{"id":599158,"date":"2023-11-27T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-john-woo-lets-guns-do-the-talking\/"},"modified":"2023-11-27T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T17:00:00","slug":"watch-john-woo-lets-guns-do-the-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-john-woo-lets-guns-do-the-talking\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch John Woo Lets Guns Do the Talking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2535e48c19f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2535e48c19f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-john-woo-lets-guns-do-the-talking\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_John_Woo_Lets_Guns_Do_the_Talking%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online John Woo Lets Guns Do the Talking&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-john-woo-lets-guns-do-the-talking\/#%E2%80%9CJohn_Woo_Lets_Guns_Do_the_Talking%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;John Woo Lets Guns Do the Talking&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_John_Woo_Lets_Guns_Do_the_Talking%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online John Woo Lets Guns Do the Talking&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CJohn_Woo_Lets_Guns_Do_the_Talking%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;John Woo Lets Guns Do the Talking&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    If John Woo had permitted the characters in \u201cSilent Night\u201d to speak, chances are that audiences would laugh them off the screen. Instead, the director gets right down to business, opening with a wordless chase sequence in which a sad dad (Joel Kinnaman) in a corny Christmas sweater sprints after a pair of speeding cars. Inside the vehicles, bad men blast machine guns, while our nameless hero is armed with \u2026 just his wits and the jingle bell around his neck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    By the time this guy \u2014 identified as Brian Godlock in the end credits \u2014 catches up to the gang members who murdered his son, \u201cSilent Night\u201d has already demonstrated that Woo has no intention of letting logic get in his way. And why should we expect any different from the director of \u201cFace\/Off,\u201d whose title-says-it-all gimmick had two rivals sw<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ing identities via plastic surgery? The movie dedicates a lot of time to watching Brian mourn and his marriage dissolve (Catalina Sandino Moreno plays the wife who leaves without a word), but the child\u2019s death is just the trigger. The movie needs an excuse to send his angry father on a rampage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Back in the late \u201980s and early \u201990s, Woo almost single-handedly rewrote the codes of action cinema. Then \u201cThe Matrix\u201d stole his tricks, and Woo\u2019s own <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> started to feel less impressive than his imitators\u2019 (for all its showmanship, \u201cMission: Impossible II\u201d already felt like a parody of a John Woo movie). Silly as it might be, \u201cSilent Night\u201d gives audiences reason to get excited about the Hong Kong innovator once again, ranking as one of the few bloody Christmas counterprogrammers since \u201cDie Hard\u201d that feels worthy of repeat viewing down the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cSilent Night\u201d is not, as its title might suggest, a silent movie. Between all those bullets and Marco Beltrami\u2019s pulsating score, it\u2019s quite a noisy one, in fact. What Woo\u2019s return to American shores really represents is an extended stab at what Alfred Hitchcock called \u201cpure cinema\u201d: using the camera, editing and sound design \u2014 rather than dialogue \u2014 to tell the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Brian wants revenge. He nearly gets it in that opening scene, dispatching most of the gang members (one smashes face-first into a forklift, snapping his head clean off) before suffering the injury that gives \u201cSilent Night\u201d its name: The film\u2019s villain \u2014 a tattooed thug known as Playa (Harold Torres) \u2014 shoots him in the throat, effectively destroying his vocal cords. A few months go by, and Brian\u2019s body recovers. But he can\u2019t speak or scream. Brian internalizes his rage, and Swedish actor Kinnaman (of the \u201cEasy Money\u201d series) is a fine avatar for the man who snaps, plotting his ho-ho-homicidal reprisal for the following Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It doesn\u2019t take a terribly sophisticated screenplay to fill in the gaps. In fact, the genre is so overplayed that writer Robert Archer Lynn can count on audiences to put the basics together. In one of the film\u2019s first images, a red balloon floats above an inner-city neighborhood, suggesting \u2014 much as Fritz Lang did all those years ago when a child goes missing in \u201cM\u201d \u2014 that an innocent life has been taken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The movie skips right over whatever efforts the cops make toward finding the culprits and simplifies Brian\u2019s own search: He walks into the police office, recognizes a mugshot of the man who shot him and starts prepping for payback. What would a dialogue-free action movie be without a training montage? The movie never indicates what Brian does for a living, but one thing\u2019s certain: He\u2019s not a lethal professional like John Wick. That means he must learn how to drive and shoot like an action hero, and when he first kidnaps one of Playa\u2019s goons, the interrogation goes spectacularly awry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The tone of \u201cSilent Night\u201d is deadly serious, but one can feel Woo having fun behind the camera, and his amusement translates back to the audience in a big way. Only Woo could pull off many of the camera tricks on display here, while others \u2014 including an extended shootout in the graffiti-tagged stairwell leading up to Playa\u2019s lair \u2014 suggest that he\u2019s been watching what directors such as Chad Stahelski and David Leitch have been up to (in \u201cJohn Wick\u201d and \u201cAtomic Blonde\u201d), and wants to offer his own take on the gratuitous \u201coner\u201d trend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    A few of Woo\u2019s tactics may feel familiar, but for the most part, \u201cSilent Night\u201d provides an opportunity to flex within the movie\u2019s no-talking rules. Putting Brian behind the wheel of a reinforced Ford Mustang is a fine place to start. Woo cheats a bit by having characters communicate by text messages and handwritten notes (it makes sense that Brian and his wife would do that, but not so much the gangsters), while honoring the basic challenge of communicating what audiences need to know via action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Perhaps the trickiest example occurs when the detective on the case, Dennis Vassel (Scott Mescudi, better known to most as the rapper Kid Cudi), catches up with Brian at the top of the aforementioned staircase. With guns pointed at one another \u2014 a signature of many a classic John Woo movie \u2014 the two men exchange a long, silent stare in lieu of a conversation. And then the blasting resumes at full volume, with nary a word spoken. Elsewhere, characters might say something like \u201cOK\u201d or \u201chey,\u201d but \u201cSilent Night\u201d works better without dialogue to get in the way of whatever carnage its restless hero needs to sleep in heavenly peace once again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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