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During the filming of the scene in which Tequila is running down the exploding hallway with the baby [...]	D
All the characters had their voices dubbed by their own actors in order to save money. John Woo stat [...]	D
Ranked #18 in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 50 Cult Films of All-Time".	D
The hospital ward gunfight in this film lasts a whopping 45 minutes. And also features one of the hi [...]	D
Terence Chang says John Woo has no actual interest in the Triads or other gangsters and that he only [...]	D
The hospital segment's location was chosen since they wanted to have an atypical location where gang [...]	D
The film took 123 days to shoot.	D
The "hallway shot" in the hospital was put in to break the monotony of filming. It was set up in abo [...]	D
During the "hallway shot out" between Alan and Mad Dog, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung was cut in the eye by a [...]	D
On the commentary, John Woo recalls drinking tequila in Hong Kong by adding soda, covering it with a [...]	D
Terence Chang says roughly seventy percent of the film was shot in an abandoned Coca-Cola factory. T [...]	D
Mad Dog is played by Philip Kwok who also served as the film's action coordinator. He was an action [...]	D
This was John Woo's last Hong Kong film before going to Hollywood. According to the Dragon Dynasty c [...]	D
John Woo doesn't watch films with a critical lens and instead tries "to get something from everythin [...]	D
The scene at the jazz bar after the teahouse shootout was added on the last day of shooting. Chow Yu [...]	D
More than 200 guns were used in the film, all of which were real. Due to Hong Kong's strict gun laws [...]	D
John Woo prefers filming his movies in sequence, not just for momentum but also so he knows to make [...]	D
The name of this movie is actually an Easter egg because Easter eggs can be Hard Boiled.	D
During the hallway shootout, when Yuen and Alan get in the elevator, the crew was given 20 seconds t [...]	D
Members of the cast and crew stayed in the hospital for days often losing track of the time of day.	D
Anthony Chau-Sang Wong wasn't happy with the film as he thought that his character, Johnny Wong, was [...]	D
The production stopped for a month after the filming of the teahouse sequence due to script problems [...]	D
Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch is an inspiration in various ways including the beat where William Ho [...]	D
John Woo interviewed real cops while researching the film including one detective who was known for [...]	D
The script initially focused on a villain who was poisoning formula bottles and killing babies. The [...]	D
According to the commentator on the Dragon Dynasty DVD, many of Johnny Wong's underlings in the hosp [...]	D
Using the shotgun in the rose box was an original idea in both this film and Terminator 2 - Il giorn [...]	D
Because of the shooting schedule, the crew only had one chance to perform the continuous take during [...]	D
The script called for Alan to die in the end, preferably in a self-sacrificial way, but the film's p [...]	D
According to the Dragon Dynasty DVD Commentary, Michelle Yeoh was originally slated to play opposite [...]	D
John Woo had previously been criticized for glamorizing gangsters in his films, so he decided to mak [...]	D
According to Dragon Dynasty's interview with John Woo, Alan was originally slated to die from the gu [...]	D
Most of the script was radically rewritten a week before shooting began. The original plot involved [...]	D
The budget of this movie was only about $4,000,000.	D
The single-shot pistol that Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok (Mad Dog) uses is a Thompson Center Contender, f [...]	D
As for the reasoning of having the baby urinate on Tequila to save him, John Woo says that "Anytime [...]	D
Regarding action choreography, John Woo is "very sensitive to all the movement around me, from the a [...]	D
The now famous long take of Tequila and Alan shooting through two floors full of henchmen in the hos [...]	D
John Woo: [Heavy use of slow motion]	D
The scenes shot at the Hospital maternity ward and the warehouse were shot at a new studio called "T [...]	D
John Woo wanted to bring the entire hospital down during the finale. The crew became worried and ask [...]	D
Body count: 307.	D
John Woo wanted a jazz soundtrack in The Killer (1989), but was overruled by Hark Tsui. He got to do [...]	D
Terence Chang doesn't have much connection with Hong Kong gangs, but he does point out how come it i [...]	D
The tea house sequence in the film was shot before the script was written.	D
Pay close attention to Johnny Wong: he wears a different coloured coat in every scene.	D
John Woo's freestyle approach is part of why he says he overbudgets his movies. Terence Chang adds t [...]	D
In 2007 a sequel was released in the form of the video game Stranglehold (2007), with Chow Yun-Fat a [...]	D
"All the guns come from London," says Terence Chang regarding the film's large arsenal. Most of them [...]	D
Due to the length of the film, scenes from a side-story involving the relationship between the chara [...]	D
The face-off between Alan and his elder in the warehouse led to some debate as John Woo insisted tha [...]	D
This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #9.	D
Originally, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok (Mad Dog) was not supposed to have an acting role in the film, i [...]	D
While filming in the hospital, the windows were covered with blast shields to give the appearance of [...]	D
John Woo: [hospital]	D
John Woo says he uses the hospital as a microcosm for society as the patients are merely pawns trapp [...]	D
Phillip Chang, who plays Inspector Chang, was a real-life police commander in the Hong Kong Police w [...]	D
The bartender 'Mr. Woo' wasn't in the shooting script, but John Woo added it on short notice and pla [...]	D
Regarding Hong Kong stuntmen, Roger Avary says he's heard they're paid all year long as opposed to b [...]	D
The warehouse shootout was originally supposed to be two set-pieces as the back half was going to ta [...]	D
John Woo: [motorcycles] motorcycles are heavily used during the big warehouse gunfight.	D
Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, who plays Mad Dog, had his part specifically written for him by John Woo. T [...]	D
John Woo learned while filming the warehouse scene that Barry Wong, the film's writer, had died. "He [...]	D
John Woo was nicknamed "Old Headmaster" by the young crew because of his stern manner during filming [...]	D
During promotional screenings, the score for the film was different and was described as "very haunt [...]	D
"Logic is very boring," says John Woo in regard to how he crafts his characters and scenes. "When I' [...]	D
Film critic David Kehr's first exposure to John Woo was a screening of A Better Tomorrow (1986) at a [...]	D
John Woo: [guns] Tequila uses two guns in the opening action sequence.	D
John Woo believes that rather than be mere tools in a film "actors are the soul of a movie."	D
The hospital scenes took 40 days to shoot.	D
Roger Avary says that one of the appeals of John Woo's action sequences is how "they don't feel like [...]	D
The film was originally developed in 1990.	D
Many of Tequila's mannerisms (such playing the clarinet) were taken from a real cop John Woo intervi [...]	D
The teahouse where the first sequence was filmed was demolished five days after John Woo was done. D [...]	D
Like many of John Woo's other films, elements of the film's action sequences were improvised, such a [...]	D
Inspector Tequila is based on fictional super cops Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan from the Dirty H [...]	D
Originally, Tony was not supposed to cry after killing Mr. Hui, but Tony Chiu-Wai Leung felt the cha [...]	D
At the premiere the audience response was very positive with people stomping their feet and yelling [...]	D
The General Kwan statue is the same one used in The Killer (1989).	D
John Woo says Anthony Wong is a big fan of Al Pacino and Robert De Niro and would often try to imita [...]	D
Although John Woo told his cast that the film would be more gritty and not as stylish as his previou [...]	D
Roger Avary called John Woo up "the other night," and he got the filmmaker's answering machine. It f [...]	D
The statue that Tequila and the other police officers worshipped in the police station is of Guan Yu [...]	D

