Pallottole cinesi

Titolo originale: Shanghai Noon
Regia: Tom Dey |
Anno: 2000
Origine: United States of America | Hong Kong |
Generi: Avventura Azione Commedia Western
Tag: princess | rescue | martial arts | native american | sioux | travel | chinese | cowboy | duringcreditsstinger | 19th century | action hero | good versus evil |
Cast: Jackie Chan | Owen Wilson | Lucy Liu | Xander Berkeley | Roger Yuan | Yu Rongguang | Walton Goggins | Brandon Merrill | Jason Connery | Adrien Dorval | Stacy Grant | Kate Luyben | Henry O | Simon Baker | A.C. Peterson | Rad Daly | Eliza Norbury | Eric Chen | Cui Ya Hui | Rafael Báez | Russell Badger | Jody Thompson | Kendall Saunders | Christy Greene | Sam Simon | Olivia Cheng | Christopher Hunt | Shayne Wyler | Yuen Biao | Larry Lam |

Nel 1881 la principessa Pei Pei è rapita con l'inganno e si ritrova in un campo minerario del Nevada, schiava di un cinese rinnegato. I rapitori per liberarla chiedono una cassa colma d'oro. Alle tre Guardie Imperiali incaricata di riportare la principessa a casa si aggrega Chon Wang che, aiutato da un rapinatore di treni, la salva dopo avventurose peripezie.

Approfondimenti

Curtis Armstrong filmed scenes in the role of Bulldog Drummond, but his scenes were cut before the m [...] D
The travelling show (seen at the end behind Roy O'Bannon's former gang) has a reference to the weste [...] D
The song playing during the first bar-fight sequence ("La Grange" by ZZ Top) is the same song that p [...] D
The name of Marshal Nathan Van Cleef is an homage to Lee Van Cleef, who starred in many spaghetti we [...] D
In the end of the movie, Roy O'Bannon's real name is revealed to be Wyatt Earp. In real life, Wyatt [...] D
At the end of the movie as the pair are riding off to stop the train robbers you can hear the theme [...] D
Chon Wang is the Chinese translation and pronunciation of John Wayne. However, in the case of Jackie [...] D
The name of the presiding judge, written on the wall of the building behind Roy and Chon when they a [...] D
The song played when Roy is teaching Chon to be a cowboy is Kid Rock's "Cowboy". D
Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson would also co-star in "Shanghai Knights" and "Around the World in 80 Day [...] D
In the saloon fight scene, a man calls Chon Wang Ke-Moh Sah-bee, a faux Native American term used in [...] D
The scene at the end, outside the church and heavily surrounded, is an homage to Butch Cassidy (1969 [...] D
The Chinese characters shown in the background during the opening credits are excerpts from a transl [...] D
When Roy O'Bannon finds out that the new member of his gang is from Texas, he replies, "Texas, are y [...] D
The English translation of the drinking game song is: One crab with eight feet, painted horns - what [...] D
Olivia Cheng's debut. D
The title is a play on the western classic Mezzogiorno di fuoco (1952). D
The plot is very similar to the Western movie Red Sun (1971), with this movie starring Jackie Chan, [...] D
Chon bids Roy goodbye by saying "sayanora". A Japanese word for farewell. D
During the scene where Roy (Owen Wilson) and Chon (Jackie Chan) are drunk in the hotel, director Tom [...] D
According to the commentary: the fight scene with the horseshoe was nearly impossible to do with a f [...] D
The name of the Native American girl played by Brandon Merrill is never mentioned at any point in th [...] D
Doesn't make sense that the Natives in the movie are speaking Sioux and Crow when in this time perio [...] D
The catchy quote "I don't know karate, but I know crazy" is actually a line from a James Brown song. D
Brandon Merrill, who plays Jackie Chan's horse-riding Native American wife, is a real-life rodeo cha [...] D
The train seen in the gold robbery scene can still be viewed and even ridden during the summer seaso [...] D