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- From: upham@cs.ubc.ca (Derek Upham)
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- Subject: Re: Woo's "The Killer" out on US video
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 15:42:36 -0800
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- Daniel Read <dr3u+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
-
- >I don't know about the chronology, but Chow Yun Fat is not primarily an
- >action film star. At least half of his films are romantic comedies.
- >That's why I compared him to Cary Grant.
-
- I recall reading (somewhere) that Woo had seen and was impressed by
- Chow's performance in "An Autumn's Tale"---which is about much of an
- action role as Andy Lau's role in "Days of Being Wild" (i.e., hardly
- an action role at all). This was 1983? Something like that.
-
- From browsing in various laserdisc stores, it looks like his romantic
- comedies come out to be a bit less than half. One-third, perhaps.
- (Maybe I've been looking at skewed samples.) His sense of comedic
- timing is pretty good, but he has a slight tendency to mug.
-
- Derek
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- Derek Lynn Upham University of British Columbia
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