John Wick: The High Table Explained

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  • If you're a fan of the John Wick movie franchise, you've likely heard the term "High Table" mentioned several times throughout the films. But what exactly is the High Table and what role does it play in the world of assassins? In this video, we dive deep into the lore and history of the High Table, exploring its origins, structure, and the various characters who are involved with it. From the Continental hotels to the rules of the assassin's guild, we leave no stone unturned in our exploration of this mysterious organization. So if you're ready to take a deep dive into the world of John Wick and learn all about the High Table, this video is a must-watch for you!
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  • @Fernandez0007able
    @Fernandez0007able 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2400

    The Elder wasn't a member of the High Table. He was the one who sat ABOVE the Table. In truth, we know of only the Tarasov Crime Family, The Ruska Roma, The Cammora, and the German Crime Syndicate as members of the Table.

    • @TheDarkIllumination
      @TheDarkIllumination 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +243

      You forget Santino mentioned the Mafia , Ndrangeta, and Chinese as well.

    • @Fernandez0007able
      @Fernandez0007able 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +85

      @@TheDarkIllumination you are correct, of course. Thank you for refreshing my faulty memory.

    • @redtapex4091
      @redtapex4091 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +91

      Winston is hiding something powerful on John Wick though. As in, how tf did he knew about these duels if he don't have any connection within the seat of the Table itself 🤔??

    • @next2963
      @next2963 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      I'm pretty sure that the Tarasov family doesn't have a seat at the high table

    • @MikeWoodburn-jh9tc
      @MikeWoodburn-jh9tc 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@redtapex4091Probably just been around for a long long time and New York is the crime family hub of America🤷🏿‍♂️

  • @queazy03
    @queazy03 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +754

    The Harbinger also is missing a finger. This implies he was like John Wick himself, probably a VERY skilled assassin and attends very important meetings as an enforcer. Had John Wick been a "good boy" and played by the rules, he would've probably ended up like the Harbinger.
    I can't help but feel he's some legendary assassin kept on a leash by the members of the high table, and could very well had been what John Wick could've ended up as.

    • @Gen3ralGrimReaper
      @Gen3ralGrimReaper 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      Dude, you’re on to something. I love these mysteries and how the comment section Is solving them. Thank you

    • @thegoodwin
      @thegoodwin 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      The Harbinger aka the Assassin Mr. Krabs. He kills for "money, money, money." 💰

    • @agamerdude7596
      @agamerdude7596 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Thats the thing, Santino was so bad he forced john wick to break the rules and was shocked when he actually did

    • @jaythekid4728
      @jaythekid4728 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Have to disagree with this theory. Chopping off fingers is how they swear loyalty not so much a punishment.

    • @kiritoxyronie2841
      @kiritoxyronie2841 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@jaythekid4728The Actor playing the Harbinger actually says that John Wick was destined to become the Harbinger if he continues down the path (on an interview)

  • @phalnx2614
    @phalnx2614 ปีที่แล้ว +844

    I really like how mysterious the High Table is.

    • @akashafofo6939
      @akashafofo6939 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

      keeps these movies interesting

    • @nebuchadrezar101
      @nebuchadrezar101 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

      Wait till you hear about the Width table.

    • @phalnx2614
      @phalnx2614 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@nebuchadrezar101 I got a typing error lmao

    • @nebuchadrezar101
      @nebuchadrezar101 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@phalnx2614 And now my reply means nothing.

    • @lukjno6345
      @lukjno6345 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There are no rumours. He died.

  • @brianedner8125
    @brianedner8125 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1029

    3 things.
    1) the Elder is said to sit "Above the Table", meaning that he doesn't have a seat as one of the heads.
    2) Chidi is just someone that works for the Marquis, not a head of a family himself.
    3) I am also not sure if Marquis is a head or just a member of the families that was given lots of power to take care of John Wick while being expendable himself so that they woulden't louse anything if he died.

    • @_Fulgur_
      @_Fulgur_ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

      the marquis was from a noble family that soon turned into a crime lord and subsequently became a lord of the table. also the position he was given in the fourth movie was a temporary title of "autum imperator" which basically gives him unlimited power so long as all the other lords approve of it.

    • @unentirelyinsincere
      @unentirelyinsincere 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

      quoting the movie, he is the "mad dog of the high table", which leads me to think hes just a powerful crime lord under the high table

    • @pharma2546
      @pharma2546 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Yea no way young boy was gonna lead the table when he just inherited his own position

    • @albertgaspar627
      @albertgaspar627 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      If you ready Hobbs "Leviathin", there's a notion of a Soveriegn, someone above the government but not part of it, to rule over it having no "skin in the game". so your first observation is likely that.

    • @moltenSky2d
      @moltenSky2d 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      He is granted the full power by all 12 heads of the high table as he promised to kill John Wick.

  • @jeffgumawid7554
    @jeffgumawid7554 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +97

    The Elder is probably always a descendant of the original Hashashins, hence why he is above the table because they were the OGs

    • @crimcrusader8459
      @crimcrusader8459 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Would that make him the latest successor to the title of Hassan-i-Sabbah, the Old Man of the Mountain?

    • @samiamim4015
      @samiamim4015 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes I've seen this theory before in another video and you're right

    • @riowijaya1
      @riowijaya1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This theory is interesting!!!

    • @jeffgumawid7554
      @jeffgumawid7554 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@crimcrusader8459 Probably in a de facto sense, yes, though he has no castle or mountain to rule from in the John Wick universe to speak of (unless they did recapture both their castles in Iran and Syria in that universe)
      My personal theory is, the last surviving Persian and Syrian original Order of Assassin members had surviving sons, and the title of Elder rotates between both branches in the event of a death kike what happened between Part 3 and 4

  • @Incog2k6
    @Incog2k6 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +118

    Man, if the rumors of John Wick 5 getting made are true, I hope that Hugo Weaving finally gets cast, and that preferably as one of the members of the High Table. I need another intense Keanu vs Hugo showdown on my life.

    • @supremedak_god619
      @supremedak_god619 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      John is dead tho

    • @L1berty1776
      @L1berty1776 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@supremedak_god619was gonna say that too he died bro. No matrix here

    • @_blackmesa
      @_blackmesa 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@supremedak_god619 I don't know if they'll keep true to that. they show a grave, not him dying. - Whilst I'm not here to say he's not dead, I just want to point out that they fake it... a lot...

    • @inibehejoseph
      @inibehejoseph 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      John fake his dead

    • @HIRO-uj7dj
      @HIRO-uj7dj 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@inibehejosephIm sorry mate, but Keanu want John wick died.

  • @barrywhite8747
    @barrywhite8747 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +407

    I could be wrong but I don't think there's a rule against killing a member of the high table. In Chapter 3 the Adjudicator didn't say John was in trouble for killing Santino, he was in trouble for doing it on Continental grounds. If what this guy says is true then John would have been in trouble for killing the German guy for his sister because he was the head of his family and a member of the high table. It seems that the 12 members of the high table even as heads of their families still live under the same rules of the high table as the assassins do.

    • @_Fulgur_
      @_Fulgur_ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +81

      exactly there isnt a rule against killing a member of the table because that would also mean that santino would've been held accountable for murdering his sister.

    • @mrgaarus1278
      @mrgaarus1278 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      I do think it's important to note that neither the sister nor the brother at the time were sworn in as members of the table she was there for her coronation meaning that when he killed her she was not actually at the table yet

    • @barrywhite8747
      @barrywhite8747 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      @@mrgaarus1278 that’s true but I wasn’t talking about her. It was her brother and the German guy who were members of the table and that’s the point I was making. John killed them both and wasn’t in trouble for it, it was other things that the high table wanted to kill him for.

    • @pharma2546
      @pharma2546 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@_Fulgur_ rem he setup John to murder his sister then played the revenge brother by dropping a bounty

    • @DerSultan2341
      @DerSultan2341 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      There isn’t a rule against killing a member of the table, but for sure they will be very pissed if you do it. Especially when you do it on the continental ground. But the bounty on John Wick about 14 million dollars came from the camorra, not from the high table itself

  • @CodeNameV13
    @CodeNameV13 ปีที่แล้ว +252

    The original order of Assassins were called "Hashassins" because they partook in smoking hash after a successful execution. The elder is the closest member of the table to original Assassin roots. Hence the name 'The High Table'. Or this makes no sense 😂

    • @grygaming5519
      @grygaming5519 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      That would put the formation around 1090 A.D. Then their official dissolvement in the 1275 A.D and going underground would make them changing how exactly they would deal with world politics. They mostly probably exist so no one power is strong enough to risk the equilibrium of the world.
      Since the original Hashassins went after both Christian and Muslim who were a threat to its own power. I like this theory.

    • @benjaminwoodman
      @benjaminwoodman 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That’s not true. The Jewish Sicari were formed FAR before the Hashashin.

    • @CodeNameV13
      @CodeNameV13 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@benjaminwoodman I didn't say Hashasins were the first order of assassins. I made the comment based on the elder and his possible link, even though they disbanded around 1100. The High Tables origins are not explained in the movies.

