No because if Chad Stahelski doesn't drop the Impossible Task, I will write it myself and it'll be WickedSaint. I even have ideas, so Chad... gimme, but I'll still write my version bc yes. I need desperate Santino, I just need Santino feeling proud bc John Wick asked HIM for help (crush asked him out, date idea was killing ppl <3). Imagine, Santino was trying to prove himself to his father, who always had higher expectations, and apparently nothing was good enough, but then JOHN WICK THE BOOGEYMAN asked specifically Santino for help. His father must be rolling in his grave but fuck him, Santino was suffering. And the trust between Santino and John, you could see in the movie how much they trusted each other (until that trust got unfortunately broken). So something definitely happened, John doesn't just trust people. Yes, the marker and all that but still there was some level of respect. (And kissing).
I yapped a lot but I wanted to hear your thoughts on the Impossible Task AHAH
Soooooo I learned a little bit about how to write a film treatment (a kind of outline written before the script) and I went ahead and wrote one for The Impossible Task! I tried to make this completely canon-compliant and something that Chad Stahelski could actually make without breaking his franchise (even if he won't T_T). So, it's short and action-packed, and isn't exactly how I'd like to think things happened, but it fits better with the John Wick movies somewhat than what I usually write for wickedsaint. I have a lot of conflicted feelings about it, especially with how it compares Helen and Santino, but I did my best. This was fun to make!!
P.S. it also relies on some of the plot points from @mrssimply's story, because I'm not that good at coming up with what the impossible task was actually all about. I think she wrote that it was about killing all the crime lords in the area at once, and I reused that idea.
ā„ā„ The Impossible Task ā„ā„
Log Line: John Wick asks his former lover to help him one last time in escaping the business, resulting in a nostalgic, heartbreaking postmortem on their doomed love affair.
TW: canon-typical violence, alcohol, homophobia from Santino's father, what could be interpreted as suicidal ideation from Santino but it's not overt
We open on a dreamy sequence, similar to the opening of John Wick Chapter One. It's cutting between a young John Wick in the Tarkovsky Theater, reading The Little Mermaid (the sad, Hans Christian Anderson version), and a young Santino reading the same book. Santino is dressed in all black, and so is John. Eventually we see that Santino is hiding from everyone at his mother's funeral. He is called away from his book to talk to important people. He refuses, but is dragged offscreen anyway. John is also called away, by The Director, who is scolding him that he should be practicing. He quickly hides the book and runs offscreen too. But we see both boys look back towards the places where the two books are hidden.
We cut to some five years before the events of the John Wick movies. We see John raise his head from under bloody bathwater. Helen is bathing him. She begs him to quit his work and come to her world. He agrees, and kisses her.Ā
Next, we see John coming to Viggo, requesting to leave. Heās ādressed for a resignation.ā Viggo thinks, and says that in return, he must kill every other crime lord in the New York tristate area. John protests that it would have to be done all at once, or they would warn each other and flee. Viggo shrugs and says that is the impossible task.Ā
Realizing he canāt do this alone, John sneaks into the DāAntonio estate in Rome. Itās a reversal of the similar scene from John Wick 2. Gianna sees him and tells him that he shouldnāt be here, and to stay away from her little brother before he gets them both killed. John protests that it would be his own funeral, not Santinoās. Gianna says he knows better, implying how violent Giovanni (Santino's father) is, but Santino walks in at that moment.Ā
John and Santino talk, with John explaining that he needs someone who the New York crime lords trust to gather them all in one place. Itās tense. We get the sense that Santino dumped John at some point, but we donāt know why. John doesnāt seem to know why either. John says that he remembers what Santino told him, to come back if he ever seriously needed help. Now he does. He wants Santino to gather everyone in one place, which he is trusted enough to do. Santino asks for his oath in blood.
The next thing we see is the two of them exchanging the marker back in New York, with Winston as their witness. The scene is intercut with flashbacks to a sex scene in a Continental hotel room (itās fairly PG, but there are some very intense kisses and Santino begging and moaning). Santinoās dirty talk includes asking John to swear that heāll always serve him when heās needed. John swears, with āthe devilā as his witness. Back in the present day, the two of them conclude the marker ceremony and return to their respective hotel rooms alone.
