Here's the following of Keanu Reeves - ActingBoardingPass.
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Some of the really «bad-disgusting-hateful» characters:
- «The Gift» - 2000 / Donnie Barksdale
- «Much Ado About Nothing» - 1993 / Don John
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| Don John |
- «The Watcher» - 2000 / Griffin
The Performances:
I really love the work that he did on these first two characters. Keanu Reeves can be who ever you want, name it! Inside these movies, he embodied absolute despicable humans being. Hate, desrespect, pretentious and arrogant represent perfectly the characters (who are supposed to be like that!). Everything's coming from both characters will inspire only one word: contempt. The look of his eyes is full of darkness and at some points, you can easily have chills, so forget the handsome actor, you do enjoy to see him being punished (or so!).
Some of the «nice but lost-hurt-liked» characters:
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| Paul Sutton |
- «A Walk in the Clouds» - 1995 / Paul Sutton
- «The Devil's Advocate» - 1997 / Kevin Lomax
- «The Matrix» saga - 1999-2003 / Neo
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| Neo |
A computer hacker, becoming a living prophecy who's supposed to set what's left of human race free with the help of other rebels.
- «Something's Gotta Give» - 2003 / Julian Mercer
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| Julian Mercer |
- «Generation Um...» - 2012 / John
The Performances:
Keanu Reeves evolves the most in this category, like a fish in the ocean. You will always see and feel somehow the pain or the sadness and disappointement of the characters.
What i like about his work with John, you can clearly see at first the character in some kind of nothingness. He doesn't know what to do with his life, he's got issues with his family, he's lost and falling. The minute he carried the camera stolen, John lightens up from inside, he starts to live, you can feel the excitment of being behind the camera, it's cute and touching. The character inside the story may not be that interesting on a general view but Keanu certainly delivered the outcome! And that's what i remember from it.
With Neo or Paul Sutton - two opposite story but - you can feel the goodness inside this characters, the loneliness, the difficulty of making things right whether it's a fight against family's traditions or a fight to death to give a chance to humans to get a better life. Keanu can express so easily those stages of feelings. Pay attention at the détails! At the beginning of «The Matrix», his face really express stupefaction, incredulity and don't forget that he actually did shot these scenes few times!
Becoming a young doctor, still single, falling in love for an older woman and tasting the bite of the rejection at the end is interesting as well. Or being thisty for power, winning any cause, being the best and savor and revel in the fall of the losers ... starting to embrace the path of the Devil.
What do we see on screen? Keanu Reeves trying to portraying a poor rejected doctor or an abusive husband?! No, we'll see right before our eyes the character, very much alive.
So it's impossible not to see the greatness in this actor because at the end, he delivered all the time what he was supposed to, according to a screenplay and a director, and that's the most important thing to keep in mind for an actor.
He isn't afraid of changing his appearance if needed, doesn't care of being disliked by the audience or the critics and most of all, he doesn't care if a movie will not be a blockbuster.
After a first documentary in 2012 on the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation (Side by Side), he'll take the seat of director for Man of Tai Chi in 2013 which seems for his character to join once again the category of the «bad-disgusting-hateful» one. Can we expect Keanu going more often behind the camera in the future?! Time will tell ...
What i like about his work with John, you can clearly see at first the character in some kind of nothingness. He doesn't know what to do with his life, he's got issues with his family, he's lost and falling. The minute he carried the camera stolen, John lightens up from inside, he starts to live, you can feel the excitment of being behind the camera, it's cute and touching. The character inside the story may not be that interesting on a general view but Keanu certainly delivered the outcome! And that's what i remember from it.
With Neo or Paul Sutton - two opposite story but - you can feel the goodness inside this characters, the loneliness, the difficulty of making things right whether it's a fight against family's traditions or a fight to death to give a chance to humans to get a better life. Keanu can express so easily those stages of feelings. Pay attention at the détails! At the beginning of «The Matrix», his face really express stupefaction, incredulity and don't forget that he actually did shot these scenes few times!
Becoming a young doctor, still single, falling in love for an older woman and tasting the bite of the rejection at the end is interesting as well. Or being thisty for power, winning any cause, being the best and savor and revel in the fall of the losers ... starting to embrace the path of the Devil.
So it's impossible not to see the greatness in this actor because at the end, he delivered all the time what he was supposed to, according to a screenplay and a director, and that's the most important thing to keep in mind for an actor.
He isn't afraid of changing his appearance if needed, doesn't care of being disliked by the audience or the critics and most of all, he doesn't care if a movie will not be a blockbuster.
After a first documentary in 2012 on the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation (Side by Side), he'll take the seat of director for Man of Tai Chi in 2013 which seems for his character to join once again the category of the «bad-disgusting-hateful» one. Can we expect Keanu going more often behind the camera in the future?! Time will tell ...
Something certain, Keanu Reeves has a passion for acting
and he didn't show us yet the whole range of his talents.
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