CIN212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Slow Motion, Jet Li, Stage Combat

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6 Dec 2016
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Peckinpah: set up action cinema and the style in the next few decades, he was an elegiac film maker, wild bunch. Depict violence devouring itself: flashy and confident but built the base of his films on regret, end their lives boldly and well, reflective regret. A machine: absorbed the action pertaining to hong kong like martial arts. Bruce lee, jackie chan, jet li: hong kong fight choreography. John woo moved to hollywood in 1993 (after hard boiled) Vengeance excerpt: emphasis of body in motion, blood packs, slow motion, put the graceful body at the centre, emphasized the concreteness and clarity of each gesture. Pause before showing the bunch of people downstairs: pause, burst, pause pattern. Lethal weapon: kinetic impact, we don"t see the impact of the car hitting the person in lethal weapon. Why look at hk cinema: its different from hollywood, but a good alternative, important influence on american action cinema. Technical talent: except bruce lee, jackie chan.

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