{"id":1609,"date":"2017-07-09T19:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T19:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/07\/09\/whoa-is-me-keanu-reeves-saddest-roles-from-my-own-private-idaho-to-john-wick\/"},"modified":"2017-07-09T19:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T19:00:32","slug":"whoa-is-me-keanu-reeves-saddest-roles-from-my-own-private-idaho-to-john-wick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/07\/09\/whoa-is-me-keanu-reeves-saddest-roles-from-my-own-private-idaho-to-john-wick\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoa Is Me: Keanu Reeves\u2019 Saddest Roles, From \u2018My Own Private Idaho\u2019 to \u2018John Wick\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve all seen the Sad Keanu memes, and a number of details from the \u201cPoint Break\u201d and \u201cMatrix\u201d star\u2019s biography do indeed point toward tragedy. The actor is known for thrilling us rather than saddening us nevertheless, not that there aren\u2019t a few exceptions to prove the rule (even if none of them involve him eating a sandwich on his lonesome).<\/span><\/p>\n

With \u201cTo the Bone\u201d premiering on Netflix this Friday, take a moment to relive some of Keanu’s saddest performances.<\/span><\/p>\n

“My Own Private Idaho<\/a>”<\/h3>\n

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Maybe it\u2019s the fact that he\u2019s acting opposite River Phoenix, a friend who died just two years after Gus Van Sant\u2019s early classic was released, but it\u2019s hard not to feel for Keanu in \u201cMy Own Private Idaho.\u201d A soon-to-be-wealthy heir, his Scott is always looking after his narcoleptic best friend (Phoenix, whose character is also in love with his bestie); they cover a lot of ground during their journey, but don\u2019t exactly have a happy destination. Scott is last seen attending his father’s funeral, leaving him financially secure and potentially friendless \u2014 if only their bond were as strong as the one between Theodore Logan and Bill S. Preston, Esq.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Bram Stoker’s Dracula”<\/h3>\n

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Not his best performance, but one of his most ambitious. Bad things have a habit of befalling anyone who hangs around a certain Transylvanian count, whose hunger for blood is insatiable. Jonathan Harker doesn\u2019t have an easy go of it, and neither did Keanu after Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s take on that most famous of vampires as released: Much of the \u201cKeanu can\u2019t act\u201d discourse centers around \u201cDracula,\u201d which few would argue finds him at this best. But it does demonstrate how internalized the oft-underrated actor’s style can be, as though it’s more difficult for him to coax whatever emotions he might be feeling to the surface than it is for other performers. That’s sad in and of itself, and a reminder that Keanu’s talents are better suited to a certain kind of material.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Matrix Revolutions”<\/h3>\n

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The final chapter in the \u201cMatrix\u201d trilogy made pretty much everybody sad, though not necessarily for the right seasons. Still, there\u2019s no denying that the film finds Neo at his most forlorn \u2014 forced to soldier on after the death of his beloved, he eventually makes the ultimate sacrifice to ensure that no more lives are lost in the Great Robot War (that\u2019s what it\u2019s called, right?). All the fun and action of the original movie (and, to a lesser extent, the first sequel as well) gradually give way to a brooding, at times laborious atmosphere of dread. Talk about bogus.<\/span><\/p>\n

“A Scanner Darkly<\/a>”<\/h3>\n

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“I saw death rising from the earth, from the ground itself, in one blue field…a present for my friends at Thanksgiving.\u201d Richard Linklater\u2019s rotoscoped adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel shifts tones throughout, but the book’s status as a memorial to the author’s friends whom drugs got the best of informs its melancholy arc. Keanu plays a detective who\u2019s in over his head without realizing it, and though the film is mordantly funny it\u2019s also increasingly sad \u2014 especially as concerns the animated gumshoe. Substance D: just say no.<\/span><\/p>\n

“John Wick<\/a>”<\/h3>\n

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Widely seen as a return to form for the action star, this franchise-starter is also born of grief. Reeves plays the title character, who\u2019s already mourning his wife when bad guys with no idea what they\u2019ve just done kill his precious doggo. The despair this instills in our trigger-happy hero is nothing compared to the grief he visits upon his enemies. As is often the case in his action movies, though, Reeves doesn\u2019t delight in taking lives and exacting vengeance \u2014 there\u2019s a certain melancholy to his murder, and neither his wife nor his pup is ever far from his mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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