i was six years old. you decided i was a failure in the first grade.
you don’t understand, jules. you never did!
no, you don’t understand! i stopped calling myself jules when i was fifteen and i’d found out what you’d done to me. i’m julian!
what difference does that make?
it makes every difference, because i’m different! can’t you see? jules bashir died in that hospital because you couldn’t live with the shame of having a son who didn’t measure up!
nobody likes the “bad boys” who insult and degrade their partners while wearing pastel polos with popped collars, people like REAL bad boys who wear leather jackets and take a lot of care in how they shape their pompadour and carry around stiletto switchblades and care about their communities and ride a motorcycle and rebel against the government and says stuff like “NOBODY insults my gal” and gets in fistfights with dudes who catcall their girlfriends. THOSE bad boys are the guys everyone wants.
Did
you know that international assassin John Wick retired briefly and
pursued his love of restoring and collecting Victorian children’s books?
Well, that was in the original script, at any rate. I was hired to
recommend, track down and purchase books, including first editions of
Thomas Bewick’s beautifully illustrated Fables of Aesop. I also trained
Keanu Reeves in various bookbinding skills, worked on set as technical
advisor while they shot those scenes, and doubled for his hands in
close-ups. His shop – which you see briefly on screen when he smashes
open the floor – was filled with my books, cabinets, tools and
equipment. On the sequel, I also helped out with the marker book and a
few other things.