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Woo, known for helping to pioneer the action genre in both
Hollywood and Hong Kong cinema with films including “Mission:
Impossible 2,” said during an interview that less dialogue in a
movie creates more opportunities for actors to connect with
audiences through nonverbal communication.
“Also, it's a good way to allow the actors to deliver the real
performance and then make the audience more focused on their
face or on their eyes,” he added.
“Silent Night,” distributed by Lionsgate, premieres on Dec. 1
and follows an average family man named Brian Godluck who is
robbed of both his voice and his son after he’s caught in the
crossfire of a gang war.
Godluck has never gone through formal combat training but is
suddenly launched into a life of robust action sequences and
dynamic car chases as he fights to avenge his son’s death.
Swedish actor Joel Kinnaman plays Godlock, and most of the
dialogue in the film comes from either radio broadcasts or
police communications.
“The only method I have of telling the story is through my eyes
and these little twitches and facial muscles," said Kinnaman,
who's known for his roles in "The Suicide Squad" and "For All
Mankind."
"In every moment I had to do a lot more work to really be
emotionally present,” he added.
Part of the process of connecting with Godluck for Kinnaman was
unlearning many of the fighting techniques he's picked up
throughout his Hollywood career.
"We didn't want the fights to look choreographed like they often
do in a lot of films," he said.
In fact, Kinnaman said, Woo encouraged long takes where the
actors had to improvise to create the feeling of a real fight.
(Reporting by Rollo Ross and Danielle Broadway; editing by
Jonathan Oatis)
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