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The film was John Woo's last Hong Kong film before his transition to Hollywood. After receiving criticism for making films that glamorized gangsters, Woo wanted to make a Dirty Harry-styled film to glamorize the police.
2 days ago · Fri 27 September 2024 19:02, UK. It’s not even remotely hyperbolic to suggest that cinema history could have turned out very differently had anybody other than Clint Eastwood played the title role in Dirty Harry, and not just because John Wayne was one of the many names who declined the part. After The Good, the Bad and the Ugly had rounded ...
- Woo recalls drinking tequila in Hong Kong by adding soda, covering it with a napkin, and then slamming the glass down to stir up some bubbles. “It would make you feel cool and feel like a man.”
- Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch is an inspiration in various ways including the beat where William Holden’s character drinks an entire bottle of tequila — hence the lead character here named Tequila (Chow Yun-fat).
- Woo interviewed real cops while researching the film including one detective who was known for being extremely tough towards the bad guys. “But in the meantime, he’s a drummer,” so Woo shifted that into a cop who plays music in a jazz club.
- The script initially focused on a villain who was poisoning formula bottles and killing babies. The cast was signed featuring Tony Leung as the baby-killing psycho, and they filmed the first scene at the tea house — it was scheduled for demolition so they only had five days to make use of it.
May 23, 2021 · One of John Woo's trademarks outside of slow-motion or characters using two pistols are white doves; here's what they mean within his work.
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Master of Action John Woo delivers once again with his hard-hitting, action-packed thriller `Hard Boiled,' starring Chow Yun-Fat as a veteran cop known as `Tequila,' Hong Kong's answer to San Francisco's own `Dirty Harry.'
Feb 4, 2024 · Chow Yun-fat and Tony Leung Chiu-wai star in John Woo’s 1992 film Hard Boiled, the epitome of the director’s stylised filmmaking and storytelling. We look at the stories behind the making of...
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Jul 24, 2022 · In Hard Boiled (1992), the vicious arms dealer Johnny (Anthony Wong), tells Triad ingenue and undercover cop Alan (Tony Leung), “Either we conquer the world together or you kill me tonight.” In all its fatalistic grandeur, it’s one of the most romantic lines in John Woo’s deeply romantic action masterpiece.
