John Woo’s The Killer

Kenneth E. Hall is Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages at East Tennessee State University. His landmark study John Woo: The Films, was published in 1999. He has also translated two of Guillermo Cabrera Infante's major works: Mea Cuba (1994) and A Twentieth Century Job (1991) and published Guillermo Cabrera Infante and the Cinema (1989).

出版者:Hong Kong University Press

作者:Kenneth Hall

页数:125

出版时间:2009-02-28

价格:USD 17.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9789622099562

丛书系列:The New Hong Kong Cinema

图书标签:吴宇森外pf

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A classic tale of loyalty and bloody betrayal, John Woo’s The Killer (1989) was centrally important to the growth of Hong Kong cinema in the 1980s and 1990s. It helped launch the international stardom of Woo and lead actor Chow Yun-fat, who plays a disllusioned hitman taking his fatal final assignment to help a lounge singer he accidentally blinded. Illustrating the film’s place in the chivalric tradition of Chinese and Hong Kong cinema, where cops and noble villains sometimes join forces in defense of traditional virtues and personal honor, Kenneth Hall documents the strong influence of Woo’s mentor Chang Cheh as well as Jean-Pierre Melville and other film noir pioneers. Hall also analyzes the film’s influence on other directors, including Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino.