00:00Hello friends for 30 years the majesty of Keanu Reeves is grace the big screen from Ted or Bill
00:05I can't remember which one he is to Neo to John wick the Canadian actor
00:08Yeah, he's Canadian has portrayed a wide range of iconic characters few would claim. He's an Oscar-caliber actor
00:14Whoa, whoa, whoa, he's a nice guy who gives up his seats to ladies on trains and also I heard he adopts kittens
00:19Don't know if that's true what I was trying to say though is that he's a highly likable
00:23Highly watchable performer who has seen his films earn a whopping 4.2 billion dollars globally this week on heat
00:29Vision Breakdown we examine a tale of two Keanu's and ask what makes him such an enduring and endearing performer
00:39Keanu's had a long career in Hollywood dating all the way back to the early 1980s or even further if you subscribe to the theory that he's actually an immortal being
00:48But his real breakout role came in 1989 when he played affable valley boy procrastinator Ted Theodore Logan in Bill and Ted's excellent adventure
00:56One of the few flawless works of art ever put to film movies a masterpiece from there Keanu charted a fascinating career
01:02Where he found himself at home and projects with high concepts that needed someone as likable as him to ground them
01:06While he struggled in films that didn't properly use his talents
01:09Let's hop in our phone booth and head back in time to examine Keanu's of the past
01:15Point break there are so many memeable moments in this movie
01:17I am an FBI agent
01:19But lost among the jokes about it is the movie only works if you really care about Keanu's Johnny Utah and Patrick Swayze's Bodhi
01:25While Swayze did the heavy lifting on the acting side Keanu projected a vulnerability that made you feel for him in his moments of frustration and panic
01:32Keanu took on a very different role in Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of the famous gothic novel playing a British
01:38Bloody wolves chasing me through some blue inferno
01:40Real estate solicitor opposite Oscar-winning actors such as Anthony Hopkins and Gary Oldman
01:46All right, only Hopkins had an Oscar at that time, but whatever while the film is a classic many have poked fun at Keanu's accent and jarring performance in such a
01:52Stylized film it was a big risk and many thought he was miscast in the role
01:56Keanu survived the criticisms and wisely moved back to playing guys with American accents
02:00Yeah, which brings us to speed the movie not the drug if you thought point break was over the top and cheesy
02:06You clearly don't understand how insane studio execs were in the early 90s an era where they greenlit a film about a bus that couldn't slow down
02:12Actually, I guess they knew what they were doing because in 1994 speed became the definitive Keanu leading role
02:17He branched out significantly from point breaks young FBI agent chasing surfers to play a young LAPD officer chasing a speeding bus
02:25transformative
02:25Really I kid and this film is a ton of fun actually despite its schlocky premise and laughable dialogue
02:30What it did show is Keanu's ability to deliver chemistry with the on-screen co-star as he and Sandra Bullock both endeared audiences with a genuine
02:36relationship in a film where the villains plan revolved around a public transit vehicle maintaining the speed of 50 miles per hour in a
02:42City with the worst traffic in America good luck not exploding when merging on the 101 bus the devil's advocate
02:47What should have been a home run turned out to be one of the strangest films of both Keanu's and Al Pacino's careers the dialogue heavy script
02:53Required Reeves to adopt a southern accent
02:55Which only made the gulf between him and Oscar winning Pacino more apparent Keanu's many things a master of dialects is not one of them
03:01Let's make a baby
03:02Yes, the film had a high concept the devil is a rich dude living in New York named John Milton
03:07It's subtle, but it had none of the action of speed or point break that would allow Reeves to shine
03:11He doesn't jump out of or onto any moving vehicles at all in the entire movie
03:16The devil's advocate also kept off a bit of a downturn period in Keanu's career following such films as chain reaction
03:22Feeling Minnesota and the last time I commit a suicide movies
03:25I'm sure none of you have ever heard of unless I have vastly miscalculated the age and demographic of our viewing audience
03:30Delivering a not-so-great performance after a string of not-so-great films likely would have spelled death for any other actor's career
03:36But Keanu is simply on the verge of his biggest role yet the Matrix consider the quintessential Keanu Reeves movie almost every line
03:43He utters is quotable whoo what the Wachowskis got right with Reeves neo and what the actor had moved away from in past roles is that they catered to the star's
03:51Strengths his everyman qualities that simultaneously seem to coincide with his incredible physical prowess the Matrix took Reeves to the a-list and solidified him as a
03:59Bonafide action star thanks in large part to the reputation he built for himself as an actor who does his own stunts years before Tom Cruise would get credit for his work in
04:06The later Mission Impossible films god help whatever insurance agent drafts the policy if those two ever decided to make a film together
04:12John wick years after the final Matrix film it seemed unlikely Reeves would have another franchise on his hands but as discussed earlier
04:20Keanu's immortal and pushing the age of 50 did nothing to really slow him down when John wick debuted in
04:242014 it took audiences by surprise as Reeves once again poured himself into training to perform his own stunts doing fight scenes that would rival what
04:32He was doing 15 years earlier in the Matrix the series has continued to push the ante with a strong focus on very detailed
04:37Choreography and practical effects that tells you Keanu Reeves is a dude you would want around if a ride ever broke out all in all Keanu has had an interesting career
04:44He's been savage for the delivery of some of his lines his attempted accents his choice in roles
04:48If there has never been a period in which he wasn't beloved as a movie star while many actors
04:52Disappear into roles Reeves is a performer who has at least at his best moments worn his heart on his sleeve
04:57There's a blue-collar work ethic that bleeds through in almost all of his best performances a true willingness to put in the work and get the shots
05:04Regardless of what is required couple that with pulling off real-life heroics such as buying burgers for everyone on a grounded flight or buying
05:10Motorcycles for the guys that helped him on the matrix and it's no surprise that he's a star with a career spanning decades in short
05:15If you don't like Keanu then you are most not excellent
05:18So what do you guys think about Keanu Reeves?
05:20Do you think he has another franchise in him? Do you think he's a vampire and that's why he looks so young?
05:24Let us know in the comments right down there
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