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Essay heading: John Woo: from Hong Kong to Hollywood, The Killer and Face/Off
 
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In The Killer, Jeff is a noble, loyal and chivalric, a "twentieth-century version of [a] Chinese knight with traditional codes of loyalty and friendship yet still relevant to the contemporary world"(Williams 2000: 148). In this modern interpretation he is a gangster, yet still encompasses all of these characteristics, a break from the xia figures who were either lawful or operating outside of the law's influence...
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In this modern interpretation he is a gangster, yet still encompasses all of these characteristics, a break from the xia figures who were either lawful or operating outside of the law's influence. Woo gives us a new kind of male protagonist, one that "combines physical violence and emotional intensity" (Hanke 1999: 39), visible from the start of The Killer...
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John Woo: from Hong Kong to Hollywood, The Killer and Face/Off   Hong Kong Cinema   Action films. Good or Bad ??   World Bank Report 1999 & World Development Report 2000/2001   Hong Kong Film   Hong Kong In 1997   Cultural Difference between Hong Kong and the U.S.   The Hong Kong Chinese Community   Theory of Social Justice applied in Hong Kong   Violence In Films   The Management of 21st Century: Hong Kong   Bird Flu Crisis In Hong Kong   How does the fishball stall market in two different districts in Hong Kong, Causeway Bay and Shum Shui Po demonstrate the characteristics of monopolistic competition?   The Railway Development In Hong Kong In The 21st Century   Documentary films have played an important part in determining the way we construct history and memory. In what ways do documentary films dealing with the holocaust determine contemporary understandings of that historical event?  
 
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