Andy firstly thank you for giving me a short list of films I must see! I love Wick and Excalibur is in the category of movie my Dad let me watch a bit too early, but love it and that’s a good memory. I’d not connected these movies without your autopsy. Wick visually and sonically is a favorite “shoot em up” movie, but like most of those (which I tend to gravitate to) there is more there (honor, respect, know thy opponent, human ability to change and adapt to an extent given the ring inputs {yet to a certain depth only, we are who we are past another}, value traditions and customs). I’d not rely on Wick to teach my own son life lessons, but it’s a tool to connect some meaning when he’s not wanting to hear it from me.
Andy firstly thank you for giving me a short list of films I must see! I love Wick and Excalibur is in the category of movie my Dad let me watch a bit too early, but love it and that’s a good memory. I’d not connected these movies without your autopsy. Wick visually and sonically is a favorite “shoot em up” movie, but like most of those (which I tend to gravitate to) there is more there (honor, respect, know thy opponent, human ability to change and adapt to an extent given the ring inputs {yet to a certain depth only, we are who we are past another}, value traditions and customs). I’d not rely on Wick to teach my own son life lessons, but it’s a tool to connect some meaning when he’s not wanting to hear it from me.
Yeah if we strip away the style it’s a classic chivalric core film.
I have an unhealthy fascination with these “the old put-behind self is the one who is needed for the present occasion” stories.
One last job and then I’m out!
“Just 'cause we're goin' on this killing, that don't mean I'm gonna go back to bein' the way I was.”
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Excellent analysis, Prof. Andy. And I love that you mentioned Nobody, also really fun movies!
Thank you!