RZA on Bobby Digital
By Debe Morris

RZA as Bobby Digital

During a short visit to Toronto to promote RZA as Bobby Digital in Stereo, the soundtrack to his movie Bobby Digital, due on video this year, RZA commented on the many influences he drew upon for the freestyle movie.

"I watch a lot of blaxploitation films and old spy movies from the sixties like "Our Man Flint". I obviously also watch a lot of kung-fu flicks." explains RZA. "I chose one of the cover illustrators of the Daredevil comic book to do the album cover and the movie poster. I liked the way those old action-movie posters look, so I told Bill (Sienkiewicz) to work around those themes."

On his directorial skills, RZA, who has directed music videos for the Gravediggaz, admits that he's no Oliver Stone, but he brags about utilizing some tricks that he picked up in Hong Kong while watching some of the directors at work out there. "On a movie set, there's a whole lotta people you gotta control and correct. You could tell them you want the lighting a certain way, but they can't see what's in your head, so they gotta take your word for it. A lotta times though, it never turns out how you pictured it in your head."

If you wanna check out the James Bond spoofs "Our Man Flint" starring James Coburn, directed by Daniel Mann or "In Like Flint" also starring James Coburn, directed by Gordon Douglas, go to www.amazon.com

For more on Bill Sienkiewicz's work on the Daredevil comic book, go to www.interlog.com/~mithra/daredevil.html