Shanghai Noon

Shanghai Noon (2000)

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Corrected entry: Near the end of the film, in the scene where they return to the Indians' celebration, the Indian woman addresses Roy as Owen, the name of the actor who plays Roy in the film.

Correction: She does actually say "Roy", but she has a strong Indian accent, and can't speak English perfectly.

Corrected entry: In the Qing Dynasty which reigned China when the story was set, Chinese men, be it commoners or those in the palace, were all bald in the front and wore ponytails at the back. It's the same for Emperor or servants. Although Jackie Chan has a ponytail, why does he have hair in the front?

Correction: During the 268 years of the Qing dynasty, numerous rebellions occurred because of the strict rules regarding dress and hairstyle, this would suggest that not everyone obeyed the rules.

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Corrected entry: Roy has a tattoo on his shoulder that is visible in the bath scene. It is a tattoo of a Chinese symbol. Although he is an enlightened man it seems unlikely.

Correction: How is this a mistake? Just because it seems unlikely doesn't mean he wouldn't have it. Maybe he got drunk one night and got it or maybe he lost a bet.

Corrected entry: In the scene near the beginning when Jackie Chan is fighting Native Americans in the river, many of them are chubby. This indicates modern eating habits, rather than the hard-bodied physique that would be the natural result of Native American warriors on a hunter/gatherer diet in 1881.

Correction: Chubbiness is not only from eating, it can be genetic. Also, only the "chubbier" hunter/gatherers would often survive, because they were "built" more efficiantly to survive. And also, they are still very muscular.

Corrected entry: When the drunk is holding the bottle there is no cork in the neck of the bottle. Yet when the horse goes to pick the bottle up to drink from it there is a cork in the bottle.

Correction: The bottle is never seen with a cork.

Corrected entry: When Chon and Roy meet in the bar, the thing holding the cards on Roy's wrist starts to go back under his coat. Then there is a cut to someone else and back to Roy's hand, which still has the card holder sticking out.

Correction: It just stopped going back into his sleeve. You can see it's half-extended and not fully stretched as it was before.

Corrected entry: When Roy and Chon are about to be hung, Roy is shot down from his noose and lands in a coffin. There was only 1 coffin, even though they were both supposed to be hung and buried.

Correction: Although there is only one coffin in the wagon, you can see the other coffin propped up against a buiding in an earlier shot before the wagon starts moving- presumably that is there ready for the second body since there appears to only be room for one coffin at a time inside.

Continuity mistake: In the desert, when Roy is buried alive, Jackie walks up and casts a shadow over his face. In the next shot, the shadow is facing a different direction. It continually changes throughout this scene.

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Lo Fong: One thing about the Chinese, Mr. Andrews. We do not renegotiate.

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Trivia: As usual, Jackie Chan made his stunts all by himself, but with a new trick on the list: he had never ridden a horse before.

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Question: What was the meaning of John's ponytail? Why didn't he want it to be touched or cut off?

Answer: During the Qing Dynasty it was compulsory for men to wear a queue to prove loyalty to the Manchu rule. Refusal to follow can result to execution considering that as treason. Also, he not only prevented him from going back to China but also preventing him from informing the Emperor of his crimes without his queue.

Yes, but in fact, Jackie Chan wasn't wearing a queue in the movie. He only had the pony tail. His head should have been shaved half bald, especially if he was the Emperor's Guard. They just didn't want to show Jackie Chan in a half-bald hairstyle.

Similarly happened in 1976 film Hand of Death in which Jackie co-starred in. That film too was set in the Qing Dynasty but all men still had their queues but no shaved temples. The slaves in Shanghai Noon however some of them did actually have that hairstyle correctly having both queue and front temples shaved bald.

Answer: The queue is loyalty submission to Manchu rule during the Qing Dynasty. Refusal to wear that hairstyle is considered treason and punishable by death. Fong cut it off to make it as if he's a slave with no honour and would label him a traitor to China. He not only prevented him from coming back but he also cannot report his actions to the Emperor if he were to go back to China (but cannot because of Fong cutting off his queue).

Answer: In the Qing Dynasty (which was in power at the time the film was set), all soldiers were required to wear the Manchurian hairstyle of the queue (Chon Wang's "pony tail"). Cutting off his queue ensured that he would not be able to fight in the Chinese army for a while.

Answer: His religion states, more or less, that if his hair is ever cut then he cannot enter heaven.

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