January 26, 1994

The movie Hard Target was playing as part of the Student Association film schedule. I was interested because it was the first American film directed by John Woo. I had taken a film history class there with a theme of gangster film, and the professor included some of his earlier Hong Kong films- Hard Boiled, The Killer, A Better Tomorrow- and I was curious how his style would work in Hollywood. I invited grad painter Suzanne Thomas to come along, since she was known to be a big fan of leading man Jean Claude Van Damme, and she invited her friend Laura. As it turned out, the studio had kept a tight leash on Woo, and the movie lacked his usual style. Perhaps the most memorable thing was when a member of the audience reached his hand up into the path of the projection, so that its shadow appeared on the screen. That image became the subject of the day's print.