Alex Hess, has written a piece, ‘Why I’d like to be…Keanu Reeves in Speed‘ for the film blog at The Guardian. Hetakes a look at Jack Traven and the appeal that the character held for him and says:
…and whenever Speed crops up on TV, as it often does, it’s hard not to be swept back to a time when being Jack Traven was the simple but unattainable extent of a life’s ambitions. On top of his obvious aesthetic appeal – good looks, biceps bulging through his Swat gear, the ability to remain absurdly casual while whipping a sports car around hairpin bends – he also planted the idea that a guy didn’t need to be a smooth-talking extrovert to reach the pinnacle of cool, or indeed to provoke the advances of improbably attractive commuters at the end of a hard day’s bomb disposal.
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