Biography of John Wu

The Action militant’s genre to the level of author’s cinema, real, high art. In the beginning of X, together with his parents, he moved to Hong Kong, where he grew up in a poor quarter. The scenes of street violence, which were repeatedly observed by the young Wu, laid out a serious imprint on his work. In John, he got a job as an assistant director at the show "Show Brazers Pickcers".

The cinema of Hong Kong then only went to the world level, in the first and, perhaps, the only line thanks to films with the participation of the legend of the eastern martial arts, the cult figure of the 20th century. The theme of eastern martial arts was set by Bruce Lee as a priority for the Hong Kong movie. The first works of John Wu as a director are quite firmly made, but primitive tapes in the Kung-Fu genre, that is, the eastern martial arts, in which any presence of the author’s style is not yet visible.

Nevertheless, the professionalism of the director is growing from the film to the film, which, by the middle of X, is gaining more than a dozen is curious that on one of his first films, the hand of death, then the unknown to anyone then worked with the then unknown Jackie Chan, who later became one of the leading figures of world cinema. The director releases on the screens of Hong Kong a film the right to life sincere, naive sentimentality in the spirit of Frank Kapra’s films, the romantic perception of the world was combined in this picture with bloody, uniquely placed scenes of shootings.

The film is the right to life, which began the long-term cooperation of Wu and actor Chow Yong Fate, became the leader of the Hong Kong film distribution and received the Award of the Hong Kong Academy as the best film at the insistence of producers in WU shoots the second part of the right to life, which, however, is difficult to compare with the original. The director takes into account errors and the movie Killer is released in the title role-Chow Yun-Fat, who is rightly considered the top of John Wu.

The story of a hired killer who falls in love with a blind woman and trying to “tie” was told with energy, passion and amazing possession of cinema means that almost any director of the world could envy. Wu used here as well as in the right to life of the finds and techniques of his favorite directors Sam Pekinp and Sergio Leone, but put them in a romantic form. Killer was awarded the Hong Kong Cinema Academy Award for the best directing.

The killer became the "ticket" of the talented director in Hollywood. The killer was shown at a number of festivals and attracted the attention of the Martin Skorsze and Oliver Stone Matrov, who highly appreciated the dignity of the film, as well as the producers of the Universal film studio, who offered the WWC contract. But the director moves to Hollywood only in, having managed to put in his homeland two more stages for his work of the film.

Firstly, this is a bullet in my head, a story about friendship, love and hatred, shot under the strong influence of paintings once in America Sergio Leone and deer hunter Michael Chimino. And secondly, it is steeply cooked, in the main role-Chow Yun-Fat-a powerful and perfectly made militant, the scenes of action in which, according to scope and kinetic energy, overshadow almost all similar paintings shot in Hollywood.

It is not surprising that Hollywood was looking forward to John Wu, in need of the tide of the new blood in the “militant” genre. However, working on his first picture in the United States, a difficult target, Wu was faced with the pressure of censorship, which forced him to cut a series of particularly cruel scenes, poetic cruelty is an integral part of the author’s style of WU, and with the pressure of producers who established tight control over any manifestation of author's free -thinking.

As a result, having released in August, a difficult target turned out to be a quite solid action movie and the best role in the movie of Jean-Claude Van Damma. But she was far from the Hong Kong work. The next work of Wu in Hollywood, a broken arrow, a fighter of the struggle of a brave pilot with terrorists who stole a nuclear warhead became the first real success of the director in the United States, having received good reviews of critics and gathered about a million studio Paramount in the production of a large -budget project without a face, about the deadly battle of the FBI agent and the fatal battle of the FBI and the FBI.

The villain who killed his son. Thanks to the budget, the director was able to realize any visual ideas, thanks to the stars involved in the project John Travolte, he played in the broken arrow and Nicholas Cage - to create a convincing human conflict on the screen. And Wu showed everything that he was capable of. Having released in June, without a face was put forward to the Oscar Award in the nomination “Installation of sound effects” and became one of the best militants ever shot in Hollywood.

After without a face, the status of a cult classic of a movie finally entrenched in Wu. Its branded techniques: slow -off shooting, the confrontation of heroes with pistols directed at each other, white pigeons appearing in the frame in each of his film are quoted by many Hollywood and world filmmaker. A number of Hong Kong directors mainly copied in their homeland are invited to work in Hollywood.But, contrary to expectations, the director takes on a frankly commercial project, the continuation of the superchite with Tom Cruz in the main role, the mission is not comprehensive 2 despite the fact that the film occupies first place according to the results of the world film distribution, in an artistic plan - this is just a style exercise that is perfectly performed by a professional class work to order.

The film disappoints many fans of Wu. Immediately after the premiere of the mission, in the summer, Wu begins to shoot a military drama in Hawaii who speaks the main role in the main role - Nicholas Cage. The expected date of the premiere - June, however, work on the film leaves the schedule, the MGM studio requires the director of the crossing of some scenes.

When the film is nevertheless finished, the new date of the premiere, November, is postponing again, this time, due to the events of September 11, American soldiers in the film are not always shown from the best side. As a result, the speakers with the wind were released in June a year after the initial date of the premiere and failed at the box office, despite the obvious artistic merits.

Despite the failure of the speakers with the wind, the status of John Wu as a director in Hollywood remains very high. The director works with a large -budget project about a person suffering from amnesia. The themes of the work of WU: the loneliness of man in the cruel world, the nobility of the heroes and the eternal struggle of good with evil are usually highly appreciated by the viewer.