A Simple Noodle Story (三枪拍案惊奇) is a
2009 Chinese comedy film directed by Zhang Yimou (张艺谋)
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- Movie: A Simple Noodle Story / 三枪拍案惊奇 (2009)
- Chinese : San Qiang Pai An Jing Qi / 三枪拍案惊奇
- Also known as : The First Gun , Blood Simple ,
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
- Director: Zhang Yimou (张艺谋)
- Producer: Zhang Weiping (张伟平) , William Kong (江志强)
- Writer: Xu Zhengchao (徐正超) , Shi Jianquan (史建全)
- Cinematographer : Zhao Xiaoding (赵小丁)
- Choreographer :
- Art Director : Han Zhong (韩忠)
- Original Music : Zhao Lin (赵麟)
- Production Design :
- Costume Design :
- Release Date : December 10 , 2009
- Runtime : 95 min
- Genre : Drama , Comedy
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- Language: Mandarin
- Country: China
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- Budget : –
- Box Office : –
Synopsis
By all rights, Zhang Yimou's remake of Joel and Ethan Coen's first
feature shouldn't work, but it does--marvelously so. It's not that
Blood Simple
is a masterpiece, though it's very good, but that the two filmmaking
entities would seem to have little in common. Zhang even moves the
action to feudal China, where noodle shop owner Wang (Ni Dahong)
browbeats his unnamed wife (Ni Yan, beautiful and feisty) and coworkers
Zhao (Cheng Ye), Chen (Mao Mao), and Li (Xiao Shenyang, sweet and
jittery). When traveling merchants drop by while Wang is away, his wife
buys a pistol--in a sequence so over the top it threatens to derail the
entire picture. Wang, meanwhile, pays patrol officer Zhang (Sun Honglei) ,
in a tightly coiled performance) to spy on her and Li. After the
officer confirms his suspicions about their affair, he offers more money
for Zhang to take the couple out of his misery, but Wang doesn't count
on the double-crosses that will ensue. Zhang intends to rob the man
blind, except he doesn't know the combination to the safe, unlike waiter
Zhao, who isn't as dumb as he looks (prominent teeth and a tiny topknot
only reinforce the impression). Despite a tone that veers between
slapstick and suspense,
A Woman offers the stunning visuals that characterize most Zhang works, like
House of Flying Daggers.
The desert--which doubles as a graveyard--is gorgeous in its
desolation, while the shop setting is ingenious in its construction. And
the ending is truly transcendent.
--Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Trailer
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_J6r9WFDpU&w=590]
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