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Table of contents
Chapter 1
Motivation……………………………….……………..…………………………………… 3
Chapter 2
Movies
- The Fast and The Furious ………………..………………………….…………...…………….. 5
- 2 Fast 2 Furious ………………………………………………………..………….……….…… 6
- The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift ……………………..…………..……….……….……. 7
- Fast and Furious: Original Parts ……………………….…………………...………….………. 8
- Fast 5 …………………………………………………………………….…..…….…………… 9
- Fast and Furious 6 ………………………………………………….….……..……………….. 10
- Furious 7 …………….………………………………………………………………………… 11
Chapter 3
Characters
- Paul Walker……………………………………………………………..…………………..….. 12
- Jordana Brewster………..……………………………………………….……………………... 13
- Vin Diesel………….....……………………………………………………….……………...… 14
- Michelle Rodriguez ..……………………………………………………………………….….. 15
- Tyrese Gibson………..…………………………………………………….………………….... 16
- Chris “Ludacris” Bridges…………………………………………………………….………… 17
- Sung Kang……………………………………………………………………………………… 18
- Gal Gadot…………………………………………………………………………....…………. 19
- Dwayne Jonhson…………………………………………………………………...……….…. 20
- Elsa Pataky………………………………………………………………………………….….. 21
- Jason Statham……………………………………………………………………...…….…….. 22
Chapter 4
A Real Hero……………………………………………………………………...……...... 23
Bibliography/Webliography………………………………………........…………..……. 28
Chapter 1
MOTIVATION
I decide to write about Fast and Furious saga for two resons. The first reson is that I want pay a small tribute
to my idol and, the second one is because of the lessons and messages, which are transimitted by them
through their movies and through theirs work. They are the only one, of course after my parents, who taught
me what is the most important thing in life, the family.
Chapter 2 - Movies
The Fast and The Furious (2001)
Furious 7 (2015)
Chapter 3 - Characters
Paul Walker
Jordana Brewster
Jordana Brewster (born April 26, 1980) is an American actress and model. She began her acting career in
her late teens, with a 1995 episode of the soap opera All My Children. She followed that appearance with
the recurring role as Nikki Munson in As the World Turns, for which Brewster was nominated for
Outstanding Teen Performer at the 1997 Soap Opera Digest Award. She was later cast in her first feature
film, Robert Rodriguez's 1998 horror science fiction The Faculty. She also landed a starring role in a 1999
NBC television miniseries entitled The 60s.
Her breakthrough role came in the 2001 action film The Fast and the Furious as Mia Toretto and reprised the
role in its sequels, Fast & Furious, Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6, and Furious 7. Other film credits include the
2004 action comedy film D.E.B.S., the 2005 independent drama Nearing Grace and the 2006 horror film
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, for which she received two Teen Choice Award
nominations. She had a recurring role in the NBC television series Chuck. After guest roles in several
television shows such as Dark Blue and Gigantic, Brewster starred as Elena Ramos in the television series
Dallas between 2012 and 2014
Vin Diesel
Michelle Rodriguez
Tyrese Gibson
Sung Kang
Kang was born Gainesville, Georgia, to South Korean immigrants. His first major role was in Better Luck
Tomorrow, in which he played Han, an aloof gang member. He was one of the stars in The Motel, in which
he played Sam Kim. He became a recurring character in his role of Han in The Fast and the Furious film
series, appearing in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious, Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6 and
Fast & Furious 7. He also had a role in Jet Li's film War playing an FBI agent, and was featured as Doran, a
son of Genghis Khan, in the movie Forbidden Warrior. On MADtv, Sung has played the recurring role of
the narcissistic President Gin Kew Yun Chun Yew Nee in the Korean drama parody, "Tae Do (Attitudes and
Feelings, Both Desirable and Sometimes Secretive)." Kang also had a small role in the action movie Live
Free or Die Hard. In 2013, Kang appeared as Detective Taylor Kwon in Walter Hill's movie Bullet to the
Head (2013), opposite Sylvester Stallone.
Kang is featured in the music video "Lie" for the Korean band g.o.d.
He owned a restaurant called Saketini in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California which closed in early 2013.
Kang says that before he was cast as Han in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift he was unaware of the
drifting culture that existed in Japan. It was not until he began researching for the part that he perfected his
skills in this popular sport which is a global craze.
