John Woo, the legendary director of The Killer, Hard Boiled and Face/Off has rightly professed his love for David Mackenzie’s 2016 thriller, Hell Or High Water. What impeccable style.
As is customary lately, a revered outlet has printed an enchanting, in-depth interview with a revered filmmaker, and the remainder of the web has zeroed in on the bit the place they glancingly speak about Marvel movies.
Such is the case with the legendary John Woo, who modified motion motion pictures without end with such Hong Kong thrillers as The Killer and Hard Boiled, earlier than transferring to Hollywood with the likes of Hard Target, Face/Off and Mission: Impossible 2.
The New Yorker caught up with Mr Woo simply as he unleashes his newest movie, the great-sounding Christmas thriller Silent Night, through which Joel Kinnaman performs a grieving father on a festive revenge mission. Incredibly, it’s Woo’s first in 20 years. To mark the event, the veteran director talks candidly about his life and profession, from his Christian upbringing, terrifying-sounding brushes with gangs, and eventual breakthrough as a filmmaker.
During that dialog, interviewer Simon Abrams requested Woo what different motion motion pictures he favored. Woo’s response was an fascinating one: David Mackenzie’s 2016 drama-thriller, Hell Or High Water.
“I actually love Hell Or High Water,” Woo mentioned. “Good performances, good motion. It seems like a tragedy. Great cinematography, too. I attempted to get its director of images, Giles Nuttgens, to shoot Silent Night, however he wasn’t out there.”
By pure coincidence, we wrote about Hell Or High Water on this very web site solely a few weeks in the past – “one of many nice thrillers of the previous decade,” was how we summed it up.
Oh, after which there’s the road plenty of different websites have picked up on. When requested about superhero motion pictures, Woo responded, “I’ve by no means favored watching motion pictures with massive particular results, or something based mostly on comedian books. I want Martin Scorsese’s motion pictures, that type of cinema.”
If you learn the remainder of the interview, Woo affection for Scorsese is hardly shocking; Woo says that Bullet In The Head (1990) was an homage to the Italian-American director – particularly Mean Streets. The complete profile’s an excellent one, and nicely price studying in full.
Silent Night is out in US cinemas on 1st December. If and when it will get a UK launch date, we’ll move it alongside.
