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JOHN KRASINSKI PULLS OFF A MIRACLE WITH CILLIAN MURPHY IN A QUIET PLACE 2

By Jordan Williams
Published May 31, 2021


A Quiet Place II risked introducing a new character to replace Krasinski's Lee,
but the clever writing actually made Cillian Murphy a saving grace.



Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for A Quiet Place 2.

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A Quiet Place Part II writer, director, and actor John Krasinski pulled off an
incredible sequel feat, with Cillian Murphy’s new character successfully
replacing Krasinski’s own leading-man role from the first film. As Krasinski’s
third directorial venture after typically being known for his role as Jim
Halpert on The Office and producer credits on films like Manchester by the Sea,
A Quiet Place (2018) was an unexpected, resounding success for Krasinski’s new
career path. Not only have A Quiet Place and its sequel been critically
acclaimed at their releases, but a third Quiet Place movie has also been teased
by Krasinski.



A Quiet Place occurs about a year into a post-apocalyptic world in which blind
monsters attracted to sound have terrorized Earth and killed most of humanity.
The first film follows the Abbott family led by father Lee (Krasinski), mother
Evelyn (Emily Blunt), and including daughter Regan (Millicent Simmonds), and son
Marcus (Noah Jupe) as they survive the new world, largely due to their prior
fluency with American Sign Language from Regan’s deafness. The horror movie is
much more of a family story, tragically ending with Lee sacrificing himself for
his family. A Quiet Place Part II picks up right where the first film left off,
now with the family (minus Lee) finding more survivors and help, where they
stumble upon their old friend Emmett (Cillian Murphy).

Related: How Much Did A Quiet Place 2 Cost To Make



Introducing a new character that essentially takes the place of a core character
is extremely difficult to properly execute, yet Krasinski writes Cillian
Murphy’s character, Emmett, in a way that feels natural and unintrusive. Emmett
doesn’t become the children’s new father, leader, or suitor to Evelyn, he’s
simply another exploration of fatherhood in which he resolves his own failures
through his reluctant relationship with the Abbotts. While he is their new male
figure, it’s not an overbearing relationship wherein Emmett is acting as a
stepfather to the children or competing with Lee’s legacy. In this way, Emmett’s
character could have made or broken A Quiet Place II, but John Krasinski’s
execution turned Cillian Murphy into a miraculously successful replacement for
Lee.


EMMETT IS A NEW EXPLORATION OF FATHERHOOD




Krasinski has explained that A Quiet Place was an allegory for his fear of
fatherhood, and Lee's character arc explores the trials and tribulations, in an
exaggerated manner, of being a parent. Lee’s troubles with fatherhood are most
closely seen with his daughter Regan, with whom he has a loving, yet strained
relationship. In A Quiet Place, Regan believes part of his emotional distance
from her is due to her deafness requiring more time and attention than her
younger siblings, as well as believing he blames her for her younger brother’s
death. Lee doesn’t tend to show his affection for Regan openly and consistently,
though he loves her and shows it through spending an incredible amount of his
time building cochlear implants for her. Krasinski’s exploration of fatherhood
through Lee is resolved in the final act wherein Lee signs to Regan he loves
her and has always loved her before screaming, sacrificing himself to the
monsters to save his kids.



Lee and Regan’s relationship represents John Krasinki’s fears of not being able
to properly display his love to his children, and worrying that his inability to
meaningfully communicate his feelings to his children will cause resentment.
When Lee sacrifices himself for Regan and Marcus, Krasinski is telling his own
children that, even if he fails in showing it, he loves them immensely and would
literally die for them. Krasinski also strategically leaves his real-life wife
Emily Blunt’s character Evelyn out of the core conflict with Regan,
communicating that he doesn’t fear his wife being unable to fully connect with
their children, only himself. It’s not a feeling that’s specific to Krasinski;
nearly every new or expecting parent tends to fear their ability to properly
parent and give their kids the perfect relationship they deserve. The caveat is
that Krasinski so incredibly places these fears into an actual monster and
crisis, putting it all on the line, and compellingly pulls it off.



