Cinema DNA
The Legend of Drunken Master
2 films
Films it shaped
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Before the Wachowskis wrote a single line of The Matrix, they flew to Hong Kong. John Woo's Hard Boiled, its lobby shootout, its operatic slow-motion, its bodies used as instruments of pure cinematic force, became the template. Yuen Woo-ping, who choreographed every action sequence in The Matrix, had been working in Hong Kong action cinema for two decades. The bullet time isn't science fiction. It's John Woo made digital.
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We grew up on Jackie Chan. He's one of our gods. Drunken Master 2, Police Story, Project A, those are like cinematic ballets to us. And he would just use everything in the room, his environment, his opponent, the timing, the comedy, the pathos. That's what we try to emulate. We try to take those principles and apply them.
