Tribute to Paul Walker vid from Escapade

[gwyn]

Both of the tribute vids at the Escapade vid show came in too late to be included on the con dvds, and I don't know if the vidder of the Lewis Collins tribute will put hers up online, but I have finally had the chance to put mine up on YouTube. I'll try to post a downloadable version at my web site soon.

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Working on this vid was really hard. I used to make fun of PW's acting back in my early days in The Fast and the Furious fandom, his surfer dude persona, but over the years I grew to really like him, as he'd really committed himself to his work as an actor and it showed -- a lot. But as much of an improvement as he showed, and as many different types of projects as he put himself into, it all paled in comparison to how much I admired him as a person with the role he took on as a dad, and the charitable work he performed. It just destroys me that someone who was trying to do good in the world is gone and so many awful, horrible people remain. And then there was his incandescent smile -- something I don't think anyone could help but fall under the spell of.

I miss you, Paul. You were one of the good guys.

Comments

[joatamon]

Incandescent smile is the best possible description, and this is such a lovely, moving and kind vid. I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes. I was nothing like a fanatical Paul Walker person, I didn't even know he had a child until he died, but I liked him plenty - he had such a likeable quality, even where another actor with the same looks and talents would be so easy to dislike - at least for me. I kind of rooted for him?

Anyway, thank you for making this, and for sharing.

[gwyn]

Thank you for the lovely comments. Yeah, I really came to appreciate those things about him, the things that seemed to kind of turn him from a guy to a man. It was a really hard vid to make in many respects.