But first, Diesel’s character personalizes the punishment to come by giving Mr. It’s ‘Cuz Of Pussies Like You We Lost Vietnam/This Guy’s Dead from Con Air. Either way: On behalf of his buddy Matty (Barry Pepper), Taylor (Vin Diesel) roughs up an impertinent redneck, played by professional ass-kicking magnet Kevin Gage, a.k.a. Knockaround GuysĪlex Pappademas: From Grantland contributors and Rounders screenwriter Brian Koppelman and David Levien’s underrated 2001 directorial debut possibly the indirect inspiration for one of the greatest listener calls in the history of Tom Scharpling’s The Best Show on WFMU (the one where the punch line is “Jason, I have literally been in 1,000 fights”) possibly not as funny if you haven’t heard said call. Here’s Part 2, because there’s no way you’re not sticking around to see how things turned out for the lightly fictionalized Mike Piston. You already know everything that came in between. It went to Cannes, improbably, and - smash-cut to 2013 - here comes Fast & Furious 6. You might not, however, be acquainted with Multi-Facial, the 1995 short film written by, directed by, and starring Young Vin, exploring a struggling actor’s misadventures on the audition circuit. (The morning after the fateful bite, a disoriented but delighted proto-Diesel spent a full 10 hours in front of his bedroom mirror, admiring his new musculature, practicing Sylvester Stallone monologues, sewing his new white tank-top uniform, and accidentally crushing fedora after fedora, having not yet harnessed his new powers.) Mark Lisanti: By now, we’re all probably familiar with Vin Diesel’s origin story: Once a humble bouncer in Manhattan, young Mark Sinclair Vincent was bitten by a radioactive bodybuilder during a scrap outside the meatpacking district’s infamous Gas Station nightclub, and soon after, vigilante movie-hero Vin Diesel was born. We know we say this every week, but this time it’s true: Summer movie season truly starts this weekend, with the opening of Fast & Furious 6, and we here at Grantland figured it was about time we honor the muscle-ripped, gravel-voiced heart of the franchise with his very own HOF.
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