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Keanu Reeves: Most Triumphant
by Alex Pappademas
adventurous
funny
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
This is not a sordid celebrity biography, this being about Keanu Reeves after all; what kind of torrid reveals could even be uncovered at this point in time? Especially if the scandals and the secrets are most likely just not there, since countless detractors have tried and failed to find any that would stick.
He's too clean, humble, and unknown to the public in any true capacity due to Reeves' tendency to abandon any attempt to explain himself in interviews, always maintaining a wall of privacy completely alien in our celebrity-saturated culture of oversharing, so keeping that in mind, this is a book that tries to take on the task of understanding the man Keanu Reeves through the lens of Keanu Reeves the actor and the roles he has chosen and how they've been received. So this is a bit of a film nerd's book, but put with the specific context of tracing Reeves' impact on popular culture and the ways that society's embrace of his work has affected him.
So much of that premise is dependent on the fact that Keanu Reeves is just like a blank slate that people and culture at large project our hopes and desires on, and this book is made possible by how amorphous and zeitgeist-y Reeves is. Without that eternal mystery and endless ability to analyze him, yet probably not ever get closer to the truth of who he truly is and what goes through his mind, Most Triumphant couldn't exist.
The commendable amounts of research into all aspects of Reeves' films and the subtext of each and the circumstances around many of his most popular films are delivered with zinging humor and a disregard for the contempt of popcorn-ready action movies and aimless indie flicks critics and film afficionados usually reserve; there's never any judgement for Reeves' acting technique, but actually reverence and a philosophical delineation of how he acted in each role. This is a very cool, upbeat film critic's take on Keanu's career so far, and why he's become a cinema staple and a national treasure to both Canada and America.
Thanks to Abrams Image and Netgalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
He's too clean, humble, and unknown to the public in any true capacity due to Reeves' tendency to abandon any attempt to explain himself in interviews, always maintaining a wall of privacy completely alien in our celebrity-saturated culture of oversharing, so keeping that in mind, this is a book that tries to take on the task of understanding the man Keanu Reeves through the lens of Keanu Reeves the actor and the roles he has chosen and how they've been received. So this is a bit of a film nerd's book, but put with the specific context of tracing Reeves' impact on popular culture and the ways that society's embrace of his work has affected him.
So much of that premise is dependent on the fact that Keanu Reeves is just like a blank slate that people and culture at large project our hopes and desires on, and this book is made possible by how amorphous and zeitgeist-y Reeves is. Without that eternal mystery and endless ability to analyze him, yet probably not ever get closer to the truth of who he truly is and what goes through his mind, Most Triumphant couldn't exist.
The commendable amounts of research into all aspects of Reeves' films and the subtext of each and the circumstances around many of his most popular films are delivered with zinging humor and a disregard for the contempt of popcorn-ready action movies and aimless indie flicks critics and film afficionados usually reserve; there's never any judgement for Reeves' acting technique, but actually reverence and a philosophical delineation of how he acted in each role. This is a very cool, upbeat film critic's take on Keanu's career so far, and why he's become a cinema staple and a national treasure to both Canada and America.
Thanks to Abrams Image and Netgalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.