Did John Woo's Style of Directing

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Did John Woo's Style of Directing

"The Killer" and "Mi2" are not very alike in style. "Hard Boiled" is

similar to The Killer and "Hard Boiled's" and "Face off's" shootouts

are very similar.

In Mi2 a lot of the ideas for the action scenes were developed before

the making of the film. This would explain the lack of substance in

some of the action scenes. When I say substance I mean action with a

purpose.

(Show the mountain climbing scene of Mi2)

But then again, Woo did not write Mi2, Robert Towne did so he had less

control over the content of the film unlike the amount of control he

has in "The Killer" which he wrote himself.

Tom Cruise fires his gun in exactly the same fashion as Chow Yun-Fat

did in "The Killer". This is one of john who's signatures. Both Cruise

and Chow Yun Fat both seem to sway with emotion when pointing guns at

their enemies. Also, both of these actors characters like to carry and

use multiple guns and prefer to throw away a gun when it's out of

bullets, rather than keep it in case they get more ammo for the gun

type.

Often in John Woo films, a character will fashion two handguns and

shoot his enemies with them at the same time.

(Show clip: first gunfight scenes of "The Killer" and a clip of "Face

Off").

The shootouts in "Face Off" are very fast paced, and often show the

characters avoiding bullets by performing dives and rolls. This is

very similar to the shootouts in "Hard Boiled".

Woo's fight scenes are very aggressive and angry. According to item 8

of the catalogue this is because Woo often incorporates his feelings

of what is going on the outside world into his films. If while he is

shooting a scene he hears about people needlessly getting murdered, he

will feel very angry about it and bring that anger to the scene:

"I'll look at the bad guy as the murderer and then I'm thinking, Let's

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