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Why Keanu Reeves Deserves Credit for Forever Changing the Action Hero with His Role in ‘Speed’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan.
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Speaker 2: Seacrest, Kanu reeves nineteen ninety four hit action film Speed
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Speaker 2: made a massive impact on the box office, on Keanu's career,
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Speaker 2: and on the action genre in general, But the story
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Speaker 2: of who wrote it is a bit more complicated. It's
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Speaker 2: credited to Graham Yost, who's responsible for the concept, characters,
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Speaker 2: and major plot points, but Joss Whedon polished the script
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Speaker 2: and is rumored to have written ninety percent of its dialogue. Shockingly,
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Speaker 2: Joss didn't receive any credit in the end, and another
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Speaker 2: creative deserves credit as well, Keanu Reeves himself. Joss tells
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Speaker 2: the Fifty Mile per Hour podcast, Kanu did research for
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Speaker 2: the role by hanging out with the Swat guys and
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Speaker 2: told me they were unfailingly polite, that they were only
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Speaker 2: about diffusing the situation. They call everybody sir or ma'am.
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Speaker 2: That clicked.
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Speaker 1: That was it.
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Speaker 2: I understood this character now, who wasn't a hot shot,
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Speaker 2: he was a lateral thinker. Kanu's observations ended up reimagining
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Speaker 2: the kind of hero at the center of a blockbuster
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Speaker 2: Ripples that can still be filt in movies today.
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