Ranking John Woo's Hollywood Movies (Including Silent Night)
/Film Daily
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4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On the November 30, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor and chief film critic Chris Evangelista to talk about legendary action director John Woo.
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- We’re here to talk about John Woo, maybe one of the most influential directors of the 20th century
- What makes Woo special?
- Where have you seen his influence pop up?
- Recommend some of his Hong Kong classics
- John Woo's Hollywood Films, Ranked (Including Silent Night)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily. Today is Thursday, November 30th, |
| 0:03.7 | 2023 on today's episode of the show we're going to be talking about |
| 0:06.7 | legendary action director John Wu. My name is Ben Pearson I'm an editor at |
| 0:10.9 | slash film.com and I'm joined on today's episode by slash film editor |
| 0:14.0 | and chief film critic Chris Vincolista. |
| 0:16.2 | Hi. |
| 0:17.0 | So Chris is Thursday. |
| 0:17.9 | That means it's time to do one of our sort of pull back |
| 0:20.4 | the curtain breakdown episodes of how a certain list or feature comes together on slash film.com and you are |
| 0:26.5 | writing an article right now called John Wu's Hollywood films ranked including silent night. |
| 0:31.3 | So John Wu has this new movie coming out as you're listening to this. |
| 0:35.0 | It may be in theaters already called Silent Night, which stars Joel Kinnaman. |
| 0:38.7 | And so it's a good opportunity to celebrate his work and talk about him as a filmmaker because I don't know about you |
| 0:45.6 | Chris I kind of feel like John Wu might be one of the most influential directors of the |
| 0:50.0 | 20th century do you think that's an exaggeration or do you think there's something to that? |
| 0:53.7 | I mean I definitely think he's like one of the most influential action directors of all |
| 0:58.9 | time so I don't think it's it's outrageous to say that he's definitely one of the most |
| 1:04.0 | influential he's you know he he you know sort of gave you know he didn't create the |
| 1:09.7 | gun food genre but he certainly made it what it is. |
| 1:13.7 | He made it popular, he made it what people think of when they think of gun food, |
| 1:17.9 | people like, like the John Wick movies do not exist without John Wu basically. |
| 1:22.6 | Yeah, 100%. |
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