Clip: Tony Leung in ‘Red Cliff’
Yahoo has a clip of one of my favorite scenes from John Woo’s Red Cliff.
It’s not a narrative spoiler of any kind (it’s not even the climactic battle), but if you want to experience every ounce of action goodness in context for the first time, you’d best skip it. On the other hand, if you need to be convinced to see this movie, please enjoy bad ass Tony Leung getting shot with an arrow and, instead of rolling over and dying in pain like an ordinary mortal, ripping out the offending projectile in a spray of blood, charging his enemy and plunging the arrow through the back of the poor bastard’s neck. The bad news for the other side is that he’s just getting started.
I invite you to tell me how that is not awesome and I laugh in advance at your feeble attempt.
John Woo’s Red Cliff starring Tony Leung and Takeshi Kaneshiro is now playing in New York and on VOD (probably HDNet since this is a Magnolia film). Coming to LA on 11/25.
Watch a few minutes of Red Cliff after the jump and/or check out the LiC review here.
Filed under: Clips
Tags: John Woo, Red Cliff, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung
The man don’t lie. That was awesome. What fun.
It also makes a pretty convincing case for being on the high school flag line in band. French horns aren’t nearly as deadly. Good thing I haven’t ever needed to use one in battle.
Tony Leung could kill a man with a French horn. I’m convinced of it.
LOL. A French horn or a flute.
I’m definitely going to have to watch the full version of this movie. The more I talk about this film and write about it the more I love it. Or maybe I just love those two guys.