It wasn't a recasting of the elder. The elder was purposefully changed because this prevents John Wick from getting back his ring, as it went away with the previous actor, thus pushing John Wick to challenge the High Table directly, allowing the story to progress
There were tons of references to the Man with No Name Trilogy, particularly the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, mostly when John, Kane or Tracker had to work together. There were also musical cues at the last shootout that were very Sergio Leone
Yep, Tracker's gun twirl before reholstering had me laughing (See Lee van Cleef's twirl in For a few Dollors More, causing Clint to raise an amused eybrow).
I'm glad some remember Walter Hill's "The Warriors" as a very blatant tribute sets up the battle for John Wick to "make it to the church on time". The female DJ informing combatants on the radio is a carbon copy of the same thing in Hill's film: same camera angles, same lips and the same song ("Nowhere to Run"). Excellent 4th chapter.
Yes - _the_ most blatant-in-a-good-way homage in the movie - given that unlike the other homages, as in _The Warriors_ , the DJ appears multiple times to provide periodic status updates.
glad i don't have to type this up ...I am old enough to remember watching the original ..and yes that DJ was a perfect foil and homage , the metro and various gangs sprinkles on top,
The radio station was called W.U.X.I.A, which in Chinese Mandarin language, means martial arts heroes or warriors. So The Warriors reference, and also a movie of the same name which Donnie Yen starred in way back in 2011.
Yup!!!! Almost immediately as he appears on screen, that was obvious and apparent! I leaned over rto my son, and began the "I am one with force..." chant.
9:00 technically John was never confirmed to be dead the only confirmation was a collapsed Wick and an unopened grave John could easily come back if that’s really what they wanted. But I think this is a great ending either way.
was going to mention this but i wanted to avoid spoilers. This is a common trope as we seen in the path. See XXX and the reason for why. John rampage created a lot of enemies and even if he free from the high table don't mean those enemies wont try to hunt him down for revenge. See the what happening with caine at the end of the film. With the grave he can gain a new identity and live a normal life.
As much as i want john to be alive, i prefer it this way. No way the dude can be alive killing billions of mercs until John Wick 10 or something. Thats just bs. 😂
There was one scene in particular that made me happy as a martial arts movie fanatic. It was the scene where Caine (Donnie Yen) took out a goon with chain punches and a wind-up punch to finish it off. I thought that it was a really cool reference to his roles in Ip Man (The Wing Chun chain-punching) and Flash Point (The Wind-Up punch).
I just watched The Last Dragon and I'm wondering if its referencing Ernie Reyes Jr. because he does the fast punching followed by the wind up too. Maybe its just common haha
The one HUGE thing you completely missed was Mr Nobody. I think his character has unlimited room for a spin off with of course, his dog by his side! It would be nice if you can do a segment on who Mr Nobody is?
I remember seeing a lot of the dancers in the club reacting to the fight, and some seemed a little scared but kept on awkwardly dancing. Also John made sure to always shoot his gun when he got the other guy on the floor, to make sure he didn’t hit any strays.
No one has caught "The Warriors" reference yet. With the radio host narrarating John's whereabouts and playing that no where to run song like in the Warriors movie
One movie reference you didn't mention was the female DJ playing No Where to Run( not sure if that's the actual title) and calling the hitmen "boppers" in reference to the movie The Warriors. A classic in its own right. They also never showed more than the DJs mouth and microphone.
This was my favorite Scott Adkins roll by faaaaaaaaaaar -- absolutely nailed the character and memorable enough to be a Bond Villain ...can't praise higher than that!! Loved him ..great acting
When John and Caine have their pistol duel, notice the 2nd round of the duel both wound each other at the shoulder and the abdomen reference back to the doctor who help John when he shot the same area.
The biggest and most OBVIOUS movie reference was the Warriors. How the f do you miss the Warriors reference? The mouth calling listeners "boppers", the pulling of weapons from the wall, even the song used.🙄
Dog Easter Egg - The dog that works with The Tracker is the same breed that Halle Berry's character worked w/ in JW3 -- Belgian Malinois. And John stopping to save this dog was sooo JW canon -- 'don't hurt animals'. Also when Winston and the Bowery King stand at John's grave there's John's dog. The directors include a scene of the dog glancing off to the side (away from the grave), which is similar to the scene at the end of JW3 when it's revealed John is no longer in the alley. The dog is lying in the Continental lobby, he looks up , whines and trots out. Another portend of things to come?
The scene(s) with John trying to make it to the church and the groups of people coming after him is a reference to the Warriors. The women communicating through the radio and songs.
1- you forgot Yip Man doing the classic yip Man punches. 2- after john gets buried if you notice the dog kind of moves his head like he saw someone he loves. I guess Wingston knows john is still alive and he did the fake funeral so that no one from the underworld go searching for him in the future …
John Wick isn’t dead… Wick’s dog walking with Lawrence Fishburn’s Bowery character when visiting Wicks grave looked and huffed in a direction *off camera*… had that been spontaneous, there would’ve been no reason to focus on it… but the camera zeroed in on him doing that…
James Gunn, please take notes. Not that he needs it, but can sure use it. Have Chad Stahelski produce or direct Batman! Willem Dafoe: Commissioner Gordon Hiroyuki Sananda: Ra's al Ghul Lucius Fox: Laurence fishburne Bane: Scott Atkins The Joker: Bill Skarsgard or John Leguizamo Kyodai Ken: Donnie Yen Now "got"... Batman Richard Madden Alfred Sean Bean Two Face Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Jon Hamm as clayface (Jake Gyllenhaal, Alan Ritchson, Nicolas Hoult & Nick Centineo can be Batman too)
I did not read 270 comments, , so forgive me if I repeat someone else...A HUGE homage was the Radio DJ scene..Taken from 'The Warriors" "No where to run" was also featured in that movie..You knew it was coming...Wow !
