The Man With The Iron Fists - Rza Making History

If you are above 33 years old, you have had the chance to receive classic hip hop and classic Kung Fu flicks (in the hip hop culture we call Kung Fu Movies Kung Fu Flicks) via Saturday Kung Fu Theater. Preceding my passion and love for hip hop I had a passion and love for Kung Fu movies.

Every Saturday I was fastened to the edge of my bed watching the  Kung Fu flick of the day; particularly the double features. As I grew older and the genre of hip hop music (rap) developed, a deep passion for the music grew inside of me along side of Kung Fu movies. It was so rejuvenating to be apart of both!

The Man With The Iron Fist: Prequel

When I was a senior in High School a new rap crew/group emerged that for ever changed hip hop: The Wu Tang Clang! The mastermind behind The Wu Tang Clang was the Rza. He immediately emerged as one of the best hip hop producers of all times. He flourishingly blended the world of Kung Fu flicks into rap music. Hip Hop instrumentals compounded with classic Asian Kung Fu movie soundtrack samples. He used popular quotes from classic martial arts movies as skits to their album. They even took on names of famous characters in movies. The Wu Tang Clan consolidated the best of both worlds; AMAZING!

The Man With The Iron Fists: Present Day

After 20 years of success in the entertainment field the Rza of The Wu Tang clan has made public his move The Man With The Iron Fists. The Man With The Iron Fists was in fact 20 years in the making. Over the past 20 years you have seen Rza produce as a rap artist, a music producer and we got a taste when he wrote, produced and directed a Kung Fu video for his solo album. The potential of The Man With The Iron Fists was birthed when Rza synthesized with movie producing guru Quenton Tarantino. Rza began doing the score and soundtracks for his movies.

Becoming good friends with Tarantino, Rza began looking over his shoulder and studying the ways of a film producer as if he was studying the ways of a Kung Fu master in a temple. After being featured in multiple movies and sharpening his skills

It was only a mater of time before Quenton Tarantino assisted Rza to get his first movie break!

The Man With The Iron Fists Is Born!

There are no spoilers here; you have to monitor it out for yourself. The Rza wrote, directed and co-stared in his debut do it all movie; The Man With The Iron Fists.

Recreating how he merged Kung Fu movies into hip hop back in the early 90's, Rza has successfully connected rap music into a martial arts movie. I was sitting in the movie theater nodding my head rhythmically to hip hop beats while watching Rza's vision came to life.

The Man With The Iron Fist

Rza studied all the classic martial arts films and added all the elements of a classic Kung Flu flicks inclusive of the evil white haired villain!

The Man With The Iron Fists

He creatively worked in the all star actor Russell Crowe as an Frenchman who played an monstrous role and helped to carry the movie.

Lucy Liu delivered a classic performance in epic proportions. I definitely wasn't expecting the twist she brought to the film.

Over all I am really pleased of Rza for the work he did and I am flying high for him. He did an awesome job at paying homage to his favored martial arts movies while adding on to the legacy with new ideas and new twists. There are a lot of people hating on Rza and the flick but I say; give the man a break, it's his first flick! It can only get better from here.

Rza SALUTE!

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