<<This reminds me of one of John Woo's trademarks,
appearing in A Better Tomorrow among other movies, in which a
gunman hides pistols along his way into a confrontation. As
he, usually Chow Yun-Fat, empties his weapon (which, in a Woo
film, means he has shot all 150 bullets in the six-shooter),
he picks up a strategically placed replacement.>>
Woo always films the characters reloading the guns but, when
it comes to editing the scene, he finds the reloading scenes
interrupt the flow, so he edits them out!
(Another BSP: There is a long John Woo interview in a Pocket
Essential I've just edited, Heroic Bloodshed, edited by
Martin Fitzgerald, published March.)
- paul
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