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SynopsisJeffrey is an assassin who wishes to leave the business so he can take care of Jennie, the beautiful lounge singer who he inadvertently blinded during a previous assignment. Li Ying is the determined cop who will stop at nothing to bring him in, only he realizes that Jeffrey is no ordinary assassin, and wishes to help him in his quest. Only problem is that Jeffrey's employers refuse to pay him for his last job, money which is needed to restore Jennie's eyesight.Jeffrey is an assassin who wishes to leave the business so he can take care of Jennie, the beautiful lounge singer who he inadvertently blinded during a previous assignment. Li Ying is the determined cop who will stop at nothing to bring him in, only he realizes that Jeffrey is no ordinary assassin, and wishes to help him in his quest. Only problem is that Jeffrey's employers refuse to pay him for his last job, money which is needed to restore Jennie's eyesight.Uploaded By:Downloaded 500 timesAugust 31, 2019 at 04:01 AM.
Running time110 minutesCountryHong KongLanguageCantoneseBox office18.255 millionThe Killer (: 喋血雙雄 ) is a 1989 film written and directed by, and starring,. Chow plays the assassin Ah Jong, who accidentally damages the eyes of the singer Jennie (Sally Yeh) during a shootout. He later discovers that if Jennie does not undergo an expensive operation she will go blind. To get the money for Jennie, Ah Jong decides to perform one last hit.After the financial backing from became problematic following the release of Woo's film, Woo had to find backing through Chow Yun Fat's and Danny Lee's financing companies. Woo went into filming The Killer with a rough draft whose plot was influenced by the films, and Narazumono. Woo desired to make a film about honour, friendship and the relationship of two seemingly opposite people.
After finishing filming, Woo referred to The Killer as a tribute to directors and.The Killer was not an immediate success in Hong Kong, but received critical acclaim in the Western world with reviewers praising the scenes and its over-the-top style. The film became Woo's stepping stone to make Hollywood films and has been a strong influence on many directors, including,. Contents.Plot Hitman Ah Jong is on his last job for the, but accidentally damages the eyes of a young named Jennie with a in a shootout. After the attack, Ah Jong begins to watch Jennie perform at the nightclub and escorts her home when she is attacked by thugs. Jennie and Ah Jong begin to fall in love during his frequent visits to her apartment.Driven to help her secure the money for a sight-saving transplant, he accepts one final hit. Li Ying, a police detective, spots Ah Jong completing the job but the assassin escapes.
Hay Wong Hoi double crosses Ah Jong, and instead of paying him, sends a group of hitmen to kill him. During Ah Jong's escape from the Triad, a young child is injured by a stray bullet.
After dispatching the attackers, Ah Jong rushes the child to the hospital while being followed by Li and his partner Sgt. Once the child regains consciousness at the casualty ward, Ah Jong escapes Li and Tsang.Li becomes obsessed with Ah Jong's act of good will. He and Tsang find that Ah Jong visits Jennie at her apartment; they plan to arrest him the next time he visits her. Ah Jong visits Jennie and is caught in an ambush from which he manages to escape. Li and Tsang explain to Jennie that Ah Jong was the assassin that blinded her at the nightclub. Ah Jong meets with his Triad manager, Fung Sei, and demands his payment for the job.
Fung Sei brings a suitcase for Ah Jong, who discovers it to be filled with sheets of blank paper before finding himself in the middle of a Triad ambush. He kills all of the hitmen, but leaves Fung Sei alive. The next day, after Fung Sei's pleas for Wong Hoi fall on deaf ears, Ah Jong does a hit-and-run on Wong Hoi's car, wounding the Triad leader and killing his driver and bodyguard.Li begins to close in on Ah Jong after Tsang follows Fung Sei; Tsang is killed after revealing the location of his home. Because of their friendship, Fung Sei leaves a large stockpile of weaponry for Ah Jong. The home is another ambush; Li attacks, followed by a group of Triad hitmen.
