Day: November 3, 2012

The RZA has gone from being a master to becoming a student as his film “The Man With The Iron Fists” releases today. After years and years of being considered one of the best hip hop producers of all-time, the man behind Enter the 36 Chambers began a new venture into the art of film. His first foray being his debut movie that is heavily influenced by Shaw Brothers kung fu flicks and overseen by producer Quentin Tarantino and co-writer Eli Roth. But for RZA, making a feature film isn’t all that different from crafting a classic album in the sense that the art of sampling is still intact. In a recent sit down with TheWellVersed and 2DopeBoyz, The Abbott explained some of the influences that were sampled for his directorial debut. “It goes from obscure movies like ‘8 Strikes of the Wild Cat’ where the idea I took from that was that somebody could do a rat style,” RZA says with a laugh. “I was like ‘Yo! I’m going to have a rodent clan.’ And you look at movies like ‘Five Deadly Venoms’ where there was a character in the movie called The Toad and you couldn’t penetrate him. That character helped me inspire Brass Body” RZA also “sampled” a classic Bruce Lee film and its presence can be felt in a particular scene that RZA appears to be very proud of. But the producer turned director also reveals that his sampling wasn’t limited to the martial arts films