Talk:Shanghai Noon

Mythbusters (Trivia)

"The idea that a urine-soaked silk shirt is strong enough to bend the bars of a prison cell when wrapped around them and twisted was tested on episode 26, season 2 of MythBusters. It was determined that the shirt would break long before the bars would in real life."

It should be noted, that the experiment and the scene in the movie were not similar, in the sense that in the movie, the bars were long, and in the experiment, they were short. The point of this is, that the shorter the bars become, the harder they are to bend. It's like taking a stick and breaking it in half, and then in half, and then in half again. Even though the thickness of the stick (the diameter) remains the same, it gets harder to break, the smaller it becomes. Same principle with the bars. The movie used approx 2 meter high bars (I think it's about 6'8") where as Mythbusters used something closer to 15 cm bars (about 7"), meaning it would require much more force to bend the short bars than the long ones. So the experiment is not valid compared to the movie. --Hecko 20:13, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

I can't help thinking that the plan would work best with a linen shirt since linen is stronger when wet, unlike other materials. Dr Spam (MD) 09:05, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Blazing Saddles reference?

Anyone else think that the scene where the man thinks Chon(who was wearing native American face-paint at the time) is Jewish might be a reference to Blazing Saddles and the Yiddish-speaking indians there?--75.8.98.220 (talk) 06:31, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Chinese drinking game

is it possible to determine the origins of the drinking game they play? i have found the translation: Description: The English translation is: "One crab with eight feet, painted horns - what a big crab. Blinking eyes, shrinking head, crawling, crawling everywhere. Two and Two, who should drink? Three and three, who drink first? Five and Five, who should drink? Two and two, you drink first." http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=3524749 but can find little other information

Tsing dynasty hairstyle

Anyone else notice that despite his queue, Chon Wang has not shaved the front half of his hair as required by law of the Manchurian dynasty? 202.40.137.197 (talk) 10:53, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Chon Wang

Did anyone else notice "Chon Wang" is pronounced similar to 'Zhōngwén'? Korra II Royal (talk) 02:39, 25 April 2023 (UTC)