3/ Semiotics.
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4/ In the Current Year™, everything is politicized, and everything either supports The Narrative™, or supports the Counter Narrative™. John Wick supports the Counter Narrative.
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5/ The John Wick movies are set in a traditional universe that support traditional morals and virtues. * competence * fitness * fighting ability * preparedness * tenderness and protectiveness towards women and dogs
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6/ What one part of the traditional virtues did I leave out? That's right: * respect for justly constituted authority John Wick is precariously balanced on the razor's edge. Is he a John Wayne hero, or is he an amoral psychopath, destructive of the established order?
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7/ This is a serious question. Warriors are not good in and of themselves. Competence at warfare is not good in and of itself. It is good, in the traditional conception, only if it is justly authorized. The difference between a samurai and a ronin, a soldier and a mercenary
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8/ So why is Officer Jimmy important? He is the ceremonial tap on the shoulder with the sword of the king. The Sovereign™ knows what John Wick is up to. The Sovereign CHOOSES TO ALLOW John Wick to continue. The Sovereign™ blesses John Wick and wishes him well.
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9/ Officer Jimmy's five words "I'll leave you be, then" give the moral center and framework for the entire movie, blesses it, and makes it kosher. Exeunt.
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Replying to @MorlockP
Interesting thread. You may be right. It’s still a fuzzy morality, that knife edge, but while Jimmy doesn’t take Wick all the way to “we think you are *good*”, he does nudge himover into “we think you are *necessary*”
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yep but, still, the king ALLOWS it John Wick is not breaking the King's Peace.
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sure, but the important thing is to not overthink it. We don't need to know if JW is a level 12 Warrior, or a cross-class Warrior / Palladin, or ... The point is "the sovereign either allows or does not allow"
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