No one does it like John Woo. Call Woo a pioneer force that helped shape Hollywood action films would be an understatementAs its influence is deeper than one could imagine. It would not be eccentric to call the brand of cinematographic violence of Woo poetic, where it revitalizes the banal with smooth obstacles – whether it is when a hail of bullets pierces through broken glass, or time slows down to highlight something incredibly cool.

Since Woo found consumer success with “A Best Tomorrow” from 1986, he experienced the kind of action and how he expressed stylized violence in passionate gusts. This film brought together American gangster films and Hong Kong martial arts films in an ever -do way before, and once Woo cemented its status of one of the masters of the genre, countless action films (including “The Matrix”) imitated Woo’s aesthetics. More recent genre entries, such as Chad Stahelski “John Wick” movies And the freshly released “ballerina” “loves Woo’s influence with love with their sleeve, incorporating a free-fetic” Gun-Fu “into dramatic stories on personal revenge. Woo’s stylistic shine does not only reside in the artistic game that replaces motivations of complex characters, but also in objects of intimate presentation that precede a fight, expressing it much more than the words.

To better understand the aesthetic fabric (and tonal) of “John Wick” and his “ballerina” interquel, it is useful to look back “hard boiled” from Woo, an amazing exploration of the trope of dangerous in blou woo takes a fairly simple premise and injects it with an intensity so palpable that the emotional aspects of the film because exaggerated action. Let us dive into the chaotic world of the inspector “Tequila” Yuen (Chow Yun-Fat), the beating heart of “Bouilli hard”.

“Hard Boiled” begins with an implementation in a tea house in Hong Kong, where Tequila and her longtime partner Benny (Bowie Lam) have survived a band of firearounds. The inevitable occurs when a shootout triggered by a rival gang ensured, resulting in the death of several officers (including Benny) and certain civilians. Woo prepares the field for a grainy arc of revenge, but Tequila is not alone in this tumultuous journey – the infiltrated cop / Hitman Alan (Tony Leung) has his back, and nothing can stay on their way. While the bodies begin to accumulate, Tequila takes place as a hardened protagonist and without frills including love for jazz and irreverence for the rules flesh out the kind of person he is. Although his cynicism is expressed by his alcoholic tendencies, there is also a fierce protection sequence towards those who remain irreproachable.

The pistol in “Hardbouile” is rationalized to destroy the sets in animated urban landscapes, where massive buildings are reduced in rubble in front of the opposing forces which clash for domination. These collateral damage do not include human life, of course, because realism is the last thing Woo is concerned here, and for a good reason. When the explosives are triggered and the characters alternate between the bullets and a skirmish in melee, we root the cause of tequila, because this choreographed violence and this collateral destruction become a manifestation of his right anger.

“Hard boilli” does not give up too much The emotional interiority of its protagonist as “John Wick”But this limited approach works for several reasons. To begin with, Tequila’s badasonerie as a manner avenging his partner is supplemented by a perpetual cloud of imminent misfortune, because Woo leans quite strongly in the imagery which underlines the regrets of the characters. Even The TEQUILA-ALAN DYNEMARD is not tightly without spot, because their mutual respect is tinged with a distrust tape, where they work together while distrusting themselves with the other. Even the end does not escape this sweet sweetness, because there is no real happiness in an infernal belly invading corruption.

While “hard boiled” seriously rooted for his heroes, he supervises their victories as a pyrrhic. In the end, only a feeling of resigned futility remains, alongside dozens of films inspired by the classic of Woo which came in its wake.