what's up Vanity Fair you got the
whistle right here from the almighty
wu-tang clan and today we're gonna be
talking about kung-fu films that either
we sample for our production or that
inspired our look so uh that's no fun yo
[Applause]
hey yo this movie the master the flying
guillotine yo the flying guillotine
became what I use as my choice of
lyrical weapon so when you hear the song
whoo tang clan enough I start off not be
tossing in force that my style is
awesome for the Moore family Buddhism
which is awesome and the survey said
you're dead the Pharaoh flying
guillotine chops off your head
so basically blue tang ox tongue is like
a sword but the good thing could beat
this audio and that's why I chose that
to be my weapon well the cool thing
about this part here the flying
guillotine hasn't come in yet
right and we have a one of the allowed
brothers here with the three section of
staff fighting against the pole fighter
the Lao clan actually becomes the best
of acting team and lost you are three
and the funny thing about this movie is
that the guy who just got killed full of
cold later goes on to be a big show
brother movie star playing the lizard
it's one of the Venom's and we'll get to
that later
the executioner is from Shaolin one of
my favorite films of all time
and it follows the story of hong xiguan
who is the hung gar founder fighting the
priest PHA may also known as the White
Lotus night tiger kung foo hey better
than yours if you listen to the wu-tang
clan song wu-tang clan another way it
starts off with Bill knio knio knio
Tiger style
[Applause]
well that's from this movie Tigers I
just film you know really inspired us
and when you watch movies like Kill Bill
which I later went on to score you'll
see this character please primary pops
up wow this is what this is this scene
here is one of the pinnacle scenes in
the film
please pomade is no joke and he's
massive the technique of moving his weak
spot at will
now Hong Kong is a real form of martial
arts the animal fist in fact the five
padam an animal fist is used in so many
of kung fu movies brothers from Sammo
hung Jacky Chan and even in Tony Jaa
films this technique has been
incorporated there's really a foundation
of Shaolin style oh oh look at this got
him in the heart in the Nugget scars one
for the nuts he's bought with a nuts
no no nuts kid he moved the nuts I don't
know how a movement us he moved the nuts
and you find it the 36 chambers of
Shaolin this is one of my favourite
films of all time I've seen it over 200
times and more to go this film which was
released in America as master chiller
not only gives the name of one of our
whoo tang clan numbers but it also gives
us the possum title to our first album
enter the wu-tang 36 chambers which we
asked Lee took enter from into the
Dragon which another favorite movie of
mines Bruce Lee we consider him to be a
minor prophet this film is directed by
walking along like I said one of the
marks were legends but it also stars one
of the greatest martial art actors since
Bruce Lee Gordon Liu now Gordon Liu
plays the hero here the master chiller
and the scene that inspired me the most
after watching all the action was the
scene we says he wants to go to the
highest level and he walks in and the
monk is like without wisdom give his no
gain and that hit me and I heard that
and it sent me to start researching
Buddhism and finding kung fu
books and things but the beautiful thing
is years later once again the blessing
of the universe I'm doing a film man
with the IFS and Gordon Luke plays the
Abbot and my movie hey hey
for me there's been various samples for
this movie only 35 chambers there is no
36 so this is a scene here where he
first is is the first chamber which is
simply called crossing the water well I
love about the cards was that while the
other months are sleeping he trains by
himself
he does it with a hand of a leg and is
holding his own leg doing the kid and
play dance and that movie did trust me
it became part of breakdancing five
deadly venoms directed by Chang Cheh
this film right here is actually the
film that made me become a kung-fu
fanatic you could hear the sample when a
song we got called the mystery of
chessboxing we saw watching this film
the told character is the one we all
vote for he's the one that you wish you
were the one with the invincible iron
skin now here's the sneak now number two
practice the snake style it was known as
the snake spirit this technique right
here was crazy because most snake styles
was used like this with a Jackie Chan
but here he used the Cobra the mouth and
the tail and having them both act
together that really only appeared in
maybe two movies ever to see the snake
style done like this I think it was this
one in another film called the deadly
Challenger look at that Wow and I seen
that as a kid you gotta imagine it I'm a
10 year old kid watching this yeah and
I've seen the guy just lay on better now
it was hard laying on my box boom you
know they show anyway most of the films
that we really enjoyed with sha brother
films your brothers had big budgets it
was like a studio life and all their
films had a studio quality production
