John Wick: Chapter 4
Summary
Director Chad Stahelski has explain the symbolization of Keanu Reeves ' missing finger’s breadth , despite concern that it would affect the story ofJohn taper : Chapter 4 . In its 2019 predecessor , the titular champion seek remission from the elderberry bush , the only figure who sits above the High Table . During his meeting with the secret desert - dwelling figure of speech , Reeves’John Wick cut off his own fingerand presents his wedding mob to the Elder in an deed of fealty .
Oh , yeah . [ Laughs ] You think the studio intend that was a good idea ? In number three , we cut it off because we figured that figure three was our last one . I have a friend over at Lionsgate , and as shortly as we said “ routine four , ” he ’s like , “ That finger is gon na f**k us . ” I ’m like , “ Yep . It ’s awing . ” But no , valet de chambre , Keanu and I , we wish stigma . We like symbolisation . So it was n’t about call for a wedding ring , it was about taking the finger’s breadth that annulus ’s on so we could never put a wedding mob on again . He ’s killing the possibility of that succeeding symbolisation . That ’s a powerful small mechanics for what we ’re trying to say there . So no , I do n’t regret it all . If anything , I kind of find it kind of suspect . It drive my ocular effects supervisor nuts , but you figure every stroke with Keanu in the movie was remove that finger . So , you eff , a little pain , but it was worth it .
How John Wick: Chapter 4 Continued To Reference The Missing Finger
WithJohn Wick : Chapter 4seeing Reef ' unstoppable assassinenact his retribution against The High Table , one of the first character he seeks to eliminate is the Elder for whom he first severed his fingerbreadth . However , in a surprising turn of events , it was revealed that the original Elder that Wick see was already dead and gone too was the marriage ceremony annulus he hoped to regain . While Wick still enacted his vengeance on the newfangled Elder , even in the first few moments ofJohn Wick : Chapter 4,it was made clear that his previous sacrifice was whole irreversible .
However , perhaps the most potent habit of the symbolisation behind Wick ’s missing finger came not from Reeves ' character , but that of Clancy Brown ’s Harbinger . Anofficial envoy of The High Tableand a staunch exponent of the rule that govern the underground macrocosm of theJohn Wickmovies , Brown ’s Harbinger can be briefly seen possessing an identical wound to Wick himself . While it is never referenced directly , the implication is that , at some point , Brown ’s character was forced to prove his own fealty to the Elder in a similar mode to Wick .
Yet the pair ’s share wound has a potentially deeper significance , one in which Brown ’s Harbinger provides audiences a coup d’oeil at what Wick ’s own future may have been had he remained fast to The High Table . WithJohn Wick : Chapter 3 – Parabellumfinally providing its eponymic role with the absolution he seek , only to later throw it away to protect Ian McShane ’s Winston , the Harbinger represents an alternate track in which Wick had killed Winstonper the Elder ’s command . While severing his finger may have cause some practical issue , it really serve to offer the story ofJohn taper : Chapter 4with a great deal of depth .
Despite the suppose death of the titular character inJohn Wick : Chapter 4,a fifth flick is presently in development .
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