Most of them wouldn’t be out of place in a regular action movie (albeit with a cute kitten running around) and Atencio’s eye for the action scenes means the film remains ever-so-slightly grounded even when it involves a Mexican standoff with a certain comedic actress playing herself. It helps that its action scenes are taken relatively seriously. Keanu is smart-stupid comedy, silliness with a point, and the creative team behind it has chosen the perfect vehicle for it. Rell’s convinced that dropping his voice an octave and letting the n-bombs fly will make up for his crippling insecurity, while Clarence adopts an unhinged persona that threatens to come crumbling down when his love of George Michael is exposed. Keanu is an action movie parody, yes, but it’s also based around the fact that while these dudes may outwardly appear a certain way, it doesn’t come automatically to them to hold their own with some career criminals. Often, they played characters inhabiting an atypical blackness or having a certain form of blackness applied to them against their will ( this movie theatre hecklers sketch is a good example). Key and Peele’s overarching concern on their television show was with the performance of blackness. (Apparently, production on Keanu began before John Wick was ever released, though the story doesn’t say if the cat was named Keanu so early on.) Keanu has been presented in most avenues as a parody of 2014 Keanu Reeves movie John Wick, with which it shares a similar pet-based motive, but in truth it has more to do with “hood” films and various urban action movies of the David Ayer variety. The buttoned-down, dorky Clarence and Rell (under the highly inauspicious nicknames of Tectonic and Shark Tank) must enter the world of the Blips (“they’re the guys who got kicked out of the Bloods AND the Crips”), a criminal underworld extremely far removed from their own realities in order to bring Keanu back home. Rell learns from his drug-dealer neighbour Hulka (Will Forte) that his home may have been accidentally targeted and that a drug dealer named Cheddar (Method Man) may be in possession of Keanu. When Rell returns from the latest “ Liam Neesons movie” with his cousin Clarence (Keegan-Michael Key), he finds to his dismay that his house has been broken into and Keanu has vanished. Keanu turns Rell’s life around he inspires him to start working again and gives him a reason to want to live. While it’s very much in line with what they did on their TV show, it’s hardly a Run Ronnie Run situation.Īfter a particularly harsh break-up, Rell (Jordan Peele) is comforted by the appearance at his door of a tiny kitten he adopts and names Keanu. Keanu isn’t really an adaptation of a specific sketch but more like an expanded idea for a sketch. the already-cinematic eye of director Peter Atencio during the series showed that the move would require minimal upscaling and their love of cinema was made apparent throughout the series. It seemed inevitable that Comedy Central’s Key & Peele would eventually move to the big screen. The downside is that this often ends up spreading things too thin as evidenced by the great majority of films born from Saturday Night Live sketches. The instinct is always go bigger, gather more resources to play with and flesh out the backstories of characters that often do little more than one or two things per sketch. Even the cases that did work ( Wayne’s World… others, I’m sure) had to make a significant move away from the core concept. If I am in the drag and drop wizard, and click on an object, if it jumps, I can't undo the jump, and have to remember to realign everything after I finish the wizard.Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key in KeanuĮxpanding a sketch premise to a full movie has rarely, if ever, been beneficial to the material. I then have to hit "undo offset position" before I can carry on with what I want to do. over and over.Īlso, if I click on an object, the object will jump to a new offset position on the screen. I click on that item, and it jumps, and I have to scroll. I then have to scroll back down to click the next object that is now off the screen. Then I have to scroll back down to the object that is now off the screen.įor Example: If I want to click on several items to group them or to move them, each time I click on an item, the screen jumps back to the top. When I zoom in on my screen to work on specific elements at the bottom of the screen, every time I click anything the screen jumps back to the top. I'm workington a slide presentation with drag and drop activities. I'm using Captivate 10.0.1.285 on Mac High Sierra.
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