all of a sudden here comes this
independent low-budget film called the
mystery of chessboxing
now being the chest Skylander than a
chest fanatic I was like I got to see
this movie and it became my favorite
there's the character in this film whose
name is Ghostface Killah face color and
he's one of the most ruthless villains
to ever touch the screen and so they
came to wu-tang I was like who is that
guy everybody's going to be scared of
based on their Liverpool content and
that name became Ghost Face killer's
name and he put on the mask like the
five deadly venoms and he came in and
when you watched him in the mystery of
chessboxing hip hop was never the same
right but no one killed you in a past
life you'll find out on Ghost Face album
you're here
some of the quotes from this movie the
10 Tigers of Kwantung here in this film
there's a conflict between these young
men they never settled a beef they like
these young guys can't beat each other
but then the old G comes in at the end
and kills the villain in three seconds
me and Memphis would always say that's
how our letters got to be as we get
older we got to be able to get on the
mic and then four bars rip a
ass excuse my language
wu-tang martial expert there's not many
we can match up with him now this film
has a great sample in it on God
or I can try my wu-tang to die that's
the sample right there and the wu-tang
guy pulls out a sword right and he does
the wu-tang style right with his sword
but the crazy thing is when he gets
defeated he then pours out a weapon that
I already singing in the one hand Z this
movie and you'll never see it again in
no other kung fu movie and this is a
gold statue I don't know where the
production designer thought it is I know
this weapon ever exists if somebody can
make me one I would appreciate it it's
the coolest thing ten tigers akwonton
from Shogun assassin which is the intro
to the Justice album Liquid Swords
hospital
my father was famous
he was the greatest samurai in the
empire most of our fluids came from kung
fu movies sometime there's a lot of
swing and a lot of blocking but in
Japanese samurai movies it's one stroke
kills Bing spoke Bing Stroke
when it came time to incorporate it a
film into the wu-tang world I chose this
film to represent the GZA his lyrics are
straight to the point
[Music]
don't be afraid
bad dreams are only dreams choose the
sword and you will join me
choose the ball so Jessamine Newcomb
Fujiyama was slowing down and a lot of
films show up others wasn't making as
many this group from Taiwan came out
with Shaolin vs. the Lama which is a
trilogy actually in this film you see a
display of shadow boxing allowing you
the skills this message sexual technique
of shadow boxing allow me to demonstrate
the skill of Shaolin I'll never forget
being in the movie theater when the
shadow boxing technique came out man the
whole audience just starts screaming Wow
so after mystery of chess boxing stay
reigning champion as my favorite movie
Shaolin vs. wu-tang comes out and this
changes my whole martial art ideology it
became my favorite film still holds the
title tied with a diagram pro fighter
the way they used their swordless in
this movie and the way they use the
Qigong this was really unseen before now
this film is actually directed by the
act of Gordon Liu which is crazy I mean
all the years he played as a actor and
his brother directed him he decides to
direct his own film you know it's a lot
of power was in his film the game of
chess is like a sword you must think
first before you that's the truth
if what you say is true the Shaolin and
the wu-tang could be dangerous
wu-tang clan name is Paul from Shaolin
vs. wu-tang because of the best sword
technique that they they showed and I I
reason that our tongue is like a sword
if you think you're the best letter says
you must be using the wu-tang sword and
so we're the wu-tang clan we thought we
were the best lyricist in hip-hop but
the film that also helps cement our
Brotherhood was that a diagram profound
because here's a movie about brothers
who sacrificed themselves for their
country for their family and
relentlessly against all odds for to
write the name of their family we will
cut class and hang out in my house and
watch this film actually made some of us
well up you know I made this scene
here's the final scene where he's
fighting against the general who
actually framed this family I'm standing
a dog on a pole fighter it's the name of
routines which was supposed to be our
final album the eight diagrams in old
days you know sampling any signal to a
sampler was was a headache the gift from
a VCR was the worst because you had to
have three about three plugs because
samplers only took quarter inch plugs so
you actually would have to go from your
VCR and to your mixer then out of your
mixer headphone jack into your sampler
and then you'll get a very distorted
signal and then if you missed it you
gotta want it try to find it because the
sampler only sampled X amount of seconds
so it was a challenging way to produce
you know I may show y'all it's been the
RZA vanity fair' want to thank you guys
for inviting me and uh wu-tang forever