Introduce John Woo.

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John Woo

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Chinese name: Wu Yusen

English name: John Woo

Birth: 1946 May 1.

Zodiac: Dog

Place of birth: Guangzhou, Guangdong Province

Constellation: Taurus

Occupation: director, screenwriter, actor

Marital status: married with children.

Wu Yusen's film chronology

1973 traveler (director)

1975 Women's Taekwondo Club (director)

1976 "Emperor Flower" (director) "Shaolin Gate" (director)

1977 cold money (director)

1978 The Bad Star and the Little Girl's Head (co-director) Good Evening (co-director)

1979 Hao Xia (director)

1980 Qian Zuoguai (director) and Funny Times (director/pseudonym Wu)

1982 Modern Shi Tian (director) Eight-color Lin Yazhen (director)

1986 clown (guide)

1986 true colors of heroes (director)

1987 "The True Color of Heroes" sequel (director)

1989 "Two Men of Hot Blood" (director) "Dragon and Snake for hegemony" (co-produced with Five Horses, it is a birthday celebration movie in Zhang Che)

1990 Street Bloody (guide, co-editor, editor)

199 1 year "Crossing the Ocean" (director, co-editor, performance)

1992 tough guy detective (directing, cutting and acting)

1993 ultimate goal (guide)

1996 Broken Arrow (Guide) and New Vision (Guide, TV Movie)

1997 front/back (guide)

1998 Super Black Jack (director, TV movie)

Mission Impossible 2 2000 (Guide)

Film characteristics

He is usually called "the master of violence aesthetics". In fact, under the cloak of violence, his films focus on describing the friendship between characters, the relationship between people and the times, and a kind of confusion about the real society. However, it is best to be positive. He is good at expressing his feelings through things, such as "pigeons" and "churches" that often appear in his films.

Resume and work performance (awards):

John Woo/Kloc-0 was born in Guangzhou on September 22nd, 1946, and moved to Hong Kong with his parents in195/Kloc-0. Because my father is sick and can't work, my mother has to bear the burden of supporting her family and live in poverty. My father died right after graduating from middle school. Because his mother moved stones on the construction site to support his family, he had to give up his dream of studying architecture or fine arts in Taiwan Province Province. At this time, John Woo studied in a Christian school and intensively read many works on theology, history, philosophy and fine arts. When John Woo was in middle school, he often slipped out of the classroom and went to the cinema to watch movies. His favorite movies are Hollywood gangster movies, westerns and golden age musicals. The similarity between these films is that the pictures are full of motion. John Woo's favorite director is Pierre Melville, a French violence director. His works are full of human feelings in violence. But the person who had the greatest influence on John Woo was sam peckinpah, who filmed The Savage Gang. It can be said that the use of slow mirror in John Woo's films and the way to make the characters fight for their lives in hymns are the development of Sam's film language.

197 1 year, John Woo went to Shaw Film Company to film with Zhang Che, the most famous action film director at that time. Zhang Che's works flooded the film market at that time, and John Woo also learned a lot of professional skills from them. In John Woo's words, "If I replaced the knife in Zhang Che's movie with a gun, it would be very similar to my hero." After staying with Zhang Che for two years, John Woo started his first work, Passers-by. The martial arts director of this film is Jackie Chan, the eldest brother of Hong Kong film industry today. At that time, both of them were young players in the film industry, so passers-by did not react. After that, he went to Jiahe as a director for ten years (1973- 1983). During this decade, he produced many comedies that completely pleased the market. 1973 directed tender feelings in ironman, and then made many low-budget films, such as Women's Taekwondo Club (1976), King Flower (1976) and Shaolin Gate (1976). Comedy movies such as Night Returning Man (1978), Hao Xia (1979), Funny Times (1980) and Eight Colors Lin Yazhen (1982). This period was called "the decade of comedy" by himself.

From 1983, he went from Jiahe to New Art City, and his career sank to the bottom, and he was sent to Taiwan Province Province for nearly three years. But he also made many good friends in Taiwan Province Province in Behind the Dark Clouds, and he also saw the rich human touch in the entertainment circle in Taiwan Province Province, which is different from Hongkong. After 1985' s punchline box office fiasco, he returned to Hong Kong alone and joined Tsui Hark's "film studio". In the late 1970s, he was employed by China Film Studio as a production assistant and screenwriter inspector. During this period, the new American directors Sam Penguin and stanley kubrick gave him a lot of inspiration, and the violence in their works had a far-reaching impact on him. In the mid-1980s, John Woo's film career stagnated. 1986 successfully directed the True Color of Heroes with the help of Tsui Hark, which laid the film style of Wu Yusen's violent aesthetics, and even the later True Color of Heroes 2 (1987) and Two Men in Blood (1989) followed this style.