    • @_Fulgur_
      @_Fulgur_ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      well not necessarily, the high table is said to have originated during the times of the aztecs

    • @seanscott7070
      @seanscott7070 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Thugees?

  • @jacklemons2564
    @jacklemons2564 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    I hope there's a series or movie that shows John wick's youth on how he became a great assassin and how his monicker as the baba yaga got spread

    • @WillBlacksilver
      @WillBlacksilver หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "The Impossible Task" or "Baba Yaga" The Prequels? I would crowd fund!

  • @exposingproxystalkingorgan4164
    @exposingproxystalkingorgan4164 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    The underworld of John Wick is fascinating. 😮

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It has a ton of references to Medieval Laws and Practices TBH which adds to it IMO

    • @JohnIsable-vi1el
      @JohnIsable-vi1el 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Its fascinating, more over very very real..

  • @hothotheat3000
    @hothotheat3000 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    These movies are beautiful to look at. Amazing cinematography, art direction, and costuming.

  • @the1tigglet
    @the1tigglet 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

    The writers basically tell you everything you need to know about the Marquis, Marquis de Sade, he comes from france. They purposefully train their assassins how to speak in each language without an accent or a hint of where they are originally from in order to protect their leaders who give them assassinations to attempt. I suspect that since Marquis is French that it's likely the high table and all of it's branches allow the leaders to choose the assassins they want from their histories and their completed jobs.

  • @Alva_Lombax
    @Alva_Lombax 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    highly doupt that the bowery king is part of the high table, given that he told the Adjudicator to go "F themselves" in the 3º movie

    • @nendoakuma7451
      @nendoakuma7451 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah, he’s clearly mid-ranking at best

    • @DemonlordJay92
      @DemonlordJay92 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The Bowery King is someone who sits beneath the table not at the table

    • @JohnIsable-vi1el
      @JohnIsable-vi1el 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Much love to the king of the bowery..

  • @amygorton2097
    @amygorton2097 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So helpful, thanks for this👍👍

  • @sjejjejejeesjejsjejejwje5566
    @sjejjejejeesjejsjejejwje5566 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    The Elder is the one who sits above the Table.
    Chidi is just someone who works for the Marquis.
    I don’t think the Marquis is a member of the High Table I think he’s someone who serves the Table like the Ejudicator and the Harbinger.
    I think Marquis is a title given to specific people just like Harbingers and Ejudicators.

    • @tree_addict280
      @tree_addict280 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I've only watched the movie once and it was a long time ago, but from what I remember, Marquis was 'hired' by the High Table and given as much resources as he wanted to dispose of Wick, he is not actually a member of the Table.

    • @mianadahlia
      @mianadahlia 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'd like to think that he is a member so that he's death has more impact since johns goal is to kill all of them and since he's an aristocrat and table members are all gens of rich families but it was obvious in the end that he's just an imperator, like a chief commander

    • @chrissuponcic6277
      @chrissuponcic6277 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      He's an actual Marquis it's a title in French nobility. The Marquis sits beneath the table and is not a member of any families we know of

  • @sektorace
    @sektorace 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very very very interesting. Keep up the excelent work and God bless you all

  • @alexso4
    @alexso4 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    The elder John killed isn’t the elder that he gave the ring too

    • @johntiggleman4686
      @johntiggleman4686 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Correct, Boy Wonder! I saw that in the opening sequences in 4.

  • @CJusticeHappen21
    @CJusticeHappen21 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Pretty sure the idea of the "High Table" is that at the zenith of the criminal underworld, all the rivalries and alliances just come down to a few powerful people playing a game of poker with one another.

  • @jesh8158
    @jesh8158 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Awesome explanation. Love from India , Chennai

  • @chrisalexthomas
    @chrisalexthomas 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    six unknown people left? thats room for another four movies ;) YASSSS!!!! I really like how they aren't in any hurry to explain and use movies entire runtime to explain things in depth instead of giving me a cheap thrill which is easily forgettable. Everything is laid out and you can't understand everything unless you've seen everything.

  • @ObamaTookMyCat
    @ObamaTookMyCat 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    i was hoping that John was just going to wipe out the whole table....

    • @venomau5speedz
      @venomau5speedz 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Haha yeah me too man :/ like a kind of real life live action DOOMSLAYER but against the high table. 🤷‍♂️

    • @muneebrahman.m9079
      @muneebrahman.m9079 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah that would have been damn good. They could even release a part 2 for chapter 4. Unfortunately they killed him off..

