A Simple Noodle Story was inspired by the debut of the American filmmakers who created what 1996 film?
A Simple Noodle Story A Simple Noodle Story (), internationally A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop. (Blood Simple in the UK) is a 2009 film directed by Zhang Yimou. It is inspired by "Blood Simple", the 1984 debut of the Coen brothers, whose films Zhang Yimou lists as among his favorites. The film transports the original film's plot from a town in Texas to a noodle shop in a small desert town in Gansu province.
Patrick Stettner Patrick Stettner is an American film director and writer. His first film, Flux, was released in 1996 as a short, and starred Allison Janney in an early role. He went on to direct and write the screenplay for "The Business of Strangers" in 2001, which earned him a Grand Jury Prize nomination at the Sundance Film Festival of that year and earned lead actress Stockard Channing an AFI nomination for Best Female Actress. In 2006, he then wrote and directed "The Night Listener", an adaptation of Armistead Maupin's eponymous semi-autobiographical 2000 novel, which landed less than stellar reviews from critics. He has not directed any films since "The Night Listener".