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Det finns en nisch övning av att projicera filmer på byggnader eller hustak i NY som delvis inspirerade öppningsplatsen för John Wick 2 . JW2: s regissör Chad Stahelski beskrev inspirationen (och hans val av Buster Keaton) i this intervju till Slash Film och säger:
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.
Men det är inte bara filmstudenter. Denna New York Times artikel 2009 beskriver övningen genom ett par i NY som projicerar rooftopfilmer för deras vänner (som Jessica Jones) och nämner en Brooklyn organisation som gör detta regelbundet :
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.
Rooftop Films har funnits sedan 1997, projicera självständiga shorts och kända funktioner mot NY-bakgrunden för stor publik. (De placerar vanligtvis skärmar på de avsedda byggnaderna.)