    • @JohnIsable-vi1el
      @JohnIsable-vi1el 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      John is crazy. Its about his wilingness to try and change his life that lead him down that path, and those who absolutely wouldnt allow him to do so, that made him who he is. In the world we live in now this is the ultimate weapon to keep one in chains and bound to markers through means of manipulation and degradtion, Contracts, most of them signed with out being read, before they are even out of their adolesence.

  • @dodongbalbas5643
    @dodongbalbas5643 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Now all we need now is a prequel movie called
    John Wick Origins: Wolverine

  • @NineLives99999
    @NineLives99999 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    So youre telling me the High Table isnt a table where you get high and faded??

    • @bennyblunto973
      @bennyblunto973 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Grow up, lose your virginity

  • @Bdot773
    @Bdot773 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    John wick the goat of action movies

  • @imperiumgrim4717
    @imperiumgrim4717 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    Bruh john wick killed a different elder from John wick 4. The previous one from the 3rd one was a different elder

  • @TaliaIGhul
    @TaliaIGhul 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I actually think the Marquis was making a mistake when he was taking down continental hotels in the forth film. That kind of action had the potential of someone to plan a coup and made a martyr of Shimazu Koji for John Wick's cause. The only thing preventing such a coup IMO was the duel at the end of the movie.

  • @mobkingsinfamousrats6115
    @mobkingsinfamousrats6115 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great job 💯☑️

  • @swatboyz100
    @swatboyz100 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    Since the "High Table" has existed an millenia with 12 member of powerful family, does it have any relation to the legend of King Arthur where his 12 knights seated at the round table (also a High Table in assumption), each 12 knights represented a family (later moved and settled around the world in future generations as crime mafias). And King Arthur himself was an Elder at the High Table.

    • @BEEFYJERKY214
      @BEEFYJERKY214 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Maybe i aslo look at it like hollywood rubbing the illuminati and the 12 royal blood families that also rule the world in real life

    • @RvnWolf
      @RvnWolf 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      No the video is wrong, its origin is with Hassan and his Assasyun or loyal to.
      So it's not a millenia old.

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Apparently according to the wiki its as old as the Aztecs so it probably dates back to the 13th Century the period when the Aztecs arisen and in the High Middle Ages (1000- 1350)

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​​@@RvnWolfyup just a few centuries, the organisation itself has a ton of Medieval European and Islamic Themes,
      from the way they use Medieval laws like Excommunication (as in the Medieval period a man who is deemed excommunicated/Outlawed/Imperial Banned loses all services of the State or the Church and his death is to be rewarded), Concecration (Church Ground is neutral growned so No Murder or Conflict is allowed, Robert the Bruce famously got excommunicated after he killed his rival in a Church) to the Old Man in the Mountain referencing the Assassins.
      John Wick probably have as much references to the Medieval Period as Game of Thrones TBH, even the act of absolving excommunication and Dueling is metioned both are very prominent in the period as well.

    • @ivantirtakusuma
      @ivantirtakusuma 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      12 diciples of Jesus

  • @jeifgravosky7515
    @jeifgravosky7515 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I can't wait for continental origins

  • @timunson8418
    @timunson8418 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +187

    if youre not allowed to kill a member of the high table but you must obey the rules of a marker, how come john wick is still compelled to obey the marker? doesnt the two rules just negate each other?

    • @CallMeAdrian.
      @CallMeAdrian. 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +151

      You ARE allowed to kill a member of the high table.
      In chapter 2 Santino just put a bounty on John because while he was the one that ordered it,his family would have lost respect if he let his sister’s death go unpunished
      John never actually got into trouble with the entirety of the high table for killing a high table member,he got into trouble because he did it on continental grounds

    • @xGoodOldSmurfehx
      @xGoodOldSmurfehx 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @@CallMeAdrian. It was a revenge case i believe, John could not come after Santino until his debt was fulfilled, John being free meant he had a right to come back for vengeance upon being force to do something he absolutely refused to otherwise it would have been forbidden for him to kill a table head
      Or something like that

    • @luckyzebra158
      @luckyzebra158 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@xGoodOldSmurfehx also i think john got off on a technicality cuz Santino wasnt officially the head of his family because he hadnt been coronated ,thats why if you remember santino and giannas father had just died hence he hurried to john to kill his sister on her coronation before she was officially the head of the Camora after the party

    • @RvnWolf
      @RvnWolf 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      His Sister wasn't the head of the family yet, so she did not yet possess the protection of the High Table yet.
      It's why Santino was in a hurry to call in his marker and force John to kill his sister before she could take the seat.

    • @RvnWolf
      @RvnWolf 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@CallMeAdrian.You are not allowed to kill, but you can kill, just with severe consequences.
      Sabtino's sister hadn't got her seat officially yet, it is why Santino was desperate to force John to kill his sister as soon as possible before she could take the seat.

