Sentences with phrase «heroic bloodshed»
The blind, Force - worshipping warrior Chirrut Îmwe (Chinese martial arts action star Donnie Yen) and his partner Baze Malbus (Jiang Wen), he of the blaster machine gun, make a pair straight out of Hong Kong heroic bloodshed pictures.
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The man who single - handedly brought an entire film industry to prominence with the heroic bloodshed genre (which he also single - handedly engineered) has officially joined Jackie Chan among Hong Kong legends who have sold their souls to be second - wheels and hired hands in American films.
It redefined action cinema by itself, pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable in motion pictures, and valorized the «heroic bloodshed» genre by elevating old Chinese dictums of honour and brotherhood into ballets of romanticized violence.
Very much the primary source for John Woo's heroic bloodshed cycle in the Hong Kong of the 1980s, testosterone - based relationships are shown to be the only ones that matter.
Gauge the state of the nation from its most democratic entertainment; for his part, Woo — struggling to translate the heroic bloodshed of his HK work for western audiences and revealing himself in the process to be a starfucker with questionable taste in Hollywood stars (Christian Slater?
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In fact they seem to indicate Wong's desire to deconstruct the heroic ideals commonly associated with bloodshed — also Welles's motivation.