The two of them suit up for the day. Itās a classic āJohn Wick getting dressedā scene, except that weāre seeing the same thing for Santino as well. In addition to getting suited up, John buys weapons, including bombs, while Santino starts making phone calls inviting everyone to a boat party that will take place on the New York bay that night. We can see that the plan is to place bombs on the boat, and that Santino will not be onboard once the bombs detonate. He will leave via life raft. We also see that Santino canāt persuad everyone - John has two people to kill who declined the invitation. So he wonāt be around while the boat party is happening.
While John is planting the bombs on the boat an hour or two later, we see that Helen is watching from a car nearby, with a medical kit in the vehicle. She is tailing John, presumably to protect him. She looks scared but determined. He doesnāt see her. Meanwhile, Santino shows up at the boat. John scolds him for being there - itās important that it look like Santino had no involvement in the plot and that this is risky. But Santino just jokes around and hovers over John, seemingly wanting to take this last chance to be close to him. He says he is coming with John on the first kill, āfor old timeās sake,ā and heās not bringing his bodyguards. John will be his bodyguard for now. There will be plenty of time to get back to the boat, he says. John reluctantly agrees. He looks painfully nostalgic - we can see that he misses Santino on some level. Finally, we see Helen watching them together, but we donāt see her face. Is she jealous, or no?
They attack the first target early in the day, around noon. The target works in a high end fashion design business as a front, and the store is full of wedding dresses (yes, weāre going full camp.) Things get complicated when the targetās guards get involved, chasing them throughout the building. John takes a lot of trouble to ensure that Santinoās suit is not damaged for the party later. There are lots of antics with the wedding dresses - white dresses covered in blood, white heels used as weapons, etc. Santino is getting increasingly manic throughout all of this as he contemplates John getting married to someone else and eventually ends up with a wedding veil over his head somehow, trying to joke about a situation that hurts him deeply. The fight scene ends. Theyāre both severely wounded but John has managed not to get much blood on Santino.
Helen comes in and reveals herself to give John medical supplies. John is very upset that sheās there, as he says itās too risky. Santino seems to take this personally - itās too dangerous for Helen, but itās fine if he risks himself? Of course, thatās different because he has training with weapons and she doesnāt, but it doesnāt feel that way for him at the moment. Also, he and Helen are in the same room and itās awkward. Itās clear that Santino feels threatened and insecure but Helen does not. She thanks Santino for helping to set her future husband free. Santino looks miserable and says something snappy. John gets mad at him - no one treats Helen like that. And it was Santinoās choice to give up on their love. Pretty rich of him to be jealous now. Frustrated, Santino leaves to get back to the boat. Thereās not much time left.Ā
John heads to the second target. He doesnāt bother to send Helen away this time - sheās coming no matter what, and it will be better if he can keep an eye on her. They double-team the second fight, which takes place in a butcher shop. Helen stays at a distance but sheās still very helpful. We see the contrast between John and Santino fighting together versus John and Helen fighting together. In both cases, John is protecting the other person and itās distracting. But in Helenās case, she seems to be protecting John in return. Instead of egging him on, she tries to minimize collateral damage. She brings an element of innocence to whatās happening and even apologizes to him that he had to do that. To Santino, Johnās killing is a beautiful thing, a marriage of their skills as crime lord and assassin. To Helen, itās butchering, itās carnage, and she wants to save him. They are both drenched in blood at the end and he kisses her and thanks her for taking him away from all of this. She says sheās sorry his ex still has to be caught in that world. John says regretfully that itās what he chose.Ā
Then, John gets a call from Gianna. She says she did something stupid: she told Giovanni that Santino is planning something with him. Giovanni is being rash. He has sent people to kill Santino. John and Helen get back in the car and start rushing to the boat to protect him.Ā
Santino gets back to the boat. He looks nervous as hell while greeting the other guests. Heās shaking, etc., but heās doing his best to hide it. He has already started drinking before the other guests arrived. Heās ignoring his messages from John. We see a suspicious looking group of people board the boat just before it can launch.Ā
John kisses Helen goodbye and leaves her on the shore - he insists she canāt come this time because the whole boat is rigged to blow up and anyway, heāll be right back. Helen tells him to live for her, and that he canāt die with the old world. He has a new world in front of him. John steals a speedboat and chases the party boat out into the bay.
With the boat out at the center of the bay and detonation coming soon, Santino prepares to board the life raft. But the people sent by Giovanni corner him and prevent him from leaving. (They don't know about the bombs on the boat or exactly what Santino is planning.) Itās interspersed with flashbacks in which we see Santino being beaten by Giovanni after his relationship with John was discovered. This is the first time the audience knows for sure that thatās why he left John.
