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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:21:31 -0500
- From: Daniel Read <dr3u+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Woo's "The Killer" out on US video
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- "JUDEX" says:
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- Although I would rather see Woo work with Dolph Lundgren than Van Damme,
- I too, am eagarly awaiting "Hard Target". And "The Killer" made the rounds
- on Cinemax about 1 month back, in a very nicely dubbed version.
-
- SO I SAY:
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- In his HK films Woo has usually worked with first-rate ACTORS and not
- action-film pieces of meat. Chow Yun Fat is not the HK version of Van
- Damme, but of Cary Grant. Leslie Cheung, Sally Yeh, Ti Lung, Cherie
- Chung and Jackie Cheung are all top notch actors. (Look at the trilogy
- of fine performances that form the center of BULLET IN THE HEAD -- who
- would remember it if Dolph Lundgren, Van Damme and Steven Seagal had
- played the three friends). So even when the screen is exploding with
- bullets the people holding the guns are believably motivated human
- beings.
-
- Working with Van Damme will be like a return to the early days of films
- like THE YOUNG DRAGONS. Artistically, its clearly a big step down for
- Woo -- although I suspect he feels that a trashy American martial arts
- picture will be a good career move.
-
- Personally, I think that RESERVOIR DOGS will be the best John Woo film
- this year. (Why couldn't he have made a film with Harvey Keitel or
- Christopher Walken?).
-
- Good luck, John -- you'll need it.
-
- daniel
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