Woo Hoo

So I just watched an amazing movie entitled "Face/Off". It stars John Travolta and Nicholas cage in what might be the awesome height of their careers. It involves doctors taking the face....off. (The term "Face...off" is overly used in the film to the point of self-masichism and punching anyone who is within punching distance in the face.)

Anyhow, this marvelous work of film was directed by the One and Only John Woo. I happened to notice that, in one of the scenes, there are doves fluttering around a church, often framed in slow motion flapping their wings across the screen. This also happens in John Woo's Mission Impossible II. This makes me wonder if the dove/white bird thing is a John Woo signature, and whether or not that makes him an "auteur". John Woo is well known for action films, but is that enough to make him an esteemed "auteur"? What about his tendency for slow motion?

Just a thought.

Face...OFF!