National
Hong Kong Action Cinema
Choreography as authorship. Stunt teams and wire work pushed the action sequence from a plot obligation into the reason the film exists, and half of Hollywood has been borrowing from it since.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.
Hard Boiled
John Woo · 1992
Police Story
Jackie Chan · 1985
A Better Tomorrow
John Woo · 1986
Infernal Affairs
Alan Mak Siu-Fai · 2002
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