The motion film majesty of the “John Wick” sequence has at all times been its predominant draw, nevertheless it’s made much more efficient by the mythology behind the titular character. Baba Yaga, the boogeyman, is an murderer so feared by the prison underworld that even essentially the most heartless crime lords tremble on the point out of his title. In “John Wick,” it was Russian mafia boss Viggo Tarasov (Michael Nyqvist) who tells his son that Wick is “the one you ship to kill the f***ing boogeyman” and that he as soon as noticed Wick “kill three males in a bar with a pencil.” For the sequel, Stahelski and the staff wanted to remind individuals why Baba Yaga is so feared. That meant kicking off proceedings with an analogous speech, this time delivered by Abram Tarasov (Peter Stormare), Viggo’s brother, who repeats the pencil line.

For Keanu Reeves, whose dedication to performing nearly all of Wick’s struggle scenes and stunts borders on obsessive, he merely needed to see that exact facet of his character’s mythology in motion the second time round. He relayed how he was adamant that the pencil needed to make it into “John Wick: Chapter 2,” through Web page Six: “Chad is so enthusiastic about not simply motion, however the character within the motion, and what is the storytelling. Within the second [film], I actually fought for getting the pencil struggle. It was talked about within the first one and I used to be like, ‘Guys, we gotta do a pencil struggle!'”

With Reeves pushing for some pencil motion to make it into the film, Stahelski went forward and deliberate a now-famous sequence wherein Wick gruesomely dispatches two assassins with the writing utensil within the entrance to a subway station.