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- From: hongl@cs.tamu.edu (HL)
- Subject: Re: Woo's "The Killer" out on US video
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.200856.7046@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
- References: <1992Nov15.172029.18198@news2.cis.umn.edu> <Yf213PK00Uh_85K48x@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Nov17.111357.20530@yang.earlham.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:08:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.111357.20530@yang.earlham.edu> uril@yang.earlham.edu writes:
- >In article <Yf213PK00Uh_85K48x@andrew.cmu.edu>, dr3u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Read) writes:
- >> "JUDEX" says:
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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.
- >
- >I am actually really hopeful about John Woo's American effort. You must
- >remember that when Chow Yun Fat was used by Woo in A Better Tommorow, his
- >reputation was not the greatest in the world as an actor. However,
- >because of Woo's fabulous direction, he pulled a great performance out of
- >Chow Yun Fat.
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- Actually, Chow Yun Fat was considered good actor at that time. His TV show
- shanghai beach was so good that even today it is still the best in TV shows.
- He was doing quite well in TV world, not in movie world though. A better
- tomorrow only helped him in moive world.
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