Spoilers for The Beekeeper are ahead. If you haven’t seen Jason Statham’s buzzworthy project, you can catch it in theaters now.
Sometimes, it’s important to ask questions that may seem weird, because most of the time they aren’t. Case and point: When I saw The Beekeeper I was left wondering if all the agents who call themselves Beekeepers also actually keep bees, like Jason Statham’s character does in the film. It turns out, the director, David Ayer, has an answer to this seemingly silly question, and it provides fantastic insight into the people who make up this elite agency and how it relates to the actual profession of beekeeping.
Sometimes, it’s important to ask questions that may seem weird, because most of the time they aren’t. Case and point: When I saw The Beekeeper I was left wondering if all the agents who call themselves Beekeepers also actually keep bees, like Jason Statham’s character does in the film. It turns out, the director, David Ayer, has an answer to this seemingly silly question, and it provides fantastic insight into the people who make up this elite agency and how it relates to the actual profession of beekeeping.
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00:00It is kind of funny because like, you know, you start driving around and then you see beekeepers in the real world and then you start wondering like, okay, what's really going on here, you know, but the metaphor of the beekeeper is this idea that there's this sort of, you know, invisible hand that can come in and fix the hive that can fix society when it can't fix itself.
00:19And it just kind of plays like amazingly well. And you do wonder, yeah, what are real beekeepers up to? And then what are the secret society beekeepers up to? And I always figure that all of them did keep bees. That's probably the first thing they learned.