Li gets caught in the middle of the crossfire between Ah Jong and the Triad. Ah Jong and Li flee, and while Ah Jong's wounds are mended, they find themselves bonding and becoming friends. Ah Jong tells Li that should anything happen to him, Li should have Ah Jong's eyes donated for Jennie's surgery or use Ah Jong's money to fly her overseas to have her surgery performed by more experienced doctors.Li, Ah Jong, and Jennie wait in a church for Fung Sei to return with Ah Jong's money. Fung Sei arrives with the money, horribly beaten by Wong Hoi's gangsters who have followed him. He is mortally wounded when the hitmen barge into the church. After Ah Jong ends Fung Sei's misery with a, he and Li engage in a long and bloody shootout with the Triad all over the church.
The battle ends with a between Ah Jong, Li and Wong Hoi. Ah Jong manages to wound Wong Hoi, but the Triad leader lands two bullets in Ah Jong's before the latter seemingly dies of his wounds.
When a police squadron arrives in the scene, Wong Hoi begs to be taken into custody. Frustrated by the outcome of the battle, Li fatally shoots Wong Hoi. As a result, he is surrounded by policemen.The credits roll with Ah Jong playing the harmonica.Cast. as Ah Jong (阿莊 Ā Zhuāng, aa3 zong1), an assassin who accidentally blinds singer Jennie when he is on a mission for the criminal organization, the.
Ah Jong decides to take on one last mission to pay for surgery to repair her eyes. Ah Jong is called John and Jeff in some subtitled prints of the film. The nickname given to Ah Jong by Li is 'Har Tau', which roughly translates as 'Shrimp Head.' In some dubbed and subtitled prints, his nickname is ' or 'Butthead'. as Detective Li Ying (李 鷹, Lǐ Yīng, lei5 jing1). Li works with his partner Tsang to find Ah Jong. After his first meeting with him, Li becomes obsessed with Ah Jong's morals and character.
The nickname given to Li by Ah Jong is 'Ah B' which roughly translates to baby or kid. In some dubbed and subtitled prints, his nickname is ' or 'Numbnuts'. as Jennie (珍妮 Zhēnnī, zan1 nei4), a nightclub singer who is blinded by Ah Jong in a shootout. Jennie falls in love with Ah Jong, before learning of his profession as a killer.
as Sgt. Tsang Yeh, Li's police partner. Tsang helps find the whereabouts of Fung Sei which will lead Li to Ah Jong. In some subtitled prints, his name is Randy Chang.
Chu Kong as Fung Sei, Ah Jong's Triad manager and close friend. After Ah Jong is spotted on a hit, Fung Sei is ordered to kill Ah Jong.
In some subtitled prints, his name is 'Sidney Fong.' . as Hay Wong Hoi (汪海 Wāng Hǎi, wong1 hoi2), a ruthless Triad boss and a coward who tries to tied up loose ends so he can run the triad.
In some subtitled versions he is 'Johnny Weng.' . Ricky Yi Fan-wai as Frank Chen, a contract killer/assassin hired by Wong Hoi to kill Ah Jong.Themes Director has described The Killer as being about 'honour and friendship', 'trying to find out if there is something common between two people' and as a 'romantic poem'.
The structure of the film follows two men on opposite sides of the law who find a relation to each other in their opposition to a greater evil, Wong Hoi, a Triad boss. Li and Ah Jong's relationship was influenced by the comics from. Woo recalled 'When I was young I was fascinated with the cartoon–I love it very much. The white bird and the black bird are always against each other, but deep in their heart, they are still friendly, and the idea came from that.' Woo uses Ah Jong and Li as a central motif to illustrate moral points. Scenes with this reflective doubling include the hospital sequence with Li and Ah Jong on opposite sides of a hospital hall and in the final battle scene where Li and Ah Jong are in a standoff with Wong. The focus on male friendships in Woo's film have been interpreted as.
Woo has responded to these statements stating 'People will bring their own preconceptions to a movie. If they see something in The Killer that they consider to be homoerotic then that is their privilege.
It's certainly not intentional.' Woo's recurring symbol of white was first used in The KillerWoo is a Christian and instills his films with religious imagery while stating that The Killer is 'not a religious film'. In the opening of The Killer, Ah Jong is found in a church stating he enjoys the 'tranquility'. Ah Jong is later found in the church again getting several slugs pulled out of his back showing his intense pain while the altar and cross are shown prominently behind him. The idea was influenced by 's film, Woo stated the imagery was used to show that 'God is welcoming, no matter if it's a good or a bad man, everyone is welcome'.Woo draws on animal symbolism throughout the film.
