John Woo

John Woo SBS (; lahir 1 Mei 1946)Rawnsley, Gary D. Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh T. (2003). Political Communications in Greater China: the construction and reflection of identity. Routledge; . ialah seorang pembikin filem, pengarah dan pelakon Hong Kong kelahiran China. Beliau dianggap sebagai pengaruh utama kepada genre aksi, dikenali kerana urutan aksinya yang sangat kacau, imej yang digambarkan, kebencian Mexico, kegunaan kekerapan gerak perlahan kepada neo-noir, wuxia dan pawagam Barat.

Dianggap sebagai salah seorang tokoh utama pawagam Hong Kong, Woo telah mengarahkan beberapa filem-filem aksi terkenal di negara kelahirannya, antaranya ialah, A Better Tomorrow (1986), The Killer (1989), Hard Boiled (1992), dan Red Cliff (2008/2009).
. Festival de Cannes fiche artiste (artist profile) Beliau ialah pemenang Anugerah Filem Hong Kong untuk Penyuntingan Terbaik dan Filem Terbaik, serta Anugerah Kuda Emas, Anugerah Skrin Asia Pasifik, dan Anugerah Saturn.

Filem Hollywood Woo termasuk filem aksi Hard Target (1993) dan Broken Arrow (1996), aksi thriler cereka sains Face/Off (1997) dan filem aksi pengintipan Mission: Impossible 2 (2000). Beliau juga mencipta siri komik Seven Brothers, dierbitkan oleu Virgin Comics. Beliau memetik tiga filem kegemarannya seperti filem Lawrence of Arabia arahan David Lean, Seven Samurai arahan Akira Kurosawa dan Le Samouraï arahan Jean-Pierre Melville. Beliau ialah pengasas dan pengerusi syarikat penerbitan Lion Rock Productions.

Filemografi

Filem
 Tahun Tajuk  Pengarah Penulis Penerbit Catatan1968 Dead Knot     Ouran    1974 The Young Dragons    1975 The Dragon Tamers    1976 Princess Chang Ping     Hand of Death     1977 Money Crazy    1978 Hello, Late Homecomers     Follow the Star    1979 Last Hurrah for Chivalry     1980 From Riches to Rags   1981 To Hell with the Devil     Laughing Times     1982 Plain Jane to the Rescue    1984 The Time You Need a Friend     1985 Run, Tiger, Run    1986 Heroes Shed No Tears     A Better Tomorrow    Juga sebagai pelakon 1987 A Better Tomorrow II    1989 The Killer     Just Heroes    1990 Bullet in the Head     1991 Once a Thief     1992 Hard Boiled     1993 Hard Target     1996 Broken Arrow    1997 Face/Off     2000 Mission: Impossible 2    2002 Windtalkers     2003 Paycheck     2008 Red Cliff: Part I    2009Red Cliff: Part II     2010 Reign of Assassins    Arahan bersama Su Chao-pin 2014 The Crossing    2015 The Crossing: Part II     2017 Manhunt    2023 Silent Night    2024 The Killer   

Penerbit sahaja
A Better Tomorrow III: Love & Death in Saigon (1989)
Peace Hotel (1995)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1996)
The Replacement Killers (1998) (John Woo juga menjadi koreografi untuk urutan aksi)
The Big Hit (1998)
Red Skies (2002)
Bulletproof Monk (2003)
The Glass Beads (2005)
Blood Brothers (2007)
Appleseed Saga: Ex Machina (2007)
My Fair Gentleman (2009)
Seediq Bale (2011)
Second Sight (2011)
The Killer (2012)

Televisyen
 Tahun Tajuk  Pengarah PenerbitEksekutif Catatan 1996 Once a Thief   Filem TV 1997–1998 Once a Thief   1998 Blackjack   Filem TV

Karya lain
Airport '98 (iklan Nike) (1998)
Hostage (filem pendek untuk BMW) (2002)
7 Brothers (novel grafik) (2006–2007)
Stranglehold (permainan video) (2007)
Bloodstroke (permainan video iOS dan Android) (2014)
 (iklan Asahi Breweries) (2013)

Rujukan

Bacaan lanjut

Dalam bahasa Inggeris
 Bliss, Michael. Between the Bullets: The Spiritual Cinema of John Woo. Filmmakers series, no. 92. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2002. .
 Brown, Andrew M. J. Directing Hong Kong: The Political Cinema of John Woo and Wong Kar-Wai. Political Communications in Greater China: the Construction and Reflection of Identity. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2001. .
 Crawford, Kevin R. "Mixing violence and religion in 'The Reckoning' : The Scripting of a Postmodern Action Thriller inside the John Woo-film noir Paradigm". Digital Dissertation/Theses, 2007. .
 Fang, Karen Y. John Woo's A Better Tomorrow. The New Hong Kong Cinema. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004. .
 Hall, Kenneth E. John Woo: The Films. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1999. .
 Heard, Christopher. Ten Thousand Bullets: The Cinematic Journey of John Woo. Los Angeles: Lone Eagle Publishing Co., 2000. .


Bahasa lain
 Berruezo, Pedro J. John Woo y el cine de acción de Hong Kong. Biblioteca Dr. Vértigo, 23. [Barcelona]: Ediciones Glénat, 2000. . 
 Bertolino, Marco, and Ettore Ridola. John Woo: la violenza come redenzione. Recco, Genova: Le mani, 1998. . 
 Gaschler, Thomas, and Ralph Umard. Woo Leben und Werk. München: Belleville, 2005. . 
 Nazzaro, Giona A., and Andrea Tagliacozzo. John Woo: la nuova leggenda del cinema d'azione. Contatti, 199. Roma: Castelvecchi, 2000. . 
 Spanu, Massimiliano. John Woo. Il castoro cinema, 203. Milano: Castoro, 2001. . 
 Vié-Toussaint, Caroline. John Woo. Paris: Dark star, 2001. . 

Pautan luar

A John Woo Retrospective
Ten HARD BOILED Moments – The Best of John Woo
Allegory and symbolism in John Woo's cinematic arts : themes and aesthetics

 Interview by Aynne Kokas  Asia Pacific Arts, 19 November 2009

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