John Woo
After a fairly lucrative career in Hollywood, film director John Woo has returned to Hong Kong to continue making movies. While in the United States. Woo directed several successful films, including Face/Off with Oscar award-winning actor Nicholas Cage. Some refer to his American films as being "terrible" (Middlebrook 1) and "disappointing" (Leong), while others claim that his departure from Hollywood was a "loss to us all," (Leigh 1). Undoubtedly Woo has left an impact on American cinema, given the polarizing opinions regarding his legacy this side of the Pacific.
Woo's first American movie was Hard Target, produced in 1993 and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. After this American directorial debut, Woo remained firmly in the action genre. Hunt claims that Hard Target proved that Woo is one of the most "underrated director of actors," in that he coaxed grand performances out of Van Damme and his character's nemesis, played by Lance Henriksen (Hunt 1). Hard Target took 74 days to produce, and $20 million. Interestingly, some of Woo's signature techniques did not at first woo American audiences. A test "audience of young males laughed at some of the devices -- freeze frames, dissolves, slow motion, choreographed violence -- that are the director's stylistic trademarks," (Harmetz 1). Woo took elements of the Hong Kong cinematic oeuvre and aesthetic, and fused those with...
" Hard Target, 1993 -- His first Hollywood movie. Face-off, 1997 -- John Travolta and Nicholas Cage helped create Woo's first real Hollywood blockbuster on the third try. Mission Impossible 2, 2000 -- Tom Cruise. Pure, unadulterated action and thrills in true Woo style. Windtalkers, 2002 -- discussed earlier. Critically excellent. Not a big box-office hit. Red Cliff, 2009 -- his first movie back in Hong Kong after a long stay in Hollywood. Critically, perhaps
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