  • @ty814
    @ty814 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    3:15 Winston states Marquis is a member of De Gramot noble family. Your info in 6:08 for Chidi is also false. It was shown in Nobodys diary that the logo Chidi and his people wears belonged to Marquis. They work for him.

    • @cadenvanvalkenburg6718
      @cadenvanvalkenburg6718 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      A decent amount is wrong. The Harbinger is called “A Harbinger” and is probably just an agent of similar rank to the Adjudicator. Similarly, the director merely runs the New York branch of the family and is not a member of the table, otherwise the Adjudicator could not compel her

    • @next2963
      @next2963 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yup, also I don't think that the Director is the leader of the Ruska Roma, she may be the head of the New York branch of the Ruska Roma but the leader of the family was uncle Pyotr (which we never see) whose place was taken by Katia.

    • @parthpixel0960
      @parthpixel0960 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      There are lot of false information in this video,

  • @user-oh3ii5nk1s
    @user-oh3ii5nk1s 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I was really hoping Hutch was going to make a cameo. It's the High Table because of all the hashish the hashassasins smoke..

  • @sevak27production
    @sevak27production 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Interesting stuff, thanks to author

  • @seanscott7070
    @seanscott7070 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    It would be cool if "the elder" was a character that no one knew. He paid men that have communication with him to relay his words and ( in real time as they're wired up when "the elder" has official business, as in the case with Wick in the desert. impersonate him, and someone like Wick discovers this somehow.

    • @markot8927
      @markot8927 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Something like Ra's al Ghoul? Cool idea hehe

  • @spongebob4043
    @spongebob4043 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Your summary: everyone is a part of high table and can be part of high table.

  • @jaykanuck1638
    @jaykanuck1638 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was really hoping Hutch was going to make a cameo

  • @MrTempoedoeloe
    @MrTempoedoeloe 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Chidi: we dont know where his group from.
    *shows him following marquis everywhere

  • @user-ms9wh8uj1j
    @user-ms9wh8uj1j 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I likes the elder too.. elders quite relaxd❤❤❤

  • @BobJones-nk6nl
    @BobJones-nk6nl 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Like John Wick, Harbinger also has one of his fingers chopped off in his left hand. I notice this when he gives Charon a gold coin at NYC Continental. The Elder is kinda weak to me. He doesn't look dangerous at all.

    • @RvnWolf
      @RvnWolf 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well the elder is the one in charge, and we haven't seen the elder that John met with in 3, it was someone else with that title.

  • @Nicolas-yd2mw
    @Nicolas-yd2mw 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When a youtube video needs to explain an action movie... that means a lot xD

  • @Novelist1029
    @Novelist1029 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Let’s not forget the Stair Master who was tasked with kicking John Wick down the stairs.

  • @jlau9268
    @jlau9268 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    The Elder isn't one of the most powerful, he is the most powerful! The Elder was named "The one who sits above the Table"

  • @lukaszrower7612
    @lukaszrower7612 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It was cool to create a series about their history.

  • @rewsterfewd1226
    @rewsterfewd1226 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I like how they keep very little info about the high table. Makes it seem more like some evil entity than an organization, like the cartel in No Country for Old Men

  • @michaelherrera9455
    @michaelherrera9455 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    a lot of people shown here were not members of the high table. They work or were agents of the high table.

  • @radio9632
    @radio9632 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The high table is basically the O5 COUNCIL.

  • @earthtothe9791
    @earthtothe9791 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Not millennium,maybe recent couple few hundred years, from my understanding the high table is control by 12 most powerful criminals organisations in the world, mainly from major power, japan could be black dragon society or Yamaguchi-gumi, China could be Tiandihui the original triad, US could be head of five mafia families etc. below them there is second rated seat as marquis mentioned in the movie. It’s is structured is very similar to UN I believe, the elder is very likely the representative of the big 12

    • @Of4O
      @Of4O 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It was revealed in episode 1 of The Continental that the High Table's origins date back two millenniums ago during the Roman Empire.

    • @johntiggleman4686
      @johntiggleman4686 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I wonder if the Red Lightning Tong would be a powerful enough crime organization?

  • @nicholealbino26
    @nicholealbino26 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    European union had 12 flags

  • @stephannelson8780
    @stephannelson8780 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I want this franchise to go on forever

    • @PC-sl8nd
      @PC-sl8nd 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There is a 100% chance there is goinig to be a show about a young John wick

  • @inthedeadhours
    @inthedeadhours 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Marquis didnt become head of the table he became the imperator and was granted a ton of access to resources to kill Wick.

