Meanwhile, Nicolas Cage's flapping robes, the slow-motion bullets, the balletic choreography of the shoot-outs: all these stylisations of the film's bad guy bear the stamp of the kung-fu movies that Mr Woo in his earlier years helped perfect.
"When he gets in trouble, watch him, the guy bears down and gets the job done".
And, judging from the Times picture, every old, balding, wrinkly white guy bears a striking resemblance to Burroughs.
Now this Tosches guy bears a more than passing resemblance to the actual author (whether that includes being a murderer and a thief, and faking his own death in the World Trade Center inferno, we will leave to his publisher's lawyers to check).
They've combined forces to make sure that they could recoup every penny and the little guy bears the burden of higher taxes and less services.
Because we four families were living it up at Bear Creek Resort in Macungie, Pennsylvania, and guys in bear suits were just one of the fun surprises the resort had in store.
These guys often bear artistic aspirations and their hearts on their sleeves but range across a spectrum of likability.
Many families go to the zoo to see the bears they're in fashion and all of the children want photographs in front of the zoo with these guys in bear suits.
"I'm sort of a PowerPoint guy, so bear with me," he said the first time he did this, in Orlando, Fla., by way of apologizing for his apparent inability to communicate without his security blanket.
A party-guy reputation borne out by the elements (drugs, infidelity, name dropping and social climbing) that loom large in his fiction.
