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Reely understanding ‘John Wick’ and parallels with Roman mythology

Posted on May 27, 2019 by reelentropy

One of my favorite things about John Wick: Chapter 2, and one of the most illustrative ways in which John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum represents a slight step down, is how well it sews mythology into its narrative. Chapter 2, and by extension the original John … Continue reading →

Posted in Reel understanding | Tagged #john wick, #keanu reeves, Dante's Inferno, Don Quixote, Heracles, Hercules, John Wick: Chapter 2, John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, Odesseus, The Odyssey, Ulysses, Vasilisa the Beautiful | Leave a comment

Inferno is one third of a great movie, then it gets boring

Posted on October 28, 2016 by reelentropy

Oh, that’s right, Sony owns the rights to this series. That explains it. In Inferno, the third film adaptation of Dan Brown’s novels, Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) returns to bring more obscure Catholic conspiracy theories into the mainstream. This go around starts … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #memento, #ron howard, #tom hanks, Angels & Demons, Ben Foster, Catholic conspiracy trivia, Catholicism, CERN, Dan Brown, Dante, Dante's Inferno, Felicity Jones, Holocene Extinction, Inception music, Inferno, Irrfan Khan, Large Hadron Collider, Mary Sue, Power fantasy, Robert Langdon is kind of dumb, The Da Vinci Code, The World Health Organization does not have a police force, World Health Organization | Leave a comment

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Reely understanding ‘John Wick’ and parallels with Roman mythology

Inferno is one third of a great movie, then it gets boring

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