  • @hnaju007
    @hnaju007 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I dont think harbinger is a member of the table seat but more like a super prestigious title given only to those who sacrificed something to the table. Much like John the harbinger in the movie most likely gave his ring to the table to earn that spot.

    • @steviesmith4986
      @steviesmith4986 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i assumed the harbinger acts as Consigliere.

  • @op_modz
    @op_modz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    OG!

  • @deathstrike
    @deathstrike 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Some minor corrections: The opinion is that the Harbinger originates from the same group as the Adjudicator does, and is NOT a member of the High Table, but an enforcer who carries the weight of the High Table. This can be proven by the letter he gave Winston declaring the Continental New York to be "condemned". Winston revealed this to Charon, and told him that it had the signatures of ALL 12 members of the High Table. He didn't sign it, he simply brought it to Winston and gave him the hour that it would carried out.
    Also, the missing finger is actually associated with the Yakuza Crime Syndicate, and it a physical way to make atonement to ones oyabun, or "boss, overlord, one over others" in Japanese. This often entails the loss of a finger, sometimes even an ear or toes to say "I'm sorry I failed". As for the High Table, it is modeled in Roman Catholicism and even uses many of its terms. Like consecrated/deconsecrated, excommunicado (exile, banishment) And the THIRTEEN members of the High Table. Like the 12 Apostles at the Last Supper. And Jesus Christ above them, but sits with them. The Elder is basically their "Jesus" but acting more like an overseer and tie breaker for a vote. He sits above them. Also, the High Table members must be descendents of the original founding members. Like the DiSantorio family they go back to Roman times and the fittest of their children inherit the seat. Unless there is a "dispute" to that fitness to lead. Also, the gambler the Roska Roma asked for a tooth not as a trophy, but as proof of his death. Settlements of this nature often require a "souvenir" of sorts as proof to the family, and to the High Table of the unfortunate demise of a member. It was the only way John Wick could be claimed by a family. And for punishment of the Table Members? Let the punishment fit the infraction. The director's helping hands? Paid in blood with her hands being impaled. The Bowery King? 7 bullets, 7 bloody cuts for penance and reasserting of fealty.

  • @TheMISTERAMD
    @TheMISTERAMD 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I watched all 4 the movies when they first came out. Santino D'Antonio made a mistake. He wanted a seat at the High Table so he ordered John Wick via a Marker to kill his sister. Than when his sister was dead, Santino D'Antonio placed a bounty on John Wicks head leading to the dead of Santino D'Antonio himself, killed by John Wick. If the High Table really have a list of all these markers, they would know that Santino D'Antonio "cheated" the system. Cause even Winston said it himself to Santino D'Antonio, when he was still alive, that Santino D'Antonio stabbed the Devil in his back.

    • @bioniclefan1995
      @bioniclefan1995 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      If nothing else, the high table is arrogant. Admitting that Santino cheated the system would make them lose face as the organization that rules the underworld. This would ultimately have a destabilizing effect that could easily lead to the High Table being destroyed from within as trust breaks down and bad actors start using the semantics of the rules to kill other members.
      Killing John is an easier and far less reputation hitting move then admitting that their own simple rules were not airtight truths.

  • @tnwhiskey68
    @tnwhiskey68 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    John kills a lot of high table members without threats from other high table members so i don't think that's a rule. He just had to face the dead members crews.

  • @giulioconsole7630
    @giulioconsole7630 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I have a really powerful connecting theory, it’s a “Nerd Gift” that I have, by through the actors, you see in a slightly different wide range of the different universe, as you said this being the John Wick Universe, I connect that to something to others, to me John Wick is like a “Batman”, what was said about him from Viggo Tarasov to his idiot son Iosef Tarasov, “He is the man you send to kill the Boogeyman”, following that to the final one, of the main villain who afraid of John Wick, Marquis Vincent de Gramont, now actor Bill Skarsgard, in the horse stable he clearly showed a slight emotional response of how John Wick is driving him to to his insanity, even the way he dressed, similar to the “Joker”, and in Joker did he play of horror clown 2017 to 2019 “It”, which happens to be the Boogeyman of Derry, Maine Town, now you see where it all perfectly forms up in place of this “connecting theory” of mine, it’s all pretty extraordinary of one other film to another matches up, one actor being similar to another creature, matches up to words said about the other.

  • @Medicine91
    @Medicine91 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    It's the High Table because of all the hashish the hashassasins smoke.

