Keep Cool

Name: Keep Cool
Director: Zhang Yimou
Released: 1997
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Wen Jiang, Baotian Li, Ying Qu, Xinyi Liu, Rong Chang

1997 · 93 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 2,361 VOTES · DIR. Zhang Yimou

Overview

China, the 1990s. A young bookseller is in love with a woman. The woman is now with another guy, a rich man. The rich man sends his people to beat the bookseller. In the fight, the laptop computer from a man looking at the scene gets broken. Who will pay for the computer? The bookseller wants revenge. Will it be useful? The bookseller and the laptop owner are from different ages and classes. They are two different points of view, two different Chinas. How will they fight for justice?

Dialogue Timeline — 1,179 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:39 You just run away. Why? I just want to ask you to dinner. Just a meal.

00:05:54 Here is what you have earned. Take it, and hasten to call out loud.

00:08:48 It's not that I am stupid, It is your words that I don't understand.

00:12:31 Just have him shouting?

00:15:51 How vexing you are!

00:19:50 Then why would I snatch your pack?

00:22:32 "I haven't offended nor teased anyone, just eager to excel."

00:25:21 I really didn't run to her. I went to the TV station. It's true.

00:29:56 I just want to help you a bit.

00:35:16 I have important news.

00:38:51 In this expiatory fund, the compensation for the computer of the third party is included."

00:42:22 Do you understand "virtue" at all?

00:45:28 Could you please stop kidding?

00:49:27 Yes.

00:53:13 Then smack at his leg.

00:57:17 I don't know, they said they're useful.

01:00:53 Answer me first, is the restaurant you were at called "Brilliant Restaurant"?

01:04:31 Don't strike him, What's the matter here? He's sick.

01:07:30 Liu Delong.

01:11:40 An 18-year-old girl is like a flower.

01:15:20 I know that. I'm not so familiar with him. Now that we separate the money, we're all clear.

01:20:35 I'm just looking for you.

01:23:28 Take it.

01:27:40 "Not until now do I know you are named Zhang Qiusheng. Then I'll call you Uncle Zhang."

Cast & Characters

Wen Jiang Zhao Xiaoshuai, Bookseller Baotian Li Lao Zhang Ying Qu An Hong Xinyi Liu Liu Delong Rong Chang Restaurant customer Xudong Du Xiao Ge Qingzhuo Fang Da Jie Biao Fu Restaurant customer You Ge Policeman Qi Li Fat Cook

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,179

Dialogue density12.7 lines / min

First line00:01:39

Final line01:27:40

Production Record

DirectorZhang Yimou

LanguageChinese

IMDb votes2,361