The Legend of Keanu Reeves [GQ article]

rsfour · Apr 15, 2019

Every generation gets its own Keanu Reeves, except every generation's Keanu Reeves is this Keanu Reeves.

"You have this over-the-hill assassin whose wife dies of natural causes, gives him a puppy, some Russian punk kills his puppy, and he kills 84 people," Stahelski says. "How many studios do you think said no to that picture? The answer is all of them."

Fight-movie fans hailed the first Wick's use of long takes and close-up martial-arts action as a bold stylistic throwback—anti-Bourne, a little bit anti-Matrix, even. And it was that. Reeves and Leitch and Stahelski wanted the audience to trust what they were seeing, so they didn't have John do anything that Keanu couldn't do. But there was another reason they staged the action the way they did.

"We had no choice," Stahelski says happily. "We had no money. We couldn't afford all the fancy editing and fancy camerawork. The long takes, the close-quarters gun stuff—yes, those were ideas we had. But we couldn't afford not to do long takes. We had to do long takes because we only had one camera. The first guy who dies [in a fight scene] is also the last guy—he's gotta get up, run behind the camera, and come back into the shot and get hit by Keanu [again]."

There's a lot more, it's a good read. Just took stuff from the first little bit.

https://www.gq.com/story/the-legend-of-keanu-reeves?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Lunchbox- · Apr 15, 2019

thought this was gonna be about his personal life

which is more inspiring than his movies

edit nvm, full article touches on that stuff

Strikerrr · Apr 15, 2019

There's also a video of him talking about his motorcycles. You can tell where his passion lies.

chalkitdown · Apr 16, 2019

Strikerrr said:
There's also a video of him talking about his motorcycles. You can tell where his passion lies.

Love seeing him all giddy like this. The man sure does love him some bikes. And those are some NICE fucking bikes.

Baladium · Apr 16, 2019

Mandatory Keanu age progression chart:

Sign My Guestbook! · Apr 16, 2019

Baladium said:
Mandatory Keanu age progression chart:

I like how he hits 2010 and just spends all his time looking like John Wick

FusedAtoms · Apr 16, 2019

Baladium said:
Mandatory Keanu age progression chart:

Lmaooooo I know it's just the beard and the picture but it looks like he aged 10 years from 94-95 and then in 96 was like nahhhhh never mind

Deleted member 1248 · Apr 16, 2019

I regret not going to see the first two John Wick films in a theater. I'm not gonna miss the third one on a big screen. Keanu is the shit.

Gabbo · Apr 16, 2019

Baladium said:
Mandatory Keanu age progression chart:

Shouldnt this start in the 1500s? ... Which is what i thought this was going to about

EloquentM · Apr 16, 2019

Baladium said:
Mandatory Keanu age progression chart:

Lol at him being the oldest in 2005

SilkySm00th · Apr 16, 2019

Strikerrr said:
There's also a video of him talking about his motorcycles. You can tell where his passion lies.

what a godamn chill, real and awesome human being. Absolutely the man.

Need that prototype bike