Tag Archives: hong kong cinema
Why Care About the Hero?
I originally entitled this post: The Best Fight Scene Ever. Part Deux. But then I realized that this article is just as much about how movies make us actually care about the hero as opposed to just watch them go around and do things without any emotional involvement. Note: There are a few plot spoilers […]
The Best Fight Scene. Ever.
I’ve been watching a lot of martial arts movies lately. I plan on making martial arts movies. (Every time I watch a movie, it’s research. I love researching. Work is play and play is work. ) Last night I watched Drunken Master 2. (Hong Kong, 1994. Released in the U.S. six years later as “The […]
Woo’s A Better Tomorrow, the Action Genre’s Seminal Film
Watched “A Better Tomorrow” — Sam Raimi says John Woo is the master of the action genre just as Hitchcock is the master of suspense.¹ So Woo’s films are a required text for anyone intending to make action films. Here’s what I loved about A Better Tomorrow and what I think separates Woo from the […]
