John Wick: Chapter 4 dialogues were “Strippped” by Reeves as he says 380 words in full Movie

Keanu Reeves is constant with his role of John Wick in John Wick: Chapter 4 But don’t expect to hear a lot from the actor.

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John Wick didn’t have a lot to say as he spoke countable words throughout the film. According to The Wall Street Journal, they counted the words being uttered by wick in Chapter 4.

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The 4th sequel of John Wick is 160 minutes in total and Wick utters only 380 words in the movie.

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In the movie directed by Chad Stahelski: every third dialogue of Reeves was just one word “Yeah”.

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The first movie was 101 minutes where Mr, Wick spoke 484 words, as per WSJ reports. In the chapter 4 Mr. Reeves is heard uttering only 380 words in the runtime of 169 minutes.

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To make Mr. Wick looks chatty, 10% of his dialogues has been shown in the official trailer of 2.5 minutes. In fact he says a lot more in these 2.5 minutes than in the first 25 minutes of the movie.

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Director revealed that Reeves stripped out almost half of the dialogues written for the character of Wick. That's why John Wick doesn’t have a lot to say in the movie.

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The longest line of Mr. Reeves in the movie is “You and I left a good life behind a long time ago, my friend.” with his co-star Hiroyuki Sanada as Shimazu Koji.

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Even with less dialogues, the movie created a record of $73.5M and $137.5M in global debut. Audience response is amazing to John Wick: Chapter 4

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