- As you can see in the title, in this article we are going to talk about the end of ‘John Wick 4’. Do not continue reading if you have not yet seen the film, which I recommend you do as soon as possible.
‘John Wick 4’ is amazing. He bets on the “biggest, most ambitious and most spectacular” of Chad Stahelski and his team has shaped a cathedral of modern western action cinema with action scenes as brutal as its overwhelming production design. But beyond the show, if something has occupied a good part of the conversation about the feature film, it has been its end.
Stahelski and his team have not played around with little girls and have chosen to give closure -definitive?- to the adventures of Keanu Reeves’ Baba Yaga, apparently ending the life of the protagonist and closing a stage that has lasted for almost a decade. . But, What has led you to make such a drastic decision at the plot level?
The necessary why
The director of the saga has cleared up this mystery during an interview in which, among other things, he has made it clear that The real key to launching a project like this is to have a reason.
“When we started working on the first Wick, we had this huge white board where we put everything we liked about action movies and everything we hated, and we still have it. ‘Don’t bring characters back just for a gag ‘. ‘Don’t make an exhibition’. ‘Don’t fall into telling the public about things’. ‘Don’t answer all the questions’. ‘Don’t do the typical deus ex machina’. Just have a theme and make it yours. And one of our stuff is ‘Always have a why.’ If you don’t have it, don’t make the movie.”
For Stahelski, it was clear that this why was none other than bring closure to John’s arc.
“We were thinking, ‘Well, we’ve done three movies and we didn’t have a plan.’ It’s going one at a time. And then they asked us to do the fourth one, which is always a blessing… And then we were like, ‘Okay. Why should we do it?’ We only looked at the other three, and the only reason we could think of was to tie the three we’d done together and give a satisfying closure. If you don’t come full circle, if you don’t come to a conclusion, You’re just messing with the public and seeing how long you can milk it.”
But where did the inspiration come from? Good old Chad has once again proven to be a filmmaker with the most varied concerns, so it’s not surprising that the premise of ‘John Wick 4’ was born from a 16th century Japanese writing.
“You can imagine the reaction of a lot of people; we said, ‘John has to die. That’s the reason for doing it.’ about how he prepares to die. And that’s where it all started. If you don’t finish John or John Wick – he’s a myth with his dichotomies and all that stuff -… If you don’t finish the journey, what’s the point of the show? “.
However, Does this mean that Reeves’ character is really dead? Stahelski plays the mistake and leaves it open to interpretation, suggesting that person —John— and myth —John Wick— are two different entities.
“It’s a business, so people are like, ‘You’re going to kill the main character of the franchise, huh?’ We were like, ‘Yeah! That’s what we’re going to do.’ But we wanted to do it in a satisfactorily. This is not meant to be a movie, it’s meant to be a myth. So if you don’t have that conclusive edge… And is it final? No. It’s like, who died? It’s like I’m telling you some kind of In modern Tolkien history, you don’t look at the character, you look at the moral of the story. Does John die? Does John Wick die? Does he find peace? What is the moral of the story?”
Be that as it may, what is clear is that we will see John Wick again in ‘Ballerina’, the spin-off starring Ana de Armas which should be released throughout 2024 if all goes well.
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