2/ Pure trivia. Fun. Unrelated to the movie as a whole, right? Wrong. This is the most important part of both movies, and the movies fail without it. Why do I say something so crazy?
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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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10/ Officer Jimmy is so important that we see him again in JW2. "Gas leak?" "Gas leak". Just to remind the red tribe viewer that the sovereign allows John Wick to operate.
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Nah, Wick, et al., are simply outlaw in the oldest sense. They are outside the law and not subject to the sovereignty of the king. Jimmy will not hinder Wick, but he also will not help him. Jimmy’s concern is making sure Wick’s issues don’t affect the pinks & the normies.
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perfectly compatible with what I said.
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