Jackie Brown (Full Movie)
A female flight attendant becomes a key figure in a plot between the police and an arms dealer.
Director:
Writers:
Quentin Tarantino (written for the screen by), Elmore Leonard (novel)
12th Oct2011
1 Comm
07th Aug2010
RZA Lecture w/Red Bull Music Academy Festival 2010 (Talks Working With Kanye & Quentin Tarantino, Possible Nas Collab, ’92-’97 Wu Dictatorship) {Video}
On linking with Kanye in Hawaii and a possible collaboration with Nas.
On movies vs. music, and studying with Quentin Tarantino.
20th Jan2010
RZA’s New Rap: Filmmaker
Call the RZA hip-hop’s foremost alchemist. The self-professed former drug dealer-turned-Grammy-winning rapper-producer has defied all odds to spin not lead into gold, but démodé pop culture and arcane philosophical beliefs into platinum disc upon platinum disc.
And now, after spending years under the tutelage of several high-profile filmmakers, including Quentin Tarantino, he’s preparing to unleash his unique mash-up sensibility on the big screen, in a project that will be part chop-socky flick, part spaghetti western and all RZA.
As founding father of the hard-core Staten Island rap collective Wu-Tang Clan, RZA (pronounced “rizza,” given name: Robert Diggs) conflated the spiritual enlightenment found in ’70s kung fu movies with racially incendiary teachings from the Five-Percent Nation of Islam, adding to the mix references to Taoism and comic books, numerology and snippets of mafia don movie dialogue, articulating a plaintive yet hard-bitten ghetto cri de coeur.
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