A Better Tomorrow
Where the DNA of A Better Tomorrow travels
Films that shaped it
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The biggest thing that Joe [Gordon-Levitt] and I did to get on the same page was we watched A Better Tomorrow and The Killer a bunch of times, and talked about those movies.
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The biggest thing that Joe [Gordon-Levitt] and I did to get on the same page was we watched A Better Tomorrow and The Killer a bunch of times, and talked about those movies.
Films it shaped
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I grew up watching John Woo films like The Killer and A Better Tomorrow, and those films had a big influence on me in terms of how you blend drama, emotion, and character within the action.
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Oldboy is itself world cinema DNA, a South Korean film that influenced Western filmmakers profoundly, including Tarantino and Spike Lee. But its own roots are in a Korean cinema tradition that found in genre films a way to process the country's traumatic history. The hallway fight, one man against many, a single continuous take, became one of the most imitated action sequences in cinema. Oldboy is streaming on the Criterion Channel alongside the full vengeance trilogy.
