
#95 - John Wick (2014)
Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast
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The Power of Withholding Information
John Wick is a great example of sort of the opposite of what a lot of movies do and that like, there is great power in withholding information. We know him intimately but we really don't know anything about him. And so you have these, you just, you're hungry for more information about him. That gives it momentum just in itself, that desire to know more. So anyway, those are two things that I was struck by the second time watching this and I thought really instructive.
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