The scenes inside the building, where they film, the scenes from above, so we are looking down upon the action, taking place from room to room, and the camera slowly moves along, over/above the walls, to the different rooms. Especially the long scene being filmed in one take.
The Warriors reference was sooo blatant. The radio call out, song dedication and update on status and location is right out of the Warriors (1979). They even used a version of Nowhere to Run
Theost blatant and obvious reference wad the Homage to The Warriors a d it was AWESOME! It's just a shame Lynn Thigpen isn't alive to have played the role.
I think the fantastic overhead shootout with the dragons breath gun is a nod to the game Hong Kong massacre and the end battle itself with the female dj might be a nod to the warriors
I wonder if chapter 3 and four can be a retelling of John's Impossible Task but on a higher scale? I mean. He got Excommunicated. A forty million bounty on his head. He fought tooth and nail until he basically decided he needed to kill marquis to get freedom. When you look at chapter four, this is basically another Impossible Task John had to do. Even more so since he wanted everything gone and he wanted out once more.
There was a reference to "The Warriors" as well. The female DJ calling the misses by the various assassin's on John Wick as he made his way thru Paris is parallel to the DJ in the Warriors doing the same.
Yeah this video could have been made by someone who barely watched the video. The warriors was the one I caught and few other minor nods. Good bad and ugly and few other westerns
You forgot that references to the movie "Warriors" from 1979 when the faceless Discjockey was talking about the travels of the warriors trying to make it back home. This is the same in the scene at the end and playing the records and songs to match. Classic stuff. Also for some reason I did not leave the movie theater and told my two friends to stay just in case of an Easter egg. They were like man let's go I said hold on I feel something is coming and sure enough there it was.
there's at least one movie with keanu reeves possible that'd be a prequel. we heard what he's called, we heard a few notions to what he did to earn his name, but there is room there to have it be seen on screen. possibly even two or three movies, seeing that we'd need to start at the very beginning with him as a street kid and such.
Also an hommage to Blade Runner in the streets of Russia if I remember well : you see a truck with lights in the mist of the street and people passing by. The music, the atmosphere and the lighting made me think about it
There were a lot of Matrix references as well. The car scene. The music was of the film in that scene.. And every "Asian" revenge film has that "ill be waiting" scene.. Where you think " Kill Bill" got it from?
My favorite Clancy Brown character was him as Viking in Bad Boys. No, not the Will Smith Bad Boys but the amazing Sean Penn Bad Boys from the early 80s.
easy way to bring him back, the tombstone way to make people think he was dead while he lived his quiet secluded life but somehting happens and he comes back to eliminate the rest of the table to end the serise. could even stretch it out a few movies.
Huh. Looks like even You missed 1. Remember when the marquis put a bounty on John in Paris in an attempt to stall him from heading towards the church at sunrise. How they got that woman on the radio to send out the message to every assassin in Paris that could listen via radio. How she called the listeners as boppers. That was an Easter egg from a movie called "The Warriors".
Remember when John went to see the doctor just as the last five minutes ticked by ? He asked John to shoot him where ? …Yip end scene 🤔 Shoulder and lower left abdomen….this he asked John as knew he would survive… Still think he is Dead 🤣🥃
One cool thing about Donnie Yen in the Kitchen scene is that he uses barrage of punches before he finishes it with a Uppercut that it has the resemblance of Ip Man 2 scene particularly the table scene with another Kungfu Master.
I think another thing you missed is, scott adkins outfit. He is pretty much copying the big guy in the bathroom fight scene in “ninja assassin “. I believe he had gold teeth and a nice watch also.
When Winston was in the Louvre, he paused before the famous painting Raft of the Medusa. The Raft of the Medusa is a depiction of the ruthless struggle between the surviving sailors of the French ship Medusa. Men killed one another as resources ran low. It was a fight for survival which few survived.
Well if everyone caught the obvious Warriors references, as it seems reading through the comment section, I guess they left it out of the video for a reason. Look at the title...
Anyone pick up on the reference to The Warriors? The whole DJ half-head shot callin out people as JW goes about Paris as she tells them where he's at? Very cool direct tie-in.
I feel like if they make more John Wick it has to be prequel (obviously lol). But I’ve always been curious of his impossible task! We have heard references to this and even Santino mentions him helping wick and how his task wouldn’t have been possible without him so much so John gave him a marker! So let’s get into that haha.
@@brianmerritt5410 lol you would rather have a squeal then learn about the impossible task which clearly is referenced many times in the first 3 movies. Lol ya okay 😂😂😂😂😂
@@piouspigeon9327 People like you don't realize that too much of a good thing is too much of a good thing. TOO much explanation is a thing. You're the type of person that asks for a prequel and when one comes out complains about it being bad, not realizing that what makes it bad is that it is exactly what you asked for, because what you asked for was never going to work.
@@brianmerritt5410 lol I come here suggesting a prequel to understand what is a key aspect of the story line that is left blank. Quit trying to assume I’m some kinda of person and just go with facts. Cry baby seems to be broken from 1 comment by going to personal attacks lol.
@@piouspigeon9327 It's not a personal attack to say what I'm saying. A movie over-explaining the cool stuff isn't always a positive thing. Reservoir Dogs doesn't NEED a scene showing the botched heist. John Wick doesn't NEED a movie about him becoming the most feared man alive. I'm not a crybaby for saying your idea is bad, lol. Maybe you are TAKING my words personally.
I have a question? can you please check, is winston a former ruska roma? the tattoo on his right arm shows the cross during the last visit on wick's tomb.
