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news.yahoo.com - 11/17/2009

China's Zhang Yimou to release black comedy: report (AFP)

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AFP - Award-winning Chinese director Zhang Yimou has engineered another career shift with his latest movie -- a comedy remake of a Coen brothers thriller with a theme song rapped by the filmmaker himself.

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slashfilm.com - 11/18/2009

International Trailer: Zhang Yimou’s Blood Simple Remake Looks…Kooky

— slashfilm.com — First up, Zhang Yimou ’s sorta-remake of Blood Simple , the amazing debut feature by Joel and... Ethan Coen, has a new title. Once called Amazing Tales: Three Guns , the title now seems to be The First Gun . Except that in some places, as ... International Trailer: Zhang Yimou’s Blood Simple Remake ...

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theplaylist.blogspot.com - 11/18/2009

Zhang Yimou's 'Blood Simple; Remake Is A Wacky Comedy That Features A Rap Written By The Director?

— theplaylist.blogspot.com — Ok, we know that Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou ("Raise the Red Lantern," "Hero," "Curse of the Golden... Flower") is remaking the Coen Brothers' neo-noir, "Blood Simple" as a thriller-comedy set in a Chinese noodle shop in a sand dune-specked desert, ... Zhang Yimou's 'Blood Simple; Remake Is A Wacky Comedy ...

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filmshaft.com - 11/18/2009

Zhang Yimou Remakes Coen’s Classic

— filmshaft.com — They’ve been directing films since 1984’s neo-noir thriller Blood Simple , but it shows their current standing... in the film world Chinese cinema legend – Zhang Yimou – chooses to adapt their own debut feature. The director of Raise the Red Lantern , Hero and Curse of the ... Zhang Yimou Remakes Coen’s Classic

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Zhang Yimou's 'Blood Simple; Remake Is A Wacky Comedy That Features A Rap Written By The Director?
:: The Playlist :: — ... frankly. Plus the international sensibilities will surely turn up something fresh ( Yimou is really not the first person you think of do remake the Coens , nor do comedy). But is it going to be odder and wackier than any of us expected? The film has a title now, " The First Gun " (though it's been called, " Amazing Tales: Three Guns " in the past) is set for release early December in China (finished a lot faster than you thought, production only started in July), and apparently also features a rap that the director demonstrated on Chinese state television recently (or ...

COEN BROS REMAKE HAS A CHINESE RAP THEME
FilmDrunk.com — ... rapped by the filmmaker himself.  The film is based on the Coen brothers’ 1984 murder-laced “Blood Simple,” but swaps the US film’s Texas bar setting for a noodle shop in ancient China, while adding an ample dose of comedy, Zhang said in an online interview.  Zhang, who is currently promoting the film, was shown on state television this week rapping out the lyrics to the film’s theme song, which he wrote.[via Yahoo] ...

COEN BROS REMAKE HAS A CHINESE RAP THEME
FilmDrunk: Movie news you can make fun of — ... rapped by the filmmaker himself.  The film is based on the Coen brothers’ 1984 murder-laced “Blood Simple,” but swaps the US film’s Texas bar setting for a noodle shop in ancient China, while adding an ample dose of comedy, Zhang said in an online interview.  Zhang, who is currently promoting the film, was shown on state television this week rapping out the lyrics to the film’s theme song, which he wrote.[via Yahoo] ...

International Trailer: Zhang Yimou’s Blood Simple Remake Looks…Kooky
/Film — ... Yimou’s sorta-remake of Blood Simple, the amazing debut feature by Joel and Ethan Coen, has a new title. Once called Amazing Tales: Three Guns, the title now seems to be The First Gun. Except that in some places, as on the upload for the trailer featured below, the title Amazing Tales: Three Guns, or some variant on it, persists. But the new name was reported by Yahoo, and they’ve got to be correct, right? So for now we’ll run with it, but ...

Zhang Yimou’s Blood Simple Remake Trailer
Film Junk — ... trailer for the film on YouTube, and if you're familiar with Hero, House of Flying Daggers and Curse of the Golden Flower, I think you won't be too shocked to see plenty of artistic slow-mo, thematic colours, and melodramatic acting. It looks like a Zhang Yimou film, except... what the heck does any of this have to do with Blood Simple?? Granted, the trailer is not in English so it's a bit hard to piece it all together. It gets weirder though: according to Yahoo!, the movie features "a theme song rapped by the filmmaker himself"! Huh? ...

When Remakes Look Awesome: Zhang Yimou's "Blood Simple" Redo Has a Trailer, Rap Song
Cinematical — ... back in July. The film now has a title, The First Gun (aka Amazing Tales: Three Guns), and an international trailer, which shows us just how different Zhang's version is. The Chinese filmmaker, acclaimed for numerous Oscar-nominated films, whether recognized in the foreign, cinematography or costume categories, recently confirmed that he added a lot of things and changed the whole tone from the Coens' version. ...