He filled the church with doves and pigeons, employing doves to represent the spirits of the people. This was the first film where Woo used the dove symbolism and he has used it to similar effect in. A cat appears when Ah Jong first meets Jennie on her visit home, and secondarily when Li's partner Tsang tries to catch Ah Jong in Jennie's apartment. In Chinese culture, a cat coming into a home is an omen of ruin and poverty for its inhabitants. Both Tsang and Jennie meet negative outcomes in the film. Production Pre-production The Killer was director Woo's follow-up to which was released in 1987. The first cut of A Better Tomorrow 2 was too long for the studio so the film was edited within a week separately by both producer and Woo.
According to producer, Tsui Hark felt that John Woo ruined A Better Tomorrow 2 and asked Chang to fire Woo from the studio. When Chang refused, Hark began rejecting Woo's new film ideas, including ideas for films that would later be made, such as and.When Woo proposed the story of The Killer to Tsui Hark, it was denied; Hark's reaction was that 'nobody wants to see a film about a killer'.The Killer was not able to be filmed until actor stepped in and enlisted the company he was contracted with, to fund part of the project. Chow had worked previously with Woo on the two films. Woo wanted to play Li Ying, but Lee was under an exclusive contract with Cinema City and was only able to work on The Killer if his production company, Magnum, was involved. John Woo approached his friend, Sally Yeh, asking her to be in a film to play an important female character. Yeh was currently contracted with Tsui Hark and accepted the role but later felt she did not give her best performance. The supporting roles were filled out by friends of the actors and director.
Chu Kong was a friend of Chow Yun-fat who had entered retirement and returned to acting in The Killer as a favor. Two of Woo's close friends joined the cast: actor and screenwriter. Wong Wing-Hang was hired to be the director of photography for The Killer but had to leave the set for an extended period of time, so was added to shoot the rest of the film. Filming Woo had over 90 days to shoot The Killer which was nearly double the amount of time that the average was shot in the late 1980s. Woo went into filming with only a short for the film and wrote the details of the script while filming. During promotion periods for the film, Woo described the film as a tribute to Martin Scorsese and French director.
Woo cites Melville's as an influence on the story. Woo borrows plot elements for the film, including the set-up where Jef enters a nightclub and looks at the female singer. Woo also described the influence of a Japanese film, , about a killer who only kills delinquents. When a mob tricks him into killing an innocent person, he swears revenge but then meets a woman who has and wants to go home.
The killer promises the woman that he will take her home after getting his revenge.The scene where Danny Lee chases a gunman onto a tram was filmed in and the crew only had three hours to film. Residents thought it was a real gunfight and phoned the police. However, when the police arrived, Danny Lee talked to the superintendent so they could continue filming. Scenes from the were shot months apart, some footage was of the boat races and rest of the footage involving the actors was shot months later. It was planned for the boats to flip over during the chase but the owners refused because they felt it would bring bad luck.
The scene at the airport were filmed at the. The scenes at Paul Chu Kong's character's house were filmed in. John Woo wanted this house to be by a beach but a suitable location could not be found.
The action scene inside the house took 28 days to shoot. The final action scene took 36 days to shoot and was shot at a remote building made to look like a church while the exterior seen from Ah Jong's apartment is a real church. The original ending of the film involved Jennie waiting at an airport for Li to give her the money and for them to travel to the United States. Due to Sally Yeh's tight filming schedule, the scene was not filmed and replaced with Ah Jong playing the harmonica. Music Tsui and Woo disagreed on the musical aspects of the film. For the opening scene, Woo wanted the singer to perform a song and have the killer playing a saxophone. Tsui rejected this idea as he felt that the Hong Kong audiences did not understand or like jazz.
Woo stated that he 'had to change it to a Chinese song, the kind of song they always use in Hong Kong movies.' Actress who performed the songs did not feel they were appropriate for the film.
