Who Won the Movie?
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- It is tough: one host would say Vin Diesel but could be talked into Paul Walker, who is beautiful in this movie, with Letty a close third; the argument lands on Brian over Dom because when part two was made only one of the two was in it, and it was not Dom.
- The other host's case for Vin Diesel: Paul Walker was already a known quantity, basically a blonde Keanu Reeves bound for Keanu Reeves parts, devastatingly handsome, loved as Lance Harbor in Varsity Blues and the reason one couple saw The Skulls in the theater; Vin Diesel, never seen in Pitch Black, owned the screen in every scene in what was really his first signature movie.
- By the end you know that guy is a star; Knock Around Guys, from friends Koppelman and Levine, with its 500 speech, confirmed Vin Diesel would be around for twenty years; the closing thought is that if the measure is who was most overpowering in every scene, it is Dom, electric from the moment he looks over his shoulder at the fight.
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- Vin Diesel