We're about to dive into this final episode analyzing the movie John Wick.

We're going to be looking at the genre obligatory moments, the character archetypes, and some of our favorite storytelling moments in John Wick.

This is the Story Grid analysis of John Wick, and I am Tim Graal. I'm the CEO of Storygrid and a writer trying to figure out

how to tell a story that works. Also with me is Rachel Arsenal. She's a Storygrid

certified editor, and she's on board to make sure I don't give the wrong answers. If you want

to download our entire analysis of John Wick right now, You can go to storygrid.com slash

wick. Otherwise, I'm excited to wrap up this analysis of John Wick. We hope you've enjoyed it.

If you have a movie, you'd like us to take a look at in future episodes. You can do that by

sending me an email at Tim at storygrid.com. Otherwise, let's go ahead and jump in to John Wick. All right, so let's move

on to the obligatory moments. So what, um, when we talk about obligatory moments in genres, right?

So this is, each genre has its own obligatory moments. What are, what is, what are genre

obligatory moments? Yeah, um, obligatory moments, they are what is what are genre obligatory moments? Yeah um obligatory moments.

They're they're similar to conventions in that, um, they're helping us define audience expectations

and audience expectations for obligatory moments as it pertains to the development of the story

and the things that help, um, sort of guide the movements of the story and the things that help sort of guide the movements of

the story. And you have so much, like so much freedom to create, but it adds some level of

constraints, right? There's sort of that freedom within constraint. That's actually a really

great thing about obligatory moments because it helps you detail what audiences are expecting to see because it's a part of the

genre. And then you can think about how to meet those expectations in new and exciting way.

So those obligatory moments kind of, again, help us map out key moments that help us develop the

actual progression of the story in in terms of physical events

and the things that we want to see sort of unfold on the page in the context of the story.

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