Wu Tang Clan & Kung Fu Movies
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Hip Hop and Kung Fu movies have a long history together. The kids from the Bronx who developed hip hop in the 1970s grew up with Saturday matinees at the old inner city movie houses showing double features of inexpensive Kung Fu films. No hip hop band was as fascinated with Kung Fu movies as the Wu Tang Clan, which is named after a Kung Fu school that is frequently featured in those films and whose music features sampled dialogue from those movies.
I am not huge fan of hip hop, but do like Kung Fu movies and we are seeing 36 Chambers of Shoalin today on the big screen at the Hollywood Theater with a live musical accompaniment by Wu Tang Clan member RZA.
You folks get into Kung Fu movies?
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The RZA/Kung Fu movie mixup
The RZA/Kung Fu movie mixup was well done. They used a special cut of 36 Chambers of Shaolin with the original soundtrack scrubbed but with all the other dialogue and sound. RZA had two back up DJs and they laid down funky beats and an original soundtrack from a station right under the screen. The music was groovy, loud, well mixed, and nicely timed to the on screen action. Like any good soundtrack, it added and supported to the film rather than overpower it. Best Kung Fu soundtrack ever and had a generally Wu Tang tempo and feel, with some familiar samples on top of original beats, scratching and shit.
After the show, RZA talked about how he paid a bum to buy him tickets to this R rated movie when he was a kid and then sat through it four times soaking up all the Buddhist quotes from the old Shaolin monks in the movie. The movie itself was both dubbed into English and had English subtitles which were often way different. For a Kung Fu movie, it was a little slow with about half the screen time dedicated to the training sequences as the novice monk works his way through the 35 chambers of Shaolin.
Movie was sponsored by a local cannabis chain.