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For instance, there's a scene in the first film where Viggo sternly explains to his son Iosef that Wick once killed three men with only a pencil, and took down a lot of men on his last mission (the 'impossible task'), which led to Wick's retirement and Viggo's successful rise in establishing his Russian crime syndicate in New York. John WickвЂ™s past is also mostly mysterious, but when mentioned to others by enemies like Viggo and good friends such as Winston, Wick is an assassin whoвЂ™s both feared and respected because nearly everyone knows how dangerous and skilled he is. In The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, ClintвЂ™s Blondie comforts a dying Union general by giving him a bottle of alcohol to drink, and later comforts a dying Confederate soldier by handing him his cigar. In For A Few Dollars More, he gives Mortimer (a Colonel turned bounty hunter) the upper hand against the ruthless outlaw Indio when he realizes the ColonelвЂ™s vendetta towards Indio is to avenge his sisterвЂ™s death. For instance, in A Fistful of Dollars, he helps a family escape from RamГіn, a murderous gang leader who wants complete control of his town, and is taken down by Clint for torturing him and his friend. While ClintвЂ™s mysterious gunslinger isnвЂ™t a man seeking vengeance, and his past life is unknown, there are moments when he expresses compassion and humanity towards other characters in the Dollars series. EastwoodвЂ™s protagonist in the Dollars trilogy is also a man of focus and precision because heвЂ™s always the fastest and most accurate shooter in every shootout. When he starts shooting men point-blank in the head and chest, thereвЂ™s no stopping him from doing what he does best. No matter how many times he says he's retired, John is always getting pulled back in.ДЄnd yet, despite that inner rage and sadness over the things heвЂ™s lost in life (including his wife), Wick manages to be cool, calm, and focused when it comes to doing his job as a hitman. From the men who stole his beautiful Mustang and killed his dog (a gift from his late wife) in the first film, to his elegant home in Long Island getting blown up in the second chapter, Wick is not only angered by the mayhem that occurs toward him, but that he is unable to slow down, take a rest, and retire from his career as an assassin.

WickвЂ™s inner rage is driven by a desire to get revenge on those whoвЂ™ve wronged him. One difference between John Wick and EastwoodвЂ™s вЂNo NameвЂ™ character is that ClintвЂ™s role is a bounty hunter who takes down bad men, primarily wanted killers and criminals, for money, while John Wick is a retired assassin who now kills for vengeance.

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The gold coins and the hotels in the John Wick series are also references to westerns since several characters kill for money and live luxuriously. Like Clint Eastwood's character in Leone's series, Keanu's John Wick is a man of few words and an expert marksman, who has enough money and weapons to take on numerous enemies. The John Wick films are modern-day westerns inspired by Sergio Leone's The Man With No Name trilogy. The first John Wick film was a surprise hit at the box office in the fall of 2014, and its sequels were even bigger, becoming another major and successful series for ageless star Keanu Reeves. Who would have thought that Keanu Reeves had another action franchise in him? Ever since John Wick was released seven years ago, and a couple of sequels after that (with more on the way), it has become one of the best action series that ranks alongside the Jason Bourne franchise and is reminiscent of the Western genre.