Death of Paul Walker

[JoePDiver]

Actor, and diver, Paul Walker died in a vehicle crash tonight. Details are well covered by all major media.
He made is all look so easy in "Into the Blue".
RIP brother..............

 

[Pixelator]

RIP

Prayers for Family and Friends.

 

[buddhasummer]

That's sad.

 

[pocky21]

Strangely ironic, given his other endeavor. The car forums are having a field day with this...

 

[Diver0001]

Turns out that real life and the movies aren't same thing after all....

What an awful way to die.

R..


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[drbill]

Must admit I was not aware of Paul prior to his death. Of course it is always sad when someone dies young. I doubt I'll view "Fast and Furious" but maybe I'll take a look at "Into the Blue"

 

[Diver0001]

maybe I'll take a look at "Into the Blue"

It's hard to notice any of the other actors in "into the Blue" because the whole movie is about Jessica Alba's body.

R..

 

[DandyDon]

It's hard to notice any of the other actors in "into the Blue" because the whole movie is about Jessica Alba's body.

R..

Paul was famous at the time for a couple of scuba scenes: one where he supposedly sipped air directly from a tank valve during an emergency rescue, another where he hammered a tank valve off turning the cylinder into a torpedo - both good for show anyway. From the flims Wikipedia article...

The special features section of the DVD chronicles how much of the film was filmed as live action shots in the sea off the Bahamas, with live, wild sharks. It shows film crews wearing chain mail as protection whilst the cast perform in the water unprotected. The filming was made possible by the development of shark tourism in the Bahamas. The sharks are used to being hand fed and will not generally attack humans but as a result will grab any item that "hits" the water as potential food. In an early scene Paul Walker has to grab two fins and a dive mask flung to him by Alba. During filming he missed the mask. It was never seen again after hitting the water and the DVD suggests that it was taken by a shark.

 

[Stoo]

Strangely ironic, given his other endeavor. The car forums are having a field day with this...

It is an awful way to go, but as the star of "Fast and Furious", he made a lot of money while inspiring a generation of idiot, reckless drivers... I suspect that there have been hundreds of young people killed in car crashes as a direct result of being "inspired" by that film.

I'd not saying it was his fault, but it does seem like karma truly is a bitch sometimes.

On the other hand, I do get a kick out of "Into the Blue". And yup, Jessica looks a bit of all right in it. It's a very close match to "The Deep" which first brought Jacqueline Bisset's "attributes" to the big screen...

All the same, a sad day...

 

[cb5150]

Not very familiar with this guy. Never saw Fast & Furious and I thought Jessica Alba was the only actor in Into The Blue.

From the looks of the car...what little there is left of it...I'd say he and the driver died instantly upon impact. Not so sure it was an "awful" death as others have surmised.