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After informer Foxy gets beaten up, shot, and and thrown into the river by Johnny Wong's thugs, he m [...]	D
After shooting the mysterious "machine gunner" at point blank range to end the Teahouse shoot out, t [...]	D
When Tequila's partner shoots the undercover cop in the tea house, the blood from his wounds clearly [...]	D
Throughout the film, characters fire more bullets than their guns would realistically allow without [...]	D
(At around 1h 51m) When Teresa shoots the bad guy at point blank range after he slaps her, the bulle [...]	D
When Tequila decocks Alan's Beretta twice while confronting him on his boat.	D
At the end of the Wyndham Teahouse shoot out, Tequila (Chow Yun Fat), covered in flour, executes the [...]	D
Often when someone gets shot, a flash can be seen at the exit wound. Bullets do not make flashes at [...]	D
When Tequila empties the shell casings from his revolver after the warehouse shootout, the shell cas [...]	D
When Tony and Tequila blow their way out of a weapons storage vault, they use 2 pieces of C4 and det [...]	D
When people are running down the stairs to escape the tea room, a man is shot in the back and exit w [...]	D
Location and the position of Benny's (Tequila's partner) body in the Teahouse. When he was shot, he [...]	D
In the first shot of Tequila sitting down in the teahouse, right beside him is a man wearing a black [...]	D
(At 15:56 minutes) When Tony Leung, an undercover cop, shoots the person at the library his blood fl [...]	D
Foxy's life is saved by a metal lighter in his pocket. In real life, a lighter would not stop a bull [...]	D

Frase

Mad Dog: You know what I hate? Two groups of peopl [...]	D
Tequila: You're really full of shit. The toilet's [...]	D
Superintendant Pang: Give a guy a gun, he thinks h [...]	D
Tequila: [to Alan] I hate in-house funerals. I wri [...]	D
Johnny Wong: Everything goes in and out of style, [...]	D
Tequila: I can't afford any of these apartments! [...]	D
Tequila: Should I salute you? Alan: You've got th [...]	D
Tequila: What's with all these paper cranes? You b [...]	D
Alan: Birthdays aren't important when you don't ha [...]	D
Tequila: You're full of shit, you know that? There [...]	D
Tequila: Which year did you graduate? Who was your [...]	D
Tequila: Do you have any dreams? Alan: I do. I wa [...]	D
[in English, unexpectedly] Superintendant Pang: A [...]	D
Alan: Have you got a cop called Vodka? Superinten [...]	D
Johnny Wong: Most things go in and out of style - [...]	D
Tequila: If all cops were as selfish as you, Hong [...]	D
Johnny Wong: There is no room for failure now. The [...]	D
Johnny Wong: [Handing Alan a gun] We either conque [...]	D
[to a baby, after shooting someone] Tequila: Hey, [...]	D
Alan: Pang said you don't waste bullets. Tequila: [...]	D
Tequila: [Tequila's pants leg is on fire and a bab [...]	D
Alan: [shortly after Tequila reassured Alan that t [...]	D
Alan: When I'm a Triad, the cops want to kill me a [...]	D
Tequila: What are you? It's hard to call you a tri [...]	D

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