Hero is not only a turning point in John Woo's life, but also a monument of Hong Kong movies. When creating this film, John Woo's heroism is inevitable. The frustration and revenge accumulated in the film industry for many years permeate every picture, and his fine diversion and smooth editing are still impeccable today. This big scene and high-quality work shocked all the audience and filmmakers. The film also found a large number of talents for Hong Kong films, such as Tsui Hark, Cheng Xiaodong, Hang-Sang Poon, Leslie Cheung and Chow Yun Fat, who were also the losers in the film industry in those years and were called "box office poison". John Woo took a gamble, but he won. A group of depressed and dormant men conquered their fate and produced brilliant light for each other!

A passionate couple (1989) is probably the most important masterpiece of John Woo's life. So far, none of John Woo's works have surpassed the artistic conception created by this film: friendship that can't be measured by anything, Jianghu brothers who admire each other, and their unshakable principles of being a man. Wu Yusen filled the violent world with unspeakable romance with extremely confident methods, and the gorgeous and free control of the camera, refined dialogue and dancing gun battles were fascinating. The battle of life and death in the church at the end of the film can best represent the essence of violent aesthetics: the Virgin reflected by candlelight, the white dove passing by in the background, and a pair of friends who should not be friends of life and death, all carrying out their own justice. As John Woo said, "This is what I want to express with the lens most. Philosophical movies and chivalrous protagonists also expressed my ideals. "

After Two Men in Blood, John Woo left Tsui Hark's "Film Studio" because of disagreement, and set up his own company, shooting action films such as Streets in Blood, Wandering World, and Detective Tough Guy.

1993 Universal Studios invested in The Ultimate Goal directed by John Woo, starring jean-claude van damme. Although the Los Angeles Times took John Woo as the front page figure after the release of Ultimate Goal, the film sold 1600 copies, but it was a stale John Woo film. Although there are white doves dancing in hymns in the film, it lacks consistent poetry and is more like jean-claude van damme's action film. In fact, the martial arts scenes in John Woo's films are not even average among Hong Kong directors, so after the film was released, Universal Pictures sent "senior action film editing experts" to re-edit the film to adapt to the fans in jean-claude van damme. So the ultimate goal we see today is not the real John Woo movie.

1996 20th Century Fox Company took over Broken Arrow. The most attractive thing about Broken Arrow is that john Travolta, who plays the traitor, imitates every movement of Chow Yun Fat, from cynical smile to smoking posture, which is full of charm. At the same time, the action scenes and various details designed by John Woo are overwhelming. This movie is the first time that John Woo has made great efforts according to the routine of American movies. At this point, he has really mastered the lifeblood of Hollywood action movies.

1997' s face/off is another peak of Wu Yusen's film career. Wu Yusen found the kind of "humanitarian spirit" and "family concept" advocated by both eastern and western worlds in the film, and emphatically portrayed the strength and gentleness of female characters, which was recognized by the female audience 100%, and many female audiences who had never seen an action movie were also fascinated by this film. Like the style of dealing with characters in the past, the hero of this film is also between good and evil. John travolta and Nicolas Cage in the film, originally one represents good and the other represents evil, but after exchanging faces, they basically become two personalities of the same person. The most interesting plot is that sometimes bad people can handle some things better than good people. For example, after Cage transformed travolta, she gave her wife a real romance and taught her daughter how to protect herself. John Woo gave full play to the acting talents of Cage and travolta in the film, and he made the audience feel their psychological changes when they saw the changes in their eyes. John Woo's handling of the two superstars showed a master style, and Cage and travolta were deeply impressed afterwards. They think that the play designed by John Woo has realized their cool dream. And this is obviously not a compliment. FACE/OFF, with an investment as high as $ 1 100 million, was regarded as "the most John Woo style" by American film critics, and won the US box office championship in July. At the same time, he also brought Wu Yusen the highest honor "Golden Ring Award" awarded by the National Chinese Art Foundation.

Some award-winning records:

Best Director of the 9th Hong Kong Film Awards (1989)

Best Editing of the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards (1990) (Two Men of Hot Blood)

Best Director of the 23rd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award (1986) (Hero)

Best Editing of the 37th Asia-Pacific Film Festival (1992) (Hard Detective)

Best Editing of the 12th Hong Kong Film Awards (1992) (Detective)

Collaborator:

Speaking of John Woo, his confidante Chow Yun Fat was not spared. Only Chow Yun Fat can express John Woo's movie feelings, and their collaboration "True colors of heroes" and "Hot Men" have become classics. Recently, they will work together again on Battle of Red Cliffs.