We Replaced John Wick with Steven Seagal

we saw John Wick 4 last night and it was incredible Dynamite action Exquisite cinematography and Keanu Reeves is breathtaking no you're breathtaking I really these movies are Head and Shoulders above the Dead on Arrival straight to DVD garbage action movies I usually watch I mean I'd watch John Wick five six seven I'd watch a hundred of these things hey what do you mean eh I'm just saying eventually Keanu is going to move on with his life and when he does I'm gonna join him I disagree with my opinion yeah oh it's wrong tell me more every single John Wick movie raises my expectations and then exceeds those expectations the franchise is bulletproof it can survive anything John Wick would not survive Keanu leaving Keanu is Win let's put it to the test then okay let's swap out Keanu Reeves with another actor and see if the franchise can survive any actor oh no no not just any actor the Cinematic equivalent of poison a man so vile that he could single-handedly tank a lesser franchise we're going to replace John Wick with Steven Seagal there's no better way to explain Steven Seagal than to just show you Steven Seagal in the 90s he starred in a bunch of forgettable action movies and quickly gained a reputation not for being a good actor but for being a terrible human being you're that guy don't hate many people but that guy I hate that's actually that's a strong feeling good call so you want him in John Wick too since then every one of his movies has lowered our expectations and then failed to meet those expectations if he's gotten lazier and lazier I'm gonna pitch you some tropes yeah you can put them in the category of Love or hate as he gets fatter his clothing becomes longer and looser to hide the shame I love kind of cookies honestly I love that yeah it's kind of fun I will do the same thing yeah yeah so I'm gonna throw that in life yeah he basically just wears bags he weren't steeply hurt me he's creepy and inappropriate towards younger women strong distance that's in his real life and on camera he writes his own films so what you're saying is in anything that we see coming up it's from his mind and heart that's exactly right and he wanted him to say it okay all right I will snatch every [ __ ] birthday what does that mean over time he has developed an African-American accent I hate it how come you don't watch any Oscars tonight he got 15 [ __ ] and guns and you know it let me tack up let me tack up another Trope very incoherent I'm coming to the side door sharp I need you to look at the Target room on the eighth floor he uses body doubles for action scenes that are much fitter than him oh there's a oh yeah yeah he just gets everyone else to do the cool stuff for him and then he just kind of Pops in at the end he will use stunt doubles for scenes where he's walking he's not doing any kind of action but he's just like couldn't be bothered to do the shot does he take credit for doing his own stunts oh he's a huge narcissist and pathological liar he exaggerates his accomplishments and interviews and this kind of goes back to the stunt man thing right does he hit them um I feel like he hits them you can stack punches you can sell punches without actually making physical contact he does it he actually just hits them as hard as he can and uh something don't want to work with him that's a negative so here's an action scene Segal claims to be an Aikido Master but I would call that uh more of a silly slap relax okay so I'm gonna skip the Putin stuff so he lazily handles firearms on screen he will just hold things wrong look at this switch oh man yeah look at this lazy sloppy gun handling he's barely looking at where he's shooting ever just like blindly firing into a crowd sometimes so now he has a knife and he's waving it like it's a sword look at this I used to do that when I was eight another thing he doesn't like to stand up this is called sniper special ops no no colon Steven Seagal found a way to be seated for pretty much all of the movie I'm around where I'm supposed to be that's very strong in the love category in action how do you stand out sitting down you don't stand at all look at him just fighting sitting down what is this Crouching Tiger sitting dragon now when he does sometimes get out of his seat um he has a run and it is a very very strange run [Music] the windmills like this the other one sort of goes out has to get out of there though yeah it is you know what this reminds me of this reminds me of John Wick Steven Seagal has always survived through all of his terrible movies with somehow without being canceled it's a story of survival yeah I like that yeah it is uh and so that's why I kind of think that like a Steven Seagal would be a perfect star for the John Wick series I'm in are you in you've been watching so much the gall that now your motor skills are starting to fail I don't do my own stunts dude I have to retake that one take two okay so now that we know who Steven Seagal is what would a John Wick trailer look like with Steven Seagal how do we achieve that well I honestly I just have to sit down and watch way too many of his movies I looked at a lot of Clips actually sitting down and watching these movies it is a chore there's got to be a shortcut it's a man called space ice he has actually done the hard work for me the brutal brutal task of actually watching all of these movies so now what I have is 10 Steven Seagal movies and three of the John Wick movies now my goal is to scrub through those films and figure out a way to Frankenstein them together in a way that is uh coherent and funny and also just pays off the John Wick Universe this is not a Segal movie this is a John Wick film with Seagal in it so you might remember this shot of the late Mrs Wick from John Wick one Segal wouldn't have any part of that he doesn't care about women what he does care about is one man I like the shirtless one the most look at him lounging so every John Wick trailer needs a cool suit up scene an Italian classic I have to figure out a way to get Seagal in the shot the real trick with shots like this trying to find something that has a similar enough lighting and really just like a gesture something that like kind of feels like they're interacting I took Seagal waving doing this little point and then this is what it looks like together so that works you may remember in one of our VFX RS react episodes his face is very poorly comped on to a stunt actor as he's riding a motorcycle wait a second we're not I kind of wanted to just sort of pay homage to that but also spice it up a little bit there's a great one from John Wick 2 and it's a close-up of his face so this is perfect for us at that point all I needed was a still image of Steven Seagal got out and motion tracked ever a Steven Seagal sing-along this is what would be bouncing on the words yes why is he Wiggly it's because we put him in this scene dude you already have done such a better job at motorcycle helmet coughing than what I've seen honestly the big thing that sells it is the reflections like pulling the original Reflections from the other dude's face nice on a micro level it's a lot of comping but on a macro level it is all about the story you know the John Wick World exists with motivation the inciting incident of the John Wick series is that these Russians killed the man's dog what could you take away from Steven Seagal that would disrupt his life more than anything what does Steven Seagal really care about what comes to mind takeaway is Comfort that's right yep what does that look like what does that look like you take his chair the chair is sort of like John Wick's dog it gets busted up by a bunch of criminals we need a shot of this chair getting busted up by a bat and the best way to do that is just freaking beat a chair with a bat and that's what we're gonna do [Music] chair wants the break we've pre-cut this chair to be shatterable Derek is Batman today to me it makes the most sense if it's like right here the guy who made this chair is for sure dead so if you [ __ ] up there's no redos we got one opportunity to cease everything we ever wanted on this one will he capture it or let it slip three two one [Applause] foreign [Applause] [Applause] [Music] I'm not looking I'm not looking still he's been working on this behind my back like literally because I'm right here um for like a couple of days and he's told me not to look until this moment so all right Matt America it's gone through so many changes the good the bad the ugly is a film that was released here a while ago Steven Seagal fled the country I think so he's not here but what we have now on American soil is his CG replica hand crafted somewhat I also got a model on sketchfab that was pretty good but I built on it you know and now we can gather we can watch we can point hand in hand as a country and say don't like him I don't like that guy that guy's weird he has an ego problem and I'm hoping that that will heal this nation this Seagal is stronger faster it hasn't committed any atrocities or crimes we can do anything now once I'm done connecting my body to the Mainframe I'll be capable of great feats Feats even the real Steven Seagal could only hope to achieve like standing it's the same joke it's the same joke [Music] you're not threatened by anything yeah you don't need to get up the scary thing is the more I sit the more I want to and I'm kind of understanding how this happened [Music] storms too pull the dog over a pool his right hand and his left hand are on two different planets there's a lot of elements to this that I didn't really expect when I first watched these Matt and I worked very hard to capture the essence of Steven Seagal via mocap and the first thing I did was throw it all away because I realized very early on that the average human body cannot replicate Steven Seagal's run it's he's built different we're gonna do something else entirely and I used what's called secondary motion inside of Houdini there's this really cool tool called secondary motion which basically delays certain bones it's almost like it kills all the muscles in the arm and you're left with just the segoli and flip and it actually worked out really well so as he's running I kind of have a mixture of hand animation and just natural secondary motion flip so we've got our nude Seagal running in his big boy boots and that's a beautiful thing you know if you're if you're broken inside but what we need is the clothes we need that next level the way that we did that was in Marvelous Designer it's essentially like a tailoring software where you can generate clothes from scratch or you can buy certain outfits you can simulate animations wearing those outfits it's a really high level cloth simulating tool and now as you can see he is wrapped up in his clothes that are deforming really nicely and moving along with his motion the idea of secondary motion really comes back here because it's those little details that take away from the cginess of something in my opinion you know but of course then we've still got one issue and that's his ponytail very rich you're just not doing anything and I wanted to introduce a little bit of a flop well that's something I did inside of Houdini using Vellum Vellum is essentially Houdini's soft body simulation solution the final step in bringing this home it's the idea of generating hair if I'm looking at a silhouette of Steven Seagal with a strong Rim light and it's just a smooth greased hair actually that'd be pretty real too it's pretty smooth and greased now that I think about it