Thursday, July 12, 2007

John Woo - one of the great director ..

John Woo is a Chinese film director and producer from hong kong.
Woo is widely known for his stylised movies which are renowned for their balletic action sequences, Mexican stand-offs, and use of slow-motion.
Yes...very slow and funny motions..ha ha
He directed the notable Hong Kong action films, A Better Tomorrow, Hard Boiled, and The Killer.
some are good..some are very good..
His English-language movies include Hard Target, Broken Arrow, Face/Off, and Mission: Impossible 2.
Yes, a chinese director in US movies.
As a young boy, Woo wanted to be a Christian minister, he later found a passion for movies influenced by European film, the French New Wave and Jean-Pierre Melville.
Woo has said he was shy and had difficulty speaking, but found making movies a way to explore his feelings and thinking and would "use movie as a language".
Woo cites his three favourite films as Lawrence of Arabia, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samurai.
Woo was described by Dave Kehr in The Observer in 2002 as "arguably the most influential director making movies today".

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