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Cast And CrewStarring: Honglei Sun,Dahong Ni,
Ni Yan,Xiao Shen-Yang,Xiaojuan Wang
Director:Yimou Zhang
Writers:Jianquan Shi, Jing Shang,
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Studio:Sony Pictures Classics
Genre:Drama, Thriller
Rating: for some violence.
Runtime:1 hour 35 minutes
Release Date: September 3rd, 2010
Studio:Sony Pictures Classics
Language: Mandarin
Country: China
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The owner of a Chinese noodle shop schemes to murder his adulterous wife and her lover. Things go awry.
Movie Plot Summary:
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop is a remake of the 1985 directorial debut of Joel and Ethan Coen, BLOOD SIMPLE. Zhang Yimou, one of the most eminent directors of the “Fifth Generation”, transposes the Coen Brother’s celebrated mix of dark humor and riveting suspense to a noodle shop in western China. This black comedy thriller is an exposé of how intense desires can consume humanity, and the irony that life never submits to our calculation.
Wang is a gloomy and cunning noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. Feeling neglected, Wang’s wife secretly goes out with his employee, Li. A timid man, Li reluctantly keeps the gun the landlady bought for ‘killing her husband later’. However, not a single move they make escapes the boss’s notice, and he decides to bribe patrol officer Zhang to kill the illicit couple. It looks like a perfect plan: the affair will come to a cruel but satisfying end… or so he thinks, but the equally wicked Zhang has an agenda of his own that will lead to even more violence…
Movie Review:
As if to say that even the Coen brothers are too humdrum in the way they put across movies like their freshman debut offering, "Blood Simple," Zhang Yimou goes a few steps further. "A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop" pays homage to "Blood Simple," a movie which evidently engrossed Zhang, who now puts across a film as highly stylized as Chinese opera. (In fact, Zhang states in the press notes that he has adopted the aesthetic style of the old Chinese opera piece, "San Cha Kou").
The great virtue of Zhang's piece aside from the stylization-that may put off all but the more open-minded patrons of art-house fare-is the series of surprises; the turns, the twists, all giving the audience the variety that anyone could wish for. Motivations are fluid: one person's idea of recovering a few months' unpaid salary is another person's criminal act. One fellow's murderous impulses turn right back against him. In much the way that in real life you can't trust even your own bodyguards (think Indira Gandhi, Anwar Sadat), nobody can be relied on to do what's asked even for the appropriate sum of blood money.
Wang (Ni Dahong) runs a noodle shop in the underpopulated deserts of the Chinese west at a time that could be anywhere from the 13th century to the present day. Informed that his regularly abused wife, the woman he paid for, for Pete's sake, is having an affair with employee Li (Xiao Shen-Yang), he hires the expressionless Zhang (Sun Hoglei) to kill her in return for a considerable sum of money. When, as in the Coen brothers' film, the killer only pretends that he did the job but shows reasonable evidence of the undertaking, the hired gun turns against the husband, as he has eyes on the entire contents of the safe.
Among the comic elements of the film is the whiz-bang demonstration of the preparation of Chinese noodles from scratch, the employees beginning with a small pancake, spinning it around and passing it to the other workers. As the cake becomes huge, it is sliced, put into a large pot with some green vegetables, and served to a cadre of police officers who have come to the shop to investigate an explosion of a cannon.
Even more impressive is the visual effects. Photographer Zhao Xiaoding captures the sunsets, his sun turning the sandy hills of the desert a mysterious red. In fact director Zhang seems to want his audience to appreciate the stylizations, including saturated color of the blue sky and the orange sand at least as much as the story. The rich reds of the ample blood focus attention as one character after another meets an unexpected demise. At one point, you can't blame an audience for shouting to the screen, "Shoot him! Stab him! Cut off his fingers," during a climactic scene near the conclusion. Tao Jing's sound design punctuates the roars of a cannon and the clippety-clop of hoofbeats with high drama.
Director Zhang proves that he can make small, fun movies just as he has expertly created such epics as "Raise the Red Lantern" (a nineteen-year-old is forced into marriage in the China of the 1920's), and "Ju Dou" (a woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage). In both cases Zhang proves his affection for the boldest color, as he embraces now in his latest picture.
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