Shang-High Noon

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Movie
German title Shang-High Noon
Original title Shanghai Noon
Country of production United States
original language English
Chinese
Sioux
Publishing year 2000
length 106 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Tom Dey
script Miles Millar
Alfred Gough
production Jackie Chan
Gary Barber
Roger Birnbaum
Jonathan Glickman
music Randy Edelman
camera Daniel Mindel
cut Richard Chew
occupation
chronology

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Shanghai Knights

Shanghai Noon is interspersed with Far Eastern martial arts Western - Comedy by Tom Dey from the year 2000 . The main roles are played by Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson .

content

In 1881 the imperial princess Pei Pei, unhappy in the Forbidden City, follows her English teacher Andrews to the USA . But she falls into a trap and is sold by Andrews to Lo Fong, a criminal banished from his homeland, and has to do detention as his hostage in his train camp full of Chinese emigrants.

The emperor is beside himself with worry and sends a group of imperial guardsmen to rescue and deliver ransom, including the imperial guardsman Chon Wang. But in the Wild West their train is ambushed by bandits led by the dandy-like gunslinger Roy O'Bannon. After his uncle is shot, Chon confronts Roy, but they both fall off the train.

Chon is now on his own and makes the arduous journey to Carson City , where the money should be handed over. He made solid acquaintance with cowboys , was accepted into an Indian tribe and was married to the battle-hardened Squaw Falling Leaves. And he also runs into Roy again and again, so that both of them make life unnecessarily difficult.

Out of necessity, the two fundamentally different warriors then finally get together and set off together to free the princess. There is a showdown in a monastery church. Roy can take out Lo Fong's henchman, the unerring Marshall van Cleef, while Chon Pei Pei finally freed from Fong's clutches.

In the end, both men become friends and get what they want: Chon Pei Pei, who is allowed to stay in America, and Roy Falling Leaves.

criticism

“A successful mix of martial arts film and western in the guise of a comedy, which does not just add up common stereotypes, but rather exaggerates them through constant penetration. Good leading actors contribute to the enjoyment just as much as a brilliant script that cleverly uses and twists the motifs of the various genres. "

- Lexicon of international film :

“Shang-High Noon” was also created with the genre cheat sheet. Nevertheless, it is the many quotes and puns that shine in this flippant patchwork. "

- Cinema

Trivia

  • Although playing in the Wild West, the strip was created in the province of Alberta in Canada .
  • The film is strongly reminiscent of the western rival under the red sun of 1971 with Charles Bronson as the train robber and Toshirō Mifune as the samurai .
  • Many names are derived from famous people who have something to do with the wild west. Chan's character Chon Wang is derived from the great film cowboy John Wayne . Roy mentions at the end of the film that his real name is Wyatt Earp . Marshall Nathan van Cleef finally recalls Lee van Cleef , a great actor in countless spaghetti westerns . Carson City is reminiscent of the television series Bonanza .
  • Brandon Merrill, who plays Chon's wife shooting and riding, is a successful rodeo rider in real life and a multiple champion in the discipline.
  • The film title is derived from the Western High Noon (1952) starring Gary Cooper , who received the Oscar for best leading role in this film .
  • Yuen Biao , Chan's Asian colleague from countless Hong Kong action films, attacks Chan in a bar.
  • The fight scene between Chan and the Indians reminiscent of a similar scene in Chan's earlier film project B . There he has to defend himself against some pirates with axes. In both films, Chan throws the axes of his opponents back at them, but they are easily caught by the respective opponents.
  • Shang-High Noon is somewhat similar to the movie Kung Fu in the Wild West .
  • The rope, which is tied to a horseshoe, with which Chan overcomes some of the marshal's henchmen, is reminiscent of a Liuxingchui . He uses similar fighting techniques.

continuation

Awards

  • 2001: Blockbuster Entertainment Award in the category “Favorite Supporting Actress - Action” to Lucy Liu .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shang-High Noon. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ cinema.de