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No One in the Movies Stays Dead Anymore
But the fan service of character resurrection can make the audience feel like there's nothing at stake.
The “ John Wick ” franchise has just returned to life with “Ballerina,” starring Ana de Armas as a Ruska Roma dancer who trains as an assassin to avenge the death of her father. Yet it was a bit laughable when the movie, having made the momentous decision to kill off 007, followed that cataclysmic event with an end title that read: “James Bond will return.” Talk about having your shaken-not-stirred martini and drinking it too! Yet the subtle cumulative effect of it has been to create the sensation that a movie no longer has a true beginning and end, that it lacks what the Greeks called the dramatic unity of action.
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