![]() “The Wu-Tang Clan, you’re looking at nine individuals who needed to come up for air. The clincher was the character’s dialogue, which RZA had to show him in person, because the lines “weren’t in the screenplay, only in my BlackBerry.” Liu was reluctant, the RZA said, until they met and he told him how his movies had changed his own life and he wanted to provide the same inspiration to a new generation. The RZA wanted Gordon Liu, the star of 36th Chamber, to appear in his film as an aged abbot. The RZA directed the reverential 2012 kung fu film The Man with the Iron Fists Mitchell touted an upcoming sequel, The Man with the Iron Fists 2. He said that there’s a unifying quality to his performances: “I act like a Chinese kung fu guy.” The RZA has worked as an actor now and again, in films including American Gangster, Coffee and Cigarettes, and GI Joe: Retaliation. Or as Raekwon once complained to him, “You’re still playing that Chinese shit.” RZA shrugged, and compared the Chinese five-tone musical scale to the musical vocabulary of the blues. ![]() The kung fu influence on Wu Tang was not just lyrical but musical, as the RZA pointed out: “We always used these horn hits and percussion” that borrowed from movie soundtracks. “When Wu-Tang first came out, there were no DVDs my goal was to put a cassette in your car, and have an audio movie.” He had a plan to beat him, but he countered every move.”īefore the Wu-Tang Clan released Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), the group had adopted “chamber” as an all-purpose noun in context it could be applied to an attractive girl or a bottle of Olde English malt liquor. The RZA’s favorite fight in the film: “When loses the second fight, as far as choreography - the butterfly knives against the crescent blade. “Without seeing it, from music cues,” he said, he could tell that “San Te was fighting with the axe against the monk.” He also noted the subtitles had been revised in this particular film print: “They changed some of them, but I can work with that.” The RZA knows the movie so well that when he was backstage at LACMA’s Bing Theater, he could identify a fight scene just from the soundtrack.
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