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Mar 21, 2023 · The "John Wick" movies have gone from cult favorites to legitimate blockbusters over the past decade, bolstered by a thrilling form of action design practiced by Keanu Reeves. The term gun-fu is ...
Feb 16, 2017 · "Keanu started calling it 'gun fu'," Stahelski tells me, "and there's this kind of rhythm to it, you know, shoot, punch, punch, punch, shoot, spin, shot you again - there's just a rhythm to...
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Feb 7, 2017 · Returning as an avenging hit man dragged out of retirement, Reeves's John Wick not only shoots guns -- he does everything he can think of with guns, even throwing them at the bad guys if he...
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The preferred John Wick martial art of most long-time franchise viewers, gun fu is the theatrical combination of marksmanship principles with the fundamentals of classic martial arts films. In the west, gun fu has been popularized by The Matrix, Equilibrium, John Wick, Kick Ass, and Kingsman: The Secret Service. However, gun fu actually originated ...
One of the martial arts seen throughout the John Wick franchise is judo, with John himself being its primary user. Founded by Kano Jigoro, judo is well-known for its throwing techniques. John is a highly skilled judoka, and throughout the franchise often relies on various judo throws to catch his opponents off-guard. John also frequently blends his...
The John Wick movies also heavily feature Brazilian jiu-jitsu — a crucial part of how Keanu Reeves' trained for John Wick. Brazilian jiu-jitsu, or BJJ, is all about grappling, positioning, and combat on the ground, with chokes and joint manipulations, and is a staple of the MMA world. John is also a Brazilian jiu-jitsu exponent, while the first Joh...
Karate has many different sub-schools, including but not limited to Shotokan, Goju-Ryu, and Kyokushin, the latter of which John Wick 4 star Hiroyuki Sanada is a practitioner of. Translating as "Empty Hand", karate is a punching and kicking-oriented martial art, and was arguably made most famous in the West by Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid franchise....
While countless martial arts teach kicking techniques, Korean Tae Kwon Do is particularly well-known for its emphasis on kicking. John faces several enemies who display skills in Tae Kwon Do, and one of the best examples of Kirill in the first John Wick, played by Daniel Bernhardt. In their nightclub encounter, Kirill is a challenging adversary for...
Originating from the Philippines, kali or escrima is heavy on combat with both sticks and knives. Apart from being a crucial aspect of John Wick's fighting style, kali was also one of the many fighting styles used/studied by Bruce Lee. John is a knife fighter with deadly skills, as is his major opponent in John Wick 2, Cassian (Common). Co-fight ch...
Most other martial arts throughout Asia can trace their lineage to kung fu in some way. The many different subsets of kung fu vary greatly from hard to soft in their emphasis and approach to combat. The John Wick franchise most prominently features kung fu in John Wick 3 when John encounters a gang of assassins in New York City's Chinatown — includ...
The Russian martial art sambo is another combat art in John's arsenal, but was first created in 1920's by Viktor Spiridonov and Vasili Oschepkov. A hybrid of different fighting techniques, sambo is closely connected to Judo with a similarly great emphasis on throwing techniques. Considering John Wick's Eastern European background, it makes sense th...
Born out of Japanese pro-wrestling, shoot wrestling began as an endeavor to bring the authenticity of MMA into choreographed pro-wrestling fights. Blending an array of different martial arts, shoot wrestling is technically a style of live-fight choreography. Alongside strong style wrestling, shoot style has become increasingly popular in the west t...
Another martial art well-known for its throws, aikido focuses on redirecting the momentum of an opponent's attack to use their energy against them. This was a big focus of John Wick 3, with John now frequently dealing with multiple opponents. As Eusebio explained in Maxim, the fight choreography of John Wick 3 factored this in, and oriented John's ...
Mar 21, 2023 · Not only does the gun-fu in the "John Wick" movies look cool, but in the early days of the franchise, it served a practical purpose. ... Chapter 4," Keanu Reeves shed some light on an incredibly ...
Mar 28, 2023 · Parabellum Chapter 4. “Chad and Keanu, they have incredibly exacting standards. You’re not half in on anything in John Wick. Every frame counts, every moment counts, every line counts, every ...
Feb 9, 2017 · Movies. Review: Keanu Reeves knows gun-fu in the thrillingly disciplined ‘John Wick: Chapter 2’. Justin Chang reviews ‘John Wick: Chapter 2’ Directed by Chad Stahelski, Starring Keanu...
