{"id":14467,"date":"2021-09-12T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T00:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14467"},"modified":"2021-09-12T14:17:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T18:17:25","slug":"a-hero-never-dies-1998-johnnie-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14467","title":{"rendered":"A Hero Never Dies (1998, Johnnie To)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I pulled out the earliest Johnnie To movie I could find, thinking &#8220;surely his visual and character quirks and his tendency to upend expected narrative weren&#8217;t fully developed yet,&#8221; but yup, they were.  These movies are so stylish and unpredictable, and I could watch them forever.<\/p>\n<p><em>Boss alliance:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/heronever2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Jack (Leon Lai of <em>Fallen Angels<\/em>) and cowboy Martin (Ching Wan Lau, the <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/2288\">Mad Detective<\/a> himself) are rival enforcers for crime lords, and when their bosses team up and go straight, their men are left crippled, unemployed and forgotten.  After a wheelchair-improvement montage they take righteous revenge on their former organization(s).<\/p>\n<p><em>Jack up high, Martin down low:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/heronever3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/heronever1.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pulled out the earliest Johnnie To movie I could find, thinking &#8220;surely his visual and character quirks and his tendency to upend expected narrative weren&#8217;t fully developed yet,&#8221; but yup, they were. These movies are so stylish and unpredictable, and I could watch them forever. Boss alliance: Jack (Leon Lai of Fallen Angels) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,1243,879,144],"class_list":["post-14467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-gangsters","tag-johnnie-to","tag-revenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14484,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14467\/revisions\/14484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}