The songs were requested by the studio and written specifically for The Killer.The was composed by and edited by David Wu. A reoccurring musical theme is a haunting theme which is first heard over the opening credits. The harmonica motif in the film was influenced by the soundtracks of, specifically the soundtrack to, and used a bottle blower to give the music a haunting effect. David Wu said the influence of the Harmonica music in 's western films was a strong influence on his work.
During the final action scene when the statue of the is destroyed, the action music transitions to 'Overture' from. This was the idea of editor David Wu who felt that it would break up the numbing effect of the kinetic violence.
Release The Killer was first released in Taiwan in March 1989 with a running time of 124 minutes. It was then cut to its current running time of 110 minutes and released in Hong Kong on 6 July 1989, Woo felt this cut was 'much better'.
The film was not an immediate success in Hong Kong due to the but eventually gained fame, grossing $18,255,083 and reached ninth at the 1989 Hong Kong box office. At the, the film won for Best Director (John Woo) and Best Editing (Fan Kung Ming) and was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Paul Chu Kong), Best Screenplay (Woo) and Best Cinematography (Wong Wing Hang and ). The Killer was popular in Korea taking seventh highest place in the year end box office receipts.The Killer was shown at several outside Asia including the 1989 and, during the film's United States premiere, at the in January 1990.
It was also shown at the in the United States and the in France in 1990. Film producer suggested that The Killer's success around the world made several Hong Kong filmmakers jealous: 'It created a certain kind of resentment in the Hong Kong film industry. One thing I can say for sure is, the American, European, Japanese, Korean and even the Taiwanese audiences and critics appreciated The Killer a lot more than it was in Hong Kong.'
The Killer received a wide release in the United Kingdom on 8 October 1993. Home media The Killer was released in the United States on by Fox Lorber in November 1992, in a and version. On 25 June 1996 Fox Lorber released The Killer along with as a double feature on home video. The Killer was released on DVD by on 1 April 1998 in the original Cantonese language track with English subtitles. Bonus features on DVD included the trailer, production notes, and a commentary track. Woo was very happy with the film being included in the Criterion Collection stating, 'it was great because it would let people know what The Killer and Hard Boiled are about.when I saw that Criterion Collection selected The Killer, I was very happy as The Killer and Bullet in the Head are my two favourites'.On 3 Oct 2000 released a of The Killer with English and Cantonese audio, including a with John Woo and film trailers. This Fox Lorber disc was also included in a two disc DVD collection with Hard Boiled but both the Fox Lorber and Criterion DVDs went out of print.On 30 March 2010 The Killer was released by the label on two-disc DVD.
Bonus features included were interviews with John Woo, a location guide, and a trailer gallery.In the United Kingdom, The Killer was released on DVD by on 21 October 2002 which included an audio commentary with Bey Logan and interviews with Kenneth Tsang, Sally Yeh and cinematographer Peter Pau. Reception Critical response of referred to the film as 'Alternately gripping and laughable' and that 'The scenes of gore and destruction are even more spectacular than Hong Kong's fog-shrouded skyline'. Gave a positive review, describing the film as an 'extremely violent and superbly made actioner demonstrates the tight grasp that director John Woo has on the crime meller genre'.
Kathleen Maher of praised the film stating that it 'defies all categorization but demands comparisons, if only to prove that there's never been anything like this before.' Hal Hinson of wrote a positive review, describing the film as 'like eating popcorn, but it's not just any old brand; it's escape-velocity popcorn, popcorn with a slurp of rocket fuel.Woo's ideas overreach themselves with such a virile swagger that they border on comedy. With excess like this you can't help but laugh. This is a rush of a movie'.Later critiques of the film remained positive. The Washington Post stated that 'the plot doesn't exactly break new crime-story ground.
It's all the Woo flourishes.that elevates The Killer to another level'. Lucia Bozzola of the online film database gave the film a five star rating, and stated it as 'One of the high points of 1980s '.
Gave the film five stars and proclaimed that 'John Woo's trademark style reached its zenith in The Killer'. In 2010, ranked The Killer at number 50 on their list of the top 50 foreign films of all time.
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