Director John Woo (b. 1946) re-invented the modern action movie and helped open the door for Asian filmmakers to the Western world. His hyper-violent, highly choreographed style made him a box office powerhouse, a respected auteur and a revered figure among fellow directors.
First discovered by Western audiences through his Hong Kong films The Killer and Hard Boiled, Woo introduced the world to a new brand of psychologically, frenzied action film. After coming to the United States inthe early 1990s, Woo produced a trilogy of hard-charging action films---Broken Arrow, Face/Off and Mission: Impossible II---that were both popular and critically acclaimed. But Woo"s signature bullet ballets, his kinetic, blood-spattered action sequences, represent a dichotomy in the director’s philosophy. John Woo: Interviews reveals a peace-loving, devoutly religious man at odds with his reputation as the master of cinematic violence.
Unprecedented access to the director helped editor Robert K. Elder create in John Woo: Interviews the first authoritative English-language chronicle of Woo"s career. A new 36-page interview with Woo with Elder documents the years 1968 to 1990. Also included are interviews translated from Cantonese courtesy of theHong Kong Film Archive, and rare commentary track excerpts from the Criterion Collection"s DVD editions of The Killer and Hard Boiled. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге John Woo: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) (John Woo)