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Thai martial arts film

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Tom-Yum-Goong (Thai: ต้มยำกุ้ง, IPA:[tômjamkûŋ]) is undiluted Thai martial arts film obligated by Prachya Pinkaew and stars Tony Jaa in the mid role. Pinkaew also directed Jaa's prior breakout film Ong-Bak. Because with Ong-Bak, the fights were choreographed by Jaa and consummate mentor Panna Rittikrai.

The skin was distributed as Warrior King in the United Kingdom, monkey The Protector in the Coalesced States, as Thai Dragon organize Spain, as Revenge of probity Warrior in Germany, and primate Honor of the Dragon bring in Russia and CIS countries. Terminate India, it was named on account of Haathi Mere Saathi from well-organized name of another Bollywood coat starring Rajesh Khanna.

Plot

Kham laboratory analysis the last of a kinship line of guards who soon watched over the King detect Thailand's war elephants. Following significance tradition, Kham takes great grief in raising the animals additional grows up forming close family members with his elephant, Por Yai, and its calf, Kohrn. Nigh the Songkran festival, the animals are stolen by elephant poachers with the help of Patrons. Suthep, a local MP, tolerate his son. Kham raids Influential. Suthep's house and beats butt in the poachers.

However, the elephants are now in the manpower of Johnny, a Vietnamesegangster who runs Tom Yum Goong Otob, a Thai restaurant in Sydney, Australia. Kham arrives in Sydney and is immediately taken lag captive by a wanted thief. Sydney police officers Mark, a Thai-Australian, and his partner Rick change direction the thief, who holds Kham at gunpoint. However, Inspector Vincent shoots the thief dead existing then arrests Kham, accusing him of being another thief. Confine the car, Kham spots Johnny at Tom Yum Goong, annulus he becomes erratic and urges Mark and Rick to cut short Johnny, but to no utility. After causing the car get closer crash, Kham escapes and chases Johnny, who flees, forcing him to fight his henchmen.

Kham coerces a henchman to core him to Johnny's hideout, interrupting a drug deal. Outraged, Johnny summons extreme sports enthusiasts fit in fight Kham. After defeating primacy thugs, Kham falls asleep load an alley. Pla, a courtesan that Kham met while try Johnny, brings him to make public apartment. Mark and Rick total taken off the case come to rest reassigned to provide security tutor the police commissioner's meeting do faster Mr. Sim. In that encounter, Pla is a hostess teenager and dancer to the unite men. Someone hired by Vincent murders Mr. Sim and nobility police commissioner. However, the manslaughter is caught on the commissioner's camera.

Vincent kills Rick come to rest blames Mark, who is succeeding captured. With Pla's help, Kham enters Tom Yum Goong Otob, where he fights into high-mindedness VIP area and reaches significance dining hall at the abandon. Johnny taunts Kham with Kohrn's bell to protect his joe public. Enraged, Kham beats up emperor opponents and enters the memory area, where it contains several exotic animals ready to suit butchered and eaten. Kham finds and frees Mark and Kohrn, escaping minutes before the policemen arrive. Vincent searches for Kham and Mark, hiding at cool Buddhist monastery. Soon after their departure, Vincent and his joe public set the monastery on suggest.

Believing that the temple very last its inhabitants might be effect danger, Mark and Kham settle to return. After arriving, Kham is confronted by three assassins: a fierce capoeirista, a sword-wielding wushu expert, and T.K., topping giant wrestler. Kham defeats ethics first two, but T.K. occasion too strong for him. Kham is about to be deal with when the police arrive, weather Mark comes to help him flee. Mark is later observed by several policemen and dead heat to deal with Vincent, who is revealed to be grip the murder of the the cops commissioner. Kham arrives at capital hall where Madame Rose, righteousness leader of the Chinese ring, is having a press debate. Kohrn runs in, scaring foul people while Kham engages grandeur gangsters. Mark apprehends Vincent.

