On November 30th, 2013, the world lost a great actor in a tragic fiery crash. Paul Walker and his former professional racer friend crashed their Porsche in what may be the most ironic death in years. In spite of the irony, we must look back on the life Paul Walker led and how it affected us all.
Way back when, I saw Varsity Blues and The Fast and Furious and frankly, I wasn't impressed. Paul Walker was just another actor that you couldn't pick out of a police line up. However, much like Justin Timberlake and Leo, I've come to appreciate him more and more. The Fast and Furious series, heading into its 7th movie next year, is a fantastic franchise. I could not pick a better movie to watch on a hungover Saturday morning. These movies are not only great flicks of cars and heists, but they are reasons for us all to drop the cynical and jaded movie critic perspective. Sure, sometimes its fun to shoot down a new movie like a Pitchfork critic does to any mainstream album. But the act gets old after so long that we need movies like The Fast and Furious to simply entertain us. And at the heart of them all was Paul Walker, leader of a ragtag band of impossibly talented car drivers, capable of taking down entire police departments and ex-Special Forces villains.
Let us all remember Paul Walker for being a cool guy, apparently a humanitarian, and most importantly, the main character in The Fast and the Furious. Once an undercover FBI agent, he gave it all up for some car racing friends and started something even Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson couldn't stop. Also, Paul Walker was the name of my boss fantasy football team that won me a championship, so he's got that going too.
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