  • @aljohntabion2751
    @aljohntabion2751 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    As Good as John was… I’m wonder why John didn’t move up in the ranks of the high table and become an agent

    • @newyorkpotioncastle
      @newyorkpotioncastle 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He got married.

    • @aljohntabion2751
      @aljohntabion2751 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@newyorkpotioncastle I meant prior to that

    • @newyorkpotioncastle
      @newyorkpotioncastle 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @aljohntabion2751 he seems like a lowkey guy. Moving up the ranks isn't exactly lowkey. As notorious as John was, he still preferred a low profile and let his reputation precede him.

  • @unnamedproject
    @unnamedproject 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How cool would it be to have some representative of the authorities (police, army, whatever) to sit at the table? No innocent died in four movies and none seemed to bat an eye at public shootings, subway knife fights, carmaggedon on the Arc de Triomphe and so on. Agents of the law and order seem to play it very cool in this universe :D

  • @paragjawale9689
    @paragjawale9689 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wanted to know how this started, but in continental series also they have shown the story of Winston.
    I hope they will make movie or series new season showing the origin

  • @imjustatool9247
    @imjustatool9247 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Rules do not separate them from animals. Rules is forcing them to behave with politeness unless you're not inside the continental ground means it is like an apex predators hunting each other to become a richer apex predator.

  • @Dmc1184
    @Dmc1184 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    outside of the elder and the guy john killed in the earlier movie, i dont believe any of these people are actually on the high table, but instead just operate for them

  • @brandonpotts54
    @brandonpotts54 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I was disappointed and at the same time very happy when it was all said and done and kept the high table and its members ambiguous. It allows them to continue with the story, and it matters.

  • @ty814
    @ty814 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Can you tell me the source where its stated High Table been in existence for over a millenia before any governments??

  • @southeastdaygo6193
    @southeastdaygo6193 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The High Table is the Actual Villian of this series IMO! What John did in JW4 is exactly what The harbinger said what would happen to the Marquis! JW fought the table and won many other Assassins Will do the same now!

  • @growing367
    @growing367 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The High Table is like The Council of 13 in real life

  • @PDRM786
    @PDRM786 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    JOHN WICK HERO ♥️

  • @neverpreparedenough6431
    @neverpreparedenough6431 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Chidi and the Marquis served the high table they didn't sit at it

  • @junjundecastro2897
    @junjundecastro2897 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wouldn't it be awesome if one of the families at the high table be the Peaky Blinders

  • @maxgarcia9147
    @maxgarcia9147 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Jeromy Irons should be the eldest elder of the high table.

  • @user-ms9wh8uj1j
    @user-ms9wh8uj1j 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I likes the "high table"❤❤❤

  • @alwayjohnrallos7359
    @alwayjohnrallos7359 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The elder has huge kinda like armies at the back of his tent in chapter 4.

  • @vinithejib8741
    @vinithejib8741 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I would love to see Don Eladio of BB as the head of the Continental Hotel in Mexico city

  • @gerrywowiling1454
    @gerrywowiling1454 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    you forgot about Berrada, he operate the facility to mints coins..I'm pretty sure he also a big name

  • @randyrobertson4686
    @randyrobertson4686 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We are told in subtle ways through theatre what is really going on in the world.

  • @SV-lw8jo
    @SV-lw8jo 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Marquis was never confirmed as a High Table member; rather, Winston asserted that he served as a conduit for the High Table to channel their authority and directives to eliminate John Wick. Chidi, not being a member but embodying the Marquis, operated as a physical agent. It's noteworthy that the Elder doesn't hold a conventional seat within the High Table; explicit information suggests he occupies a position superior to the High Table, seated above its authority.

    • @tree_addict280
      @tree_addict280 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, Marquis was 'hired' (if you could call it that) by the Table and they channelled as much resources as he needed to dispose of Wick to him. I don't understand why there is so much debate about this when, atleast from what I remember, the movie mentions it clearly.

  • @kylesommers60
    @kylesommers60 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    actually the remaining unrevealed six members of the high table are the Ridiculous 6

  • @Conqueror00001
    @Conqueror00001 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Harbinger is a member of High Tabke

  • @Blitz7094
    @Blitz7094 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Dam wish he would of said spoilers ahead cause I ain’t see chapter 4 yet 😂😮.

  • @esk8er900
    @esk8er900 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Its ironic the Bowery king uses pigeons to avoid telecom lines especially since his Morpheus character was so tuned into the internet & basically implied it’s the reason why earth was ruined to begin with in the Matrix

  • @hardpack187
    @hardpack187 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I liked it better when the assassin underworld was a mystery.

