Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham's film highlights the inseparability between stars and heroes they play.
stars in terms of how many times they want to be hit on screen, how many punches they throw, and how many fights they’re willing to lose, if any. For those who have been following the franchise for a while, this particular revelation is nothing new. The highly-anticipated fight between Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson in ended in a draw, neither actor wanting to appear the loser.
We’ve seen plenty of heroes take blow after blow, and walk away bloody and beaten, John Wick for example. Butis a multi-billion dollar property, one of the few able to claim a space within the Thunderdome of superhero movies. And for that property work, its protagonists have to take on a kind of superhuman quality that transcends their characters, but not too superhuman. At the end of the day, we’re not seeing these characters fly or shoot lasers from their eyes.
Early in the film, Shaw makes a pointed remark about one of the cars in his collection, one he used for a job in Italy, a clear reference to Statham’s film reference in there too when Shaw gets a jolt of electricity courtesy of Brixton. Johnson gets to pull out references from his own catalogue with his signature eyebrow raise from his superstar wrestler days, and shares a scene with an air marshal, played by Kevin Hart with whom Johnson has co-starred with in.
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