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Sep. 25th, 2008 03:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
benchiladaThe film Running Out of Time (directed by Johnnie To Kei-Fung, a genus) is one of fave movies of all time.
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR THIS CLIP, NO SPOILERS:
Andy Lau Tak-Wah (the driver) is a criminal mastermind with weeks to live. He wants to pull one more heist and drags in brilliant cop Lau Ching Wan (in the back seat) to play cat and mouse with him. The interplay between the two is great and earned Andy Lau a Golden Horse Award (the HK version of an Academy Award) for best actor.
Anyway, in this scene the two of them have ended up in the same car, for the second time in the movie...
You ain't seen no cop-and-robber scene like this before.
WATCH IT!
And for those of you who didn't see it when I first posted it, here's one of the most brilliantly preposterously over-the-top postmodern chase scenes ever, also by Johnnie To. This is from the lackluster sequel to Running Out of Time, which had nearly the same plot but with a different criminal.
Still, these ten minutes of WTFckery alone were worth the price of admission...
Smooches,
b
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR THIS CLIP, NO SPOILERS:
Andy Lau Tak-Wah (the driver) is a criminal mastermind with weeks to live. He wants to pull one more heist and drags in brilliant cop Lau Ching Wan (in the back seat) to play cat and mouse with him. The interplay between the two is great and earned Andy Lau a Golden Horse Award (the HK version of an Academy Award) for best actor.
Anyway, in this scene the two of them have ended up in the same car, for the second time in the movie...
You ain't seen no cop-and-robber scene like this before.
WATCH IT!
And for those of you who didn't see it when I first posted it, here's one of the most brilliantly preposterously over-the-top postmodern chase scenes ever, also by Johnnie To. This is from the lackluster sequel to Running Out of Time, which had nearly the same plot but with a different criminal.
Still, these ten minutes of WTFckery alone were worth the price of admission...
Smooches,
b
