THE The “John Wick” franchise is inspired by everything, samurai films Hong Kong’s action movies, with a a little Greek mythology thrown to make good measurement. However, the Keanu Reeves holder assassin also recalls the Gunslingers in Sergio Leone’s classic spaghetti westerns. Director Chad Stahelski cited these films as an influence on “John Wick”, With Clint Eastwood, the nameless man in the “Dollars” trilogy being an obvious inspiration. That said, there is another beloved Leone Western who informed Stahelski and Reeves’s Action Saga, and you are probably the familiar.

Wick is a hero of the action of lone wolf who speaks most of his weapons, swords, fists and library books. The character does not have a lot of dialogue in the films, but he does not need it to transmit his thoughts and his intention. This creative decision was inspired by “Once Upon a Time in the West” by Leone – a real epic which is rightly considered to be one of the best westerns of all time. The film uses a sparing dialogue, which helps to increase tension during its most memorable sequences. The dialogue is mainly used when important, similar to “John Wick” films.

As documented by VultureStahelski and Reeves watched Leone’s film and decided to delete a lot of dialogue from the original “John Wick” script. One of these moments occurs when the character of Reeves responds to a priest by saying “uh-huh” during a shooting in a church, which is simple and precise. The original idea, however, involved the characters of philosophical hair removal on mortality for a minute, but Leone’s film school prompted Stahelski and Reeves to adopt the “less is more” approach – a lesson they have transported with them.

Calling John Wick A man of a few words is the euphemism of the century. “John Wick: Chapter 4” sees him speak about 380 words during his three -hour race, most of whom are short answers to other characters who speak to him. The original script made him speak more often, but Keanu Reeves had half of the dialogue removed in order to make his character more stoic and mythical.

Since Sergio Leone also did not feel the need to fill his own three -hour epics with a lot of cats, we can safely assume that “ounce Upon a Time in the West” informed the fourth episode of the “John Wick” franchise. The decision has also borne fruit, because “John Wick: Chapter 4” is one of the best films in the whole saga, celebrated for its first -rate choreography, its in -depth world construction and its emotional narration.

“Once Upon a Time in the West” also talks about the death of the old west, while “John Wick: Chapter 4” represents the end of an era in its own right, as the film ends with a plan of the tombstone of the holder hero. It would have been a perfect conclusion for an excellent series, but a fifth film is on the way, so we can be delighted to see the man a few words give even more blows.