Gal Gadot
Dwayne Johnson
Elsa Pataky
Jason Statham
We bid a sad farewell to Paul Walker, and salute his contribution to the Fast & Furious
franchise, and his outstanding charity work...
In the 2003 sequel 2 Fast 2 Furious, a daredevil race through the streets of Miami ends with its petrol head
hero Brian O’Conner sliding his car sideways across the finish line, the supercharged Nissan skidding to a
halt mere inches from the cheering crowd.
That stunt was performed by actor Paul Walker himself, and the supercharged Nissan Skyline was his own.
It’s evidence not only of Walker’s skill as a driver, but also the amount of dedication he put into his role in
the Fast & Furious franchise, which began only two years before.
Born in Southern California in 1973, Walker’s career as an actor began when he was still a child, with TV
shows including Who’s The Boss? and Highway To Heaven marking his first screen appearances in the
1980s, before he landed a series of supporting roles in films such as Pleasantville and She’s All That in the
90s.
It was 2001‘s The Fast And The Furious, which paired him with the larger-than-life screen presence of Vin
Diesel, which broke Walker into the mainstream. Although widely regarded as a B-movie, inspired as it was
by a magazine article about illegal street racing, The Fast And The Furious proved to be a hit with
audiences.
The film introduced Walker’s character Brian, an LAPD undercover cop who infiltrates a street racing gang
led by Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto, only to become intoxicated by its culture of fast cars and pure shots of
racing adrenaline.
Despite his uncommonly good looks, Walker exuded an easy-going, everyman type of charisma, and it was
arguably this, paired with Diesel’s growling machismo, that made the first film the success it was.
Even without the presence of Diesel, the 2003 sequel 2 Fast 2 Furious was another hit, placing Walker’s cop
on the trail of a vicious drug runner in Miami. Introducing Tyrese Gibson as O’Conner’s new car-obsessed
partner, 2 Fast 2 Furious fixed in place many of the elements that would make the franchise a growing
phenomenon over the next decade: a boyish fascination with over-the-top stunts, implausible thriller plots,
and an underlying, knowing sense of humour.
The 2006 sequel The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift was the only series entry not to star Walker, and
was only moderately successful with audiences. But Tokyo Drift also introduced director Justin Lin to the
series, and he played a key role in its explosive return to form in the years that followed.
Fast & Furious, released in 2009, brought back Walker, Diesel and several other characters from the first
movie, and marked the start of a new era for the franchise. Better than any other director so far, Lin
understood what it was that made these films a hit with cinema-goers: beneath all the stunts and action, the
Fast franchise is about an unlikely family of outlaws, and how their friendship thrives in the face of danger.
It was this sense of friendship that again provided the focus in 2011‘s Fast Five, in which Diesel and
Walker’s family of outlaws, now older but not much wiser, attempted to pull off a daring bank heist in Rio
De Janeiro. The film’s studio, Universal, put aside the biggest budget yet for the fourth sequel, but the
investment proved to be a shrewd one. Buoyed by the introduction of Dwayne Johnson as the improbably
beefed-up cop on its heroes’ trail, Fast Five became the biggest hit in the series so far, making more than
$600m worldwide.
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This year’s Fast & Furious 6 was an even bigger hit, with its action-thrilled tour across Europe helping to
bring in an estimated $788m.
By this point, the Fast franchise had travelled far from its racing origins, with heist, gangsters and revenge
now taking centre stage in the stories. But still, that good-natured warmth remained, and Walker’s likeable,
generous presence was a huge part of that. Even when surrounded by a crowded ensemble of martial arts
stars, ex-models and former MMA fighters, as he was in Fast & Furious 6, Walker remained the laid-back
spark in the middle of it all.
Walker’s generosity also extended to his life away from the big screen, and it’s tragic that, when he died in a
a car accident on the 30th November 2013, he was raising money for his charity Reach Out Worldwide, a
disaster relief organisation he helped set up in 2010 following the earthquakes in Haiti.
At this stage, it’s too early to say how Walker’s untimely death will affect Fast & Furious 7, which is
currently in production and was originally scheduled for release in the summer of 2014, or the projected
sequels Universal had planned for the coming years. But without Walker, the franchise’s family is left with
an empty chasm at its core.
As that car-sliding stunt near the start of 2 Fast 2 Furious proved, Walker was the beating heart of a
franchise that was all about the love of adrenaline and facing danger with a broad smile.
The Fast franchise will likely continue, but Paul Walker will never be replaced!
