The_Film_That_Changed_My_Life

Rebel Without a Cause and Mean Streets
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Woo: In the early ’50s and ’60s, we already had so much fun with American
gangster movies with Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney, and Howard
Hawks movies. So we had seen a lot of that, and we were amazed by those
gangster movies. In Hong Kong, especially in the early ’50s and ’60s, the
whole society was tough. Everybody had a tough life. So that’s why when
we watched a gangster movie: it was easy to find ourselves. We knew that
kind of life. We know how they are feeling. People like to worship the hero.
Sometimes when they watch the gangster movie, we know they are all bad
guys, but they are also the heroes. The gangster movies are tragedies.