news culture John Wick 4: Keanu Reeves kills more enemies than he speaks. That’s $40,000 a word!
John Wick: Chapter 4 is a hit. We suspected it based on the first figures published on Monday, but the trend was confirmed over the course of the day. In France, the film has seen more than 410,000 admissions and in the United States, the film has grossed more than $73.5 million in its first weekend. The bet is therefore successful.
John Wick: 4 Movies, an Upcoming Spin-Off, and an Outrageous Success
John Wick is a bounty hunter, or rather an assassin who has been destroying everything that moves for several years. There are many reasons, but we exist each time entitled to an overall show
The production demanded to embody the killer Keanu Reeves, who returned to the front of the stage with great success after a few more complicated years. The public reacted immediately and the franchise has chained the successes together til today. He remains known before and above all for being embodied Neo / Thomas Anderson in the legendary Matrix saga
A good hero needs few words
However, if John Wick shines as a character with his attitude, his gestures and his commitment, we can’t say he’s particularly talkative. During the first film, which lasts 101 minutes, the character does not speak out only 484 words according to the Wall Street Journal, and we can’t say he’s gotten much more talkative over the years. According to Deadline, John doesn’t speak out only 484 words during the 169 minutes that this fourth opus lastsincluding more than a third of words like “yeah”.
With a running time of 169 minutes, the fourth film is three hours long but only contains 380 Wick words. About 10% of it can be seen in the film’s trailer, making the hero almost talkative. Wick says more in this 2.5-minute clip than in the first 25 minutes of the film itself, the Wall Street Journal says, citing the trailer released just before the release.
Throughout the movie the longest sentence consists of 14 words, which gives an idea of the lack of cheekiness of our antihero. But why is John Wick so quiet? We don’t have an answer for the other films, but Chad Stahelski revealed this during an interview it was Keanu Reeves himself who had almost half of his lines of dialogue deleted, probably feeling that his character didn’t need to be talked about that much in order to be properly characterized and to understand his motivations as well as his actions. Anyway, John Wick only needed 484 words to get the film approved Generate $138 million in a short week in the world.
