MelvilleвЂ™s work has inspired countless filmmakers around the world, including Jim Jarmusch (whose Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is practically an English-language Le SamouraГЇ remake), Quentin Tarantino (whose Kill Bill twists MelvilleвЂ™s cool into something poppier and more personal), John Woo, Johnnie To, Takeshi Kitano, and more. The other is Jean-Pierre MelvilleвЂ™s 1967 film Le SamouraГЇ, which tells a similar story but with fewer bare-knuckle action sequences and more existential ennui. One is Donald WestlakeвЂ™s first вЂњParkerвЂќ novel, 1962вЂ™s The Hunter (written under the pseudonym Richard Stark), about a meticulous heist artist who methodically murders his way up the mob hierarchy after his confederates betray him. But modern noir storytellers keep referencing two particular sacred texts. The basic concept of a disgruntled gangster getting even with the yeggs who screwed him goes back at least as far as HollywoodвЂ™s 1930s Jimmy Cagney and Edward G. No matter how elaborate the John Wick movies get, they all call back to one of the more tried-and-true pulp subgenres: the underworld revenge thriller.

John Wick: Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 built up the mythology of that demimonde, pitting ReevesвЂ™ superhumanly lethal antihero against wave after wave of mercenary goons, all looking to take him out for violating the вЂњrulesвЂќ of hired gunnery. But critics quickly spread the word that this film was something special: a refreshingly lean, witty, inventive shoot-вЂ™em-up about a retired assassin who goes after the thugs who killed his dog, then ends up wreaking havoc throughout a surprisingly orderly and stratified international network of criminal cartels. The early John Wick trailers made it look like just another dopey B-movie starring the not-always-super-selective Keanu Reeves. The long afterlife of the offbeat 2014 action thriller John Wick has been one of the more cheering developments of recent popular culture.

Because John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum opens this weekend.

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