Cillian Murphy's Emmett is cleverly introduced in the cold open of A Quiet Place
II that serves as a short prequel to the first film, wherein he is a friend to
the Abbotts and has a son that plays baseball with Marcus. Instead of
introducing Emmett as a random dark figure who saves them from the monster, he
tries to hide his face because he can’t bear the shame of telling them he
outlived his son and wife. Their preexisting friendship makes it easier for
Evelyn to convince Emmett to help them and their family history means he won’t
be pursuing anything more than a friendship with them. What’s even more tragic
is that Emmett is revealed to be the person who kept a fire going that allowed
Lee to know others were out there, though Emmett admits he never intended to
seek out the Abbotts.

Related: A Quiet Place 2 Cast & Character Guide






EMMETT ISN'T COMPETING WITH LEE




The storyline of Cillian Murphy's Emmett is essentially an investigation of what
Lee would have felt had he not been able to save his family and was the only one
to survive. Krasinski isn’t implying that Emmett should have died to save his
son and wife - in his wife’s case it was simply illness - he is exploring the
guilt one feels in outlasting their child with whom they are tasked with
protecting above all else. Consistent with Krasinski’s focus on fatherhood,
Emmett is much more preoccupied with remorse over his son’s death than his
wife's. When the Abbotts begin to explore the facility Emmett is living in, they
find an abundance of drawings of his son - who by this point had been dead for
over a year. This may be due to his wife’s death being much more recent and in a
manner he could perceive less as his fault, but he also never properly dealt
with her death considering Marcus finds her decomposed body behind a curtain in
the facility.



Just as Krasinski used Lee’s relationship with Regan to examine his worries
about fatherhood, A Quiet Place Part II focuses more heavily on Regan and
Emmett’s unlikely companionship to resolve Emmett’s self-reproach. Not only does
he protect Regan, but Emmett also makes sure the first person he saves on the
unsuspecting island is a seven-year-old boy standing alone. He is also unable to
resist protecting the Abbotts when Evelyn shows him her newborn son, an innocent
figure that not even the pessimistic Emmett can avoid saving. Without writing
Emmett in a way that feels helpful yet not overbearing, the core conflict would
be less believable and Emmett’s contributions instead interpreted as an inferior
contrast to Lee and Regan’s parent-child relationship. Fortunately, the pair’s
friendship is used to reconcile with their respective guilt for the deaths of
their closest loved ones and continue with the familial conflict from A Quiet
Place.



A Quiet Place 2’s conflict is a way for Emmett to redeem himself for his
perceived guilt in his failure to protect his own family, where he connects with
Regan in a way that also redeems his faith in humanity. In one of the final
scenes of the film, Emmett does what he wishes he had done for his son and what
Lee actually did for his children; he shuts the door to the studio, putting
himself in the position to die so Regan and, hopefully, in-reach New Yorkers,
can survive. Emmett is saved by Regan as she blasts the implant into the radio
broadcast, allowing the two to survive while also serving as a way for Regan to
resolve her guilt after her father died for her.

Krasinski masterfully executes a follow-up in a genre that tends to produce
less-successful sequels by crafting A Quiet Place 2 in a manner more indicative
of a second season of a TV series rather than just repeating the same set-up
with a different setting and new characters. Newly introduced characters like
Emmett, who ostensibly replace previously lost characters, tend not to work in
movie franchises; take for example Before the Planet of the Apes (1970), where
James Franciscus unsuccessfully takes over the lead from Charlton Heston. Lee’s
memory is still there, especially in a candid moment with Regan and Emmett where
she says Emmett is “nothing like him” because Lee would have actually helped,
but it’s not distracting in a way that one is constantly comparing Murphy to
Krasinski. While Marcus and Evelyn provide excellent contributions and dramatic
enhancement to the film, the core draw is Regan and Emmett’s journey, which
doesn’t work if the character isn’t perfectly written and executed by the right
actor. Thankfully for A Quiet Place Part II, John Krasinski and Cillian Murphy
stepped up to the plate and delivered a compelling new character.



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