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Title:	Movie Reviews and Discussion
Notice:	Please do DIR/TITLE before starting a new topic on a movie!
Moderator:	VAXCPU::michaudo.dec.com::tamara::eppes

Created:	Thu Jan 28 1993
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1249
Total number of notes:	16012

982.0. "Shanghai Triad" by MOEUR8::BROOK () Wed Dec 13 1995 08:30

  This film is showing in a suburb of Paris in V.O. (Version Originale). We
  are wondering whether to see it but have seen no reveiws. Anyone seen it
  who has any comments etc? Also, is the film's original dialogue in English?

  Thanks for any info
  Martin Brook - Evry, France

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982.1 VNABRW::RHOTON_J John Rhoton @AUI - DTN 754-2345 Tue Apr 02 1996 07:33 20

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982.1		VNABRW::RHOTON_J	John Rhoton @AUI - DTN 754-2345	`Tue Apr 02 1996 07:33`	20
	I guess this is a little late for .0 but in case anyone else is interested this is another great film by Zhang Yimou with Gong Li. (See topics 419, 451, 496 and 926 if you are not familiar with them). It is about a 14-year old boy (Xiaoxiao Wang) who is brought in from his village by his uncle (Xuejian Li) to be the servant of the mistress (Gong Li) of a triad (Chinese mafia) boss (Baotian Li). The film shows his first, rather eventful, week on the job. It is set in Shanghai in the 1930s. To avoid spoiling anything that is all I will say about the plot. As is typical of Zhang Yimou it involves a certain amount of intrigue. I found the style more similar to his earlier work (Red Lantern, Qiu Ju and Ju Dou) than to his previous "To Live". Although it was unfortunately dubbed here I definitely assume the original language was the Mandarin dialect of Chinese. John

I guess this is a little late for .0 but in case anyone else is interested
this is another great film by Zhang Yimou with Gong Li.  (See topics
419, 451, 496 and 926 if you are not familiar with them).

It is about a 14-year old boy (Xiaoxiao Wang) who is brought in from 
his village by his uncle (Xuejian Li) to be the servant of the mistress
(Gong Li) of a triad (Chinese mafia) boss (Baotian Li). The film shows his
first, rather eventful, week on the job.  It is set in Shanghai in the
1930s.

To avoid spoiling anything that is all I will say about the plot.  As
is typical of Zhang Yimou it involves a certain amount of intrigue.
I found the style more similar to his earlier work (Red Lantern, Qiu
Ju and Ju Dou) than to his previous "To Live".

Although it was unfortunately dubbed here I definitely assume the original
language was the Mandarin dialect of Chinese.

John