The actor found fame in the Fast & Furious film series, which took modified car culture – still a niche
interest 15 years ago – and made it the subject of one of the most high-powered franchises in the history of
popular cinema.
He started out as a jobbing television actor, and had a handful of supporting roles in films such as She’s All
That and Pleasantville, but his break came in 2001 when, in the original The Fast and the Furious, he
climbed into the driver’s seat of a Mitsubishi Eclipse GTS.
Something clicked. Like Steve McQueen and Barry Newman, Walker simply looked good behind the wheel
of a fast car. From that moment, the role of the driver dominated his career: not only in the Fast & Furious
films, but also in B-movies like Joy Ride, which was released in Britain under the title Roadkill and Vehicle
19.
His work didn’t tend to excite critics, although the success of the Fast & Furious series is a woefully under-
analysed phenomenon. What’s more, Walker’s central position in it – only Vin Diesel has appeared in as
many instalments – played a vital part in making it an extraordinary hit.
With his blond hair and ice-blue eyes, his character, the undercover LAPD detective Brian O’Conner, was
introduced as an audience surrogate – a familiar face for white, middle-class teenagers intrigued by the
ethnically rich and threateningly urban street racing culture.
But as the franchise progressed, Walker simply became one of the gang, alongside Diesel, Jordana Brewster,
Michelle Rodriguez and latterly, Dwayne Johnson. Magazine-handsome, he was always happy to send up
his pretty-boy image: in the most recent film, Diesel’s character referred to him affectionately as “the most
beautiful blonde here”.
There is a ghoulish irony in the fact that Walker died in a car crash, as the passenger in a friend’s red
Porsche GT – and his death may well trigger another debate about the example films like Fast & Furious set
to their young audience, as if even its stars, let alone viewers, are unable to tell reality and fantasy apart.
Which is of course, nonsense: Fast & Furious may be a recent phenomenon, but when those lines by
Faulkner were published in 1948, with American car culture still in its infancy, the open road was already a
symbol of escape. Escapism was what Walker lived for, and it was his life’s work.
Paul Walker: friends and car fans pay tribute to Fast & Furious actor
Up to 5,000 people attend memorial for Paul Walker, the Fast & Furious actor who died in a car
crash
Picture 26 - Tribute
The sounds of high-performance car engines filled the air on Sunday as thousands of fans, friends and car
enthusiasts headed to the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita to pay tribute to Paul Walker at the site where
the “Fast & Furious” actor died in a car crash.
The memorial was scheduled to begin at noon, but mourners began arriving hours beforehand to leave
flowers, candles, stuffed animals and other tributes.
By afternoon, about 5,000 people, including entire families with children, dropped by, Los Angeles County
Sheriff's Capt Mike Parker said, adding that the gathering was mostly peaceful.
Many arrived in cars built for speed, and the sounds of engines revving echoed close to where Walker and
his friend died on Nov. 30. The event concluded Sunday evening with a cruise through the area 30 miles
northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
Walker, 40, was killed when the Porsche Carrera GT he was riding in smashed into a light pole and tree and
then burst into flames. The actor's friend and financial adviser, Roger Rodas, who was driving, also died.
Authorities say speed was a factor in the crash.
The two had bonded over a passion for fast cars. They co-owned an auto racing team named after Rodas'
custom car shop, Always Evolving, and Rodas, 38, drove professionally for the team on the Pirelli World
Challenge circuit this year.
Picture 27 - Tribute
A fan places a poster onto tributes during a memorial rally near the site where Paul Walker and Roger Rodas died
in Valencia, California
Picture 28 - A poster of actor Paul Walker lies on top of flowers and other mementos left by fans
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Paul Walker's Fast and Furious hits - US actor Paul Walker rose to fame playing
undercover agent Brian O'Conner in no less than five Fast & Furious movies
The first film of the franchise was released in 2001 and the seventh is currently in development.
The 40-year-old star of the films Paul Walker was killed as a passenger in a Porsche which hit a lamppost
and burst into flames in Los Angeles.
The big-budget film had been on a production break over the Thanksgiving weekend, on the Saturday of
which Walker died in a car crash.
He was due to return to the film set in Atlanta, with fellow cast members Vin Deisel and Dwayne Johnson,
the next day to resume shooting.
MTV Movie Awards: Vin Diesel sings tribute to Paul Walker - Vin Diesel pays tribute to his late Fast and
Furious co-star and friend Paul Walker at the MTV Movie Awards by singing See You Again.
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