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Shanghai Noon is a 2000 movie starring Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson as Chan's western sidekick. Directed by Tom Dey, it was written by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough. The movie, set in Nevada and other parts of the west in the 19th century, is a juxtapostion of a western with a Jackie Chan Kung Fu action movie with extended martial arts sequences. It also has elements of comedy and the "Buddy Cop" film genre, as it involves two men of different personalities and ethnicities (a Chinese imperial guard and a Western outlaw) who team up to stop a crime. The title (a pun on the Gary Cooper classic High Noon) and several names used in the film pay homage to earlier westerns. Chan's character, "Chon Wang" or sometimes called "Poophead" by Owen's character, is meant to sound like John Wayne, and the antagonist, Nathan Van Cleef, is an homage to Lee Van Cleef, who played "the Bad" in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, among other roles in major westerns. In addition, Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson's character) reveals at the end that his real name is Wyatt Earp, which Chon laughingly dismisses as "a terrible cowboy name".
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This movie is about Chon Wang, who is an imperial guard of China. After the princess Pei-Pei is abducted and taken to America, Wang is sent with others to find her and bring her back. Roy O'Bannon is an outlaw who ends up hijacking the train Wang is on with his gang. When Wallace, a member of Roy's gang, kills Wang's uncle, he decides to try chasing them down. However, the gang is well-armed and Chon's only choice is to unhinge the cars and get away with the engine. In the process, Wallace takes over the gang from O'Bannon, and they leave him buried up to his chin in the desert sand. Meanwhile, Pei-Pei finds out that the man who abducted her, Lo Fong, is running a Chinese slave camp. Fong himself left the Forbidden City and was viewed as a traitor by the Chinese.
Image:Shanghai Noon Bar Brawl.jpg Wang and Roy in a bar brawl When they get to Carson City, they find themselves in a showdown with Lo Fong's ally Marshal Nathan Van Cleef, and the two of them narrowly escape. They go to a hideout, which is more of a burlesque house, but they get found out by Van Cleef, and are arrested. They find out that Lo Fong is behind the kidnapping, and he cuts off Wang's hair (known as a queue or bianzi) so that he loses his honour and can never go back to China. However as they are about to be hanged, they once again escape, in part thanks again to Chon Wang's Native wife. The next day, the two partners go to the ransom point, a church in the middle of nowhere. The three imperial guards come with the gold (Wang had become separated from them during the train robbery), and Lo Fong has the princess in hand. However matters get complicated when O'Bannon springs a gun on Lo Fong, and Wang confronts his fellow guards regarding his imperial duty (as the princess does not wish to go back to China, but the guards have their orders to bring her back). As well, Van Cleef comes out with two guns and remarks that they have themselves "a Mexican standoff, but I don't see any Mexicans." As the Chinese fight amongst themselves (Lo Fong included), Van Cleef and O'Bannon wage in a gunfight. O'Bannon miraculously pierces Van Cleef with his last bullet while also being missed by every one of Van Cleef's, and Lo Fong is killed, the method used is hanging, by a joint effort between Chon and the princess. The Imperial Guards decide that they will let the princess stay. Wallace and his gang also come up to the church, and demand that Roy and Wang (or The Shanghai Kid as he was called) come out and fight. But when the two of them get outside the church to face Wallace, Natives from all around surround the gang and O'Bannon tells them that they are going to jail. At the end of the movie, Roy and Wang are shown as sheriffs and are waiting for the next train robbery to occur. Roy and Falling Leaves (the Native girl) also passionately kiss each other during a Chinese cultural exhibit while Pei-Pei holds Chon's hand. Box OfficeThe movie grossed $99,274,467 according to box office mojo. Cast
Lucy Liu won the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for her role in Shanghai Noon. Trivia
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