I might have wasted my time on this one regardless I wanted to do it so that's why we did it I just isolated those areas and instant short hairs on top of it and a lot of them at that probably about a million or so and by the way if you're interested in character animation there is an hour-long episode of our crutorial series on Corridor digital.com it explains how you can Reagan anime characters of your own just like this sign up for an account if that tickles your sagali and pickle so at the end of this you have a run animation a cloth animation you have hair animation and hair simulation on top of throwing on some glasses throwing a gun in their hand and all those other fun little elements that kind of bring this thing home I mean it just goes to show you that secondary motion can help and sometimes even save animation the same way that Keanu saved these movies so once this thing's created we're gonna let the audience decide you know we're gonna let the people decide yeah does this need Keanu or is it a keanu-free franchise I'm gonna take this whole thing on purpose John Wick needs our boy far more than our boy needs John Wick and I'm going to illustrate that point by bringing the darkest elements of Seagal into this franchise and poisoning it from the inside out during the simulation of the cloth I made sure to loosen the belt so to speak and I let gravity do the rest oh [Laughter] do you try to sabotage this whole mission statement I'm just trying to bring realism Matt like at the end of the day if we are going to put Seagal in John Wick we are going to put all of Segal in John Wick Kraken all throw it in there I don't care I know you're trying to sabotage this whole operation the franchise will hold up the way Seagal's pants don't Matt's very confident right now but he's forgotten the most important thing of all crack kills crack kills oh you heard me I did yes it wasn't very quiet I felt like I was whispering no I'm right here there's a couple things that we need aside from the visual effects though we need a Seagal yes impersonator [Music] it's definitely a feigned deep voice one of the iconic features of his voice is the compressed diaphragm don't stand up when you when you do any of your your lines uh it's very important for the character got it brother all right please mayor you want the antithesis of Steven Seagal it's Brett yeah it's the sun nothing brings the warmth quite like the sun yeah that's right foreign [Music] there are people out there and we have to sell them a ticket to this movie only one thing left to do jack up all right sorry guys it's gonna take a second sorry in your hands you have a gold coin that gold coin is worth 18 real human US Dollars would you spend that money to see a two hour version of this thing or would you keep your money and go home enjoy friends extremely young women it's not what you did son it's who you did it too just assassin to ever leave I'm a professional killer handsome wise and articulate once I've been almost confirmed we were in there you can take him out away from my word he's also really good at guitar and he did it all sitting down what they done have you returned to the fold my brother if I get back in I need resources let me tack up wait it's ending no I'm running you run you die you gotta tell me straight so I can know who's coming for us our pleasure it's like a monkey trying to [ __ ] a football now really what have you done we've just succeeded inverting these [ __ ] to the ground you uh working again yeah thinking I'm black this thing is a would be a rare Jam if it was made I would gladly watch it it would be the worst greatest movie I've ever seen that's one it's a very enticing trailer but I'd probably be feeling some crime overseas so I'm gonna split the death of Nick if you wanted to see a matinee together I would not watch Steven Seagal in a John Wick movie now but after watching that I just know he sucks now do I agree with who this man is absolutely not but I gotta respect the craft that's a good trailer the butt crack part didn't put the butt crack was the reason I'm doing it I backfired does Steven Seagal get any of this coin let's just say he's uh pro bono money does funny things when Stephen touches it you don't know where it ends yeah I'm not taking that risk this is just mine um when that hip-hop beat kicks in I was genuinely kind of hyped you know what else so I'm gonna wait for the streaming service oh wow I'm gonna spend about five of this on the Walmart DVD bin so I'm just gonna put that kind of like on the edge it's free money so yes I'm gonna go watch this movie that was the best thing I've seen in a long time and the hardest thing to understand so this was not close you created a monstrosity that people actually want to see Keanu Reeves yes I fought for you yeah I really tried I thought the crack would kill this whole thing but it made it stronger no no no I'm seriously so sorry this is devastating so I think what you guys showed here is that at the end of the day it's the craft that really matters a good movie with a good plot it almost doesn't really matter who is in it but I do personally think that the artist does matter behind the art you know and to support people who are good people and do good things if you can work with anyone you might as well work with good people who do a good job [Music] and remember ladies and gentlemen can't place a crumb let's give a round of applause for these gentlemen it's beautiful beautiful [Music] that was a small sample size and we want to know what you guys think comment down below would you John fake in theaters and like And subscribe it helps us out [Applause]

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Length: 19min 25sec (1165 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 30 2023