Word: gangsterisms
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...brand was born in 1992, when the group became an underground sensation by developing an urban-gangster-as-warrior persona based on old kung fu movies (RZA's passion). Wu-Tang has since evolved into a hybrid of Pokemon and Dungeons and Dragons, prepackaged for suburban teens and complete with video games, comics and, coming soon, animated films. It's all embodied in Wu-Tang's stamp of approval: a Batman-like chubby...
...advice? Go to their website, download the free full version of "Original Gangster" and skip the rest unless you're a devoted fan. You won't get in trouble for getting the Offspring's music for free, because they really don't care...
...behind Watergate. For it is exactly the same attitude that I notice in the back rooms of Al Gore's mind - the mentality that in this game you have to be tough and ruthless, and win at any cost. Screw them before they screw you. Disillusioned idealism becomes a gangster...
...visuals, courtesy of Lewis and top noir cinematographer John Alton, but its most distinctive quality is the way in which the bad guy, Richard Conte, perpetually outshines straight arrow Cornel Wilde. Conte is charming, determined (his credo: "First is first and second is nobody!"), and very, very suave as gangster "Mr. Brown," whereas Wilde is a bore as his police detective nemesis. It's no wonder then that Lewis loved to talk about the time Wilde (who also served as the film's associate producer) attempt to have him fired from the film. Speaking at New York's Museum...
...around a extremely thin plotline: During a mix-up on a train, Fei-Hong inadvertently takes home a stolen Chinese relic; he attempts to return the relic back while the British bad guys that stole "China's history" spend the rest of the movie in hot pursuit of him gangster style. These intense conflicts are punctuated by moments of melodrama and "emotional climaxes" when the story develops ever so slightly to include the dilemma of bringing honor to his father's family and the nationalistic significance of Chinese culture...