Hong Kong & John Woo/Wong Kar-Wai

Hong Kong & John Woo/Wong Kar-Wai

Hong Kong Cinema:
1) Mast and Kawin call the cinema of Hong Kong the most commercial and artificial cinema in the
    world.
2)The region does produce mostly crime/gangster films, martial arts films, and fairy tales, but it has
    been home to some of the most significant directors of the last few decades.

John Woo
1) Mast and Kawin point out that loyalty—to a friend, a teacher, a ritual, or a code—is a recurring theme
    in Hong Kong cinema.
2) This loyalty is tested by deception and contamination at every turn.
3) This value is central to most of the films of John Woo.

The Killer (1989) 

This picture is the last scene where the twogood guys have killed everyone and are walking out of the church one guy holding his side. 

 In The Killer (1989) - clip description
The “unusual killer” (Chow Yun-fat) and the “unusual cop” (Danny Lee) both believe in justice and keeping promises. They two form an unusual bond in a film where guns never run out of bullets. The following clip from The Killer showcases Woo's trademark action style.

The Killer (John Woo, 1989):
Two guys with guns - go tell them you're a cop -- he has two guns and is blasting everyone away. It's in a church. They never seem to run out of bullets and people make dramatic falls onto the candles of the Christian church. Everyone is in a white suit - the bad guys in white sweat pants. Everyone ends up dead a n a dove flies on the cancles. There is a crying woman. He triesto protect her but gets shot. The Virgin Mary statue gets blown to bits and some guy does the sign of the cross. The two guys are wounded but decide to go out killing and even dying. while a nerdy guy takes out the woman. The heroes are killing everyone.5 minutes and 30 seconds of killing. The good guys walk out holding their side with the suitcase after killing everyone.  

This is a long clip of the Church gun scene 14 minutes - we saw 5 Click Here

A clip from John Woo's Hard Boiled. It's the famous Teahouse scene Click Here

Wong Kar-Wai
1) Wong makes romantic movies that are visually daring.
2) Almost everything in his films is connected to everything else.
3) For example, one of the two central protagonists in In the Mood for Love (2000) lives in Room 2046.
4) 2046 is the title of Wong’s next film after In the Mood for Love.
5) In the Mood is about two neighbors in the 1960s who don’t become lovers (Maggie Cheung and Tony
    Leung) despite an intense attraction to one another.
6) Each of them is married and they often find themselves alone in their rooms.
7)Eventually it is revealed that their spouses have been seeing each other.

Film clip introduction: 
In this clip, Chow is seen visiting the Angkor Wat in Cambodia where he whispers into a hollow in a ruined wall. This is an allusion to a story earlier in the film. Chow relays to a friend a story about what one does when one has a secret that cannot be shared.

Photo from final scene in a beautiful ruined temple in Cambodia with violin music playing in the background. 

In the Mood for Love (2000):

We saw just 3 minutes of this clip but it is in Cambodia in the ruined templeClick Here