{"id":1824,"date":"2010-09-03T15:04:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T15:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2011-02-03T12:08:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T12:08:24","slug":"a-woman-a-gun-and-a-noodle-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/?p=1824","title":{"rendered":"A WOMAN, A GUN AND A NOODLE SHOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A WOMAN, A GUN AND A NOODLE SHOP- 2009. Premise by Netflix. &#8220;Master director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\/RoleDisplay\/Yimou_Zhang\/30045708\">Yimou Zhang<\/a> tackles an adaptation of the Coen brothers&#8217; classic Blood Simple in this period dramedy full of slapstick and plot twists. When the owner of a Chinese noodle shop attempts to kill his adulterous wife, the fireworks fly. The proprietor also hopes to eliminate his wife&#8217;s woebegone lover, but complications and high-flying action arise courtesy of a rampaging band of feudal soldiers and the shop&#8217;s wacky employees.&#8221; <strong>Good review in NY Times 9\/3\/10. Friends did not like this film.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2\/11- <strong>Slapstick remakes don&#8217;t inspire me but I did watch it to the end. Beautiful scenery and lots of color kept me involved. TRDB. <\/strong>Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A WOMAN, A GUN AND A NOODLE SHOP- 2009. Premise by Netflix. &#8220;Master director Yimou Zhang tackles an adaptation of the Coen brothers&#8217; classic Blood Simple in this period dramedy full of slapstick and plot twists. When the owner of a Chinese noodle shop attempts to kill his adulterous wife, the fireworks fly. The proprietor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,38,49],"tags":[27,96],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-reviews","category-dramaromance","category-foreign","category-seen-on-netflix","tag-drama","tag-foreign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2351,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions\/2351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}