John climbs up the side of the boat and starts killing, just killing everyone. He ends up killing everyone who would have died to the bomb anyway as he tries to get to Santino. There are boat related fight scene antics (thereās a seafood table and he stabs someone with a crab claw, etc.). Eventually John reaches Santino, but he is so distraught that he refuses to go to the life raft.Ā
There are only seconds left until detonation. John throws Santino overboard and drags him to shore while the boat explodes. Onshore, Santino breaks down. John tries to cheer him up, referencing The Little Mermaid rescuing the prince, and saying he will always save his prince, even if theyāre from different worlds now. Santino says that he wanted to be Johnās prince but heās always been the monster, the sea witch, and whether he grants John access to a better life or not, his own life is damned. He tells John the truth about why he left him - to protect him from Giovanni. John cries with him, mourning their relationship and the way that the High Table tore them apart. He says that the real Impossible Task is to walk away from Santino after knowing all of this. He asks Santino to leave, and find love in the ordinary world. To find his āsoulā (another little mermaid reference). He says he wants Santino to have a good life like he has with Helen. Santino says he canāt. He will wait for John to come back to HIS world instead. John walks away with Helen while the sun sets.
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your name and then what you would have named yourself: Frances or Frank, and I have picked Josephine because thatās a gorgeous name.Ā
astrological sign (sun/moon/rising if you know them): gemini
when did you join tumblr and why?: Also 2012 (Dear God, itās been that long). Things were moving from livejournal to other platforms and I finally got tired of checkingmy history.Ā
top 5 fandoms: I hyperfixate on certain fandoms and lurk for ages but anyway. Good Omens, MCU/Marvel, Lord of the Rings, Shakespeare, Highlander or Magnificent 7 (tv show).Ā
top 5 favorite films: The Worldās End, Grand Budapest Hotel, The Losers, The Prestige, Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse.Ā
go to song when you wanna Feel something: Babylon by Don McLean
whatās your religion or faith if you have one?: raised v. liberal Lutheran, now iām more ehhhh, ehhhhhhh.Ā
a song that makes you feel seen: Song to Say Goodbye by Placebo
if you could have any career: librarian/book reviewer/someone who pets cats all day
do you have a type?: soft people that make me laugh
what does your heart/soul yearn for: actually literally, food. Also, I guess friendship and love and shit? But, yeah, food.Ā
if you had to describe yourself in 5 words to someone who doesnāt know you: Odd, biting humor, cat obsessed, reader.Ā
favorite subjects in school: history, english, law
where does your soul feel most at home: surrounded by books and cats and old things.Ā
top 5 fictional characters: Silk-Belgariad/Mallorean by David and Leigh Eddings, Aziraphale - Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Sabriel - Abhorsen series by Garth Nix, Flash (Wally West) - Justice League Animated, Agent Peggy Carter - MCU
top 3 moments in a show that made you ugly cry: Dog dying in Downton Abbey, Chidi and Eleanorās goodbye date in The Good Place (I am not ready for the last season guys, Not Ready), and parts of The Magnus Archive have been real tough, reaaaal tough.Ā
the earth, the sun, the moon or the stars: The Sun Ba-bey! I need all that good good good warm feels.Ā
favorite kind of weather: Warm on the edge of too hot, with soft clouds in the sky.Ā
top 3 characters you kin with: jfc, okay, Miles Vorkosigan from the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold, Maia from Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison, and JJ from Speechless.Ā
favorite medium of art: okay, so theater is my one true love but like traditional art, I guess oils(?).Ā
introvert/extrovert/ambivert: introvert with a dash of ambivert.Ā
a favorite literary quote: (Reads entire LotR)
āDo not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise can not see all ends.ā Fellowship of the Ring.Ā
some of your favorite books: How can I just pick some of my children? Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison, Memory or Miles in Love by Lois McMaster Bujold, Scurvy by Stephen Brown, We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry, Toad Words and other stories by T. Kingfisher, Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Belgariad/Mallorean series by David and Leigh Eddings, Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher, The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan
if you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?: Some place where it never snowed and had a beach, but specifically Dubrovnik, Croatia
if you could live in any time in history when would it be?: Every time is terrible! So it depends on how rich I was.Ā
if you could play any instrument masterfully it would be: I do love the hurdy-gurdy but I would love to play an organ.Ā
if you have one, what mythological god or goddess do you feel a connection to: whut. Idk, Athena because I remember my greek mythology the best.Ā
