John Woo: Difference between revisions

 

Not to be confused with [[wikipedia:John Yoo|John Yoo]].

 

* ''[[A Better Tomorrow]]'' - A classic story of brothers on opposite sides of the law. The younger brother Sung Tse Kit, the cop, was played by [[Leslie Cheung]], and the older brother Sung Tse Ho, the Triad gangster, was played by Ti Lung. This is the movie that kick-started the [[Heroic Bloodshed]] genre in earnest, and it would also provide [[Chow Yun-fat]]'s first major starring role as Mark Gor, an angry young gunslinger whose bond with Ho [[Blood Brothers|borders on brotherhood itself]]. The movie's most memorable scene is Mark Gor's one-man vengeance spree at the restaurant that features John Woo's first use of [[Guns Akimbo]], a trope that would later come to define the genre in general. It was also the movie that prompted the formation of Hong Kong's [[Media Classifications|rating system]] for movies due to its violence, and would later receive the rating of Category IIb (equivalent to the R rating).

* ''Heroes Shed No Tears'' - John Woo's very first gunplay movie, made before ''[[A Better Tomorrow]]'', but released after that movie became a hit in Hong Kong. Starring Eddy Ko Hung, Lam Ching Ying, Lai Chan Shang and Kuo Sheng, this movie is a low budget [[Vietnam War]] movie reminiscent of ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' which marks the beginnings of the gunplay styles that would soon become John Woo's trademark. Woo would later improve upon the themes of this movie in his Vietnam epic ''Bullet in the Head''.

* ''[[Hard Boiled (film)|Hard Boiled]]'' - John Woo's last big Hong Kong movie, this movie is perhaps ''the'' most action-packed ever. Chow Yun-Fat stars as a [[Cowboy Cop]] named Tequila who fights Triad gunrunners in a series of explosive shootouts. He teams up with Alan, another [[Hitman with a Heart]] played by Tony Leung Chiu-Wai who turns out to be an undercover cop who has infiltrated the gang and was forced to betray his last Triad boss. The movie kicks into action overdrive when midway through the film, the [[Big Bad]], Johnny Wong, and his crew of bad guys take over a hospital in [[Die Hard on an X|pure Die Hard fashion]], and Tequila and Alan have to save everyone that they've taken hostage and take down the bad guys once and for all in true [[Heroic Bloodshed]] fashion in one of the most explosive running shootouts that John Woo has ever filmed.

 

 

 

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