Introduction
Why should you make a low-budget action movie? Simple. The people making the big-budget ones have lost their touch. It’s time for the baton to be passed, and this book will prepare you to receive it.
Action movies—the very term invokes visions of brainless adrenaline injections set to techno music. But things weren’t always this way. It’s easy to forget that Die Hard has a full 30 minutes of engaging story before the first gun is fired, or that Lethal Weapon features an attempted suicide so gripping that director Franco Zeffirelli cast Mel Gibson as Hamlet based on that scene alone. It’s easy to forget that director John Woo (Face/Off, Mission Impossible II) is best not just when his guns are blazing, but when he wears his heart ...
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