So, it’s not so much a friendship as it is a debt of servitude from one co-star to another… got it! I mean, I can't even imagine what a bet would be that would require weekly housecleaning visits for three decades. Other than cleaning his house on Thursdays, I see him maybe once or twice a year. I mean, I stay out of certain rooms, but I respect it. I lost a bet when we did ‘Speed,’ and I said, ’Well, if it’s not true, I’ll clean your house.' I think I’ve done a pretty good job. The Bullet Train actress jokingly spoke about how a bet made on the set turned into a decades-long commitment to her former Speed co-star. According to Insider, that relationship might be a little more subservient on the Oscar winner’s end.
#SPEED MOVIE PROFESSIONAL#
Instead, they decided to keep things professional and formed a loving-but-platonic relationship. But, again, it works, because if you're sticking everyday people into a sick, unimaginable puppet show, the person pulling the strings needs to be otherworldly on their own.The mutual attraction between Annie Potter and Jack Traven could’ve led to the co-stars becoming a real-life couple. The Oscar-nominee is straight vaudevillian in his over-the-topness I'm relatively sure he was paid for this film with a hefty daily allowance of cocaine and nothing else. Dennis Hopper in Speed is, not even kidding, the best Joker ever put to film.
Because Annie is on the bus, we're on the bus.Īnd whatever the exact diametric opposite of "grounded" is, that's what Dennis Hopper is here to do. Really, it's Bullock that grounds the film she exudes a type of real-world nervousness mingled with confidence from the moment she shows up. Reeves is slotted into much more of a blank-slate here, and while it's not a misfire casting on the level of like, Bram Stoker's Dracula (also 1994!), it is essentially a straight-man role more than anything. Speed came three years after jock-brah action hero Johnny Utah in Point Break and five years before goober-messiah Neo in The Matrix.
Fury Road seems like a lot but it's essentially just an hour-and-a-half car chase because an insane Australian director took that premise and then blew a bunch of dope-looking go-karts to all fuck out in the desert, it turned into a masterpiece.įunny enough, a lot of that doesn't even come from Reeves here. The F&F films seem like a lot because they are A Lot, and by movie's end, you're mostly numb to the crashes.
#SPEED MOVIE HOW TO#
Die Hard understood quite possibly more than any other action film in history how to do a lot with something deceptively simple. It's the difference these days between, say, a Fast & the Furious entry and Mad Max: Fury Road. There's a reason that pretty much every other action film after 1988-yes, even Speed!-was labeled a Die Hard rip-off.
#SPEED MOVIE MOVIE#
One of the only modern-day movie things that turn me into a get-off-my-lawn old person is that I believe action movie premises need to be simpler and dumber again, with "dumber" of course being a high compliment.
It's an absurdly simple premise that is then constructed outward into a two-hour explosion factory that defies both physics and God at every turn, which is of course exactly why the film works so well. Look back, remember that Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure set the bar for heart-warming stories of bro-love remember that The Matrix basically changed action filmmaking forever remember-and this is important for today's discussion-that the 1994 flick Speedstill owns to this day. What does matter is that this recent resurgence is the perfect opportunity to remember that not only does Keanu still have it, he never really quite lost it, quietly building one of the sturdier resumes out there over the course of several decades. Yes, friends, we are in the midst of a full-on Keanu-ssance-a Belle Reeve-poque, if you will-that kicked off the moment the actor emerged be-suited to murder Theon Greyjoy for killing his dog in John Wick and has run straight through two more Wick sequels, a mighty thirst-inspiring turn in Netflix's Always Be My Maybe, a standout stuntman role in Toy Story 4, and this recent video where he says "cyberpunk" in a Batman voice. As I sit down to write this it is currently 6/9, a date that would make Ted Theodore Logan most overjoyed and an overall shout-out to Keanu Reeves, the current king of the pop culture landscape.
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