The guys over at /Film have dug up the “international trailer” for Zhang Yimou’s Chinese “remake” of the Coen brothers’ debut, Blood Simple. Possibly titled Amazing Tales: Three Guns or possibly The First Gun. I really don’t know what to say… at all. Here it is;

I have no idea how this can be considered anything to do with Blood Simple but what do I know? Zhang Yimou has said “We have added a lot of things, and changed the whole feeling [of Blood Simple]… we brought in a lot of comedic elements and changed the relationship and personalities of the characters.” Also click the image below to be taken to /Film where they have two more;

It seems there is a campaign going on in the US to educate the populace to the fact that “in reality there is no such thing as clean coal”. The campaign is called This Is Reality and who better to make the campaign’s TV ad than Joel and Ethan Coen? It is embedded below for your viewing pleasure…

Thanks (again!) to the wondeful Bunnie Lebowski for sending this in!