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Ok but why are many IshiHimes so hypocritical? Like I've read an essay saying that Ichigo & Rukia don't owe Orihime & Renji their love (literally no one said that). Then the statement RIGHT AFTER says that "it was Uryu who loved Hime" and that "SHE OWES HIM"? Like, what?! I know that most IRs don't give a shit about Hime, I've seen UH posts with anti Orihime tags!! But this? It's so wrong, like WHEN THE HELL DID URYU LOVE HIME? It was never implied, saying he has a crush is way overreaching
continued: Iāve seen people say that they only hate Orihime cuz she ācouldnāt turn around & see who actually loved herā!! What? So according to them itās so taboo that Orihime got together with her supposedly first love, but itās sooo ok if Uryu did? If IR did too? Many people marry their first love, itās actually seen as the most romanctic & beautiful thing, yet these people downplay Himeās love and twist it into āit made her weakā when her love was what motivated her to become strong. Can they even read?Hereās the thing: I think it can be argued that Ishidaās romantic feelings for Orihime were impliedā¦.but Ichigoās feelings for her were implied like 30 times more lmao.Who was taunted about her the most by his enemies? Flew off the handle when they namedropped her just to get a rise out of him? Who was teased by his family about āBringing an Orihime-level girl homeā and told āWhy are you so pissed? Itās not like Orihimeās your girlfriend?ā by a dude who just flirted with her? Who is the one who knelt at her bedside? Bowed in front of her while vowing to protect her? Who walked around like a zombie the day she was abducted? Dragged creeps out of classrooms for coming onto her? Commented on how sheās āfollowedā a lot the same day boys were whispering about her in the hallway? Went berserk when Tsukishima called her on the phone? Who did Urahara make Orihimeās dress for just to tease him about her? Who was encouraged to flirt with her by Yoruichi? Who blushed about her for five straight pages? Who said āsorry, Grimmjow but Iām not allowed to get hurt anymoreā because Orihime said so? Who was dead on the ground but could still hear her voice? Who rose up from the dead because āSheās calling meā ? Who attacked their own friend yet immediately turned to Orihime chanting āI will protect herā¦ā ?Honestly now. Show me the Ishidaā>Orihime evidence that is anywhere near as blatant or impactful as the Ichigoā>Orihime evidence. Like, just try to come up with something thatās anywhere close to the vow to protect, or the Grimmjow battle, or āSheās calling meā¦Get upā¦I will protect her.ā etc.The Ishidaā>Orihime evidence is a very short list of subtle clues that is completely trumped by a loooong list of Ichigoā>Orihime evidence that ranges from subtle to straight up obvious as hell.And some of the evidence people gave for Ishida liking Orihime is the literally the same exact shit we would say about Ichigo liking Orihime. The softened looks, or the gentle demeanor towards her, the hints of jealousy, or becoming flustered by herā¦.when Ishida does it, heās in love, but when Ichigo does it, it means nothing?And so, itās just bizarre to me that people were so quick to accept that Ishida had feelings for Orihime, as if it were already canon, but yet they downright refused to believe that Ichigo could ever see her as anything more than just a friend. Because they had already convinced themselves that Ichigo loved Rukia, so there was just no way, right? Basically I feel like Ishi/Hime was just an extremely watered down version of IchiHime. The amount of content it was given and the evidence for it was so, so weak compared to IH evidence and content. Point blank. Not only did we have Orihimeās canon love on our side from day one, but we also had Ichigoā>Orihime evidence that completely trumped Ishidaā>Orihime evidence in both quality and quantity. Whatever they had, we had better, and much, much more. āIāve seen people say that they only hate Orihime cuz she ācouldnāt turn around & see who actually loved herā!! āNow, following that logic, and given that they spent the entire manga claiming Ichigo didnāt love or care about Orihime, shouldnāt they have also hated Ichigo because he ācouldnāt turn around and see who actually loved himā ā¦? Especially when you consider that, unlike Ishida, Orihimeās feelings were actually made canon. They were emphasized and reinforced in every single arc, over and over and over again. They were introduced the moment Orihime was introduced, in chapter two. She was given a love confession early on, expressing how she would want to love Ichigo in every single lifetime she lived i.e. forever. Nothing vague or subtle about it. So much narrative focus was given to Orihimeās love for Ichigo. Why? Because they were going to end up together in the end.(Meanwhile, I think if Ishida did have feelings for Orihime, the purpose for it was to parallel Ryuuken/Masaki/isshin and we all know how that one turned out).So, from a narrative standpoint, why exactly should Ishidaās vaguely implied, rarely focused on, never-made-canon feelings take precedence over Orihimeās explicitly stated, continuously focused on, solidified-in-canon love?Is it because uwuwu Ishidaās love is so Pure and heās such a Nice Guy :)))) he Deserves it :)))) while Ā āWhorihimeā as they so lovingly refer to her felt nothing more than just a ~toxic obsession~ for Ichigo? Because theyāre still pretending IshidaāsĀ āloveāĀ was ever solidified in canon, while also downplaying Orihimeās feelings and insisting she didnāt actually love Ichigo, even though itās a canon fact?
