Hong Kong action cinema

John Woo: from Hong Kong to Hollywood, The Killer and Face/Off John Woo and his "heroic bloodshed" have revolutionized and rejuvenated the action genre, combining melodrama with action to create the male melodrama, in which he explores the codes of masculinity while redefining them. Robert Hanke says that "explosive pyrotechnics seem to be privileged over plot, narrative or character" (Hanke 41) and yet notes that Jillian Sandell maintains the opinion that Woo does not "celebrate this violence

Mainland China and Taiwan, Hong Kong had a more political and economic freedom as a former British Colony, so it successfully developed its own Chinese-speaking filmmaking business and played an important role on the world cinema stage. Because Hong Kong enjoyed little or no government restriction on import quotas, it slowly became the second largest film exporter and ranked in the third place for its motion picture production in the world. At the beginning, Hong Kong film referenced elements from

happen? I think the director and his filming style is a really important clue for this question. And with the director’s unique filming style, Crouching Tiger succeeds internationally and differs itself from other martial arts genre and Hollywood action movie for

Even Death Can’t Thread Honor In 1997, Hong Kong gained sovereignty from Great Britain to China. This determinative event accompanied by the Tian An Men massacre in 1989 has become a socially and politically national and international context of actual violence (Hall 36). The phrase “gangsters/assassin” might originate from the impressive images of the violent action movies and violent extremes of Hong Kong cinema in the late 1980s. And, “The Killer” of director John Woo was one of the first films

character in what Westerners would indeed consider exclusively male role such as the action hero (Castillo 3). In the martial art films several actress have even established their entire reputations as action stars. The action heroes were also held up as the idea of masculinity with all of its inherent characteristics of control, privilege and agency. This is actually adopted from the western archetypes of male action hero which emphasize connotations of physical presence and prominent body musculature

the artistic director of Pacific Arts Movement and of the San Diego Asian Film Foundation who received his PhD in Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA. His lecture presented grave insight into National cultural specifics but emphasized mostly on China and Hong Kong. He also broke down genres as they play a role in the film industry. Martial-arts as a genre are very specific to Chinese cinema and Japan has samurai films of loyalty and justice. As a genre, martial-arts take place at a temples or a forest

The Construction of the ‘Western Other’ in Hong Kong Post-colonial Cinema Hong Kong has always remained a very unique city, one which is said to have ‘a Western past, an Eastern future’. Since its colonisation by the British in the 1860s, it has maintained to a very large extent its Chinese identity and its connection to its Motherland, while at the same time, has frequent contact with the Western world, politically, economically, and culturally. Hong Kong’s unique position has made the city a

Asian cinema is refer to film from East Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, West Asia, and South Asia. What make asian unique is faces, languages, their own traditional costumes and also geophysical location. In the early silent film era, the first short film produced is in Japan called Bake Jizo and Shinin no Sosei from 1898. In the forms of chinese martial arts, emerged in 1920s in Shanghai. Popular with Wuxia ( swordplay) and Gongfu ( kung fu ).While in the early sound era, earliest sound film

Cinema and movies are the true reflections of nation as well as society, both in the present and past. The movies and its modernisms occasionally have to catch up to the idea of nation, however sometimes it leads and shapes nation too. According to Berry and Farquhar (2006), Chinese movies have played a critical role in shaping nation and national identity amongst Chinese. This essay will mainly focus on how Chinese cinema has reflected and shaped the idea of nation. Apart from that, the history

Seann Williams Scott as Travis, Rosario Dawson as Mariana, Christopher Walken as Hatcher, Edwen Bremner as Declan, Stephen Bishop as Quarterback, and Jeff Chase as Kambui. I would recommend this movie to people who like action- adventure movies. It was a very good movie with lots of action and it was a funny. Beck is my favorite character in the movie because he is generous and an excellent fighter without being armed. However, Hatcher is my least favorite, he’s cruel and greedy. Beck is a highly