  • @jacksonjackson3561
    @jacksonjackson3561 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I thought chidi works under marquis de gramont as his right-hand man

  • @Dacore_DE
    @Dacore_DE 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    do you use star citizen ambient music as background ?

  • @emirwayfarer7074
    @emirwayfarer7074 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    @movieStein, please tell me if it's possible or not to post this clip on my fcbk wall. I mean how does it work.
    Thank you

  • @K-G-S_66
    @K-G-S_66 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think the reason they're keeping the high table kinda mysterious
    So there could be possibilities
    To add more but for me
    JW 4 ended pretty well
    And im satisfied

  • @afomaandrea5033
    @afomaandrea5033 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    God I love this movie

  • @BermudaEntrepreneur
    @BermudaEntrepreneur 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My grandma's apart of the High rocking chair.

  • @SharpshootinSalvi
    @SharpshootinSalvi 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The high table is like the Commission for Crime Syndicates around the world from Mexican/Colombian Drug Cartels to the Comorra/Cosa Nostra/Ndregheta to Slavic Crime Syndicates to Traids/Yakuzas

  • @tonylittle8634
    @tonylittle8634 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How does that old saying go?? Life mimics art?

  • @zoolander7201
    @zoolander7201 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think the first high table memeber John Wick went against and killded was Viggo from John Wick 1

  • @shanefernandes1723
    @shanefernandes1723 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    After watching multiple TH-cam videos was able to piece together what is the high table and the organisation structure in the John wick universe
    The leaders of 12 organised criminal families in the world form the high table
    In the movies so far
    Only the Italian, Germans, Russian, Japanese, American has been shown
    The rest of the criminals organisation as per countries havent.
    Since there are 12 families - the elder serves as a tie breaker, presidential veto, the 13th man who can break deadlock between the families
    The elder is replaceable as seen in the movies
    (Unclear whether the elder is voted in from any of the 12 families or is an independent criminal family - thus making it 13 criminal families, personal opinion is that they are voted into power.)
    The assassins all of them ( Wick, Caine, Zero, Ruby, adjuticator etc) are either affiliated to the high table families like the Ruska Roma, Yakuza
    Or are independent who gained repute associating with the high table
    These assassins grow in reputation and are on loan between many of the high table factions,
    Which explains the big mystery behind the markers and their importance (e.g if a Italian family wants to order a hit on the Japanese family and will use the services of a German Hitman instead of thier own)
    Which also explains the rules that killing high table members is a captial crime
    But is done by the different families to become more powerful
    The Continental (in canon) have been a rival under world organisation which over the years lost its influence to the high table and has become subservient to it and has to follow rules laid by the high table, but still operate autonomously
    The entire bounty system and assassin services like cleanup crews, arms and ammunition, medical services are actually provided by the continental
    ( this explains why Winston and many of the continental managers have so much sway)
    There are many independent criminal organisations which the high table are aware of, like the Bowery, who they tolerate as long as they obey the rules or won't interfere)
    With the story line of John Wick, the Bowery and the continental threw thier lots in with John ( because...nugh said)
    All in all , quite the universe, but hope to see it visual in a few more movies

  • @Iron_Road
    @Iron_Road 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    By this logic John was a damned man because he couldn't refuse the marker, but was called to kill a high table member Santino's sister specifically sooo 🤷‍♂️

  • @KiLLJOY1056
    @KiLLJOY1056 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Anyone else like the previous Elder much more than the new one? or just me?

  • @slothreacts34
    @slothreacts34 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    6:35 nice Breaking Bad reference

  • @ejemudarhofamous7009
    @ejemudarhofamous7009 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The antagonist looks like Vergil in video game devil may cry 5

  • @arcticwolf8150
    @arcticwolf8150 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    John Wick would probably take down the entire high table if he was still alive, do any of these people really think they can keep coming after him? The people from the high table started this when that guy killed John's dog and stole his car so they started it cuz John was out when that happened

  • @T39Omi
    @T39Omi 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I think we have know only 5, When Elder died Marquis took his place as member and elder.
    So they are in place.

  • @m20superbazooka49
    @m20superbazooka49 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Given that john is dead, I assume john wick 5 will be a prequel? About the impossible job Tarasov gave wick.

  • @hugovm22
    @hugovm22 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Someone knows what its the song from background?

  • @afonsosilvestre7626
    @afonsosilvestre7626 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What about the First movie, what is Viggo Tarasov role in the High table system??

    • @RoidelTanga
      @RoidelTanga 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He don't have a role. It is just John Wick went back to killing after they gave him his freedom. He broke the terms of his freedom. Same way how the Marquis demanded Caine. He also broke his terms. He went too close to his daughter