline R34 and Toyota Supra. I couldn’t figure out why those cars were so popular. The Skyline I kind of understood because they are unavailable to buy in the US and technically illegal to import from Japan, but I didn’t understand the Supra. I thought about it for a while and remembered that Paul Walker’s character, Brian O’Connor, drives both of those cars in the Fast and Furious movies, the Skyline almost exclusively. The movies had to be part of the reason for the popularity of those cars and I based my survey questions off of this. I posted the survey


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