In an interview conducted at a film retrospective shown at the Seattle Art Museum, John Woo offered extensive insights into the ingredients and influences of his upbringing that we now recognize as the essence of his directorial style. ... It is from Zhang that he learned the art of directing violent swordplay and kung-fu scenes. ... Woo changed the look of the gunfight through the filmic techniques that he had perfected in his previous films; dollying in and out, the use of slow motion and freezing the action and the use of tracking shots were among the various techniques that he utilized. ...

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French film theorist Louis Delluc would call these filmmaking techniques and methods cinematic formal elements, or those elements unique to film as an art form, such as editing and camera movement (Jaramillo). ...

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(pg. 536) " This untold story of their disappearance exemplifies the impermanence and fragility of personal relationships while providing a perfect formula for a trilogy whose theme is about the hopelessness of love in contemporary life. As the use of color became prevalent, these filmmakers began to typify a new European art cinema, expressing a distinctly contemporary ennui. ...

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Atlantida studios were established in Rio in 1943 by Moacyr Fenelon, it was here that chanchada was perfected on the premise that Brazilian films did not have the technical ability of Hollywood films and it was at these studios that the careers of Oscarito and Grande Otello were natured and developed (Rist 1). ...

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