The Big Picture Though Monkey Man has drawn John Wick comparisons since its plot was revealed, the distinctions are clear. Where Chad Stahelski and Keanu Reeves have mastered the art of a frenetic ballet that packs a punch, first-time director and star Dev Patel was conscious of creating a tooth-and-nail action film that feels "jagged." Still, it doesn't hurt to have John Wick producers backing your first-ever movie, though it wasn't without its challenges.
PATEL: I mean, I hope for loads of other people. I hope this kicks the door open like Slumdog did. It's about representation. It's about infusing the genre with new stories, new perspectives, different cultural kinds of viewpoints. So, that's the mission accomplished, I guess. So it's been, like, 15 years since Skins. Do you think at any point down the road there will be some sort of reunion or some sort of something to celebrate? That was a big thing for a whole generation.
PATEL: It was like the paint wasn't even dry on the film. We’d literally just finished the DI and I'd done a quick mad scramble pass at the sound on the movie. There were some issues technically at the beginning of the film and I was absolutely losing my mind. I was like, “I'm ready to be hung, drawn and quartered.” And just an amount of goodwill for the film, for me, it was very overwhelming.
PATEL: We didn't show it to many people. At one point, when I was really struggling, the director of Lion, Garth, I sent it to him. Garth, the stuff he responds to, he's like, “Now I know why you're doing the movie.” He looked right through the action, because I knew the action was sitting at a good place, and he went right to the philosophy and the religion and the spiritualism. He's just someone I trusted, and so he was great.
PATEL: I think for me, it's like, I was in my twenties when I started writing it and then I shot it when I was, I don't know, 29, 30. For me, it's nothing. There's no pretentiousness about it. You see my heart and soul, bits that work, bits that didn't. The working out is on the page and there for everyone to see. But I threw everything at it, and I'm proud of it.
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