"Shanghai Noon" is Jackie Chan's first work in Hollywood. The film not only carries forward the usual kung fu comedy characteristics of Jackie Chan movies, but also incorporates the thrills of American Western films. It tells the old story of an Ouchi guard who travels across the ocean to rescue a Chinese princess. Jackie Chan has transformed into an oriental cowboy, subverting the traditional image of a western cowboy. Wearing a Qing Dynasty robe, he fights against the enemy with his bare hands. His actions are funny and humorous, creating a new style of western comedy kung fu movies. It’s not enough to mix and match characters. Jackie Chan deliberately challenged the space design of the Chinese martial arts film bamboo garden, adding typical western scenes into the action scenes. The small tavern in the dimly lit space and the pillars and flying beams of the oriental architecture are moved to the scaffolding on the execution ground. Since the birth of "The Train Robbery", the originator of western films, western films seem to like to perform on trains. "Shanghai Noon" surprises the audience twice, combining equestrianism with a train duel, lying on the back of a galloping horse without forgetting to show their fists, and the dangerous moments on the train, without forgetting the label-style funny scenes.
Shanghai Noon evaluation action
2022-02-08 08:01
Extended Reading
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Chon Wang: He took the gold.
Roy O'Bannon: Is that all you care about, the gold? Shame on you.
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[Roy is watching Chon attempt to saddle his horse. The horse keeps pulling the saddle blanket off before Chon can get the saddle on]
Roy O'Bannon: Well, best of luck to you. Guess this is what your people call "sayanora." Looks like Fido's giving you some problems there. You want me to, uh, give you a hand?
Chon Wang: No, I can do it.
Roy O'Bannon: *Sure* you can. H-How is a greenhorn like you gonna make it to Carson City and rescue this princess?
["Fido" pulls the saddle blanket off again. Roy sighs]
Roy O'Bannon: Stop, stop, stop, stop. I can't take it any more. Watch me do it.
[He takes the saddle blanket]
Roy O'Bannon: You get it like this and you put it up high
[demonstrates]
Roy O'Bannon: . See, it'll drift back when you're riding.
[pause]
Roy O'Bannon: All right, I'll do it.
Chon Wang: Do what?
Roy O'Bannon: Take you to Carson City, help you rescue Princess Pee Pee.
Chon Wang: Pei Pei! You do not care about the princess.
Roy O'Bannon: You don't know me very well, do you? Tell you one thing: I hate to think of an innocent member of Chinese nobility suffering, I'll tell you that.
[pause]
Roy O'Bannon: You people believe in Karma over there, right? Well I've been thinking... there must be a reason why we keep running into each other. Now I've ridden with some terrible men, just people I couldn't trust, but when I look at you, there's something different about you. And I can see it, I can see it in your eyes. It's what the Indians call... chipichawa.
Chon Wang: What's that?
Roy O'Bannon: Chipichawa is nobility. And you have it, in spades. You got yourself a partner, and this has nothing to do with gold, okay?
[Spits in his hand and offers it to Chon]
Roy O'Bannon: Shake on it.
Chon Wang: Why are you spitting in your hand?
Roy O'Bannon: Well, it's, uh, customary to seal the deal. Come on, let's go
[Chon spits into Roy's hand]
Roy O'Bannon: . No, you -
[wipes of his hand on his shirt]
Roy O'Bannon: this is going to be a long journey.