Great breakdown. The thing that drew me to watch the film was the fact that it just kind of came out of nowhere. With no budget like Iron Man behind it for advertising, I just stumbled across the movie poster online somewhere. And it wasn't plastered first page spam either, just the poster. I remember thinking, "Wtf? Who is John Wick? How have I not heard that this was being made? Well obviously I'm watching it because Keanu Reeves and guns..." I just expected a generic action film, but then the layers of character and mythology started to come apart for me and I was blown away. In an odd way, it reminded me of the silly, extremely awesome film "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" from the 80s, because both films drop you into a world that teases/implies a lot of prior knowledge that you don't have. Like if the first Marvel film you watched was Avengers: Endgame and you'd never read a comic in your life.
Thank you! I think often the best movies are like that, things that have little to no expectations from both audiences and studios can sometimes be some of the most inspired things created. A very apt comparison to Iron Man 1 there too - I hadn't thought of that as a point of comparison. Thank you for your recommendation of that 80s film too, I'll see if I can find it as it sounds like something that might be worth a video on at some point in the future. I am a fan of that concept of dropping an audience into a world with an already established mythology and history, it's a quality that drew me into the early seasons of Game of Thrones for example. And I wish it was something more common in the superhero genre. Particularly for characters like Batman and Spider-Man who we've already seen them 'begin' their stories before and meet their villains for the first time, multiple times over at this point. Thanks for watching!
Keanu è un attore fantastico che rende sempre simpatici i personaggi che interpreta. Ti mando i miei migliori auguri a Roma! Grazie per la visione! Spero che questo si traduca bene, sto usando Google! 😂
Well it’s another jumbled up and embellished movie about me. They all lie about doing what they did. I was 8 years old when they killed my dog. None of those people are alive anymore
