This was such a great and entertaining video. I wish it was longer, JDW is indeed charming, but base on the views barley anybody is watching it. Tbh the general audience doesn't seems to care that much about this movie.
The new trailer has indie level views, which is weird because it's definitely edited more for the general public compared to the first one who was more artsy and slow paced. Ad the whole pandemic situation and if Tenet is release this summer it will be a huge bomb.
This was such a great and entertaining video. I wish it was longer, JDW is indeed charming, but base on the views barley anybody is watching it. Tbh the general audience doesn't seems to care that much about this movie.
The new trailer has indie level views, which is weird because it's definitely edited more for the general public compared to the first one who was more artsy and slow paced. Ad the whole pandemic situation and if Tenet is release this summer it will be a huge bomb.
This was such a great and entertaining video. I wish it was longer, JDW is indeed charming, but base on the views barley anybody is watching it. Tbh the general audience doesn't seems to care that much about this movie.
The new trailer has indie level views, which is weird because it's definitely edited more for the general public compared to the first one who was more artsy and slow paced. Ad the whole pandemic situation and if Tenet is release this summer it will be a huge bomb.
keep in mind that Esquire`s youtube channel barely has 60 thousand subs, and the new trailer for Tenet has been up for less than a week, it already has 5,8 million views, it took the first trailer 5 months to reach 20 million.
John David Washington On The Personal Challenges Of August Wilson’s ‘The Piano Lesson’, Working With Chris Nolan & Why He Feels He Can Now Handle Any Role
DEADLINE: Going back to Tenet briefly. I think as a culture mostly because it was the pandemic, we didn’t realize or discuss how rad it was that you were the first Black protagonist in a Nolan film. Did you guys discuss that at all or were you aware of how interesting it was?
WASHINGTON: I think what was so brilliant, which is one of the reasons I know Nolan is a real one, is because he didn’t sensationalize it. He didn’t say we’re on the precipice of history or anything like that. He just said he’s a man. He’s the protagonist. I know who I picked, and I think that kind of thinking was what I was very excited about. Now, of course, I thought about it because first I’m in a Nolan film and yeah there’s a Black dude with a beard on the cover. He’s never done that before, so it was rock and roll, man. He was shaking up the industry with that hire to me. I was very aware of it and didn’t take that kind of responsibility lightly.
I feel like he's the most divisive character/performance to lead a Nolan film. Some people think JDW was flat and uncharismatic, others thought the opposite. Some liked his character, others thought he had none. And obviously plenty hated that he was referred to as The Protagonist.
What makes him different is that he's probably the least traditional Nolan main character bar the guys in Dunkirk. He doesn't have a dark past, his morals aren't grey aside from some manipulative tactics and the film doesn't call to his personal life and tie it into the story.
He's meant to be the closest thing to an "average" person in a story like this and he's more someone who gains knowledge about his situation and place in this chaotic situation than someone with a complex character arc. He does change admittedly and like other main characters in CN's films, comes to a realisation about his situation by the end, especially with Neil. But it's not the kind of arc where he goes from good to bad or bad to good, or one where he reunites with his family.
It does feel like it's more of an origin story for his character than anything and if you were to compare it to Bond, it feels like a What If scenario or two: "What if M didn't know he was M?" and "What if M and Bond served together?"
