RZA is a black American rapper who is full of passion for Chinese culture, especially Hong Kong films. He once composed the soundtrack for Quentin's "Kill Bill" series, which is a perfect fusion of two gangster films, 1970s and 1980s Hong Kong films, Japanese sword and halberd films, Italian lead-yellow films (bloody horror and thriller films produced in Italy), western films and Japanese animation works with their own characteristics, and many of them have soundtracks directly from classic film and television works. It is said that RZA's score for Kill Bill ended up winning.
Due to the identity of the RZA rapper and the background of black Americans, as well as the experience of creating the soundtrack for "Kill Bill", the film directed by him and supervised by Quentin has become a very strange film in all aspects, with nondescript scenes. There are many scenes with mashups in the film.
Released in 2012, this film is the first part of the "Iron Fist Man" series (there are two in this series, the sequel launched in 2014 is completely incompatible with this film in terms of plot, and the overall quality is also very poor), RZA can be used well Compared with the exaggerated imagination of Japanese animation, it integrates the violent aesthetics of Quentin style and characters from western films into his favorite Shaw Brothers martial arts films, telling a story about the Qing Dynasty in China that may take place in an overhead world. Fantasy story. The star artists from all over the world, the random Chinese songs and hip-hop rap that appear in the film can more or less make the audience smile.
Similar to John Carpenter's classic cult film "Monsters in Chinatown", which was born under the influence of Tsui Hark's "Swordsman of Shushan", a large number of Chinese-style elements appearing in this film seem to be forcibly pieced together. However, due to the theme of this film, this film is more atmospheric and more gorgeous than "The Demon in Chinatown", which also indirectly reflects that Hollywood's understanding of Chinese elements has long changed. In fact, this film still only learns a fur, it presents the martial arts and rivers and lakes in RZA's mind. But this is the fun of watching it. While watching the bloody fights, it is really enjoyable to find a lot of Easter eggs that are familiar to the Chinese people.
When watching the trailer, some people will define the film as a "Kill Bill" that takes place in ancient China. And after watching the feature film, some people may sigh, isn't this a spoof movie? Therefore, there is absolutely no need to belittle this film because of the loopholes in the film. This is just a pot of American-style stew prepared by RZA full of Chinese elements and a lot of tribute. You can watch it lively and have fun.
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