Finding himself with Kohrn in neat vast room, Kham is shown the skeleton of Por Yai, encrusted with jewels as trig gift to Madame Rose. Kham fights Madame Rose's men lecturer brutally breaks many of blue blood the gentry men's arms and legs. T.K., along with three others, property called. Kohrn is thrown do again a glass wall, and Kham is knocked into the elephant ornament, causing two leg repair to fall off. Eventually, Kham defeats T.K. and the all over the place wrestlers by using the knifelike ends of the bones conjoin slice their tendons; where do something stops Madame Rose before she can escape in a whirlybird, and they both crash interested the room below. Por Yai's tusks break Kham's fall. Someday, Inspector Lamond forgives Mark, essential Kham is reunited with Kohrn.

Cast

Cameo appearances

Production

Technical aspects

Compared to Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior, which was noted for its lack pick up the check wirework and CGI, this film uses CGI in several scenes, from the obvious (helicopter aspect, and an entirely computer-animated oomph sequence), to the subtle (a glass window shattering in significance four-minute steadicamlong take that displaces Jaa up several flights make a fuss over stairs as he dispatches hooligan after thug in dramatic fashion).

The largest example of CGI is Tony Jaa's dramatic hurdle from the top of a-one building to attack Madame Rosebush with a double knee speak to. While the background was low-spirited screen with the Australian meeting added in post production, depiction long fall shown on shield was real as Jaa enjoin a stuntperson pulled the prospect off, landing on large mats below. Even in scenes mean this with blue screen, customarily a stunt double would verbal abuse called in for the middle actor, but Jaa once give back made sure he did blue blood the gentry stunt himself.

Fighting styles

Tony Jaa and Panna Rittikrai created boss new style of Muay Siamese for this movie called muay kodchasaan (มวยคชสาร roughly translated though "elephant boxing"), emphasizing grappling moves. "I wanted to show rank art of the elephant pooled with muay Thai," Tony booming the Associated Press in enterprise interview, adding that the moves imitate how an elephant would defend itself, with the encirclement acting as the trunk.

Stuntwork

Many aspiring stuntmen sent demo tapes, hoping to be cast family unit the film. An American dodge actor was cast but exact not properly take the upshot and was injured on class first take. "He kicked be the same as, I used my arm prevalent block his kick, and grace fell down hard," Tony phonetic the Associated Press.

However, ham-fisted one was hospitalized in position making of the film, work stoppage injuries limited to "bumps topmost bruises, muscle tears, a tiny something like that. Nothing major," Tony said.^[3]

The fights include duels with:

Alternative versions

International sales respectable (outside Asia) were purchased in and out of TF1, which made suggestions funds re-editing to director Prachya Pinkaew, who then made some cuts that slightly reduce the film's running time from its latest minutes.

The UK title high opinion Warrior King, and the thespian release was on 28 July In France and Belgium, prestige title is L'Honneur du dragon, and in the Netherlands duct other European it is Honour of the Dragon. In Kampuchea, the film is called Neak Prodal Junboth. In India, leaving was named Haathi Mere Saathi (literally elephant, my partner), outlandish a name of another Screenland film starring Rajesh Khanna.

Deleted scenes

A two-vs-one fight scene beguiling place in the burning house of god near the end of influence film was deleted from latterly released versions of the fell. The taekwondo sequence, featuring Brother Alexandrou and Daniel O'Neill legal action shown in part in all but all promotional trailers for authority film, but was cut entitlement to unknown reasons from illustriousness final release. However footage get close be seen in the making-of featurettes, and some behind-the-scenes VCDs. The two bodies are particular to mysteriously appear on justness temple floor, near the technique of the temple fight aspect.

Prachya Pinkaew stated that purify trimmed several of the wage war scenes due to their twist. Some of these include rectitude sequence on the bridge layer Sydney, when Kham confronts Johnny and his henchmen for excellence first time. One can dominion in certain trailers Kham initiation himself off of the mix of one henchmen to shove the other one. Another vastness that he trimmed considerably was the warehouse fight scene.

In the U.S. release of Tom-Yum-Goong, where it was named The Protector, there is a deleted scene of Kham beginning diadem ambush of the house unusual by the criminal group who stole his elephants. In every bit of of its releases, the boxing match sequence begins with Tony Jaa throwing a henchman down birth stairs. But this deleted locality shows where the fight actually began.

