Wick Is Pain

You know, you fucking vapor lock when you're in fucking pain. 881 00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:41,845 -Oh, right, killing the dog. -Yeah. 882 00:44:44,014 --> 00:44:45,933 Oof. 883 00:44:46,100 --> 00:44:48,102 You should have heard that test screening the first time. Oof. 884 00:44:48,268 --> 00:44:49,770 Never won that audience back. 885 00:44:49,978 --> 00:44:51,438 -Oh, yeah? -Oh, yeah. 886 00:44:51,605 --> 00:44:53,565 Our first test screening-- 887 00:44:53,732 --> 00:44:55,359 -How'd that go? -That dog-- That dog went. 888 00:44:55,567 --> 00:44:57,361 The audience went quiet, 889 00:44:57,569 --> 00:44:59,947 and people were walking out. 890 00:45:00,114 --> 00:45:02,491 The movie was still pretty rough. It was still really long. 891 00:45:02,658 --> 00:45:04,201 But yeah, it got weird. 892 00:45:04,410 --> 00:45:09,164 It is one of the most famous principles in Hollywood 893 00:45:09,331 --> 00:45:10,749 is you never kill a dog. 894 00:45:10,916 --> 00:45:13,210 As soon as a dog is killed, 895 00:45:13,419 --> 00:45:18,340 you almost always are losing a big chunk of the audience. 896 00:45:18,507 --> 00:45:21,510 -Oh, yeah, the blood shot. -Yeah, blood shot. 897 00:45:21,677 --> 00:45:24,722 The puppy crawled his way back to his owner before he died. 898 00:45:26,098 --> 00:45:27,599 When these dailies got back, 899 00:45:27,808 --> 00:45:30,144 we actually got a stern talking to about, 900 00:45:30,310 --> 00:45:33,772 "Oh, fuck, you guys. What are you-- like, what the fuck are you guys doing?" 901 00:45:33,939 --> 00:45:35,149 You cannot kill the dog. 902 00:45:36,358 --> 00:45:39,570 "You're doing puppy porn, like, gore." 903 00:45:39,737 --> 00:45:42,823 I'm like, "No, man, we got the baby lens on. It's going to be really artistic." 904 00:45:42,990 --> 00:45:45,951 They're like, "The puppy's intestines are on the floor." 905 00:45:46,118 --> 00:45:47,703 I'm like, "It's not intestines. It's just blood." 906 00:45:47,870 --> 00:45:49,621 We had a whole argument about that shot. 907 00:45:49,788 --> 00:45:53,125 I remember shooting the dog's death, 908 00:45:53,292 --> 00:45:57,212 and Keanu was on the floor crying with this stuffed beagle. 909 00:45:58,964 --> 00:46:00,257 And at that moment, you're like, 910 00:46:00,424 --> 00:46:02,843 "This is either genius or, 911 00:46:03,051 --> 00:46:04,720 like, the worst thing I've ever made." 912 00:46:04,887 --> 00:46:06,180 We always knew we were gonna do it. 913 00:46:06,346 --> 00:46:07,931 Oh, yeah. I mean, it's the movie. 914 00:46:08,098 --> 00:46:09,433 There were others that kept trying to talk us out of it, 915 00:46:09,516 --> 00:46:10,768 but we're like, "No, we got to kill the"-- 916 00:46:11,268 --> 00:46:12,936 You got to-- Where's the movie? 917 00:46:12,978 --> 00:46:15,272 Yeah, we didn't have a movie without the puppy. 918 00:46:15,522 --> 00:46:17,941 No, you got to kill the puppy so you're killing the attachment. 919 00:46:18,066 --> 00:46:20,360 But I think there was more talks about that. 920 00:46:20,527 --> 00:46:22,154 There was that and then killing Alfie at the end. 921 00:46:22,321 --> 00:46:24,615 You can't just kill Alfie Allen cold-blooded like we did, 922 00:46:24,782 --> 00:46:26,366 'cause that's pretty icy fucking cold. 923 00:46:26,533 --> 00:46:29,369 -Iosef, got to go. -You can't kill the puppy. 924 00:46:29,536 --> 00:46:30,788 -And his wife-- -Puppy's gotta go. 925 00:46:30,954 --> 00:46:32,956 And his wife has to-- We have to find out 926 00:46:33,123 --> 00:46:34,833 that his wife was poisoned by the bad guys. 927 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:36,794 No, the wife has to die. 928 00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:39,713 Those were the three notes we got back from certain peoples. 929 00:46:39,922 --> 00:46:43,592 Even the night we were doing the puppy, we knew we had something good when-- 930 00:46:43,759 --> 00:46:45,761 I think because we shot that push-in over the blood first. 931 00:46:45,928 --> 00:46:47,262 Yeah. 932 00:46:47,513 --> 00:46:48,847 And then, you're just petting the puppy. 933 00:46:48,972 --> 00:46:50,057 Yeah. 934 00:46:50,224 --> 00:46:51,183 We're like, "That's awesome. 935 00:46:51,350 --> 00:46:52,851 That's going in the movie." 936 00:46:53,018 --> 00:46:54,895 And there was a lot of talk behind monitors that, 937 00:46:55,062 --> 00:46:58,232 like, "Oh, no, we got to shoot a second... a second version." 938 00:46:58,398 --> 00:47:00,442 Chad wasn't much of a dog person back then. 939 00:47:00,609 --> 00:47:02,820 Now he's got dogs, and he's a dog person, 940 00:47:02,986 --> 00:47:04,822 and he's embraced them, and he's done movies with dogs, 941 00:47:04,988 --> 00:47:06,740 and he's trained them since they were puppies, 942 00:47:06,949 --> 00:47:09,535 and they bite people i