They just love to ignore/twist canon, huh?And thatās beside the point that love isnāt about āowing.ā The people shaming Orihime because āshe owed Ishida her love!!!ā are the same people who always said ājust because Orihime loves Ichigo that doesnāt mean he has to love her back!!!ā and itās likeā¦.hello? Are you awake? Do you see the hypocrisy? If Ichigo didnāt have to love Orihime back, why does Orihime have to love Ishida back? Again, this isnāt about owing. If Ishida did love Orihime, that doesnāt mean she had to love him back. She could have, if thatās where her heart led her, but it justā¦didnāt. She loved Ichigo and only Ichigo. She said herself that she wanted to love the same person (Ichigo) for five lifetimes (forever). Not a different person seventeen months later. Kubo wrote that for her. He didnāt want nor intend for her to love anyone else, because he knew she would end up with Ichigo in the end. He knew that since chapter one. Thatās why he put so much focus on her love for him in the first place. Itās that simple.And just like the antis always said: āJust because Orihime loves Ichigo, that doesnāt mean he has to love her back.ā ā¦And they were absolutely right! He didnāt have to. He just did. There was no force, no pressure. He fell in love with her all on his own, of his own heart, mind, and freewill, without her even having to confess first (while he was awake to hear it) or anything. There was no āowing.ā He was harboring feelings and pining after her for years, just like she was for him. The novel confirms it. But really, the bottom line is, if they care about Ishida so much, Iām not sure why they would even want him to end up with someone theyāve deemed as a ātitty whoreā who doesnāt love him and only married him because she feels sorry for him, or āowesā him as they insist.Goes to show that they didnāt care if Ishida was actually happy and married to someone who loved him wholeheartedly in return the way he deserves. They just wanted Orihime out of the way.Ā
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Hi Vicki :) I have a Question (^_^) for you: who would you cast as Ror for the HBO series? Personally I can't separate him from Jackie Earle Haley (he was perfect and amazing, and he will always BE Rorschach, in my head, heart and soul), but I know that it's quite unrealistic to see JEH playing him again. So, who would you pick? I googled up some actors, ended up looking at Damian Lewis and thinking that he may fit the role somehow. What do you think? Hugs :)
I have been thinking about this ask for months now and I think my body is finally ready.We can all agree that JEH is the end-all. He fits the role likeā¦ like J K Simmons is a living J Jonah Jameson. Iāve heard that JEH made a special no-budget audition tape for Zach in his own homemade Rorschach cosplay, because he knew in his bones he was perfect for the part. I would do godless deeds to see that tape. 11/10 RorschachsI like this Damian Lewis fellow.
Heās got the look. Iāve never seen him in a movie or show, but I just watched some youtube clips, and I can see it! Heād have to hide that charming little smile of his. 7/10 RorschachsWalton Goggins is a possible suspect.Ā
Oof what a name. I mean he has a Walter Kovacs level name irl. I love Goggins in the Tarantino movies. Heās such a dirty, rowdy, no good boy!! I havenāt heard him without the southern accent, but I imagine he could pull off some Jersey disdain. And heās got the cheekbones and crazy face to boot. 8.5/10 RorschachsBut if I really had my druthers, if I could have anyone, I choose 1971 Clint Eastwood.Ā
God. Damn. I mean, I know Dirty Harry is one of Rorschachās many dads, but heād be perfect. I know this is an anachronistic non-answer, but heād be perfect!
His growly voice, his little scrunched up grimace he makes all the time, the tacky suits, the bad jokes, the monologues, them cheekbones.Ā
āNo morphine Daniel; drug test at work next week.āIf you need any more convincing, just watch the first 1:05 of this video. The rest of the clip is not important, he too quickly turns into rorglock. Just stop the clip at 1:05 and tell me he isnāt prefect. 10/10 Rorschachs
