1、 John Woo: from Zero to HeroThe Venie Fil Festival hnred veteran diretr Jhn at a star-studded elebratin n the night f Septeber 3, 2015, aarding hi ith the Glden Lin fr Lifetie Ahieveent. Apanied by the festival diretr ar uller, Jhn aepted the aard fr Aerian diretr Quentin Tarantin, president f the j
2、ury fr the ain petitin at the festival this year, and Hng Kng diretr Tsui Hark. alst hked n his tears n the stage during his aeptane speeh. ith this aard, n ranks side by side ith any alaied internatinal asters suh as Japanese fil diretrs Akira Kursaa and Haya iyazaki. Jhn is the first hinese diretr
3、 aarded this hnr. Jhn as brn in 1946 in Guangzhu, the apital ity f suthern hinas Guangdng Prvine. He later igrated t Hng Kng. He spent his hildhd years in pverty and fear, seeing street gangsters, drug dealers, and gablers. hat he later reated in his gang vies reflet his hpe f hildhd years: heres de
4、feat villains and ake the rld safe and seure. T help the faily, rked as a night delivery by fr a restaurant. These days ere hard, he later realled, but he still anaged t find se happy ents. He ften slept utdrs in rder t ake the r less rded fr his parents and yunger siblings. He felt sleeping this ay
5、 and gazing at stars as st ranti. But rheuatis has been trturing hi sine then. In his early teens, he fund a ne hbby. He dre pitures n sall glasses. Then using a flashlight, he prjeted the pitures nt the all at he. As he ved his glasses, the figures n the all ved t. These glass paintings ere his fir
6、st vies. Als at that tie he beae bsessed ith vies. His ther intrdued hi t the rld f vies and Vivien Leigh and Rbert Taylr in aterl Bridge beae the brightest stars in the yung bys drea. A by fr a pr faily, at that tie did nt have ney t g t vie as ften as pssible. He invented a ay t sneak int the vie
7、huse by hlding the edge f the lth f a an and pretending t be his kid. Seties it rked and asinally it didnt rk. ne he arrying his little brther n the bak as aught by an usher. The t bys ere brutally kiked ut. In thse years, the best vies fr hi ere usials: fr they presented beautiful sngs and beautifu
8、l stues, hih gave hi hpe fr a better life. The usials later beae his inspiratin fr rhyth and beauty, the hallarks f his atin vies. Hng Kng as underging treendus hanges in the 1960s hen Jhn graduated fr iddle shl and gt eplyed as a lg keeper in athay Studi. f the 200 HK dllars a nth he earned, he gav
9、e 100 t his faily and spent the rest n fd and his ineati studies. In rder t get the st ut f the tiny nthly budget, he had t ut dn the expense n fd. re ften than nt, he bught the heapest bread fr lunh. Shrtly after he entered athay pany, he et diretr hang heh, h thn under his ing. hangs vies ere idel
10、y alaied fr an aazing blend f shlarly eths, kngfu and rantiis. The yung apprentie fund in hangs ineati reatins a failiarity ith his experiene in byhd years. hile rking under the faus diretr, Jhn learned a lt abut filaking and being hiself in this rld. eanhile, Jhn had t hse a areer fr his future: ul
11、d he be an atr r uld he need t find a jb utside the filaking industry? hen an pprtunity ae up t appear as a rebellius yung an in a ne vie, u ffered t take it. But hen hang heh fund as ating, he stpped the filing. Asked hether he faulted s ating, hang replied Jhn shuld better be a diretr. The asters
12、advie gave Jhn great urage and push he badly needed. S he ade up his ind t bee a fil diretr. He started direting at 26. He ade his first vie in 1973 ith the kngfu advisr being Jak hen. Bth ere little knn at that tie and the vie as largely ignred. In 1983, he left Glden Harvest Fil Prdutins Ltd and j
13、ined inea ity pany Liited, but his areer seeed t g nhere. He as exiled t Taian fr nearly three years. ith the help f Tsui Hark, hever, he ae bak t Hng Kng and direted “A Better Trr” in 1986. Jhn put failure and revenge as he understd int the vie. His tehniques are s perfet that even tday any senes l
14、k flaless. The bldy gun battle in a nightlub is s lassial that it is still talked abut by fans and prfessinals. Peple ere aazed h Jhn uld have ade a hit an vie s beautiful. It as a sall-budget fil but it beae the biggest sh in Hng Kng that year and later beae a blkbuster in varius Asian untries. The
15、 vie as re than the very turning pint f his life and areer. It tld the rld hat his individual ineati aesthetis as and pened a brand ne hapter in the histry f Hng Kngs filaking. In 1993 Jhn ent t Hllyd and his “Fae ff” in 1997 arked anther peak in his areer. The Hllyd blkbuster, hih grssed re than $1
16、00 illin, ephasizes the value f huanis and faily highly appreiated by bth estern and eastern audienes. It als prtrays the tenaity and tenderness f en, hih pulled in en vie-gers. n the day hen Jhn reeived his Glden Lin fr Lifetie Ahieveent in Venie, “Reign f Assassins” he prdued ade its rld debut at
17、the festival. The edia rated it nine in a pint syste f 1 t 10. Se revieers thught it as the best Kngfu fil sine “Hidden Dragns and ruhing Tigers“, a Glden-Glbe-inner direted by Ang Lee in 2000. Jhn des nt think there is nthing left fr Kngfu fils t explre. Se kngfu fils fus n revenge and rane hereas
18、se depit sething s philsphial that they are beynd rdinary peples prehensin. He believes that a lt f everyday things an be big stuff fr kngfu fils and that kngfu fils d nt need neessarily shase strange bat skills and ipssible eapns and ipssible veents and shuld never bast the narr-inded natinal senti
19、ent by defeating a freign badass r t. He des nt think these superfiial things reflet the spirit f the kngfu rld. His ideal kngfu rld resebles the rld in hih the Tang pet Li Bai (701-762) dells and reflets his rldvie. His kngfu fils are his respets t Akira Kursaa, King Hu and hang heh, diretrs h Jhn
20、regards as his dels. hile enting n the lifetie ahieveent aard, says it is enurageent fr his friends in the hpe that he ill g n t ake gd fils. regards the aard as a beginning fr his future fils. The 62-year-ld diretr thinks it is t early fr hi t elebrate his lifetie 论文发表 Renned fr his aesthetis that akes vilene beautiful in his vies, the gd-tepered diretr is an affable an h siles a lt. In everyday life, he is just a faily an h ks speial dishes t treat his ife and hildren. But n the sreen, he is siply extrardinary.
