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Existe uma prática de nicho de projetar filmes em prédios ou telhados em NY que inspirou parcialmente o cenário de abertura de John Wick 2 . O diretor do JW2, Chad Stahelski, descreveu a inspiração (e sua escolha de Buster Keaton) em entrevista ao Slash Film , dizendo:
We’re big fans of silent movies, or silent storytelling, or visual storytelling as opposed to just exposition. So I had to reveal what we’ve already determined is kind of a mythological figure. Once again, let’s just stick to what we know, we’ll just do it with... When I say action I just don’t mean stunts, I mean let’s just tell a story [visually]. It’s a wacky city [...] and as a little nod to our established audience, we want everybody to know that we’re making fun of ourselves. We’re gonna start with Buster Keaton.
We went to New York, and we saw all these kids from the NYC film school, and it was awesome, they’re just walking around with [t]his little projector on a little red wagon. It was really funny. With a little generator, they’re projecting all these silent movie images up on buildings and taking pictures, and that was part of their art project. Like, that’s f#@&ing genius. Yeah, I just talked to the kid, “I’m gonna steal your s#!@, man.” So I was like, I’m gonna get the right to a Buster Keaton film, and I’m gonna project it on a wall, to let everybody know out there we’re making a fun action movie.
Mas não são apenas estudantes de cinema. Este artigo de 2009 do New York Times descreve a prática através de um casal em NY projetando filmes no terraço seus amigos (como Jessica Jones) e menciona uma organização do Brooklyn que faz isso regularmente :
O Rooftop Films existe desde 1997, projetando curtas independentes e recursos conhecidos contra cenários de NY para grandes audiências. (Eles normalmente colocam telas nos edifícios pretendidos, no entanto.)What they found was nothing short of their own personal movie theater. The rooftop of their fourth-floor walk-up, besides affording majestic views of Manhattan, includes a white wall — a perfect surface for showing a movie. [...] Screening movies up on the roof is nothing new, of course. Rooftop Films, based in Brooklyn, has been doing it on summer weekends for years.