Shanghai Noon
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Short description
In 1881, Princess Pei Pei is abducted from the Forbidden City and taken to the American West. Chon Wang, a bumbling imperial guard, feels responsible for her disappearance and sets out after her, eventually reaching Nevada. There he crosses paths with Roy O'Bannon, a train robber with little luck and loose morals, and the mismatched pair works together to free the princess from her captors.
The film was directed by Tom Dey and written by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough. It was the first feature Dey directed, ahead of Showtime, Failure to Launch, Marmaduke, Wedding Season and JUMPMAN. Jackie Chan plays Chon Wang, Owen Wilson plays Roy O'Bannon and Lucy Liu plays Princess Pei Pei, with Xander Berkeley, Roger Yuan and Yu Rongguang among the credited cast. Shot as a Hong Kong and American co-production backed by Touchstone Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, Roger Birnbaum Productions and Golden Way Films, it cost about 55 million dollars and took in roughly 99 million dollars worldwide.
On IMDb it holds 6.6 out of 10 from around 142,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.4 out of 10 from about 2,900 votes. A critics' rating of 7 out of 10 from 130 reviews places it somewhat above those audience scores, which suggests reviewers responded to the culture-clash comedy and the pairing of its two leads more warmly than general viewers did.
What's left behind the scenes
- Xander Berkeley plays a character named Nathan Van Cliff – this is a tribute to Western actor Lee Van Cleef.
- The scene with the horseshoe was practically impossible to film, as the prop horseshoe turned out to be too light. However, Jackie Chan categorically refused to throw a real horseshoe at anyone, deeming it too dangerous.
- Filming took place from May 25 to August 20, 1999.
- The DVD contains many deleted scenes, some of which play a significant role in the film's plot. They are collected in a separate section on the DVD, and include the following scenes: Chon Wang travels in the lead locomotive in the wrong direction and collides with a locomotive packed with explosives. A meeting between Fong and Van Cleef immediately after the train robbery, which would have been much cleaner if they had worked together. A scene with Roy, where his gang (now led by Vallais) buries him in the sand. This would have been clearer than simply finding him suddenly buried. A number of scenes involving individual characters were completely cut. For example, "Bulldog Drummond," played by Curtis Armstrong, was completely cut from the film. Drummond is a good actor and a second-rate merchant who tries to use three Chinese guards as an attraction. However, when he interrupts the guards' lunch, they beat him and take his wagon. Later, Drummond is robbed by Vallais' gang (Roy's former gang), and to save his life, he tells them where to find a lot of gold and a man from Shanghai. The appearance of the wagon at the end of the film doesn't have the intended impact without these deleted scenes. Another version of how Chon Wang finds the labor camp: he comes across it through three young Chinese boys walking in the forest. A scene where Roy watches Chon Wang's wife bathing in the river, with corresponding dialogue. A scene at the end of the film where Chon and Roy distribute gold to the forced laborers, and Roy considers taking some for himself. Three guards open a restaurant, and Roy wonders if Chinese food will catch on in America.
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