#Continental Films

[knightgazes]

DEATH'S VERY EMISSARY

John Wick IV dir. Chad Stahelski

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[williammarksommer]

The Continental Divide

Last summer I crossed Wyoming, looking for something I thought would be a change of life that turned out to be fraught. Changing perceptions creatively, I found this land between home and destination inspiring new ideas, a new series and further adventures to come.

The Continental Divide series

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Tmax 400iso

[mudwerks]

(via Pulp International - Cover and interiors from Continental Film Review published July 1967)

[thehauntedrocket]

Vintage Poster - Ghidrah, The Three-Headed Monster

Continental (1965)

[r1-jw-lover]

Koji Shimazu and the Osaka Continental - A Colour Theory

This is meant to be a continuation of the previous analysis I've done on the colour grading/lighting choices for some of the characters in the John Wick movie series, but I've got to dedicate a separate post for Koji Shimazu himself (and the entire Osaka act in general).

Before I go into it though, I would like to recommend you to first check out @evren-sadwrn's analysis [1, 2] on the Marquis de Gramont, John and Helen Wick as well as @bluelolblue's analysis [1, 2] on Santino and John.

Tagging @thewhumpcaretaker, @tobytheeggo, @babayagaiscomingforya and of course @saengak the number one Koji fan on Wickblr <3.

PART I: BLUE/RED

When you see the opening shots of the Osaka Continental and Koji's scenes before the raid, the entire hotel was lit by blue and red lights. I think this is very important to note because in the post where I talked about Akira and John, Akira was bathed blue lights in her introduction while John was bathed in red lights in his first scene in Osaka. Add on the fact that Koji's outift has both red and blue colours on it, the movie is already subtly telling us that Koji's loyalty lies in both Akira and John.

I think this just adds another layer to the tragedy that is the whole Osaka sequence. The blue/red lights may allude to one thing about Koji's character but may mean different things for Akira and John's character respectively. Plucking out from @evren-sadwrn's tags:

For Akira, the blue represents the normalcy of her life before John Wick's red showed up and began symbolising her delving into the path of vengeance and violence, like John himself. However for John, those blue/red lights are just neon lights to him, the Baba Yaga persona on full display as he was beginning to realise the consequences of his rebellion, something which costed his friend's life and inevitably produced another John Wick in Akira.

PART II: YELLOW

Now, there are two scenes in the Osaka act that's bathed in yellow lights, the first one being Akira telling Koji about the news of the New York Continental being blown up, and the second being Koji confronting Chidi and the Myrmidons, which could only lead us to one conclusion.

I believe the yellow neon, in this context, represents the Marquis de Gramont and the looming threat he posed to the very existence of the Osaka Continental.

And when you mix blue and red respectively with yellow, well, this leads us directly to the next part of this analysis.

PART III: GREEN/ORANGE

The Osaka raid started, and the hotel lights changed to green and orange. (BLUE + YELLOW = GREEN, RED + YELLOW = ORANGE)

I know that people have extrapolated that the green not so subtly symbolises the start of the highly-anticipated action that is expected from a John Wick movie, like how the green light of a traffic light means 'go', but I want to extrapolate more meaning from this choice of lighting.

Green is a distortion of the colour blue, and is the opposite of red based on the colour wheel. Going by what we have established above being Akira=blue and John=red, green could imply Koji's choice distorting Akira's desire to keep the peace of their hotel in favour of protecting John and letting him go off alive.

In a similar way, orange is the distortion of red and the opposite of blue. Orange could possibly mean that Koji's choice (and his death) inevitably turned his daughter closer towards a path of vengeance and violence, the path John Wick had taken that Koji himself chastised him for during their meeting on the rooftop.

PART IV: THE EXCEPTIONS

The locations that didn't turn to green and orange lights in the Osaka Continental is the kitchen and the modern art gallery, both of which stayed blue (and yellow in the case of the kitchen), and that's because none of them featured Koji. Instead, the focus of the these two scenes are given to another character: Caine.

The yellow in the kitchen scene could easily represent Caine being used as the Marquis' weapon during the Osaka siege. For John, we know that neon lights, no matter the color, represent his Baba Yaga side. For Caine, however, what does the colour blue mean to his character in this context, within the Osaka act?

During Caine's introduction, more precisely, in the only scene in the movie where Mia appeared in (except for the post-credit scene), the location where they filmed had a clear blue sky. In trying to protect Mia, Caine was in a way also trying to protect Akira too. This is especially clear with the way Caine tried to convince Koji countless times to surrender John. Unfortunately, Koji cared for Akira and John equally and was willing to sacrifice his life to protect both of them.

And because he killed her father, Caine ironically became the person Akira held so much anger against from this whole event that happened to her. He fulfilled Koji's wish of letting John escape (hence the green colour), and he was the push that drove Akira to seek revenge (hence the orange colour). Caine was even self-aware of this since he told Akira that he would be waiting for her.

This is what makes the Koji vs Caine duel so fucking tragic and the post-credit scene even more heartbreaking.

[fandomnerd9602]

Idk if you know what this franchise is, but can I request a bad boys for life Rita x male John wick reader plz🙏

Mike: we're pinned down!

Rita: don't worry I got backup!

Y/N bursts into the room, wiping out the bad guys and stabbing the last one with a pencil...

Y/N: baby?! are you okay??!

Rita runs out and hugs Y/N tightly...

Rita: I missed you. I missed your eyes.

Y/N: I missed your soul.

Mike just stares at the carnage...

Mike: is that man stabbed with a pencil?!

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The Patriot (2000)

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How’s That For Skillful Driving? “The Man Called Flintstone” (1966)

[trendfilmsetter]

ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT released in theaters 12 years ago today.

[silliestcolressfan]

>_<

[phierie]

I thought the John Wick Continental show was very okay overall, but pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the take on young Winston! Kind of a shame it's over so soon :^)

[scrumpledunkus]

Check this out...find out if your fave movie is better than ice age flipping 4

[williammarksommer]

Wyoming

The Continental Divide series

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Tmax 400iso

[mudwerks]

(via Pulp International - Cover and interiors from Continental Film Review published July 1967)

[thehauntedrocket]

Vintage Poster - Night Of The Living Dead

Continental (1968)