Film legend John Woo makes it pop again. The man who wrote his name in the annals of action history with The Killer, Hard-Boiled and Face/Off presents his first US film since 2003’s Paycheck. His new revenge story is called Silent Night the first trailer is bursting with action. But see for yourself!
Check out the trailer for Silent Night here:
Silent Night – Trailer (English) HD
Silent Night has an unusual basic idea
Over the past 20 years, John Woo has created large-scale historical epics such as Red Cliff and The Crossing in China. His new Hollywood film, on the other hand, looks like a small-format action experiment. According to the official synopsis, Silent Night is a…
[…] Dark revenge story of a tormented father (Joel Kinnaman) who watches his young son die when he gets caught in a gang’s crossfire on Christmas Eve. As he recovers from a wound that robs him of his voice, he makes revenge his life’s mission and begins a harsh training program to avenge his son’s death.
The story suggests one-size-fits-all products that Woo doesn’t normally lend himself to. The concept of Silent Night is more interesting. The action film eschews dialogue, as John Woo explained to Vulture in July:
The entire film has no dialogue. This allowed me to tell the story with images to show how the character feels. We use music instead of language. And the film consists only of images and sounds.
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In the body of the enemy
Anyone who remembers the Somewhere Over the Rainbow sequence from In the Body of the Enemy (or any number of scenes from Woo’s filmography) knows that the Hong Kong director can orchestrate great emotions even without dialogue.
John Woo made Silent Night with some of the John Wick team
The name John Woo should be enough for genre fans to get them to the cinema counter, but also the rest Staff behind the scenes sounds promising. Woo made the film with several producers of films such as John Wick and Sicario.
Dan Laustsen, cinematographer for John Wick: Chapter 4, is there, as is editor Nathan Orloff, and Stunt coordinator Jeremy Marinaswho was partly responsible for the fights in John Wick 4 (Scott Adkins interviewed Marinas as part of his Art of Action series).
Silent Night – Silent Revenge will be released on December 14, 2023 in German cinemas. Anyone who wants to convince themselves of Joel Kinnaman’s action stature can currently do so with the help of James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, which is part of the Netflix catalog.