Rock ‘em! Woo ‘em!
Regarding “New Gun in Town,” by Joe Leydon (Jan. 3):
Aaargh! Why is Hollywood so blind? Only a studio head could sit through John Woo’s “The Killer” and come out unsure of the director’s talent.
And as for Woo having to tone down his style for American audiences, did Jean-Claude Van Damme et al. sit through the same “The Killer” I did? The film I saw showed not only an uncanny understanding of American sensibilities, but of American cinematic history as well.
While stateside studio heads and action movie “stars” churned out by-the-numbers films to inexplicably mediocre grosses, someone from halfway around the world was actually expanding the language of cinema.
Leave it to Tom Pollock to tell him that the language of cinema isn’t Universal.
DOUGLAS JOHNSON
Los Angeles
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