The Wu-Tang Effect on Action Movies (Article)

[DragonClaws]

 

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Sure it may be crazy causality, but I think Rap’s obsession with Kung Fu revolutionized action films

 

The Wu-Tang Effect on Action Movies by Maulid Sadiq

Link- https://medium.com/the-brothers/the-wu-tang-effect-on-action-movies-4a78624375de

[Drunken Monk]

I'm not entirely sure I agree with the article but it's well researched and, granted, it has a pretty iron-clad argument for how the Wu influenced modern action cinema. Personally, I just think action in cinema evolves and while the Wu may have had a covert influences, I think Hollywood often looks to Hong Kong for inspiration.

Good article. I like it more as a celebration of how kung fu movies were very much watched by black audiences back in the day. I believe that's an important part of the martial arts movie's origin story.

[reason108]

That was a rather long-winded article that basically went nowhere. The history of how Kung-Fu films made inroads into mainstream Hollywood have already been well documented; and Wu-Tang Clan had nothing to do with it, really. Well, not any more than the rest of us.