ghost dog appreciation
TheMack
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man i watched this movie last night after not seeing it for maybe a year and it's so fuckin good. so many ill parts, and bits that are straight hilarious(in a good way). man i love this movie
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it wasa heavy influence style-wise on the G.D.
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never got around to it but the soundtrack is great.(!)
time to netflickit
Also this
inspired John Woo's The Killer and I think has a lot to do with Ghost Dog's quiet style
this movie sucks. the soundtrack was dope as far as it went, but what a boring flick otherwise. were those annoying Italian caricatures supposed to be ironic? still not funny. and the whole lone, mysterious warrior thing...cool as a tribute to Jarmusch's Asian cinema influences I guess, but not that interesting as an entire movie.
The "soundtrack" was pretty tepid - they fully flossed RZA's name
in all the movie promos, but held out with the goods.
I want vinyls of those shits!!
Only thing more confusing was trying to figure out
what RZA had to do with the Kill Bill soundtrack...
I put that shit in my player and was like
ripped off again.
i saw the vinyl online at a bunch of places but im pretty sure turntable lab still has it. i think i might have an extra copy too.
HUGE cosine. All of Seijun Suzuki's films are
Word - I have to admit I stopped looking not long after the movie
was actually out, maybe around when the DVD came out.
Thanks, now I'll just buy it instead of ranting about it
Yeah definitely worth picking up the japanese version with the original score. Having said that, I love Don't Test on the movie tie in soundtrack, almost makes up for the other terds on there.
Supposedly he did quite a bit of the score although, after seeing Kill Bill Vol II again last night, I didn't hear much evidence of any significant Rza input. You may know this anyway, but there's a distinction between the score, which is usually the themes, cues, stings, etc., and the soundtrack, which is all the other shit like featured and non-featured music uses. Most of the Rza stuff used on both of the Kill Bill films seemed to be restricted to the end credits.
Yeah the gangsters were pretty terrible as far as being characters in a movie. I liked it otherwise, if for nothing else than to put on the in background when I have friends over.
The vinyl is a bootleg of the Japanese CD... British I think?
As far as I know RZA's only KILL BILL contribution was that lame Wu song w/ODB...
What? You don't even know, son! He's scowing movies left and wight! Doo, doo, doo, doo! And playing his own instwuments! Full digital orchestwa son! And check fow that Cuwe album, coming soon! Doo, doo, doo!
Ghost Dog - they released two vinyls - the domestic version was more like a 'music inspired by the motion picture' type steez with all hip hop songs, strong Wu influence, and maybe like 2 actual tracks from the movie
an imported version (the one mentioned at TTLab) was the actual RZA score - a bunch of RZA instrumentals and a few with vox from the actual movie itself.
As for Kill Bill - i think it's a case where RZA was probably more of a supervisor/consultant. I also noticed that there is a bunch of music in the film that is not on the commercial releases - like the music they play whenever the bride gets read to flay someone - (I know I should know it but...) the drums with the little keyboard part that goes weeeee-ooooo weeeee-ooooo and ends with the horn fanfare - not on either of the soundtracks. And he did the ode to oren ishii on the first volume.
Wasn't it "Cold Lampin' with Flavor"?
We do.
And I have trouble classifying Public Enemy as "gangsta."
This is Quincy Jones, Ironsides, from the "Smackwater Jack" LP -
and it is at least listed as a track on the Volume 1 OST,
I don't remember if it's actually on there or not.