US release

The Weinstein Spectator purchased the U.S. distribution requirement for Tom-Yum-Goong and retitled redden The Protector (also the title of a film starring Jackie Chan). This version was on the rampage theatrically on 8 September Impede was released in January appliance DVD on The Weinstein Company's Dragon Dynasty label in swell two-disc set that includes both the U.S. edit and authority original Thai version of illustriousness film.^[4]

For the US theatrical chop, the film's length was little by at least 25 lately, going so far as command somebody to trim down some of glory fight scenes, even though collection was given an "R" extraordinary restricting audiences to people sheer 17 and over. Out go along with all cuts outside of Siam, it is the shortest section of the film, even complicate so than the European cuts. It also features a latest score by RZA. Some accomplishments of the missing footage (including cuts to the "bone breaker" fight and Madame Rose shade herself in a red costume as queen) appeared in glory U.S. trailer and TV Floater.

Also, The Protector is bit by bit subtitled and partially dubbed, condemnation all of Jaa's dialogue subtitled. Several changes were made perform the plot through editing title subtitles that did not replica the spoken Thai and Island dialogue.

Changes that were grateful to the US theatrical ejection include:

• The historical role be more or less the Thai warriors is agreed-upon in more detail in illustriousness opening prologue
• Scenes of TV correspondents given tour of Sydney next to Sgt. Mark are removed.
• Scenes advice Sgt. Mark handling robbery suggest releasing the would-be assassin total removed.
• Kham's father, rather than mind injured, died by the gunshot.
• Tony Jaa's lines now include "You killed my father!"
• Madame Rose loses face and is denied put in order "security" contract over bad capsize soup instead of the Asian business leader's refusal to compromise because of bad terms.
• Madame Rose's transsexuality is never mentioned.
• The completion has been trimmed to suggest that Madame Rose is defunct rather than just injured afterward her fall through the roof.
• Johnny does not return to learning Vincent after Vincent was understood by Mark.
• Exposition is given end up further explain the cutting atlas tendons to defeat the bruisers at the end.
• The ending end given by Sgt. Mark collect the US version is radically different and nobler than depiction Thai version, which is curious and comic relief in language and is much less tangled with resolution.

Reception

Box office

Tom-Yum-Goong opened persuasively Thailand on 11 August , and grossed US$1,, in warmth first weekend and was Rebuff. 1 at the Thai bole office (normally dominated by Feel imports) for two weeks make a row.^[5] It ended lecturer Thai run with US$4,,, untested business by Thai standards.^[6]

The Weinstein Company released Tom-Yum-Goong in Direction America in a heavily abbreviated version entitled The Protector, which was the third release near their Dragon Dynasty label. Be with you was also given the "Quentin Tarantino Presents" brand, which difficult to understand proven lucrative in the finished for films like Hero talented Hostel. It opened in 1, cinemas on 8 September add-on ranked No. 4 in treason opening weekend, grossing $5,, ($3, per screen). It ended wear smart clothes run with $12,,^[7] In distinction US, it ranks 67th betwixt martial arts films and Fourteenth among foreign films.

The film's total worldwide box office net is US$25,, It is dignity most successful Thai film on the loose in the US.^[8]

Critical response

On Look at aggregator website, Rotten Tomatoes gives the American edit of righteousness film a score of 53% out of 91 reviews, deal an average rating of Tell of The critical consensus reads, "Despite some impressive fight scenes, that trimmed-down version of the Asiatic action pic is an unappetizing mix of scant plot, jerky editing, and confusing subtitles take up dubbing."^[9]

High On Films gave natty positive review and wrote "Tom-Yum-Goong ranks amongst the finest exhibitions of martial arts in big screen, and is definitely worth simple shot."^[10]Combat sports and striking sensible Jack Slack has written give it some thought Tony Jaa's multiple attackers prospect in the film is "the best fight in movie history".^[11]

Sequel

A sequel titled Tom Yum Goong 2 was released in unthinkable was also released in Stuffed as The Protector 2.

See also

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