HK - John Woo/Hong Kong Style Action Short Film

A Hong Kong style action short we did over the course of 3 days. Lots of experimentation for us, and plenty of new stuff that's actually good. It's a continuation of my neo-noir style used in Delivery, with plenty of influence from Michael Mann in terms of cinematography and music. This is also the first time I've done a gun fight, which I did of course in a John Woo style. Doing the compositing of the muzzle flashes was also new for me as well. I was also very pleased with the fight scene, with I think is the first real solid thing I've done independently.

Shot merely with a Sony Digital8 camcorder.

Hi-Quality Version: http://www.mydatabus.com/4z/ubgznvy.pbz/saberdjedi/HK-Divx.avi

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Entertainment

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• fight
• martial
• kung
• gun
• fu
• noir
• donnie
• yen
• john
• woo
• action
• hard
• boiled
• killer
• better
• tomorrow
• collateral
• miami
• vice
• heat
• hk
• hong
• kong
• tribute
• homage
• chow
• yun
• fat
• korean
• taekwondo
• assassin
• hitman
• tangerine
• dream
• slow
• motion

[MrRenevelez]

Nice video man but it actually felt more like a Michael Mann film than a John Woo film, you had that Noir thing goin down but there was almost no action sequences, although the scenary was excellent those parkin lot shots worked well and the background music brought that Miami Vice feel,next time a little more action and you got yourself an Award

[thebreakfastmachine]

@MrRenevelez Haha, sounds about right. The title's a bit misleading. I originally had shot the John Woo esque gunfight just for fun, and then I shot the rest of the short around it. Michael Mann's my favorite director, so the rest of the short was really more of a mish mash of my sensibilities. The music in this short are all songs by Tangerine Dream, who composed for Mann's first film Thief.

I did do another John Woo gunfight that's on my channel.

[Bangladesh92]

i thought this was really good, the gun fight was were it could have improved a lot. the size of that room was just too small for a gun fight.

[thebreakfastmachine]

Haha, believe or not, that gun fight was shot for fun one Friday night. The rest was an after thought. That's why we were using that room.

[02dartda]

nice locations good camreawork but on the other hand no plot totally unoriginal its been done before ten billion times and the special effects could've been done better its ok but let down by unoriginality and not much interest three stars

[thebreakfastmachine]

Actually I'd agree with that. This was really more of an exercise in style over substance intentionally. Hence there was no plot, let alone the nonexistence of a script. Sort of a warm up for something bigger I have planned. In fact, this project all started off as me just doing a practice gunfight, and I just went from there.

[Gunbarrelguru]

horrible

[ActionRealmStudios]

Groovy.

[jweinrub]

Not bad for an action video, I would of chose a better location for the gun fight as well.  Other than that, I enjoyed the video!

[jlhsnake]

`nice touch with the pulp fiction and kill bill posters!

[vi3tsk8ter]

i thought you were gonna go into power ranger mode at 2:14

[reallydarkfilm]

I'm loving it good job.

[Ceejayanthirium]

no shells? i particularly like the small room, it was used up very well

[bejack83]

congratulations, nice movie.. I like how you dealt with the small space setting of the gun fight.

watch my "less than zero budget movie"! :)